Noontime News Recap: Russia hits Kharkiv and Lviv as Gaza, Ukraine and Black Sea tensions deepen
Russian missile and drone strikes hit Kharkiv and the Lviv region overnight, killing three civilians in Kharkiv after a four storey residential building was partly collapsed and rescue workers pulled three bodies from the rubble. 🔗Ukraine said it would pause strikes on Russian oil refineries and other energy sites for two days, in what it described as an effort to create space for a proposed ceasefire, even as Russia continued hitting power infrastructure. 🔗In the Black Sea, Bulgaria reported a fresh drone attack on two ships near its coast, with one vessel sinking and rescue operations under way, adding to... [Continue Reading]
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Russian missile and drone strikes hit Kharkiv and Lviv region, killing three civilians
Rescue workers in Kharkiv recovered three bodies from the rubble of a four-storey residential building after an overnight Russian strike collapsed part of the block in the city's western Kholodnohirskyi district. The attack also damaged a five-storey building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, where windows were blown out in nearby apartment blocks. In the western Lviv region, a separate drone attack set two homes on fire in Murovane and damaged three cars.Emergency crews, police, bomb-disposal teams and search dogs remained at the Kharkiv sites as they continued looking for anyone who might still be trapped. A responder from the State Emergency... [Continue Reading]
Ukraine pauses strikes on Russian energy sites for two days as Russia keeps hitting power infrastructure
Ukraine has said it will suspend attacks on Russian oil refineries and other energy infrastructure for two days, in a move intended to give space to a proposed energy ceasefire. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the pause was meant to allow room for the arrangement announced by United States President Donald Trump. The decision comes as Russia continues to strike Ukrainian energy facilities, according to Kyiv.Zelensky said he took the step after Trump announced what he described as an immediate ceasefire on attacks against energy infrastructure. The Ukrainian president said the country had learned of the proposal through the media and... [Continue Reading]
Diesel prices surge as Iran war and Ukraine refinery strikes squeeze global supply
Global diesel markets are under renewed pressure as supply disruptions linked to the war involving Iran and Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy facilities continue to reduce exports. The latest reporting says the fall in diesel shipments has helped push prices higher in the United States, the United Kingdom and other markets. The issue has become a wider economic concern because diesel is central to road freight, shipping and other parts of the supply chain.The supplied material says United States President Donald Trump has blamed Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries for part of the global reduction in diesel exports, while... [Continue Reading]
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Ukraine warns of retaliation as Russian strikes hit power grid and Kyiv faces drone attacks
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Ukraine will respond if Russia continues striking the country's power grid, after a day of attacks that included Russian drones over Kyiv and a targeted strike on a power station in Kharkiv. Speaking to European security officials in Warsaw, the Ukrainian president said Ukraine would retaliate if Moscow did not agree to an energy ceasefire this winter. He said he had been surprised by a post from Donald Trump about an "energy ceasefire" that, according to Zelenskyy, neither side had agreed to.Zelenskyy said the post appeared while Kyiv was under attack by Russian Shahed drones,... [Continue Reading]


