The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24 continues, with increasing losses on both sides.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced Russia’s annexation of 4 occupied Ukrainian regions following referendums that Western countries have described as a “farce”.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces mount a strong counteroffensive against Russian troops, regaining territory lost when Moscow introduced its invasion. Ukraine has managed to resist the Russian attack with the help of the Western army, but President Volodymyr Zelensky calls on the world to do more. For all our coverage, stop by our page on the war in Ukraine.
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Here are the developments:
Monday, October 24 (Tokyo time)
Ukraine said seven ships departed its ports Sunday with grain bound for Asia and Europe, but accused Russia of blocking full implementation of the Black Sea grain deal. “Russia is intentionally blocking the full realization of the grain initiative. As a result, [Ukrainian] ports in recent days are only operating at 25-30% capacity,” Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure said in an app via the Telegram messaging service.
12:39 a. m. U. S. Secretary of State Lloyd Austin spoke to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in his last phone call in three days.
“The two defense ministers discussed the scenario in Ukraine,” Russian government news firm TASS quoted the Defense Ministry as saying. Shoigu had spoken in the past by phone with opposing numbers in the UK, Turkey and France. Austin and Shoigu spoke last week in their first verbal exchange by phone since May.
Sunday, October 23
22:51 The British government is backing down after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that Ukraine could use a grimy bomb as a provocation.
In a phone call, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace “refuted those claims and warned that such allegations do not deserve to be used as a pretext for further escalation,” the UK Ministry of Defence said. He does not use the term “dirty bomb,” saying Shoigu “alleged that Ukraine was making plans to facilitate movements through Western countries, and added the United Kingdom, to escalate the confrontation in Ukraine. “
Russia has not released evidence of the filthy bomb allegation, which appears to be in its official policy of Shoigu’s recent phone calls with British defense chiefs and others. Ukraine has denied any intention to use a grimy bomb.
22:40 French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu said he spoke by phone with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, and that France reaffirmed its preference for a nonviolent resolution.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu expressed concern that Ukraine could use a dirty bomb, according to Lecornu and the Russian side.
14:06 A Russian Su-30 fighter jet on a control flight crashed into a wooden single-family space in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing two pilots, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry told TASS. “There are no civilian casualties,” the ministry said. The fireplace on the floor contained. “
10:23: The industrialized nations of the Group of Seven criticize Russia for the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
“We condemn Russia’s repeated kidnappings of Ukrainian ZNPP leaders and denounce the application of another bureaucracy of pressure on the remaining Ukrainian personnel,” the G7 general administrator for non-proliferation said.
“We urge Russia to return full control of the ZNPP to its rightful sovereign owner, Ukraine, without delay,” he said.
3:30 a. m. All citizens of the city of Kherson will have to leave “immediately,” according to authorities installed by Russia, as Ukrainian troops continue a counteroffensive to regain lost territory. Thousands of civilians have left the city in recent days to cross the Dnipro.
“Take care of the protection of your circle of family and friends!Do not hand over documents, money, valuables and clothing,” the Russian government said.
More than a dozen Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s infrastructure, according to the Ukrainian Air Force, and several regions reported movements in force services and power cuts.
“The enemy introduced a big attack: 36 rockets, of which the maximum was shot down,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram about the attacks. Since October 10, Russia has introduced devastating salvos into Ukraine’s electric power infrastructure, affecting at least part of the country’s thermal power generation and up to 40% of the entire system.
Saturday, October 22
5:30 a. m. Republican leaders in the U. S. CongressU. S. officials have made conflicting statements about the long-term U. S. aid. The US is in the US to war-torn Ukraine, reports the Financial Times.
“Biden’s management and our allies will have to do more to supply the equipment Ukraine desires to thwart Russian aggression,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said, just days after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy predicted that a Republican victory in November’s midterm elections would lead to tighter controls on aid.
McConnell takes a different tone. ” A Republican majority in the Senate will oversee the timely delivery of mandatory weapons and increased allied assistance to Ukraine,” he said.
A Ukrainian official told the Financial Times he was “surprised” to hear McCarthy’s comments.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Russia of intentionally delaying the passage of grain-exporting ships as part of a U. N. -brokered deal and says there are 150 ships waiting to be loaded.
Reuters reports that Ukraine has exported nearly 11 million tonnes of cereals and other food since July under an agreement with the United Nations, Russia and Turkey. Zelenskyy says the delay means Ukraine’s grain exports are short of 3 million tonnes, enough to feed 10 million people.
The deal expires in November, but talks on an extension are making little progress because Russian considerations are being duly taken into account, Russia’s ambassador to Geneva said on Thursday.
1:00 a. m. U. S. Chiefs of DefenseThe U. S. and Russia held their first talks since May.
U. S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, spoke by phone, according to the Pentagon. Austin “emphasized the importance of maintaining lines of communication amid the ongoing war against Ukraine,” according to a brief reading of his call.
Friday, October 21
21:45 Ukrainian air defenses have shot down 85% of Iranian-made suicide drones sent through Russia, according to an air force spokesman. Yuriy Ihnat said Ukraine’s air defenses were effective against drones, but said they were less effective against missiles.
“Ukraine has not lately had effective air defense systems opposed to ballistic missiles. Iran will supply them (to Russia), unless the world figures out a way to prevent it,” Ihnat said.
14:55 A series of explosions is rocking the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, the government says, adding to intensified missile movements through Russian forces in recent weeks that have targeted electrical installations. The missiles hit a commercial facility in Kharkiv on Friday, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said, adding. that rescuers had not yet assessed the damage and decided if there were any casualties. Meanwhile, Kharkiv Regional Governor Oleh Sinegubov said five other people were wounded. Information about the Zaporizhzhia explosions was provided by regional governor Oleksandr Starukh.
