The warhead was designed to destroy high-voltage pylons and steel bridges and contains a 40-kilogram main charge and four additional destructive modules, Serhii Beskrestnov said.
The Russian special services are targeting military facilities, critical infrastructure, and communication systems, Ukraine's military intelligence service (HUR) warned.
Among those returned were people held under forced medical treatment and at risk of mobilization by Russia, according to Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets.
One of the Russian glide-bombs "completely destroyed" a residential building, Kharkiv city mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
Marinka Hritsik has watched Ukraine’s dairy farming traditions change before her eyes. "There were eighteen (household-owned) cows in our village in 2022, but now there are seven," said the family farmer from near Chernihiv. "By winter, there probably won’t be any left." Hritsik's story reflects a national shift: Ukraine's smaller dairy farms are disappearing while the biggest keep growing. High costs and low prices, EU rules, and the war are pushing small producers out even as the government'
Russian troops were left with no food, water, or ammunition and had to drink their own urine to survive after being abandoned by their commanders, POWs captured by Ukraine have said. The claims were made in a video published by Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps, which captured the Russian soldiers during Ukraine's "Operation Vivaldi," an ongoing successful counteroffensive against the Russian salient to the north of the city of Lyman, which has seen months of Russian offensive progress reversed in a mat
Ukrainian Telegram channel Dossier of a Spy said that the Mi-8 was mistakenly shot down by a Su-35 during Ukraine's drone attack.
The Kyiv Independent's coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, after eight years of aggression against Ukraine that began in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and fighting in Donbas. The war has resulted in tens of thousands of military and civilian casualties and displaced millions of Ukrainians. NATO and Western allies have provided military aid to Ukraine while the conflict continues across fronts in Ukraine’s south and east.
Asked what the missile struck, Zelensky's communications advisor told the Kyiv Independent: "We're not telling."
