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A Ukrainian husband and father has lost his entire family after a Russian missile destroyed his house in the western city of Lviv.
Yaroslav Bazylevych’s wife Eugenia and the couple’s three daughters, Yarya, 21, Daria, 18 and Emilia, seven, were all killed on Wednesday morning. They were among seven in total that were killed during the aerial assault on Lviv. Yesterday, more than 50 Ukrainians were killed in a Russian missile strike on Poltava in central-east Ukraine.
Photos published online showed Yaroslav watching helplessly as one of his daughters was taken away in a body bag. His face, meanwhile, was caked in blood, while a plaster was fixed above his left eye. His left hand was also bandaged.
Other photos showed fellow residents trying in vain to comfort Yaroslav and calm him down.
The story has shocked a nation already used to continual tragedy, with hundreds of people issuing messages of grief on social media.
“Russia is eliminating Ukrainians by (killing off) entire families,” local mayor Andriy Sadovyi said via social media, referencing Yaroslav’s story. “The Russians are killing our children, our future.”
Key Points
- Russian strikes on western city of Lviv kill seven and wound 38
- Father loses whole family in Lviv strike
- Ukrainian Foreign minister offers resignation
- Death toll in Poltava missile attack rises to more than 50
Zelensky: we are accomplishing all tasks in Russia’s Kursk region
Ukraine‘s President Volodymyr Zelensky has saidthat Ukraine‘s military was accomplishing all the tasks set out in its operations in Russia’s Kursk region.
“It is very important that absolutely all the tasks set out in our Kursk operation are being accomplished,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address after referring to frontline reports presented by Ukraine‘s commander in chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Tom Watling4 September 2024 21:00 1725476434Wearing prosthetics, Ukraine war veterans take to the runway as fashion week returns
Wearing prosthetics, Ukraine war veterans take to the runway as fashion week returns
Ukrainian war veterans with prosthetic limbs have taken to the runway in Kyiv as the country's fashion week returned home for the first time since the Russian invasion in 2022
Tom Watling4 September 2024 20:00 1725474694UN nuclear chief visits Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
The United Nations nuclear agency chief has visited the Zaporizhzhia power plant after warning that it could become a “disaster” if caught up in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Rafael Grossi was pictured inspecting the site today. Yesterday, he was in Kyiv speaking to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
The EU wants answers from Hungary about work visas for Russia and Belarus
The EU wants answers from Hungary about work visas for Russia and Belarus
The European Union’s top migration official is seeking answers from Hungary about a work visa program open to citizens from Russia and Belarus
Tom Watling4 September 2024 18:46 1725470314US to accuse Russia of effort to influence 2024 election, CNN says
The United States plans to accuse Russia on Wednesday of a campaign to influence the 2024 elections using online platforms to target American voters with disinformation, CNN has reported, citing six sources familiar with the matter.
Russian state media network RT will be a focus of the announcement, CNN reported.
The news comes just hours before Attorney General Merrick Garland is due to make public remarks at a meeting of the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force.
He will be joined by FBI Director Chris Wray, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri, and Matt Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.
A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment ahead of the election task force meeting.
The Justice Department has previously warned that Russia remains a threat to the 5 November presidential election.
In a speech last month, Monaco warned that Russian president Vladimir Putin “and his proxies are using increasingly sophisticated techniques in their interference operations.”
Tom Watling4 September 2024 18:18 1725468334Children throughout Ukraine ‘can never be truly safe’, aid organisation warns
No children in Ukraine “can ever be truly safe” with Russian missile strikes targeting everything from civilian homes to education facilities, an aid organisation has warned.
Save the Children, a global initiative seeking to protect children, said young people are “paying the highest price” for Russia’s war in Ukraine.
It comes as a baby was among three children killed in today’s strike on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
Sonia Khush, Save the Children Country Director in Ukraine, said: “Instead of morning alarms that would wake them to go to school, children are startled awake by air raid sirens and forced into shelters straight out of bed.
“Instead of learning and playing, children are being killed, injured, and left emotionally distressed. Three in four children in Ukraine are living in constant fear amid an escalating mental health crisis.
“As there are no signs of attacks slowing, children are paying the highest price. We must no longer tolerate violence against the most vulnerable of human beings. International humanitarian law should be the cornerstone that everybody abides by to ensure children, their families, and homes are protected from shelling and strikes.”
Tom Watling4 September 2024 17:45 1725466774Zelensky’s latest reshuffle of his top team has one major aim
Zelensky’s latest cabinet reshuffle seeks to project strength before a tough winter
Despite the morale boost provided by the audacious attack into Russia’s Kursk, airstrikes and battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine are piling the presssure on president Zelensky
Tom Watling4 September 2024 17:19 1725465154Lavrov warns US not to mock Russia's 'red lines'
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, responding to a question about the potential delivery of long-range US missiles to Ukraine, has warned the United States not to joke about Russia's “red lines”.
Lavrov said the US was losing sight of the sense of mutual deterrence that had underpinned the balance of security between Moscow and Washington since the Cold War, and that this was dangerous.
He was commenting on a Reuters report that the US is close to an agreement to supply Ukraine with long-range JASSM cruise missiles that could reach deep inside Russia - for which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been lobbying.
"I won't be surprised by anything - the Americans have already crossed the threshold they set for themselves. They are being egged on, and Zelensky of course sees this and takes advantage of it,” Lavrov told a Russian TV interviewer.
“But they should understand - they are joking about our red lines here. They shouldn't joke about our red lines.”
Kremlin officials have often warned Kyiv’s allies against crossing “red lines”, nodding towards the potential for nuclear retaliation, on several occasions. Those threats have yet, however, to be proved anything other than empty.
Swiss offer Ukrainian refugees protection until 2026
The Swiss government will not lift its protection status for Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion before March 4, 2026, as the situation in their country is not expected to change in the foreseeable future, it has announced.
Switzerland granted Ukrainian refugees protection status “S,” which grants temporary protection to those in need as long as they are exposed to serious general danger, in March 2022.
Germany won't let up in military aid to Ukraine, Scholz says
Germany will not slacken in its military support for Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday, trying to dispel fears Berlin might disappoint Kyiv amid a domestic budget squeeze and media reports of a freeze on new German military aid.
“Germany’s support for Ukraine will not cease. We have made provisions, struck (defence) deals and secured the funding in good time so that Ukraine can continue to fully rely on us in future,” Scholz said.
European defence stocks fell in mid-August after the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) newspaper said the German finance ministry would not approve additional applications for Ukraine military aid due to budget constraints.
A German government spokesperson later called that report “incorrect” and reiterated Berlin’s support for Ukraine for “as long as necessary”.
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