7:00 a. m. a. m. La White House says Iranian troops are “engaged directly on the ground” in Crimea with Russian drone strikes on Ukrainian force plants and other key infrastructure. National Security Council spokesman John Kirthrough told reporters that Iran had sent a “relatively small number. “”A group of workers to Crimea, a part of Ukraine unilaterally annexed by Russia in violation of foreign law in 2014, to help Russian troops release Iranian-made drones against Ukraine.
1:20. The latest British sanctions circular targets Iranian Russian suppliers of drones used to target civilians in Ukraine. Three Iranian generals and one manufacturer have been hit with asset freezes and bans for being “personally culpable for supplying the drones that were used in those barbaric attacks,” the Foreign Office, Commonwealth and Development said in a press release. “By offering such drones, Iran is actively warmongering taking credit for Russia’s heinous attacks on Ukrainian citizens and increasing the suffering of others and the destruction of critical infrastructure,” the CDF said. British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said: “This is transparent evidence of Iran’s destabilizing role in global security. “
Shahed Aviation Industries, which makes Shahed drones, is added to the UK’s sanctions list. Russia turned to Iran “out of desperation” after its industry struggled to produce enough drones for war, the CDF said. There was no immediate comment from the Russian Foreign Ministry. .
12:20 a. m. The finance ministers of six countries, led by the United States, are a factor to “strongly urge” Russia to stop hostilities and withdraw definitively from Ukraine.
“We express our grave fear over the deteriorating humanitarian scenario and the damage to global food and energy security caused by Russia’s actions, which have further strained global supply chains, contributed to inflationary pressures and undermined the recovery of the world economy towards a strong economy. balanced, inclusive, cutting-edge and sustainable growth,” said the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.
It follows an assembly of finance ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, during which the war in Ukraine was a sticking point in the discussions.
Thursday, October 20
23:10 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova lashed out at outgoing British Prime Minister Liz Truss in a Telegram article that said Truss will be remembered for his “catastrophic illiteracy. “
4:50 p. m. A Russian airstrike that hit a primary thermal power plant in the western Ukrainian city of Burshtyn on Wednesday caused “severe” damage, the region’s governor said. “Unfortunately, there is destruction and it is serious,” said Ivano’s governor Svitlana Onyshchuk. “Frankivsk,” he told Ukrainian television.
11:30 a. m. Ukraine is restricting the use of electric power across the country for the first time Thursday after a barrage of Russian missiles and drone strikes destroyed some power plants. The power source will be limited between 7 a. m. and 11 p. m. , government officials and the grid said operator Ukrenergo. Temporary power outages were imaginable if other people didn’t minimize their power consumption, a presidential aide said. frequently,” Ukrenergo said.
The United States, Britain and France raised the factor of Iran’s alleged drone transfer to Russia at a U. N. Security Council assembly on Wednesday, U. S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said. Iran’s drones,” Price said in a statement. “We now have sufficient evidence that those drones are being used to attack Ukrainian civilians and critical civilian infrastructure. “worried about those movements. “
6:10 a. m. The United States is slapping sanctions on a Russian network accused of military-generation and sensitive dual-use U. S. brands and supplying it to Russian users. The Treasury Department said it imposed sanctions on “Yury Yuryevich Orekhov and two of his companies, Nord-Deutsche Industrieanlagenbau GmbH and Opus Energy Trading. “
“The U. S. -origin technologies purchased by Orekhov and its corporate NDA GmbH included complex semiconductors and microprocessors used in fighter jets, ballistic and hypersonic missile systems, munitions, radars, satellites, and other military applications,” the Treasury Department said in a statement. Liberation.
00:30 Indian citizens in Ukraine should leave the country as soon as possible, the Indian embassy in Kyiv said.
It is also advisable to go to Ukraine. ” Given the deteriorating security scenario and the recent escalation of hostilities in Ukraine, Indian citizens are requested to oppose travel to Ukraine,” the embassy said.
Wednesday, October 19
22:15 Russian President Vladimir Putin introduces martial law in 4 illegally annexed Ukrainian regions and questions a draft decree inside and outside 8 regions bordering Ukraine.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak rejected the declaration of martial law, saying on Twitter: “The implementation of ‘martial law’ in Russian-occupied territories is only noted as a pseudo-legalization of the looting of Ukrainians’ property.
6:20 p. m. Officials installed by Russia in the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson say they are preparing to protect it from an imminent Ukrainian attack and urge civilians to flee as soon as possible. The region’s Russian-appointed governor, Vladimir Saldo, said in a television interview. : “No one is near Kherson, but it is not desirable for the population to be in a city where army movements are to take place. “
He added: “We expect an attack, and the Ukrainian aspect does not hide it. More than 5,000 people had already left in the past two days and around 10,000 people per day will be displaced over the next six days, he said. .
16:37 Russian missile and drone attacks on power plants and other infrastructure in Ukraine are “acts of natural terror” that amount to war crimes, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
“Yesterday we saw again Russia’s targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure. This marks a new bankruptcy in a war that is already very ruthless. The external order is very transparent. These are war crimes,” von der Leyen said in a speech to European Parliament lawmakers. “Attacks targeting civilian infrastructure with the transparent aim of cutting off water, electricity and heat to men, women and young people with the arrival of winter are acts of pure terror and we will have to call it that. “
4:15 a. m. Russian forces were responsible for the “vast majority” of human rights violations in the first weeks of the war, according to a UN commission, adding attacks on civilians that amounted to possible war crimes.
The International Independent Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine found that Russian infantrymen indiscriminately bombed the spaces they were supposed to capture and “attacked civilians to flee,” it said in a report at times in four northern provinces.
It also points to abuses committed in Ukraine, adding two cases of people hors de combat being shot, wounded or tortured.
00:46. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted that 30% of the country’s force plants have been destroyed across Russia since Oct. 10, prompting “massive power cuts in the country. “
Daily data from public transport grid operator Ukrenergo shows that electricity generation comes and goes between October 10 and 17, but there is no prolonged drop. Ukrenergo mitigated the influence of Russian missile strikes by moving electricity rates on its transmission system, Bloomberg reports. .
