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A firefighter extinguishes a burning house hit by Russian Grad rockets in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky district, on March 23, 2022, as for the first time, there are signs that Ukrainian forces are going on the offensive, retaking a town near Kyiv and attacking Russian forces in the south of the country. AFP KYIV — Explosions rocked Kyiv Sunday morning, a day after a flurry of missiles struck targets across Ukraine and Russian troops “fully occupied” the key industrial hub of Severodonetsk. AFP journalists reported a residential complex near the centre of Kyiv had been hit, causing a fire and cloud of grey smoke. A colleague living in the complex heard a loud buzz preceding the explosions Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who will address G7 leaders on Monday, said cities as far away as Lviv, near the Polish border, had been struck by a wave of attacks Saturday. “This confirms … that air-defence systems — the modern systems which our partners have — should not be on the sites or … [Read more...] about Explosions rock Kyiv, as Russians ‘fully occupy’ Severodonetsk

Ukrainian service members walk in the industrial area of the city of Sievierodonetsk, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine June 20, 2022. (REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak/File Photo) KYIV/POKROVSK, Ukraine — Russian forces have fully occupied Sievierodonetsk, the mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city said on Saturday, confirming Kyiv’s biggest battlefield setback for more than a month, after weeks of some of the war’s bloodiest fighting. Ukraine called its retreat from the city a “tactical withdrawal” to fight from higher ground in Lysychansk on the opposite bank of the Siverskyi Donets river. Pro-Russian separatists said Moscow’s forces were now attacking Lysychansk. The fall of Sievierodonetsk — once home to more than 100,000 people, now a wasteland — was Russia’s biggest victory since capturing the port of Mariupol last month. It transforms the battlefield in the east after weeks in which Moscow’s huge advantage in firepower had yielded only slow gains. Russia will … [Read more...] about Ukrainian city falls to Russia in one of war’s bloodiest fights

In those first few fraught hours of February 24th, after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, Anastasiia Smyk, CEO and co-founder of aviation software startup Input Soft , recalls being in a state of shock and incredulity. She was in Kyiv at the time, but her 11-strong team was scattered around the country. advertisement advertisement “The first week we were just thinking about how to survive at a human level,” says the 25-year-old entrepreneur. “So we decided to rent a house for our team in the Carpathian mountains, in the [safer] western part of Ukraine, and told them they could go there with their families to wait until we knew more about what was happening. Some of them went. Others were unable to get out.” One of those left behind was the startup’s accountant, whose home town of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, has been under Russian occupation since early March. On May 3rd, when the internet and mobile communications went down, she decided to risk her … [Read more...] about The war in Ukraine hasn’t ended. Here’s how these founders continue to build their businesses

Rescue workers evacuating a person from a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine on June 26, 2022. - A + A KYIV (June 26): Several explosions shook Kyiv's central Shevchenkivskiy district early on Sunday, causing widespread damage and a fire at a residential building, officials said, in the first assault on Ukraine's capital since early June. Emergency services said that as a result of the Russian shelling, a fire broke out in a nine-storey residential building that had been partially damaged in the attack. Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said that residents are being rescued and evacuated from two buildings. "There are people under the rubble," Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app. He added that several people had already been hospitalised. "They (the rescuers) have pulled out a seven-year-old girl. She is alive. Now they're trying to rescue her mother." Air raid sirens regularly disrupt life in Kyiv, but there … [Read more...] about Explosions shake Kyiv’s centre, fire at residential building — officials