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Homes smashed, 34 wounded in latest Russian strikes on Ukraine

Homes smashed, 34 wounded in latest Russian strikes on Ukraine

RUSSIA unleashed a fresh volley of missiles on Ukraine overnight, causing huge blazes in a city in the east, damaging dozens of homes and wounding at least 34 people. The attack on Pavlohrad, a city and railway hub, came during the second wave of nationwide missile strikes in three days, with Moscow apparently reviving its winter tactic of long-range strikes ahead of a planned Ukrainian counteroffensive. A huge crater had been blasted in the backyard of a house that was strewn with debris on Pavlohrad's outskirts. Homes nearby were badly damaged. In the city centre, the windows of a dormitory…
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Ukraine vows ‘iron fist’ counterattack; Russian strikes kill 25

Ukraine vows ‘iron fist’ counterattack; Russian strikes kill 25

UKRAINE said it was nearly ready to launch a huge ground assault to retake occupied land after Russia hurled missiles at cities as people slept overnight, killing at least 25 civilians in its first large-scale air strikes in nearly two months. The war is coming to a crucial juncture after a months-long Russian winter offensive that gained little ground despite the bloodiest fighting so far. Kyiv is preparing a counteroffensive using hundreds of tanks and armoured vehicles sent by the West. It wants to drive Russia out of the nearly one-fifth of Ukraine that it occupies and claims to have…
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Multiple Russian strikes kill at least two in Ukrainian city of Sloviansk – officials

Multiple Russian strikes kill at least two in Ukrainian city of Sloviansk – officials

SIMON LEWIS RUSSIAN forces struck a market and a residential area in the city of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine, killing at least two people and injuring seven, according to officials. A Reuters reporter on the scene saw yellow smoke billowing up from an auto supplies shop at the market, and flames engulfed rows of market stalls as firefighters tried to extinguish the blaze. It was not immediately clear what munitions had been used in the attack on the frontline city in the Donetsk region, or how many people had been at the market when it was hit. "Russians again deliberately…
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