Tuesday, October 18
18:45 The Kremlin says that the 4 regions of Ukraine that Moscow has said it has annexed in recent weeks fall under the cover of Russia’s nuclear arsenal. When journalists asked reporters which regions were under Moscow’s nuclear umbrella, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “All those territories are inalienable. “parts of the Russian Federation and all of them are protected. Their security is guaranteed at the same point as the rest of Russian territory. “
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last month that Moscow is ready to use nuclear weapons if it is mandatory to protect Russia’s “territorial integrity. “President Joe Biden said Oct. 6 that the risk had brought the world closer to “Armageddon” than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when many feared an impending nuclear war.
16:40 Russian forces carried out new air movements at the Ukrainian force’s facilities on Tuesday, triggering several explosions in northern Kyiv, where a thermal power plant is located. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the presidential office, said there were 3 Russian movements in an unspecified force. The city’s mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, said the attack targeted “critical infrastructure” in northern Kyiv, where Reuters witnesses saw a thick plume of smoke rising into the sky.
2:35 p. m. A Russian missile hit an apartment building in the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv, one of three explosions heard in the early hours of Tuesday, a Reuters witness said. The missile completely destroyed a wing of the building in the center of the city, leaving crater. A fire crew pulled a man’s frame from the rubble, the witness said. Residents of the building were sheltering in the basement when the missile hit. One resident said the man died in the basement of the collapsed wing.
The Japanese government is still reviewing the main points of the Russian decree on the allocation of oil and fuel from Sakhalin-1 and will continue to talk to SODECO stakeholders about whether to take a stake in a new Russian operator, Industry Minister Yasutoshi. Nishimura said. Sakhalin Oil and Gas Development Co. (SODECO), a consortium of Japanese companies, has a 30% stake in the allocation.
5:10 a. m. The United States will hold Russia accountable for “war crimes,” according to the White House, hours after Russia attacked Ukrainian cities with drones in the morning rush hour, killing at least 4 other people at a construction site in Kiev. President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters that the White House “strongly condemns today’s Russian missile movements” and said the strike “continues to demonstrate the brutality of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. “to impose prices on Russia, to hold it accountable for its war crimes. “
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 218 detainees, 108 Ukrainian women, in one of the largest prisoner of war exchanges, according to a Ukrainian official quoted by Reuters.
A Russian fighter jet crashes into a residential building in the southern Russian city of Yeysk on Monday, engulfing apartments in a huge fireball. According to authorities, at least two other people were killed and 15 wounded. The pilots of the plane, believed to be a Sukhoi Su-34 medium-range supersonic fighter-bomber, allegedly ejected.
The Crown RIA Corporation reports that the twist of fate occurred on an educational flight from an army airfield. He quoted the Defense Ministry as saying pilots reported that an engine jammed on takeoff and that the plane’s fuel ignited when it hit the building.
Pakistan intends to source wheat from Russia, the country’s ambassador to Moscow told Tass in an interview.
“Russia has a new supplier for us. Before, it was different, other countries,” Shafqat Ali Khan said. “We see Russia as a long-term stable spouse when it comes to our food supplies. “
Moscow’s war with Ukraine has blocked much of Kyiv’s wheat exports and has also created logistics for Russian wheat exports, Bloomberg reported.
Monday, October 17
23:27 The mobilization of the army in the Russian capital is over, said Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, who told departing infantrymen in a blog post: “We hope and pray that they return alive and healthy. “
St. Petersburg fired the user because of the call there. Russia’s two largest cities are the country’s classic anti-Kremlin opposition centers, and in recent years they have consistently witnessed the largest anti-Putin and anti-war protests.
23:26 Four people, a pregnant woman, have been killed in the new wave of Russian missile and drone strikes in Kiev.
“Throughout the morning, the enemy terrorizes the civilian population. Drones and kamikaze missiles are attacking all of Ukraine,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Deaths were also reported outside the capital when Russia deployed more than 40 drones, most of which were destroyed by Ukrainian air defenses, the interior minister told reporters. Ukraine’s national grid operator says the electricity infrastructure in central and northern Ukraine has been affected, but the electric power formula has been kept under control. He suggested Ukrainians minimize their electricity consumption.
9:51 p. m. Former Russian state television journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, accused of spreading “fake news” about the military, fled the country after escaping a space arrest and is “under the cover of a European state,” her lawyer, Dmitry Zakhvatov, said, according to Reuters. .
Ovsyannikova made foreign headlines earlier this year when she broke into the news of her then-employer to protest the war. your Telegram channel.
18:00 A woman was killed in a Russian drone strike in Kyiv on Monday and one user remains trapped under the rubble, according to the city’s mayor, Vitaly Klitschko. hit in drone strikes, which Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said also hit an electrical installation.
4 p. m. La Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was disconnected from the national force network on Monday following a Russian bombing, prompting the activation of emergency diesel generators, nuclear power company Energoatom said. “Russian terrorists bombed critical infrastructure substations on territory controlled by Ukraine, which led to the closure of the last ZNPP-Dniprovska 750 kV communication line at 03:59,” it said in a statement. Russian forces occupy the factory in southern Ukraine, the largest in Europe, shortly after invading Ukraine only about 8 months ago, but it is operated by Ukrainian personnel.
2h30 in the afternoon. Several loud explosions rocked the center of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on Monday, a week after Russia orchestrated a massive and coordinated airstrike across the country. The explosions lit a chimney in a non-residential building and smashed several apartment buildings, Klitschko said on his Telegram channel.
The explosions came from the same central district of Kyiv where, a week ago, a missile hit a playground and an intersection near the main buildings of Kyiv National University.
