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Russian missiles and drones bombard Ukraine in hourslong attack, killing at least 16
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Russia hammered civilian areas of Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in an attack that stretched for hours from daytime into the night, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 80 others as terrified residents cowered in their homes, officials said Thursday.
Russia launched nearly 700 drones and dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles, primarily targeting civilians, in its biggest aerial barrage in almost two weeks, authorities said.
Tetiana Sokol, a 54-year-old resident of Kyiv, said two missiles hit near her home and she took cover with her dog in the hallway as flashes lit up the night and windows shattered from the blast wave.
«On the third attack everything broke, everything flew, we were shocked, we didn’t know where to run. I grabbed whatever came to hand and ran away with the dog,» she told The Associated Press. «I still can’t find the cats in the house, they climbed out somewhere, I don’t even know. No windows, nothing, the dog is still walking around in stress.»
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Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in Kyiv after a Russian strike on April 16, 2026. Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at civilian areas across Ukraine, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 80, officials said. (Serhii Okunev / AFP via Getty Images)
Moscow’s forces have hit civilian areas almost daily since its all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, with the regular assaults occasionally punctuated by massive attacks. More than 15,000 Ukrainian civilians have died in the strikes, the United Nations says.
Zelenskyy on a mission to improve air defenses
The latest bombardment came in the wake of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 48-hour trip this week to Germany, Norway and Italy in an urgent search for more air defense systems that can stop Russian missiles.
Ukraine has developed a significant domestic arms industry, especially in the production of drones and missiles, but it can’t yet match the sophistication of U.S. Patriot air defense systems. Ukraine’s top diplomatic priority is securing allies’ help to buy and build more and better air defenses, Zelenskyy said this week.
Cash-strapped Ukraine also needs the speedy disbursement of a promised loan from the European Union of 90 billion euros ($106 billion) that has been blocked by Hungary.
Ukraine fears the Iran war is burning through stockpiles of the advanced American-made systems it needs, and has argued against a U.S. temporary waiver on Russian oil sanctions that Kyiv says is helping finance the Kremlin’s war effort.
US ACCUSES RUSSIA OF ‘DANGEROUS AND INEXPLICABLE ESCALATION’ IN UKRAINE WAR DURING PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
A woman walks her dog through the rubble of a house damaged in a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 16, 2026. Officials said Russian forces fired nearly 700 drones and multiple missiles in a sweeping attack on Ukrainian civilians that lasted from day into night. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
«Another night has proven that Russia does not deserve any easing of global policy or lifting of sanctions,» Zelenskyy said on X.
He thanked Germany, Norway and Italy for new agreements this week on supporting Ukraine’s air defense. Officials are also working with the Netherlands on additional supplies, he said.
At the same time, he noted that some partner countries haven’t followed through on pledges of military support.
«I have instructed the Commander of the Air Force to contact those partners who earlier committed to providing missiles for Patriot and other systems,» Zelenskyy said.
Other areas of Ukraine and Russia were also hit
The bombardment was the biggest in weeks. Last month, Russia fired 948 drones and 34 missiles in the space of 24 hours in the largest assault of the war on civilian areas.
At least four people were killed overnight in Kyiv, including a 12-year-old, with more than 50 others injured, according to authorities. Officials said the attack damaged 17 apartment buildings, 10 private homes, as well as a hotel, office center, car dealership, gas station and a shopping mall in the capital.
RUSSIAN DRONE ATTACK ON PASSENGER TRAIN IS AN ‘ACT OF TERRORISM,’ ZELENSKYY SAYS
Firefighters work at a building damaged in an overnight strike by Russia in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 16, 2026. Ukrainian officials said Russia’s hourslong aerial assault hit Kyiv, Odesa, the Dnipro region and Zaporizhzhia, damaging homes and other civilian sites. (Genya SAVILOV / AFP via Getty Images)
Nine people were killed and 23 injured in the southern port city of Odesa, three women were killed and around three dozen injured in the central Dnipro region, and one person was killed in Zaporizhzhia in the south.
