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Three days before the Mi-24 raid, the Ukrainian army struck a separate depot in Belgorod with Tochka ballistic missiles. But the Friday raid was special. Not ...

It’s not clear the Friday raid is a prelude to a wider campaign of deep strikes by Ukrainian aircraft. Ukrainian brigades are counterattacking around Kyiv in the north and Kherson in the south, chasing after exhausted Russian troops who are retreating—“redeploying,” according to the Kremlin—toward separatist-controlled Donbas in eastern Ukraine. And on Friday, two of the twin-seat Mi-24s seem to have flown potentially a hundred miles or more to lob S-8 rockets at the Belgorod depot. In ambition if not in purpose, the Friday attack echoes a U. S. Army operation 31 years earlier. “The fire occurs in eight tanks with fuel and gasoline, occupying two thousand cubic meters, there is a threat of the fire spreading to another eight.” “There are 16 tanks in the seat of the fire,” the official told state media.

Red Cross says teams heading to besieged city but needs concrete agreements on where civilians would be escorted to.

But it’s not yet clear that this will happen today. “This effort has been, and remains, extremely complex. Red Cross says the team heading to the besieged city but needs concrete agreements on where civilians would be escorted to. The ICRC said it would use its vehicles as a humanitarian protection marker to remind all sides of the non-military nature of the operation. Red Cross says the team heading to the besieged city but needs concrete agreements on where civilians would be escorted to. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it hopes to lead an evacuation of thousands of civilians from the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol – but warned that major obstacles remained.

Ukrainian soldiers defending Kyiv say they are keeping their guard up despite Russia's announcement to scale back military operations around the capital.

Vyacheslav Gladko, the governor of the Russian city of Belgorod, said Friday that two Ukrainian helicopters launched an airstrike on a local oil depot.

A US official told ABC News that Russia seemed to have abandoned to Hostomel airfield not far from Kyiv. A Russian politician said Friday that Ukrainian forces blew up an oil depot on Russian soil in a helicopter raid. * The governor of Belgorod said Ukrainian helicopters launched an airstrike on the city of Belgorod.

KZN police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele has retired from the SAPS after 38 years. She speaks about her years of service.

“I wanted to serve the community, that was the reason I joined.” “I knew at times there would be pressure for both me and journalists but… “Firmly and honestly speaking, representing the KZN province as its spokesperson was an honour and a highlight.”Mbele said that even though there was pressure with media deadlines, she persevered.

Apple's Fitness Plus app is available on the iPhone, iPad and AppleTV. Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET. If you've got an Apple Watch ($349 at eBay) strapped to ...

You can sign up for a one-month free trial, or get three months free if you buy a new Apple Watch. In the upper left corner of the screen, you'll see the elapsed time, your current heart rate and the number of calories you've burned. Each workout will tell you what equipment you need (if any), like weights or a treadmill. If you've got an Apple Watch () strapped to your wrist, Apple's workout service Fitness Plus can help you pump up your heart rate from the comfort of your home. To get Apple Fitness Plus, you'll need to be running at least iOS 14.3, WatchOS 7.2, iPadOS 14.3 and TVOS 14.3 -- all of which are available now. The workout service costs $10 (£10, AU$15) a month, or $80 (£80, AU$120) a year.

Vyacheslav Gladko, the governor of the Russian city of Belgorod, said Friday that two Ukrainian helicopters launched an airstrike on a local oil depot.

A US official told ABC News that Russia seemed to have abandoned to Hostomel airfirled not far from Kyiv. The gains came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia was preparing to shift the focus of its attacks on Ukraine, to focus on attacking the eastern Donbas region. The apparent attack came amid a wider Ukrainian counter offensive, focused on retaking parts of the territory lost to Russia at the start of the war. Belgorod regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram that two Ukrainian helicopters launched an airstrike on the depot in the Russian city of Belgorod, located 24 miles north of the Ukrainian border. A Russian politician said Friday that Ukrainian forces blew up an oil depot on Russian soil in a helicopter raid. A Russian politician said two Ukrainian helicopters blew up an oil depot in Russia on Friday. The governor of Belgorod said Ukrainian helicopters launched an airstrike on the city of Belgorod.Ukrainian officials denied carrying out the attack, saying it could be a false flag operation.For more stories go to www.BusinessInsider.co.za.

Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy who led the SANParks 2022 Tourism summit on March 31, said the new opportunities would prompt ...

“Our partnerships with various private-sector entities have been pivotal in enhancing the experience of tourists who visit our parks. The centrality of the tourism sector in catalysing job creation has to be more prominent now than ever. “In some areas [of the country], national parks serve as the only means of economic activity and employment.

The Russian military is looking to sign up more than 130000 soldiers during its spring recruitment drive.

Enlistment offices have networks of doctors, clerks and military officials who are willing to sell military service record cards, which allow men to avoid conscription, at a cost of up to several thousand dollars each. “But what happens is that they tell you, ‘Wipe your ass with this letter; tomorrow you are going to a military base,’” the student recalled. The young man, in his early 20s, had an official letter from his university confirming that he had defended his undergraduate thesis and had been given a sabbatical for two months before enrolling in graduate school. “An informational and psychological war is being waged against Russia with increasing intensity through a huge stream of fakes,” St. Petersburg military commissar Sergey Kachkovsky said in late March, according to the Interfax news agency. Thousands of young men, woefully unprepared for battle, were killed, and groups like the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers gained prominence, working to release prisoners of war and return bodies to grieving families. The lawyer spoke on the condition of anonymity because Russia has recently introduced new laws mandating punishment for “discrediting” the Russian army.

Belgorod governor shared details of the attack saying that the oil depot, a facility run by Russian energy giant Rosneft, was set ablaze.

So far, half of the eight tanks burning at the oil depot in Belgorod have been extinguished. Delegations of Russia and Ukraine had held the sixth round of talks in Istanbul on Tuesday, March 29. Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov accused Ukraine of flying helicopter gunships into Russian territory on early Friday morning and striking an oil depot.

Our correspondent Jeremy Bowen counted 13 bodies on one small stretch of highway where, just hours earlier, Russian forces had been in control. We know who two ...

Good evening. This is your Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, a weeknight guide to the latest news and analysis about the conflict.

But now, he says, it is time to put disagreements aside: “While people are frowning at us everywhere outside our borders, at least for this period of time, we have to stick together.” The war’s opponents are becoming targets of propaganda that depicts them as the enemy. Critics have argued that polls in wartime have limited significance, with many Russians fearful of voicing dissent to a stranger when new censorship laws are punishing any deviation from the Kremlin narrative.

Convicted student leader Sibongile Mani has escaped jail time for now as her lawyers have launched an appeal of the conviction and sentence.

The case was provisionally postponed to April 11 for the appeal to be heard. The magistrate postponed the matter to November 4. Convicted student leader Sibongile Mani has escaped jail time for now as her lawyers have launched an appeal of the conviction and sentence.

Angela Stent, a top Russia expert, said Russia is "not serious" about peace talks and is just looking to "buy time" as it continues the war.

"According to our intelligence, Russian units are not withdrawing but repositioning," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a news conference on Thursday. "Russia is trying to regroup, resupply and reinforce its offensive in the Donbas region." Putin doesn't believe that Ukraine is an independent nation, and in his view there is "no separate Ukrainian identity," Stent said. He obviously hasn't achieved it now and he probably won't in the near future, but he's not going give up on that." Meanwhile, in remarks to reporters on the talks, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, "We do not see anything very promising or any breakthroughs." "They're still attacking a lot of other cities in Ukraine" Stent said of the Russians. "They may be focusing now on the Donbas, but I don't think anybody believes that they've completely given up taking Kyiv." Even if Ukrainian and Russian negotiators are able to reach a deal that leads to a ceasefire in the Ukraine war, Russian President Vladimir Putin will not abandon his goal of dominating Kyiv, a top Russia expert warns.