On the 1,621st day of a war that has long since erased the comfortable distance between front and home, Ukraine reached 1,600 kilometers into Russian territory to strike the refineries that fuel the machine of its own destruction. Russia answered, as it has answered before, with missiles over Kyiv — nine lives extinguished, 33 wounded, and a city's air defenses too thin to hold back the night. The exchange illuminates a grim arithmetic at the heart of modern warfare: every infrastructure strike is also a humanitarian one, and the suffering it produces does not stay neatly on one side of the bo
Ukraine strikes deep into Russia as Crimea faces humanitarian crisis from power cuts
At least nine civilians killed and 33 wounded in Kyiv missile strikes; residents in occupied Crimea face food and electricity shortages; one killed and five wounded in Kherson.