«Such attacks cannot be normalized. These are war crimes that must be stopped and their perpetrators held to account,» Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X.
Ukraine’s air force said air defenses shot down or disabled 667 out of 703 incoming targets, including 636 Shahed-type drones and other uncrewed aerial vehicles.
It said 20 strike drones and 12 missiles hit 26 locations.
Meanwhile, in Russia, Krasnodar regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev reported that a 14-year-old girl and a woman were killed in Ukrainian strikes in the Black Sea port of Tuapse.
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He said that attacks damaged six apartment buildings, 24 private houses and three schools. Drone fragments also fell near the port of Tuapse.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that its air defenses downed 207 Ukrainian drones overnight.
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Exposed Fauci diary shows he estimated COVID-19 death rate to be much lower than what he told Congress
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Entries from early 2020 in a now-exposed personal diary kept by Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic show that he privately estimated the death rate from the illness was significantly lower than what he told Congress under oath only weeks later.
Fauci, 85, has come under intense scrutiny for years regarding his approach leading the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, and his alleged links to the Chinese lab where the virus originated. He will return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to speak about his newly publicized personal records.
«The stated mortality over all of this when you look at all the data including China is about three percent. It first started off as two and three,» Fauci said in testimony before the House Oversight Committee on March 11, 2020, according to a transcript of the hearing.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci prepares to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 4, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Senators questioned Fauci and other witnesses about the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children between 5 and 11 years old this week. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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During the hearing just weeks into the virus reaching the U.S., he was asked by Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, to compare the mortality from COVID-19 to the mortality of the seasonal flu.
«I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around one percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu,» Fauci continued. «I think that is something that people can get their arms around and understand.»
But on Feb. 8, 2020, about a month before that congressional testimony, Fauci expressed privately that he believed the virus’s mortality rate was much lower than what he later told lawmakers.
«[Former CDC Director] Tom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak,» Fauci wrote. «He and I are on the same page in thinking tht [sic] this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867 (above) making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%.»
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2024. The hearing covers findings from a 15-month Republican-led probe into Fauci and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
FAUCI’S NEWLY RELEASED COVID DIARIES REVEAL BIZARRE FIXATION ON FAME AS PANDEMIC DEATHS MOUNTED
At that time, Fauci had counted 34,687 cases of the virus and 724 fatalities, according to his diary, which equals just over 0.2%.
Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the pandemic, and first became the face of combatting COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic during President Donald Trump’s first term, and remained in the role under President Joe Biden until retiring in 2022.
The very influential position wasn’t lost on Fauci. His diary entries tracked his rising influence and press appearances, and he meticulously kept track of how he was portrayed.
«Big front page article abut me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable,» he wrote in a diary entry on May 21, 2020.
«It is not hyoperbole [sic] to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson in the world,» he continued.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, throws out the ceremonial first pitch before the game between the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on July 23, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)
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Fauci noted that he was developing a «very unique and interesting relationship» with Trump.
His diary is adorned with screenshots of headlines that mentioned him, including a New York Times story from March 2020 titled, «Not His First Pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci Sticks to the Facts.»
He referenced another Washington Post article in his diary on Aug. 8, 2020, titled, «As Fauci battles the pandemic and politics, his grateful neighbors celebrate him as a hero.»
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is sworn-in before testifying before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the Rayburn House Office Building on June 3, 2024, in Washington, D.C. The Subcommittee is holding a hearing on the findings from a 15-month Republican-led probe of former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci and the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital reached out to Georgetown University and the Georgetown University Department of Public Health, where Fauci serves as a distinguished professor at the university’s school of medicine, seeking comment on the journal entries versus public statements.
Fox News Digital also reached out to Paul’s office but did not hear back by time of publication.
