Pilot error led to Alaska crash killing billionaire Petr Kellner, NTSB says | #alaska | #politics
An undated handout picture shows Czech billionaire Petr Kellner, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Alaska, posing for a photograph. PPF Group/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The March 2021 helicopter crash in Alaska that killed billionaire Petr Kellner and four others was likely caused by pilot […]
Read MoreExplosions, drone debris hit Kyiv, mayor, officials say
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko captures video at the site where an apartment building was damaged during Russian missile strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 24, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo Aug 2 (Reuters) – Anti-aircraft units worked to shoot down drones attacking the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on Wednesday, with drone debris […]
Read MoreOne dead in drone attacks on Kyiv: Mayor
[1/3]A view of an explosion of a drone in the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 13, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich July 13 (Reuters) – Ukrainian anti-aircraft units engaged attacking drones for the third consecutive night in and around Kyiv on Thursday, triggering fires and falling debris […]
Read MoreDnipro mayor says chances are minimal of finding survivors in wrecked apartment building
DNIPRO, Ukraine, Jan 15 (Reuters) – The chances are “minimal” of pulling more survivors from the wreckage of an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro that was hit by a Russian missile strike on Saturday, the city’s mayor told Reuters in an interview on Sunday. “I think the chances of saving people now […]
Read MoreKyiv mayor trades verbal jabs with Ukraine president and allies
Nov 27 (Reuters) – The mayor of Kyiv, former professional boxer Vitali Klitschko, traded rhetorical punches on Sunday with Ukraine’s president and his allies over how to help residents withstand power cuts, deriding their disputes as “senseless” amid Russia’s military campaign. Klitschko said 430 “warming centres” were helping residents cope with the effects of Russian […]
Read MoreRussian missile strike kills six in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv – mayor
KYIV, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Six people were killed in a Russian missile attack on an apartment building in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv early on Friday, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said. Rescuers were digging through the debris for survivors, Senkevych wrote on the Telegram messaging app. A Reuters reporter in the area heard three […]
Read MoreUkrainians in occupied Melitopol fear Russian call-up, exiled mayor says
A flag flies in a square in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Russian-controlled city of Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Ukrainians in occupied Melitopol fear Russian call-up City has been voting in referendum on joining Russia Exiled […]
Read MoreFormer Russian mayor appointed head of Russian-occupied Kharkiv -TASS citing local administration
LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) – A former mayor of a Russian city has been appointed to head a new Russian-installed government in northeastern Ukraine, the latest in a string of such appointments which Kyiv says are part of attempts to annexe its territory. Andrei Alekseyenko resigned as mayor of Krasnodar, Russia’s sixteenth-largest city, on Thursday. […]
Read MoreUkrainian city of Kramatorsk hit by air strike, casualties reported – mayor
July 7 (Reuters) – Russian forces fired missiles at the centre of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk in an air strike on Thursday, and there were casualties, the city’s mayor said. “Air strike with missiles on central parts of Kramatorsk, there are casualties,” Mayor Oleksandr Goncharenko wrote on Facebook, without providing details of the […]
Read MoreSeveral explosions in Kyiv’s central district – mayor
Rescuers work at a site of a facility of the Darnytsia Car Repair Plant damaged by missile strikes, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 5, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register June 26 (Reuters) – Several explosions took place early on Sunday in the Shevchenkivskiy […]
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