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Russia launches ballistic missile strike on Mykolaiv, injuring five
Missile Strike
Russia fired a ballistic missile targeting Mykolaiv, injuring at least five people who were taken to nearby hospitals for medical treatment.
Russia fired a ballistic missile targeting Mykolaiv, injuring at least five people who were taken to nearby hospitals for medical treatment.
Casualties Number
Over the past 24 hours, Russian attacks have resulted in at least 10 fatalities and over 70 injuries across multiple Ukrainian cities, illustrating the conflict’s escalating intensity.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian attacks have resulted in at least 10 fatalities and over 70 injuries across multiple Ukrainian cities, illustrating the conflict’s escalating intensity.
Official Statement
“Ukraine’s long-range capabilities will continue to be developed comprehensively – at sea, in the air, and on land,” stated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following strikes on Russian vessels.
“Ukraine’s long-range capabilities will continue to be developed comprehensively – at sea, in the air, and on land,” stated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following strikes on Russian vessels.
Key developments
Russia launched a ballistic missile attack on Mykolaiv early Sunday, injuring at least five people who were hospitalised. This incident is part of a broader escalation that has recently struck over 10 cities across Ukraine.
Simultaneously, Ukraine’s Air Force intercepted 249 of the 268 drones fired from Moscow, though at least 19 drones and one missile hit various targets, leading to multiple casualties, particularly in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
In retaliation, Ukraine continues to strike Russian oil infrastructure, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirming attacks on two vessels at Novorossiysk, a key logistical hub for Russia’s operations.
At least 10 killed, over 70 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine in past 24 hours, Kyiv says
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Russia fired a ballistic missile targeting the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv early on Sunday morning.
Authorities responding to the scene say at least five people were injured, three men and two women, and were transported to nearby hospitals for medical treatment. It’s not clear what the severity of their injuries are.
It’s the latest in a string of attacks which have targeted over 10 cities across the country. The Kremlin’s attacks over the past 24 hours, according to officials, have killed at least 10 people and injured over 70 others.
Ukraine’s Air Force says a barrage consisted of hundreds of drones and missiles was fired from Moscow. Kyiv says its aerial defences had detected at least 268 drones entering Ukrainian airspace on Saturday and into the early hours of Sunday, 249 of which were intercepted.
The Air Force reported that at least 19 drones – Iranian-made Shahed strike UAVs – and one ballistic missile did strike their targets, dispersed across 15 different locations.
Two people were killed in Dobropillia and Mykolaivka in Donetsk in the eastern Donbas region, according to regional Governor Vadym Filashkin. Nine others were injured in separate attacks on the region, considered the most active frontline in the war.
Two others were killed in attacks on the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, while a further five were injured, including a child. Three more were killed in Kherson, where Russian forces targeted residential areas in 39 settlements in the region.
Meanwhile, Ukraine says it is continuing to target Russian oil infrastructure, both on the ground, with attacks on refineries and depots, and also in the sea, as Kyiv announced its latest attack on oil vessels, suspected to be part of the Kremlin’s sanctions-evading shadow fleet.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says two vessels were struck in the early hours of Sunday “at the entrance to the port of Novorossiysk” in the Black Sea.
“These tankers had been actively used to transport oil – not anymore,” wrote the Ukrainian leader in a post on X.
“Ukraine’s long-range capabilities will continue to be developed comprehensively – at sea, in the air, and on land. Glory to Ukraine!”
The Novorossiysk port has been a repeated site of attack for Ukrainian forces, becoming one of Moscow’s central bases after Kyiv’s repeated attacks on the annexed Crimean Peninsula.
The port has gained importance to the Kremlin and is believed to now be serving as an oil, military and logistical hub. It’s also believed to be one of the centre points of Russia’s shadow fleet operations.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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