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Uruguay puso en marcha los patrullajes con blindados militares en los barrios de mayor criminalidad de Uruguay
Vehículos militares comenzaron a patrullar los barrios con mayores niveles de criminalidad en Uruguay. El primer día de tarea el equipo tuvo un problema: quedó fuera de servicio por ajustes técnicos tras su primera recorrida. Este domingo, el vehículo Cóndor ya había vuelto a patrullar el barrio Marconi de Montevideo.
El viernes, el Ministerio del Interior había presentado uno de los vehículos blindados tipo Cóndor que serán incorporados a los operativos de seguridad pública y al patrullajes de zonas definidas como de “mayor complejidad” por las autoridades.
El ministro Carlos Negro explicó que viernes que la incorporación de estos blindados fortalece “la protección de la ciudadanía” y la “seguridad de los funcionarios policiales”, según la información divulgada por Presidencia de la República. “Lo que queremos es, por un lado, la protección de los vecinos con mayores recursos materiales y, por otro, la protección de los funcionarios policiales que llegan a las zonas más complejas”, expresó el jerarca.
Esta unidad fue decida por el Ministerio de Defensa Nacional y es parte de un total de cuatro vehículos que se desplegarán progresivamente en la capital uruguaya.
El peso del vehículo es de 9.000 kilos, según informó el director general de Operaciones Especiales, Jorge González. Está pensado para que sea utilizado en tareas de patrullaje preventivo, en el traslado seguro de efectivos y en la respuesta a situaciones de enfrentamientos armados
“La idea es proteger a los ciudadanos, concurrir a lugares de enfrentamientos armados y tener una protección adecuada para nuestros propios policías”, señaló González.
El Cóndor fue equipado con cámaras y una tecnología adicional que mejora la visibilidad en el entorno y facilita la conducción durante los operativos, según la comunicación oficial. Los choferes debieron completaron una capacitación específica de tres semanas en el Batallón de Florida, a unos 100 kilómetros de la capital uruguaya.
Los capacitados fueron un total de 19 efectivos.
El primer vehículo ya está operativo, pero hubo un problema en su primer día.
Según informó Montevideo Portal, el primer blindado sufrió varias fallas mecánicas y quedó fuera de servicio en menos de 24 horas de haber comenzado a utilizarse. Una de las fallas fue la rotura de una manguera. Esto motivó algunos cuestionamientos de parte de la oposición.
“Así gobiernan. Son un libreto de murga no divertido. Cantinflas no lo haría nunca mejor. País roto”, escribió el senador Sebastián Da Silva, integrante del opositor Partido Nacional. “Cerrá y vamos”, criticó el presidente de esa fuerza política, Álvaro Delgado.
Tras esta controversia política, el Ministerio del Interior informó que el vehículo Cóndor “se encuentra plenamente operativo y realizando tareas de patrullaje en la zona oeste de Montevideo”.
Está previsto que los otros tres blindados sean incorporados de forma paulatina, a medida que finalicen los trabajos de mantenimiento. “Esperamos que en el correr de agosto estén prontos los otros tres vehículos”, declaró el ministro.
El despliegue diario o para operativos específicos será definido por la Policía Nacional, según las necesidades que haya.
El presidente de la República, Yamandú Orsi, había anunciado el 22 de junio la nueva medida de seguridad. “A partir de un encuentro con los ministros de Defensa, Interior y Economía resolvimos redoblar el combate contra el crimen organizado. Para esto direccionamos la infraestructura de seguridad del país a este fin”, expresó.
Después, el ministro descartó que esta medida signifique una militarización de las calles de Montevideo y el área metropolitana. “Si hay algo que teníamos previsto era despejar cualquier duda que se pudiera generar con ese tipo de términos. Solamente se trata de contar con infraestructura que posibilite en una coyuntura específica y una circunstancia especial que el Ministerio del Interior tenga los vehículos apropiados para patrullar, con sus funcionarios”, dijo el secretario de Estado.
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