Russian air attacks triggered a fire in a high-rise apartment building in central Kyiv early on October 10 after it was hit by a drone. RFE/RL's Maryan Kushnir spoke to residents as firefighters battled the blaze in a central district of the Ukrainian capital.
A Russian drone and missile attack triggered a fire in a high-rise apartment building in central Kyiv and targeted energy sites early on October 10, officials said.
The process to restore external power to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has started, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on October 9.
Ukraine’s rail network, and keeping it running, have been a major source of national pride, economic necessity, humanitarian transport, and a critical lifeline in a war effort that has lasted almost four years. Now Russia is targeting it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week signed a decree that appears to target the assets of foreign companies that continue to operate in Russia and currently have no connection to Russian federal property.
Ukrainian forces are continuing to keep Russian forces from advancing into Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region. But the frontline city is under constant bombardment, which has cut off power supplies and left some neighborhoods in ruins.
Some of the last remaining residents of Kostyantynivka live in bombed-out buildings and cook over open fires in the absence of gas or electricity. Ukrainian forces stationed here continue to repel Russian attacks with their own fleet of drones, which also provide a crucial supply line.
Hundreds of tons of nets protecting frontline roads and soldiers from Russian FPV drones were once used to haul herring and cod from the Baltic sea.
Classmates of a 15-year-old Ukrainian killed along with three family members in the village of Lapayivka in western Ukraine expressed disbelief on October 6 over the loss. The massive attack a day earlier has been called one of the worst so far in western Ukraine.
Ukraine's military says it hit a major oil terminal in an attack on Russian-occupied Crimea. Social media posts showed fires at the Feodosia oil facility, which supplies fuel to Russia's military.
Russian forces struck several sites across Ukraine, including a medical facility in the Ukrainian city of Sumy, after Kyiv carried out a massive drone attack on Russia's Belgorod region, knocking out power to thousands of homes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used his nightly video address to criticize the lack of international response as western Ukraine and other areas looked to recover following a series of Russian aerial strikes across the country killed at least five people.
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