4:59 a. m. Ukrainian and Russian forces are engaged in “very heavy fighting” around Soledar and Bakhmut in the Donbass region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Bakhmut has been the next target of the Russian armed forces in their slow advance through Donetsk, which is part of Ukraine’s Donbass region, since they seized the major trading cities of Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk in June and July. Soledar is just north of Bakhmut.
Sunday, October 16
9:14 p. m. About 9,000 Russian troops will be stationed in Belarus as part of a “regional grouping” of forces in the former Soviet republic, the Defense Ministry said in Minsk.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko recently said his troops would be deployed with Russian forces near the Ukrainian border, bringing up what he said were threats from Ukraine and the West.
Two volunteer infantrymen open up fire positions at other infantrymen in a Russian army firing diversity in a “terrorist attack,” killing 11 others and wounding 15 others, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. The shooting took place in Russia’s southwestern Belgorod region, on the border with Ukraine.
The ministry said the two volunteers from an unidentified ex-Soviet country shot at other infantrymen and were killed by recoil fire.
3:30 a. m. , billionaire Elon Musk appears to be changing his mind about the need to fund the Starlink web service in Ukraine, saying his rocket company SpaceX would continue to fund the satellite network 24 hours after saying he may no longer do so.
“To hell with that. Even if Starlink continues to lose cash and corporations get billions of dollars from taxpayers, we will continue to fund the Ukrainian government for free,” Musk said on Twitter.
On Friday, Musk said SpaceX may simply not fund Starlink in Ukraine indefinitely. The service helped civilians and the military stay online during the war. He did so after a media report that SpaceX had asked the Pentagon to pay for Starlink’s donations. The billionaire has been arguing online with Ukrainian officials about a peace plan he proposed that Ukraine says is too beneficial for Russia.
Saturday, October 15
9:00 a. m. The U. S. Department of DefenseThe U. S. government won a request from SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk to take over investment in its satellite network, which has provided battlefield communications to the Ukrainian armed forces since almost the beginning of its war with Russia. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to refer to a sensitive factor that has not yet been made public, told The Associated Press that the factor had been discussed in meetings and that senior leaders were comparing it. No resolution has been taken.
A Friday later, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said, “We can verify that the branch obtained correspondence from SpaceX related to the investment in Starlink, its satellite communications product in Ukraine. We remain in communication with SpaceX on this and other issues. “
7:00 a. m. La Biden administration will send a new $725 million package of weapons and military aid to Ukraine, according to the White House. Ukraine when Russia intensified its bombing of Kyiv and regions. Officials said there were no new primary weapons in the U. S. package. U. S. Instead, much of the U. S. aid is in the U. S. its counteroffensive against Russia.
1:45 a. m. Russian President Vladimir Putin says he sees no need for talks with his U. S. counterpart, Joe Biden, and that no resolution has been made on his own participation in the G20 summit in Indonesia, a possible venue for such a meeting.
Asked at a news conference in Kazakhstan if he is in a position to talk to Biden, Putin said the same consultation would be made to the U. S. leader.
Putin also says he believes the mobilization of Russia’s army reserves will be completed in about two weeks. Some 222,000 more people have been mobilized, he said, out of a target of 300,000.
September’s partial mobilization order sent Russians to flee across the border to escape a feared draft. Putin later said the “mistakes” with the mobilization needed to be corrected and signed an amended order narrowing the scope of the call.
Friday, October 14
18:00 On Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky marked the Ukrainian Defenders Day holiday by promising victory over Russia and freedom for Ukraine. your country. He said that everything that had been taken from Ukraine would be returned and that no foot soldiers would remain in captivity.
“It turns out that the existing enemy in its wickedness unites all the enemies of our state that we have faced before,” he said. “By defeating this enemy, we will respond to all the enemies who have invaded Ukraine, to those who have lived, live and will live in our land. It will be a victory for all our people. It will be a victory for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “
3:30 pm. Russian-backed forces have made tactical advances over the past 3 days towards the center of Bakhmut, a strategic city in the eastern Donetsk region, and have likely become villages south of the city, according to the UK. Bakhmut is located on a main road leading to the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. The private army corporation Wagner Group “will most likely renew” itself very concerned about Bakhmut’s fighting, Britain’s Defense Ministry said in an intelligence bulletin.
12:00 pm. Ukraine liberated more than six hundred settlements from Russian occupation in the past month, adding 75 in the highly strategic Kherson region, the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine said. Some 502 settlements have been liberated in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, where Ukrainian forces are joining for the last time. Month deep in the Russian lines, the ministry said, noting that 43 settlements have been released in the Donetsk region and seven in the Luhansk region.
8:00 a. m. Evacuees from Ukraine’s southern Kherson region were due to begin arriving in Russia on Friday after a Moscow-based official advised citizens to leave for safety, a sign of Moscow’s weakening control over territory it claims to have annexed. all citizens of the Kherson area, if they wish, to protect themselves from the consequences of missile movementsArray. . . they go to other regions,” Vladimir Saldo, head of Russia’s administration in Kherson, said in a video message. People “go with their children. “
00:09. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said he had raised with the Russian government the factor of a senior official detained at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine. The detention of Valeriy Martyniuk is unacceptable, Grossi said on a stopover in Kyiv. Martyniuk is the plant’s Deputy Director General of Human Resources.
Thursday, October 13
23:40 Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Asian leaders that the Western-led monetary formula is seeking at their expense.
“The global is indeed multipolar,” Putin said in a speech at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in the Kazakh capital, Astana. “And Asia, where new centers of force are emerging, plays an important, if not key, role. “
“Like many of our partners in Asia, we believe that a review of the global monetary system is needed, which for decades has allowed the self-proclaimed ‘golden billion,’ who have redirected all capital and technology flows towards it, to live largely at the expense of others,” Putin said. Read more.
