Matthew Dannoun

When a Russian warhead detonated on a Ukrainian street in April, Maksym kicked out a bus window as his mother urged him to run and leave her behind. They'd gone out on Palm Sunday in Sumy, about 20 miles from Russia, so Maksym, now 14, could get a new outfit for school pictures. Maksym and mom Natalia Tenytska are now among the 25 passengers who survived the attack.  The explosion and shrapnel from it killed 35 civilians on and near the bus. "They're killing civilians. It's elimination of the Ukrainian nation," Tenytska said in Ukrainian. "They're just wiping our cities off the face of the earth." Source: CBS News

In short: Russian strikes on an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro and on energy infrastructure in Kharkiv have killed four people. A barrage of drones and missiles on Saturday struck at least 25 locations across the country, the Ukrainian air force said. Russian authorities, meanwhile, said they repelled 82 Ukrainian drones, with two civilians sustaining injuries. A Russian drone has slammed into an apartment building in eastern Ukraine, killing three people and wounding 12 others, Ukrainian authorities reported. The attack took place early on Saturday, local time, in Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city. It was part of a large Russian missile and drone barrage across the country that targeted power infrastructure. wants to cripple the Ukrainian power grid and deny civilians access to heat, light and running water in what Kyiv officials say is an attempt to “weaponise winter”. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said in an X post that the strikes damaged “se...