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According to Ukrainian authorities, the Russian Naval Forces fired five Kalibr cruise missiles from a submarine in the Black Sea. Ukraine claims that two of the missiles were shot down. [304] One of the missiles reportedly hit the House of Officers , a Soviet-era concert hall. [305]
The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the major battle that resulted in an encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II, the capital and most populous city of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. [8] This encirclement is the largest encirclement in the history of warfare by number of troops.
The Koriukivka massacre was a war crime against 6,700 residents [2] [3] of Koriukivka (then a village of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) on 1–2 March 1943 by the SS forces of Nazi Germany and the 105 light infantry division of the Royal Hungarian Army. 1,290 houses in Koriukivka were burned down and only ten brick buildings and a church survived. [4]
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civilian targets, including on hospitals, medical facilities and on the energy grid; [1] [2] [3] indiscriminate attacks on densely-populated areas; the abduction, torture and murder of civilians; forced deportations; sexual violence ...
On 16 April, Russian officials said that Major General Vladimir Petrovich Frolov, Deputy Commander of the 8th Guards Army, was killed in combat in Ukraine, details were not provided. [158] On 22 May, retired Major general Kanamat Botashev, fighting for Wagner PMC, was killed in Luhansk Oblast when his Su-25 was shot down by a FIM-92 Stinger ...
The Ministry of Internal Affairs also insisted that the Russian claim of massive Ukrainian casualties was "an absolute lie", [46] while the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence declared that the airfield was too badly damaged to be used by Russian troops. [13] Later in the day, Ukraine confirmed that Russian forces were in control of the airport. [47]
[11] [321] [322] Acting governor of Kursk Oblast, Alexei Smirnov, claimed that 26 Ukrainian UAVs were shot down in the area. [323] Russia later claimed on 9 August, that Ukraine had losses of 945 soldiers and 102 armored vehicles, although this could not be verified. [72] Ukraine claimed their forces had shot down an Mi-28 and two Ka-52 [29 ...
The Second Battle of Kiev was a part of a much wider Soviet offensive in Ukraine known as the Battle of the Dnieper involving three strategic operations by the Soviet Red Army and its Czechoslovak units [1] and one operational counterattack by the Wehrmacht, which took place between 3 November and 22 December 1943.