6:30 pm. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a United Nations solution condemning Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian territories is “anti-Russian” and was achieved as “diplomatic terror,” news firm TASS reports. The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly condemned Russia’s resolution to annex 4 partially occupied regions of Ukraine, calling on all countries not to recognize it.
5:50 p. m. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine only has about 10 percent of what it needs for its air defenses and regulations outside of diplomatic contact with Russia. Watchdog, that international relations were not imaginable with leaders who did not respect foreign law.
2h30 in the afternoon. Ukraine’s accession to NATO may lead to a third global war, the deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Alexander Venediktov, told the official news firm TASS in an interview. a third global war,” TASS quoted Venediktov as saying. Apparently, that’s what they’re counting on: creating informational noise and drawing attention to themselves again. “
13:00 Critical infrastructure hit drone movements early Thursday, said Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy chief of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s presidential office. Shahed-136 drones manufactured in Iran in recent weeks. Iran denies supplying drones to Russia, while the Kremlin has not commented.
12:30 p. m. A deal in the Kyiv region, Ukraine’s capital, was hit by the bombings early Thursday, the region’s administration said on messaging app Telegram.
05:45 The UN General Assembly condemns Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of 4 occupied regions of Ukraine in a new resolution.
Three-quarters of the 193 members voted in favour of the resolution. Five countries, Russia, Syria and North Korea, voted against. Thirty-five countries, China, abstained.
5:31 a. m. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges the foreign network to increase its money for his country.
Ukraine will want $38 billion to cover next year’s budget deficit and an additional $17 billion for “critical infrastructure reconstruction,” Zelenskyy said in a virtual speech at a ministerial roundtable led by the Ukrainian government, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
4:39. France a. m. will deliver radars and air defense systems to Ukraine in the coming weeks, adding to Ukraine’s own assistance from drone and missile attacks, French President Emmanuel Macron said in a television interview. He did not give main points on the types and quantities of anti-aircraft missiles that will be supplied.
2:00 a. m. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it had lodged a protest with the Japanese embassy opposing the use of HIMARS rocket launchers in a joint army training with U. S. forces.
The ministry said the exercise, which took place this month on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, was held near the Russian border and posed a challenge to ensuring the security of Russia’s Far East.
1:30 a. m. EE. U. S. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggests that Russia’s recent missile strikes on Ukraine amount to war crimes.
“Russia intentionally hit civilian infrastructure in order to harm civilians,” Milley told a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
“They targeted the elderly, women and youth of Ukraine,” he added. “The indiscriminate and planned attacks on the civilian matrix . . . are a war crime under foreign rules of war. “
Wednesday, October 12
11:30 p. m. Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the damage to the Nord Stream pipelines “an act of foreign terrorism” and blames “those who seek, despite everything, to sever ties between Russia and the European Union. “
Putin told an energy industry convention in Moscow that Russia is “ready” to begin fuel deliveries to the intact branch of Nord Stream 2, according to a Kremlin transcript. European Union. “
He also presented the concept of a hub of choice for fuel deliveries to Europe: Turkey.
Russia can simply move fuel that would otherwise have been shipped under the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, “creating in Turkey the largest fuel hub in Europe, if, of course, our partners are interested in that,” Putin said.
16:49 The recently restored line of force forcing the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been cut again, forcing the plant to transfer to backup diesel generators, atomic surveillance chief Rafael Grossi said. “Our team at the nuclear #Zaporizhzhya the power plant informed me this morning that the plant has lost all its external strength for the time being in five days,” Grossi said on Twitter, renewing his call for a cover zone around the plant to bomb, near the property.
15:08 Russia’s Federal Security Service says it arrested five Russians and three Ukrainian and Armenian citizens following the explosion that breached the Crimean bridge last Saturday, Interfax reported. The FSB claims that the explosion was organized through the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and its director, Kyrylo Budanov.
7:06 a. m. La U. S. Secretary of the TreasuryU. S. Secretary of State Janet Yellen calls on partners and allies to temporarily fulfill their commitments to Ukraine and join the U. S. The US is asking for the US to do more while Russia continues its “barbaric” attacks. Ukraine in the coming weeks, he said. Congress approved this investment two weeks ago, bringing the total U. S. direct budget to the table. The U. S. government is in Ukraine at $13. 5 billion, all in the form of grants.
5:15 a. m. Biden’s management plans to supply Ukraine with complex air defenses soon, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said after a call from Kyiv.
Kirby said the initial delivery of two complex national surface-to-air missile systems (NASAMS) would take place “in the very near future. “NASAMS have been used to protect the U. S. capital since about 2005.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier called on the Group of Seven to give his country the ability to protect itself against Russian missiles, which rained down on cities for a day in a row.
4:00 a. m. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the scenario around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant a matter of fear in his meeting with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, according to a Kremlin reading.
Grossi under pressure to get Putin to want to identify a safe cover zone around the besieged plant, according to an IAEA news release about their meeting.
“We can’t waste any more time,” Grossi said. The stakes are high. We will have to do everything we can to prevent a nuclear fate reversal during this tragic conflict, as this may cause even more hardship and suffering in Ukraine and beyond. “
Grossi’s trip to Russia follows his stopover in Ukraine, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
3:06 a. m. The Group of Seven Nations condemns Russian missile movements over Ukraine and notes that attacks on civilians constitute a war crime.
“We will hold President Putin and the culprits accountable,” the G7 said in a statement.
The G-7 also engaged with Ukraine for as long as necessary, adding that any use of nuclear weapons through Russia would have serious consequences.
Tuesday, October 11
23:24 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on Group of Seven leaders to give Ukraine enough air defense functions to warn Russia.
In a virtual meeting, he suggested G-7 leaders impose tough new sanctions against Moscow and ruled out talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking a day after missiles rained down on Ukrainian cities, adding that the capital, Kiev. Zelenskyy is also calling for the G-7 to a foreign project on the border between Ukraine and Belarus.
