Ukraine strikes Russian naval targets in Crimean city of Sevastopol
The attack highlighted Kyiv’s growing missile capabilities as Russia continues to bombard Ukraine from afar with long-range missiles and assault drones.
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Ukrainian official says drones hit naval ship amid increase in attacks inside Russia
The port — which hosts a naval base, shipbuilding yards and an oil terminal and is key for exports — lies just across the Black Sea from Crimea.
Russia strikes Ukrainian port near Romanian border, sending grain prices higher
Russia has relentlessly attacked Ukrainian agricultural and port infrastructure for more than two weeks, since refusing to extend the Black Sea agreement.
Ukrainian troops advancing in all directions of counteroffensive, Kyiv says
President Voldoymyr Zelenskyy has described the counteroffensive as proceeding more slowly than desired, but that Kyiv would not be pressured into speeding it up.
Bakhmut situation ‘extremely tense,’ Ukraine says amid Russian fight
Ukraine repelled Russia’s attack aimed at taking Kyiv early in the war and later recaptured substantial territory, but Russia still occupies nearly a fifth of Ukraine.
Ukraine hosts European leaders as air raid sirens sound over Kyiv
Russia’s assault force in Bakhmut has relied on fighters from Wagner, a mercenary company which recruited thousands of Russian convicts from prisons with promises of pardons.
Ukraine says salt town of Soledar holding out amid Russian onslaught
Soledar, known for salt mining and processing, has little intrinsic value but it lies at a strategic point 10 kilometers north of Bakhmut, which Russian forces want to surround.