Moscow, May 23 (IANS) The death toll from the attack on a dormitory in Starobelsk in Russia’s Luhansk region, has risen to 18 with more bodies being found in the rubble, local media reported.There may be three more children under the rubble, the press service of Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations stated.”The bodies of two more people were recovered from the rubble. This brings the total to 60 injured, 18 of whom died,” Russia’s Tass news agency quoted a ministry official as saying.Russi…
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Geneva, May 22 (IANS) The Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations in Geneva demanded on Friday that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and his Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) publicly condemn the Kyiv regime’s attack on the college in Starobilsk.”We demand that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and his Office (OHCHR), as well as the relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council, find the strength to publicly condemn this…
Kyiv, May 11 (IANS) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine has submitted to the Russian side a list of 1,000 detainees for the planned prisoner exchange, according to the presidential press service.”The prisoner exchange, 1,000 for 1,000, is being prepared and must take place. The Americans assumed responsibility for these guarantees,” Zelensky said in his evening address on Sunday.He also stressed that the conflict with Russia must be brought to an end and reliable security mu…
Moscow/Kyiv, May 11 (IANS) Russia and Ukraine on Sunday accused each other of violating a declared three-day ceasefire.The Russian Defence Ministry said Sunday that Ukrainian forces committed 16,071 violations of the ceasefire regime in the past 24 hours, Xinhua news agency reported.Russian forces responded to the ceasefire violations in kind, launching retaliatory strikes against multiple launch rocket system, artillery, and mortar positions, as well as command posts and drone launch sites, the…
Moscow, May 3 (IANS) The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant’s external radiation monitoring laboratory was attacked by Ukrainian forces with a drone, media reported on Sunday.According to the station management’s statement, “No critical damage to equipment was found, and there were no injuries as well,” reported the state-owned Russian news agency TASS.”The Ukrainian Armed Forces are posing a threat to the radiation safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. This afternoon, the Ukrainian Arme…
Kyiv, April 16 (IANS) Ukraine has started receiving drones from the biggest ever drone package announced by Britain, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry said.”We are grateful to the UK for the largest ever batch of drones for Ukraine… They have already begun arriving and are strengthening our front line,” the ministry said in a statement on Telegram on Wednesday (local time).This year, Ukraine is expecting to get a total of 120,000 drones as part of the package, including strike, reconnaissance, lo…
Moscow, Jan 2 (IANS) The death toll from the “Ukrainian terrorist attack” in Khorly has risen to 28 as a woman hospitalized died in a Crimean hospital, the Russian media reported on Friday. Citing a statement by the Crimean Ministry of Health, RIA Novosti, the state-owned domestic news agency of Russia, reported that a woman hospitalised in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a hospital in Dzhankoy died on Friday.”Unfortunately, it was not possible to save the woman, who had previously been hospita…
Moscow, Jan 1 (IANS) Russian air defences have downed 250 drones over the past day, including 12 targetting the Moscow region overnight, Russia’s Defence Ministry said Thursday. The air defences also shot down one guided aerial bomb and a Ukrainian Su-27 aircraft, the ministry said.Russian forces have hit Ukrainian energy facilities, ammunition depots, drone assembly sites, as well as 154 temporary deployment sites of the Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries, it added.Russia’s Ministry…