On Monday she sat in her cousin’s Kyiv apartment, and by Wednesday a Russian strike had left a hole where the window was
Her cousin, his girlfriend, and an aunt survived inside, and rescuers lifted them out 15 minutes after the blast.
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1,125 Kyiv residents injured in Russian attacks since the start of 2026, more than a third of them in five weeks from late August, Kyiv health chief says
Kyiv emergency medical teams have responded to 1,920 calls related to Russian attacks since the start of the year, according to the city’s health department head.
Russia used civilians as human shields, then shelled them near Kupiansk, Ukraine’s Khartiia says
Aerial reconnaissance footage recorded casualties among a group that included two women and a child, according to Khartiia. The Ukrainian corps says Russian media could use the incident to accuse Kyiv of attacking civilians.
Five Russian bombs kill 17 in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia next day after Trump lets Russia ship first 300,000 tonnes of its diesel
Zelenskyy tied the strike to a US move easing sanctions on Russian diesel.
Warehouses, a home-improvement store, a farm: Russia’s strikes aimed past the grid at Ukraine’s civilian economy
Three people were killed and a woman was still missing as the outages spread.
Russia kills 30 in strike on two passenger buses in Kramatorsk
Hours after the strike, the head of Donetsk Oblast ordered public transport in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk halted, saying Russia had made the buses a target.
22 killed in Russian missile strike on Pryluky, including five children
Rescuers have finished searching the rubble of the five-story apartment building a Russian missile hit yesterday morning, while residents were still asleep.
Oleksandr, Kyrylo and Serhii, all aged one, and eight-year-old Maksym were killed in Ukraine’s city by Russian strike on Putin’s birthday
A Russian missile flattened an apartment block in Pryluky.
14 dead in Pryluky, two each in Kyiv, Kremenchuk, and Oleksandriia: Russia’s night of 70 missiles
Five children were among the 26 people injured when a missile collapsed part of a five-story building.
Three ambulances hit, a woman killed at home: 25 minutes of Russian drone attacks on Kramatorsk
The strikes on medical vehicles and a high-rise are now under investigation as war crimes.
Ukraine’s civilian casualties 55% higher in first eight months than in the same period in 2025, UN says
Strikes on energy facilities and businesses have surged, while damage to power plants is causing outages as winter approaches.
Eight months of 2026 brought more Ukrainian civilian casualties than all of last year, UN says
A senior UN official told the Security Council the toll is worsening as strikes reach cities far from the front, with a dark winter ahead.
No missiles intercepted again: Russia strikes Kyiv water infrastructure amid warnings of harsher winter attacks
Russia also struck residential areas in Odesa and Zaporizhzhia, injuring civilians and damaging homes and other civilian infrastructure.
Russian drone killed five people on a scheduled minibus in southeastern Ukraine
The vehicle was running an intercity route through a district that sits across the river from Russian-held ground when the strike caught it.
Kyiv couple marries after Russian strike ruins their home
Liudmyla and Leonid Ryzhak married in Kyiv on 8 September, hours after a Russian strike hit a warehouse across the street and a blast wave left their apartment uninhabitable. Screenshot from AP video
Mines and unexploded munitions have harmed 1,688 civilians since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine says
Farmers were the worst-hit occupation, in a country the UN's mine action service calls the most heavily contaminated since the Second World War.
Russian drone struck a Ukrainian fire truck on its way to a house fire—four rescuers injured
The crew was answering a call in a village outside Zaporizhzhia, and all four men went to hospital with injuries of differing severity.
Four days of Russian attacks keep Kyiv under near-constant fire. Ukraine is struggling to defend its skies
Russia has launched nearly 2,000 attack drones, more than 1,600 guided bombs and 31 missiles against Ukraine this week, while Kyiv faces repeated strikes and a shortage of critical air defense interceptors.
Russia launches third attack on Ukraine’s largest Danube port this month, during peak of wheat harvest
ive trucks loaded with grain were destroyed and three more damaged in the Izmail district.
14 killed as Russia unleashes massive overnight barrage on unprotected Kyiv, striking homes, hospital, school and railway infrastructure
Russia attacked Kyiv with ballistic and cruise missiles, including Zircon, Iskander-M and S-400 missiles, as well as 168 Shahed-type and other drones in a massive overnight barrage.