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Kyiv Southern Bridge Drone Strike: 2 Drones Hit Key Metro Link After School Attack

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Kyiv Southern Bridge Drone Strike: 2 Drones Hit Key Metro Link After School Attack

A Kyiv Southern Bridge drone strike on Thursday became the first drone attack on one of the capital's bridges since the full-scale invasion began, according to Meduza and the Kyiv Independent. It followed a drone hit on a school in the city's Solomianskyi district earlier the same day. Officials said children were sheltering when the school was struck, and no injuries were reported in either attack. The bridge matters because of what it carries. It crosses the Dnipro River, which divides Kyiv into eastern and western banks, and it carries both road traffic and Kyiv Metro trains. Reuters described it as a major link between the two halves of the city, which is why the transport halts that followed matter beyond the physical damage. How the day unfolded Morning: a drone hits a scho...

Russian Barrage on Ukraine’s Energy Grid Triggers Emergency Blackouts in Kyiv

Kyiv went into emergency blackouts on Wednesday for the first time since spring, after Russia launched its largest combined missile and drone assault on Ukraine's energy grid in months. Ukrainian officials say seven people died across the country, and a key power plant near the capital was damaged. President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking during a visit to the eastern front, said one of the dead was a child and that critical infrastructure had been hit in five regions, with damage recorded in five more. Ukraine's air force reported intercepting five missiles and 155 drones, and air-raid sirens sounded for more than 12 hours. What went offline in and around Kyiv The state-owned producer Centrenergo said generating equipment at the Trypilska thermal power plant in Kyiv region was dama...

Russia Ukraine Strikes Injure 19, Poland Issues Urgent Warning

Russia Ukraine strikes escalated again this week, with a missile and drone barrage on Kyiv and its surrounding region injuring at least 19 people overnight into Thursday, Ukrainian officials said. Children were among those hurt. The same night, separate strikes hit Odesa and Zaporizhzhia, and Ukraine's Air Force reported destroying or suppressing 131 Russian aerial targets before dawn. Kyiv didn't only absorb the hit. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces struck back overnight too, hitting an oil refinery in Yaroslavl - roughly 700 kilometers inside Russian territory - along with a military airfield in the Rostov region. Neither side is behaving like a ceasefire is close. Peace talks have stalled over territorial concessions in eastern Ukraine, and the latest round of Russ...