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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Ukraine's children return to school as Russia launches drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv
By ILLIA NOVIKOV and VASILISA STEPANENKO KYIV, Ukraine©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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TaiwanIsNotChina
Just par for the course for the Russian. This is how they take care of their own.
TaiwanIsNotChina
Oh, thought it was Kharkiv. Still this is how they take care of their own as well.
Primusinter
Didn't Ilya Novikov make a mistake with the name of the city? Almost the same story happened in Belgorod! At seven o'clock in the morning, the Ukrainian military began bombing Belogorod, residential areas, just before the children were supposed to go to school for the first time after the summer holidays. The kindergarten was bombed by Ukrainians. I will never believe that the Russians deliberately bombed schools in Kiev. Ilya Novikov, as always, could have made a mistake.
Banthu
More ridiculous propaganda... Putin targets a school bus full of children but misses and hits a military facility instead.
The Kursk incursion is a total failure. The nuclear plant has been secured by Russian troops and it's now essentially impossible for Zelensky's brigades to accomplish their goal.
Meanwhile, Zelensky's army in the east is so angry that the units that were supposed to relieve them were sent to take selfies in Kursk that they are simply abandoning their fortifications in frustration and letting Russians take towns and villages without a fight.
stormcrow
Russia is like Germany during WWII in using terror as a weapon in the way they bomb schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, orphanages, etc. Downright medieval.
Eastmann
Ilya meant Belgorod.
sure mistake.
fallaffel
Sure, if you believe the Moscow regime propaganda. They also reported Ukraine's failed counteroffensive in Kherson City in 2022 (just before Russia fled from the city), that Ukraine backed the ISIS terrorist attacks in Russia, etc. Do you still believe them?
Mr Kipling
The Kursk offensive had 4 possible objectives.
To take the power station... fail
To move Russian troops from the east... fail
To embarrass Putin.... Small win but at great expense.
Propaganda stunt/ Morale boost. Partial win/ fail
And top tip, don't believe either side on the number of missiles, drones and rockets shot down or the targets hit. Neither side is going to tell the truth. But in the days of mobile phones, drones and satellites, any hits on important targets will have been filmed. If no proof after 3 days..... It didn't happen. On either side.
Banthu
In Ukraine it's illegal to upload any footage of damage from attacks without getting it vetted from authorities first.
That's why there are only pictures of random streets and cars and baby dolls on the side of the road.
Military targets get hit all the time but if you upload that to social media in Ukraine you'll get arrested.
burgers and beers
Poor kids on both sides. Ukraine rocket attack just destroyed a Russian kindergarten. Ceasefire needs to happen asap, not prolonging the conflict.
Sven Asai
They just both fully gamble their East European future with this useless war on own territory by both culturally and historically similar peoples. And a few kilometers westward they do the same , not fully but less bloody, by opening borders and generously inviting everyone who later will anyway invade from South and possess the whole former European territory. Obviously they want it now everywhere fast and irreversible. Surely they have found and fully applied the fitting suicide methods, mass integration in Western Europe and a massive population shrinking by bloody war in Eastern Europe. A very sad and tragic development, historically. But shortening the whole tragedy and suffering by some years is maybe a last 'good' idea.
Mr Kipling
Banthu...
I know, it doesn't stop some from uploading, also Russia will have drone or satellite footage of it's hits in Ukraine.