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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

HANNA ARHIROVA

Vehicles begin arriving outside a gate prior to expected talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations at the Dolmabache palace, in Istanbul, Turkey, May 16, 2025. (AP/Dilara Acikgoz)
May 16, 2025, 12:36 pm
Delegations from Russia and Ukraine gather in Turkey for 1st peace talks in 3 years
Trump says will meet with Putin ‘as soon as we can set it up’; push to end fighting got off to a rocky start when Russian president spurned Zelensky’s offer to meet face-to-face
By HANNA ARHIROVA and andrew wilks
Ukrainian servicemen of the Defence Intelligence prepare to launch long-range drones An-196 Liutyi in undisclosed location, Ukraine, February 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
March 4, 2025, 2:26 pm
Ukrainians grapple with Trump’s halt to military aid: ‘I feel betrayed’
Troops say they’re not surprised, but ‘we’re done’ if weapons don’t come, which could lead to a Russian advance; Kyiv resident hopes halt is temporary: ‘We really need help’
By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA
A Ukrainian officer shows a thermobaric charge of a downed Shahed drone launched by Russia in a research laboratory in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
November 16, 2024, 12:27 pm
Russian plan mixes deadly thermobaric drones among swarms of decoys launched at Ukraine
Warheads create high-pressure vortex that penetrates walls; sucking out all oxygen in their path, they can cause collapsed lungs, crushed eyeballs, brain damage even outside blast site
By Emma Burrows, HANNA ARHIROVA and Lori Hinnant
A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, August 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
August 15, 2024, 8:47 pm
Zelensky says Ukrainian forces have occupied largest town in Russia’s Sumy region
Kremlin downplaying significance of Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Kursk territory, but US says Russian troops being diverted to area
By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA
Representatives from over 40 countries posing for a photo during talks on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, August 6, 2023. (Handout from the Saudi Press Agency)
August 7, 2023, 9:12 pm
Russia slams diplomats’ summit in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending Ukraine war
Moscow says meeting in Jeddah with officials from over 40 countries is meaningless without Russian representatives
By HANNA ARHIROVA and Jim Heintz
Illustrative - Darts are stuck on a paper target made with an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a popular beachside attraction in Odesa, Ukraine, July 23, 2023. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
July 25, 2023, 11:43 am
Anger grows in Odesa after Russian bombardment destroys beloved historic sites
Dozens of missiles over past week have pounded Ukraine’s port city, which was once a quarter Jewish, also hitting apartment buildings and the iconic Transfiguration Cathedral
By HANNA ARHIROVA and Lori Hinnant
Church personnel inspect damage inside the Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral following Russian missile attacks in Odesa, Ukraine, July 23, 2023. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
July 23, 2023, 3:17 pm
2 killed in Russian barrage on Odesa; UNESCO-recognized cathedral badly damaged
Dozens injured; Moscow says strikes targeted ‘terrorists,’ denies firing at historic Transfiguration Cathedral, claiming destruction likely due to Ukrainian anti-aircraft rocket
By HANNA ARHIROVA
This photograph shows a downed missile that fell onto a private house after a night of missiles strike on Odesa on July 18, 2023. (Oleksandr GIMANOV / AFP)
July 19, 2023, 12:33 pm
12 injured in Odesa amid intense Russian nighttime attacks across Ukraine
Dozens of missiles and drones fired at country; Russia’s emergency services in Crimea evacuate over 2,000 people due to fire in military facility, cause not given
By HANNA ARHIROVA
Houses are seen underwater in the flooded town of Oleshky, Ukraine, June 10, 2023. (AP Photo)
June 13, 2023, 5:38 pm
Caught in flooded war zone, families scramble to survive dam collapse in Ukraine
Russia has been shelling areas of disaster-hit region it occupies; Ukrainian survivors claim Moscow’s forces only helping those with Russian passports
By ILLIA NOVIKOV, YURAS KARMANAU and HANNA ARHIROVA
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, holds the flag of a military unit as an officer kisses it, during a commemorative event on the occasion of the one year anniversary of the Russia Ukraine war in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 24, 2023. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
February 24, 2023, 11:01 am
On anniversary of invasion, Ukraine’s leader Zelensky vows to defeat Russia
Sounding defiant tone as morning breaks on day of commemorations, president congratulates compatriots on resilience in Europe’s deadliest war since WWII
By John Leicester and HANNA ARHIROVA
Illustrative: People pay their respects at a makeshift memorial at the scene where a helicopter crashed into civil infrastructure on January 18, in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, January 20, 2023. (Daniel Cole/AP)
January 22, 2023, 10:55 am
Ukraine’s tragic week shows there’s no safe place in war
Missile strike on residential building and helicopter that crashed into a kindergarten frame several days of particularly cruel suffering in conflict-ravaged country
By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA
In this photo released by the Dnipro Regional Administration, smoke rises after a Russian rocket hit a multistory building leaving many people under debris in Dnipro, Ukraine, January 14, 2023. (Dnipro Regional Administration via AP)
January 14, 2023, 10:29 pm
Ukraine says at least 5 killed in major Russian missile barrage
Infrastructure facilities in several cities also targeted in salvo; British PM promises Zelensky he’ll send Challenger 2 tanks, artillery systems
By SYLVIA HUI and HANNA ARHIROVA
Fog covers Kyiv city center, Ukraine, January 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 14, 2023, 1:59 pm
Explosions heard in Kyiv; Ukrainian officials say key infrastructure hit
Missiles also fired at second-largest city Kharkiv; attacks come amid conflicting reports on fate of the fiercely contested town of Soledar
By HANNA ARHIROVA
Ukrainian soldiers launch a drone at Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 15, 2022. (LIBKOS/AP)
January 4, 2023, 8:37 am
Drone advances in Ukraine could herald battlefield dawn of autonomous killer robots
Experts warn it’s likely only a matter of time before both sides take relatively small step of deploying even smarter lethal weapons, setting stage for profound change in warfare
By Frank Bajak and HANNA ARHIROVA
Ukrainian soldiers watch drone feeds from an underground command center in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)
December 28, 2022, 1:34 pm
Ukrainian minister says ‘next stage’ is to develop air-to-air combat drones
Mykhailo Fedorov says Ukraine has fleet of 1,400 reconnaissance drones and is developing strike drones; Moscow claims Kyiv utilized attack drones in recent hits on airbases
By HANNA ARHIROVA
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