Author: Hanna Arhirova
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Ukraine: Russia hits apartments and dorm, killing civilians
KYIV, Ukraine • Russia stepped up its missile and drone attacks against Ukraine on Wednesday, killing students and other civilians, in a violent follow-up to dueling high-level diplomatic missions aimed at bringing peace after 13 months of war. “Russia is shelling the city with bestial savagery,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote in a Telegram post accompanying…
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New barrage of Russian strikes in Ukraine kills at least 11
KYIV, Ukraine • Russian forces fired another rash of missiles and self-exploding drones in nearly a dozen provinces of Ukraine early Thursday, causing the first attack-related death of the year in Kyiv and killing at least 11 people, according to Ukrainian authorities. The attacks adhered to Russia’s recent pattern of striking power plants and other…
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Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots
KYIV, Ukraine • Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a long-anticipated technology trend that could soon bring the world’s first fully autonomous fighting robots to the battlefield, inaugurating a new age of warfare. The longer the war lasts, the more likely it becomes that drones will be used to identify, select and attack targets without…
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Russian missiles kill at least 23 in Ukraine, wound over 100
VINNYTSIA, Ukraine • Russian missiles struck a city in central Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100, Ukrainian authorities said. Ukraine’s president alleged the attack deliberately targeted civilians in locations without military value. Officials said Kalibr cruise missiles fired from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea struck civilian…
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Russia claims advances in Ukraine amid fierce fighting
KYIV, Ukraine • Russia on Tuesday claimed to have taken control of 97% of one of the two provinces that make up Ukraine’s Donbas, bringing the Kremlin closer to its goal of fully capturing the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow’s forces hold nearly all of…