23:15 “Any planned attack on the allies’ critical infrastructure will be met with a united and determined response,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference ahead of a ministerial meeting.
Stoltenberg says infrastructure has been a priority for NATO for many years. “Following the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, we have increased vigilance in all areas,” air and submarine functions in the Baltic Sea, he said.
Regarding the scenario in Ukraine, Stoltenberg says that “Ukraine has the momentum and continues to make significant progress, while Russia resorts to horrific and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and critical infrastructure. “
Putin “fails in Ukraine” and his attempts at annexations, partial mobilizations and nuclear threats constitute “the maximum significant escalation since the beginning of the war,” he added.
7:00 p. m. Nissan Motor is pulling out of the Russian market, the company says, and its spouse Mitsubishi Motors is also doing the same.
Nissan said it plans to move its operations, its St. Petersburg meeting plant, to a Russian government agency.
Nissan has around 2,000 workers in Rusia. Si while avoiding promotion once its stock runs out, Nissan will continue to offer maintenance services. Read more.
16:00. Hong Kong leader John Lee has retaliated against U. S. claims that the city could only be a haven for Russians avoiding Western sanctions after the arrival of a metal tycoon’s $500 million superyacht.
The 142-meter north of the sanctioned billionaire Alexey Mordashov, equipped with two helipads, a swimming pool and 20 cabins, anchored last Wednesday in Victoria Harbor.
The arrival triggered a warning from the U. S. State Department. UU. de that Hong Kong, as a global grocery shopping mall, depended on its “adherence to foreign legislation and standards. “
Lee, who faces U. S. sanctions for his alleged role in cracking down on civil liberties in Hong Kong, said the city only has jurisdiction to enforce U. N. sanctions than unilateral sanctions imposed by other countries for the invasion.
“We can’t do anything and possibly wouldn’t do anything that has no legal basis,” he said. Read more.
12:15 p. m. Japan will decide what to do with Russia’s sakhalin-1 oil and fuel allocation in the Far East in consultation with its partners as it reviews the main points of a Moscow decree, Japanese Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said.
Russia last week issued a decree allowing it to capture Exxon Mobil’s 30 percent stake and gave a Russian state-owned company the strength to decide whether foreign shareholders, including Japan’s SODECO, can retain their stake in the allocation. Sakhalin-1 remains a vital allocation for Japan in terms of force security,” Nishimura said, adding that the allocation is a key source of force outside the Middle East, on which Japan depends for more than 95 percent of its oil supply.
10:51 a. m. Israeli-Russian billionaire Yuri Milner says he has renounced his Russian citizenship. Milner is the founder of the website investment firm DST Global. He made his fortune betting on Chinese tech corporations like e-commerce platforms Alibaba and JD. com. My circle of family and I definitely left Russia in 2014, after Russia annexed Crimea,” Milner said in a tweet. “And this summer we officially ended the procedure for renouncing our Russian citizenship. “Milner has been an Israeli citizen since 1999 and has not visited Russia since 2014, according to a fact sheet on DST Global’s website.
7:30 a. m. a. m. La United Nations General Assembly voted Monday to reject Russia’s call for the 193-member framework to conduct a secret poll later this week on whether to condemn Moscow’s resolution to annex 4 partially occupied regions in Ukraine. The General Assembly decided, with 107 votes in favor, that it would hold a public vote, through a secret poll, on a draft solution condemning Russia’s “so-called illegal referendums” and “attempted illegal annexation. “Diplomats said the vote on the solution would most likely take a position on Wednesday or Thursday.
5:20 a. m. EE. U. S. President Joe Biden on Monday promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United States would supply Ukraine with complex air systems after a devastating missile barrage from Russia. Biden spoke by phone with Zelenskyy to ensure continued U. S. aid and condemn Russia’s “senseless attacks. “who hit civilian targets. ” President Biden is committed to proceeding to provide Ukraine with the help needed to protect itself by adding complex air defense systems,” a White House said in the phone call.
Monday, October 10
23:10 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply shocked” by Russia’s most widespread airstrikes since the start of the war in Ukraine on Monday, a UN spokesman said.
“This constitutes a more unacceptable escalation of the war and, as always, civilians are paying the price,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.
7:35 p. m. The Group of Seven countries will hold talks on Tuesday after Russian missiles hit several Ukrainian cities, a German government spokesman said on Monday.
7:10 p. m. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Ukraine has perpetrated “terrorist acts” against Russia and vowed a “stern response. “
In televised remarks, Putin Moscow on Monday introduced long-range missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy, military and communications infrastructure in retaliation for an attack on the bridge connecting Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula over the weekend.
19:00 UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan will travel to Russia on Tuesday to meet with Putin, the UAE’s official news firm WAM reported on Monday.
The announcement came less than a week after OPEC, an organization of oil producers in the United Arab Emirates and Russia, agreed to cut oil production in defiance of U. S. pressure.
6:50 p. m. The Kremlin said Monday that Putin could meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan this week at a security summit in Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital.
5:30 pm. Ukraine’s overall leader said Ukrainian forces shot down at least 41 of the missiles that were fired at Ukraine through Russia on Monday morning.
“This morning, missiles were launched. 41 of them were neutralized through our air defense,” Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, wrote on Twitter.
4:40 p. m. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says it will seek revenge for Russian missile launches that hit Ukrainian cities on Monday morning.
“The enemy will be punished for the death inflicted on our land!We will take revenge,” the ministry said on its Facebook page.
16:00. Multiple explosions rocked Kyiv on Monday morning after months of relative calm in the Ukrainian capital. Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko reported explosions in the city’s Shevchenko district, a vast one in central Kyiv that includes the historic Old Quarter as well as several government offices.
Lesia Vasylenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, posted a photo on Twitter showing that at least one explosion occurred near the main construction of Kyiv National University in central Kiev. The spokesman for the emergency facilities in Kyiv told the AP that there were dead and wounded. . The number of patients is not yet known.
