Ukraine targeted five of Russia's air defense systems worth an estimated $350 million in a single day, serving a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin's exhausted military in the nearly three-year-old war.
The Russians bombarded Kherson Oblast one and a half times more often in 2024 than in 2023. Source: Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Military Administration, on air during the 24/7 national joint newscast Details: Prokudin stressed that Russia is not abandoning its terror tactics against the residents of Kherson Oblast,
Russian troops attacked a taxi in Kherson on January 2. 3 people were injured, according to the Kherson Regional Military Administration. “The Russians fired at a taxi bus in the Korabelnyi district of Kherson,
Ukraine’s military said Monday it shot down 79 of the 128 drones that Russian forces deployed overnight in attack targeting multiple Ukrainian regions. The intercepts took place over the Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr regions, the Ukrainian air force said.
Zelensky called Wednesday's bombardment "cruel" and called for the world to rally around Ukraine, and against Russia, to bring about a "lasting peace".
People in the Ukrainian city Kherson {kHAIR-son} say Russian soldiers are using remote-controlled drones to attack civilians. Officials say the attacks escalated last summer and are a daily threat.