Taras Chmut, the head of the Come Back Alive foundation, a Ukrainian non-governmental military charity organisation, has noted that Russian forces have no potential to capture the cities of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia,

The Russians are not abandoning their plans to launch an offensive in southern Ukraine. According to sources, Moscow plans to intensify military operations in the Zaporizhzhia region and the right-bank part of Kherson.

The attack damaged a 9-story apartment building in the city, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Three women and a 12-year-old boy sustained injuries.

Soborni Avenue that runs through Zaporizhzhia is a testament to the times in this industrial city in southeastern Ukraine. Buildings riddled with holes, a ghost shopping mall, hundreds of shattered windows.

Russia's invading forces launched 349 strikes on 11 settlements in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, December 21. — Ukrinform.

A Russian missile attack has killed at least eight people and injured another 22 - including a child - in Ukraine's southern city of Zaporizhzhia, local officials say. As many as five people may still be trapped under rubble after Tuesday's strike on a private clinic and residential buildings in the city centre, police say.

Russia captured the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe's biggest nuclear power station, soon after its forces went into Ukraine in February 2022. Each side in the 33-month-old war has since accused the other of shelling the plant and endangering nuclear safety.

Russia has occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region since the first days of its 2022 invasion. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Rescue workers in Zaporizhzhia recovered the body of a woman from under the rubble of a clinic destroyed by a Russian missile strike. This brings the death toll from the December 10 attack to 11. — Ukrinform.

Currently, eight people who were in a private clinic in Zaporizhzhia, which was hit by a russian missile, have died.The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has

Tatarstan is a multiethnic Russian republic which is home to a significant Muslim minority. Between October 22 and October 24, its capital, Kazan hosted the summit of BRICS countries which include Brazil, India, China and South Africa, and is considered by Russia to be the Global South's alternative to the G7.

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said during a Defense Ministry meeting on Dec. 16 that Moscow aims to seize the entirety of Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in 2025.