Russia, Ukraine and drones
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Monday night's attack prompted the scrambling of NATO fighter jets in Poland, which borders Ukraine to the country's west. Poland's Armed Forces Operational Command Operational Command said that no violation of the nation's airspace was recorded.
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Zelenskyy declares Russian energy facilities legitimate military targets"We do not have to choose – whether we strike a military target or energy," the president said. “He sells this energy. He sells oil. So is it energy, or is it a military target? Honestly, it’s the same thing.
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Russia quietly changes tactics on Ukraine’s power grid, here’s what it meansRussia’s winter campaign against Ukraine’s power grid has entered a new phase, one that relies on volume, precision and timing rather than sporadic barrages. Instead of simply trying to knock out a few big plants,
Ukraine has accused Russia of illegally targeting power infrastructure during the war to deny civilians light, heating and running water.
As Ukraine accuses Russia of terrorism with a deadly strike on a train, some defense analysts believe Elon Musk's Starlink may have guided the killer drones.
MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russia would regard the deployment of any foreign military forces or infrastructure in Ukraine as foreign intervention and treat those forces as legitimate targets, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday,
The civilian death toll has been edging upward as the war grinds on. The United Nations' Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in January that 2025 was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022. "A massive increase in the use of long-range weapons by the Russian armed forces" helped drive the trend, the mission said.
Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles early on Tuesday, local authorities reported, following a week-long pause in strikes on major cities and infrastructure agreed to by Russia and the US as Ukraine grapples with plummeting winter temperatures.