Zelenskyy said on messaging app Telegram that there were dead and wounded in the blasts that rocked Ukrainian cities on Monday and accused Russia of wiping his country “off the face of the earth. “
12:00 pm. India needs to say in advance how it will vote at the UN General Assembly on a very likely draft solution condemning Russia’s proclaimed annexation of parts of Ukraine, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar. ” As a political and precautionary measure, we plan our votes in advance,” Jaishankar told a joint news conference with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Canberra.
The General Assembly is due to vote on the draft solution on Tuesday or Wednesday, diplomats said.
Late last month, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council solution presented through the United States and Albania condemning the annexation, with China, Gabon, India and Brazil abstaining.
10:30 a. m. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of orchestrating the explosion of a key bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, an act he called terrorism. “There is no doubt. This is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying critical civilian infrastructure,” Putin said. he said Sunday in a video broadcast on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel. “This was conceived, executed and ordered through the Ukrainian special services. “
A Russian missile strike on apartments and other apartments killed another 17 people in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, according to initial information cited by Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych.
The pre-dawn movements were the time of such an attack in the city in 3 days, Reuters reports. Arestovych calls the latest moves President Vladimir Putin’s revenge, possibly for the recent explosion that broke a bridge linking Russia and Crimea.
1:08 a. m. The International Atomic Energy Agency team at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has shown that the external power line that was lost the previous day has been restored and the plant is being reconnected to the grid, “a temporary relief in a still untenable situation,” the IAEA leader tweeted. Rafael Grossi.
“A coverage zone is needed now,” Grossi continued. He wrote that he would travel to Russia and then meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to identify the area.
Grossi’s update came after he retweeted World Health Organization leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who called the scenario at the Russian and Ukrainian plant “deeply concerning” and pushed for an agreement on a nuclear security and defense coverage zone. “Russia will have to end the war,” Tedros concluded.
12:43 a. m. Russia rushes to repair transport links for the bridge damaged by the explosion between Crimea and Russia, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Rail traffic in long-distance freight and passenger exercises “is developing according to the legal schedule,” the Transport Ministry said in an article in Russian government news firm Tass. Commuter exercise traffic is scheduled to resume at 7 p. m. Sunday local time, according to the ministry. Tass reports a partial recovery in car traffic.
Two hundred and fifty trucks waiting in Crimea will be transported through the Kerch Strait, and Crimean citizens are suggested to use the bridge in the coming days without urgent need, Tass reports separately, citing official sources.
Damage to the 12-mile bridge, to move weapons, ammunition and other army supplies, may damage Moscow’s war effort in southern Ukraine.
Sunday, October 9
1:30 p. m. Dozens of other people were killed or wounded in overnight shelling in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, the general of Ukraine’s armed forces said Sunday.
“Overnight, the Russian occupiers cynically attacked residential buildings and civilian infrastructure,” the army’s Central Command said on its Facebook page.
“Reports of victims are confirmed, but it is already known that dozens of other people were killed or injured. “
6:50 a. m. Ukrainian troops are engaged in very heavy fighting near the strategically eastern city of Bakhmut, which Russia is seeking to take, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said saturday in a video speech.
Russian forces have attempted to capture Bakhmut, which is located on a main road leading to the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Both are located in the Commercial Region of Donbass, which Moscow has not yet fully captured.
“We have our positions in Donbass, especially in the direction of Bakhmut, where now it is very, very complicated, the fight is very hard,” Zelenskyy said, according to Reuters.
00:06 The Russian Defense Ministry appoints Air Force General Sergei Surovikin as commander of Russian forces fighting in Ukraine.
Surovikin, who has led Russia’s air and military forces since 2017, marks the third high-ranking military rendezvous in Moscow in a week.
Commanders of two of Russia’s military regions were reportedly fired last week as forces suffered dramatic setbacks in northeastern and southern Ukraine.
Saturday, October 8
23:21 Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has switched to emergency diesel turbines after overnight bombings cut off external force, according to Ukraine’s state nuclear corporation and the U. N. atomic watchdog.
Russia and Ukraine have accused others of bombing the site of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
Although the plant’s six reactors are closed, they want a constant source of electrical power to cool the internal nuclear fuel and melt down.
14:42 An explosion causes the partial collapse of a bridge connecting the Crimean peninsula with Russia, damaging a key artery to the Kremlin’s war effort in southern Ukraine.
Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a truck bomb caused fuel cars to catch fire, causing the partial collapse of two sections of the bridge. Three other people were killed in the blast, according to Russian authorities.
Ukrainian officials threatened to hit the bridge, but Kyiv claimed responsibility.
The 19-kilometer bridge over the Kerch Strait connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the longest in Europe, opened in 2018.
7:20 a. m. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree issued to create a new operator for the Exxon-led Sakhalin-1 oil and fuel project. Japanese and Indian investors are partners in the power company. Read more.
07:00 “We will have to vacate all the land that the Russian occupiers seek to stay,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his latest video message.
Zelenskyy is referring to the Ukrainian parliament’s solution that supports the Japanese government’s position on the Russian-administered islands that Japan calls the Northern Territories.
“Russia has no rights over those territories,” he said. Everyone in the world knows this well. And we will have to, in spite of everything, act. “
The president said Ukrainian forces, in their ongoing counteroffensive, have liberated 2,434 kilometers of land occupied by Russian forces.
5:55 a. m. The International Monetary Fund announces that its Executive Board has approved $1. 3 billion in emergency financing “to meet Ukraine’s pressing account needs. “
The financing will be issued through the IMF’s new Rapid Financing Facility food surprise window, which will be offered to members facing an account balance crisis. Ukraine’s wishes stem in part from “a giant deficit in grain exports,” the IMF said in a press release.
“The Ukrainian government deserves ample credit for maintaining a significant degree of macro-financial stability in these incredibly difficult circumstances,” the IMF also said.
