Five Russian climbers who went missing on Sunday while descending from Mount Dhaulagiri were found dead on Tuesday. A search team located the Russians at an altitude of 7,100 meters of the peak, the world’s seventh tallest at 8,167 meters located in Nepal. Funuru Sherpa, Managing Director of the IAM Trekking and Expeditions, which was…
A cyberattack led to widespread disruptions at the Russian state-owned broadcaster VGTRK on Monday, according to media reports. The online Russian newspaper Gazeta.Ru reported that a pro-Ukrainian hacker group named “sudo rm -RF” was responsible for the attack, citing Russian intelligence officials. Gazeta.Ru said that the attack affected the online broadcast of the programme, internal…
A military court in eastern Russia on Wednesday sentenced 13 young men to long prison terms over acts of sabotage on the country’s war effort. In a statement, the court in Chita, east of Irkutsk, said it imposed sentences of 23 years on the men, aged between 17 and 20 years old when they were…
Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, with swarms of combat drones overnight, authorities said on Monday. The drones attacked from all sides, the Kiev military administration said on Telegram, adding that all drones had been repelled. There were initially no reports of casualties or damages. In the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine, a Russian drone…
Russian airstrikes on Ukraine’s western city of Lviv overnight killed at least seven people, including children, and injured at least 38 people, regional officials said on Wednesday. Lviv Mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, said that the three of the dead were children. In some areas in northern Ukraine, the air alert was still sounding at 8:30 a.m….
Russia unleashed a powerful wave of drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, targeting Kiev, Sumy and Kharkiv, officials said on Monday morning. Two people were injured in the capital Kiev, and the attacks caused damage in several neighbourhoods, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. Several fires broke out in western Kiev, damaging houses and vehicles….
NATO member states were skeptical about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call to intercept Russian missiles over Ukraine from their territory. Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said this on Wednesday. “There is a lot of scepticism on this issue. “No single country will make such decisions individually. “I have not seen any supporters of this decision…
Russia has attacked Ukraine for the second consecutive night with heavy airstrikes involving various weapon types, initial reports from Ukrainian authorities said on Monday morning. At least five people were killed, two due to a rocket strike on a hotel in Kryvyi Rih and three others due to drone attacks on Zaporizhzhya, they said. According…
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine, Matthias Schmale, has condemned the deadly Russian missile and drone strikes that began overnight and reportedly targeted 15 regions of the country. Schmale, in a statement on Monday, said that, like millions of people in Ukraine, he spent hours in a shelter that morning due to the ongoing wave…
Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Tuesday by a large majority to ban the Russian-linked Orthodox Church. According to lawmakers, the controversial bill received a broad majority in the parliament, or Rada, in Kiev at the second reading. Out of 322 lawmakers present, 265 voted in favour of the law. In Ukraine’s fragmented religious landscape, around 10,000…