4:00 a. m. The Ukrainian parliament approved a solution backing the Japanese government’s position on the Russian-administered islands that Japan calls the Northern Territories.
The solution describes the islands, which lie north of Hokkaido and shape the southern end of the Kuril Range, as Russian-occupied Japanese territory. He called on the foreign network to Japan’s position.
Japan’s efforts to negotiate his return failed even before Russia invaded Ukraine. Now that Tokyo has joined Western-led sanctions against Moscow, clients to revive talks on a peace treaty to officially end World War II seem even more distant.
This is Ukraine’s most recent expression for Japan in the Northern Territories. In 2020, Kyiv said the islands deserve to be returned to Japan.
1:25 a. m. When asked why the U. S. president was in the U. S. While U. S. President Joe Biden used the word “Armageddon” when referring to Russian nuclear threats, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the U. S. was not a major player in russia. UU. no saw no explanation for why to adjust its own nuclear posture and had no indication that Russia was ready to use nuclear weapons.
At a news conference aboard Air Force One, Jean-Pierre described Russia’s discourse on the use of nuclear weapons as “irresponsible. “He said Biden’s comments were aimed at reinforcing the seriousness with which the White House is taking those threats.
A Russian Navy submarine as well as a destroyer and a submarine rescue shipment were observed transiting the Strait of Soy in northern Japan, the Japanese Defense Ministry’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
The Kilo-class submarine and other ships moved from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Sea of Japan starting Thursday, according to a press release from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Soy Strait, known as La Pérouse Strait, lies between the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the Russian island of Sakhalin.
12:45 a. m. Ukrainian troops reported disruptions to their Starlink communications terminals via Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the Financial Times reports, mentioning to a senior Ukrainian official that the loss of communication is “catastrophic. “
00:40 British diplomat Simon Manley sends a kind of birthday message to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Friday, October 7
11:10 p. m. The United States unveiled its new national Arctic strategy, warned of “growing strategic competition” exacerbated through Russia and China and called for greater cooperation among allies to “uphold the law, rules, norms and standards” in the region.
The strategy, which is an update of a 2013 document released through former President Barack Obama’s administration, covers the U. S. timeline. U. S. presence in the region for the next 10 years.
The document says that, as an Arctic country, the United States has the “authority and responsibility” to manage the region.
“The United States seeks a peaceful, stable, disgustingly rich and cooperative Arctic region,” he says. Read more.
6:20 p. m. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize will go to jailed Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian Memorial organization and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, according to the prize’s judges. Berit Reiss-Andersen, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the judges sought to honor “three prominent defenders of human rights, democracy and nonviolent coexistence in neighboring Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. “
4:50 p. m. A superyacht connected to Russian tycoon Alexey Mordashov anchored in Hong Kong this week as Western governments tried to connect yachts with sanctioned Russian businessmen. of Vladivostok, Russia, its last port of call. Mordashov is the largest shareholder and chairman of Severstal, Russia’s largest mining and metals company.
11:00 a. m. U. S. President Joe Biden says the threat of a nuclear “Armageddon” is at its highest point since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, after Russian officials raised the option of employing tactical nuclear weapons after suffering major setbacks during the invasion of Ukraine. Speaking at a fundraiser for the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “a guy I know pretty well” and “wasn’t kidding when he talked about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons. “Biden added, “We haven’t faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. “He advised that Putin’s threat is genuine “because his military is, one might say, particularly deficient. “
8:00 a. m. Russian missiles hit apartment buildings in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday, killing at least seven other people and leaving five in a domain Moscow has illegally annexed, the regional governor said. Two movements broke down more than 40 buildings hours later. The Ukrainian president announced that his army had recaptured three other villages in the four regions annexed by Russia. Governor Oleksandr Starukh said more than 20 people were rescued from the buildings.
5:55 a. m. Two Russian citizens applied for asylum in the United States after sailing to an Island in Alaska, to the state’s U. S. senators.
The Russians landed on a beach near Gambell, on the northwestern tip of St. Lawrence, according to a press release.
Only the local and state government had the ability to respond immediately, while “Customs and Border Protection had to send a Coast Guard plane more than 750 miles away to get to the scene,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Sen. Dan Sullivan said the incident makes clear that “other Russians do not need to fight Putin’s war of aggression” and that “our state has an important role to play in ensuring America’s national security. “
Republicans Murkowski and Sullivan are pushing for the administration of President Joe Biden, a Democrat, to bolster the U. S. military’s functions in the Arctic.
5:45 a. m. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, had “a positive and constructive meeting” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, to discuss the Russian-owned and Ukrainian-operated Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, according to the IAEA.
The interview also focused on Grossi’s proposed nuclear safety and security zone around the plant. Grossi and Zelenskyy agreed to meet again after Grossi’s visit to Russia.
“This is a detrimental time for the safety and security” of the plant, Grossi said in the IAEA news release, referring to demands staff are signing with Russian nuclear energy company Rosatom. “Factory staff are forced to make an incredibly complicated resolution decision for themselves and their loved ones. The enormous tension it faces will have to stop. “
IAEA equipment at the plant also reported shelling at a commercial domain near the highway.
00:30 The head of the International Monetary Fund warns of a “darkening” of the global economic outlook for next year, blaming “multiple shocks” for the “senseless” war in Ukraine.
“We estimate that countries representing about one-third of the global economy will revel in at least two consecutive quarters of contraction this year or next,” Georgieva said in a speech ahead of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings. If the expansion is positive, it will look like a recession because of falling genuine earnings and emerging prices. “
In addition to the war, the IMF managing director also accuses the COVID-19 pandemic and climate errors of having “caused a global increase in prices, especially of food and energy, causing a cost-of-living crisis. “
“Far from being transitory, inflation is more persistent,” Georgieva says. “High energy and food prices, tighter monetary situations, and persistent source constraints have slowed growth. “
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