The Russians are making plans to attack the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, the Ukrainian president said in his evening speech.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the world to act temporarily in the face of catastrophe.
“According to our information, the aggregates and dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant were blown up by Russian terrorists,” he said in his evening speech to Ukraine.
“Now everyone in the world will have to act forcefully and prevent another Russian terrorist attack. Destroying the dam would mean a large-scale disaster. “
He added: “We will now have to all in combination, all Europeans, all world leaders, all foreign organizations, make transparent to the terrorist state that such a terrorist attack on the Kakhovka HPP will mean exactly the same as the use of weapons. of mass destruction.
“The consequences for Russia will be corresponding. “
He also called on Switzerland to remain impartial in the conflict, following talks with the Swiss president who arrived in Kyiv today.
“We also discussed the payment factor for the damage to Ukraine through Russian terrorism. I am grateful that Russian assets worth $6. 5 billion have already been frozen.
“These paintings will have to continue.
“And this is all that Switzerland will not have to remain morally impartial on either.
“Switzerland’s possibilities for digitalization in Ukraine and the recovery of telecommunications systems in the liberated territories were discussed separately and in depth. “
Cars can be seen moving along a dark street and power shortages as the country tries to ration power.
Russia did not participate in an assembly of a UN committee that examined the human rights scenario in the country.
Russia withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council earlier this year, following its invasion of Ukraine.
Experts from the UN Human Rights Committee (OHCHR) were due to meet face-to-face with Russian delegates in a two-day public assembly, tomorrow’s assembly has now been cancelled.
“I did not send a delegation to respond,” said Marcia VJ Kran of Canada, a member of the body, which is composed of 18 independent experts who oversee the state’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Afternoon
“We’re seeing a troubling trend of legal action against politicians who criticize the government,” Kran said.
“We are also heavily involved in the use of state-developed poisons to silence, punish and kill at least a dozen prominent dissidents, opposition leaders and activists over the past decade. “
Russia’s Crimea-based military has flown Iranian drones for attacks in Ukraine, John Kirby, a retired admiral who is now the National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications at the White House.
He said Moscow has gained dozens of Iranians and will probably get more.
The U. S. Department of State The U. S. military said the Iranian army’s corps of workers was in Crimea helping Russia with its drones.
The United States has also said it fears Russia will obtain traditional weapons from Iran, adding surface-to-air missiles.
The West will have to avoid making “concessions” to Vladimir Putin, a former Russian diplomat who defected early in the war told Sky News.
Boris Bondarev, speaking to Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby, said: “This nuclear game, just so you know, is first and foremost a mind game, it’s like any blackmail. So if you face blackmail, we have two options. “, or you go over to that blackmailer, and you do with you what he needs.
“And you have to realize that every time you make concessions to him, he’s going to be emboldened and he’s going to ask you, he’s going to ask for more and more, or you confront him and I think that’s going to be doing the right thing, confronting him.
“I don’t want to say we don’t need an escalation, but tell him that if he needs this escalation, so be it. “
Asked if Putin would accept the use of nuclear weapons, he replied: “Well, technically I think so. He can order them to be used, and I don’t think there are many generals or other army officers who say that. “‘No, we won’t take those orders’ because it’s like a suicide or a war crime. “
But he said Putin “already has an idea that he is fighting in World War III; For him, it’s about reshaping the map of the political world. “
“He feels he has very little influence over the map, very little over the map he’s entitled to,” he added.
“But we also have to perceive very obviously that Putin and Russia are two other things. When Putin says something threatens Russia’s interests or security, he is talking about himself. “
Beth Rigby’s interviews will air in the evening and over the weekend.
The UK has officially sanctioned Iran for supplying Russia with Iranian-made drones that were used to attack Ukraine a few days ago.
The sanctions plans announced the previous day.
Among the other three people sanctioned is army officer Seyed Hojjatollah Qureishi, who is known as the chief negotiator of the drone deal.
Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chairman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, and Brigadier General Saeed Aghajani, head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, were sanctioned.
All 3 are subject to an asset freeze and ban.
Shahed Aviation Industries: The Iranian manufacturer of Shahed drones that were used during Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Shahed Aviation Industries is subject to an assets freeze.
Secretary of State James Cleverly: “Putin’s brutal and illegal war on Ukraine is deplorable. Today we are sanctioning those who provided the drones used through Russia to attack Ukrainian civilians. This is transparent evidence of Iran’s destabilizing role in the world. “security. “
He said that acquiring those weapons that Russia is turning to countries like Iran, in desperation.
Open-source evidence has shown that Russia’s own defense company and drone manufacturer Kronshtadt have struggled to produce since they were sanctioned (March 24, 2022), with cannibalized refrigerators and dishwashers to create military hardware and Soviet-era tanks sent to the front lines while trying out their military equipment.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said the government had opened a new case of a thief opposing him for encouraging terrorism and extremism, which could more than double his sentence.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s top national critic, is already serving more than 11 years in criminal sentences for fraud, contempt of court and probation violations, all of which he denies as trumped-up charges designed to silence him.
“I am an underworld genius. Professor Moriarty is not right for me,” he said in a Twitter post, comparing himself to Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis.
“You all had the idea that I had been isolated in criminal for two years, but it turns out that I actively committed crimes. Fortunately, the commission of inquiry was attentive and nothing was lost. “
Navalny said his lawyers believed he could now face a cumulative sentence of about 30 years.
There was no prompt official confirmation of the new case by the Board of Inquiry.
By Jack Taylor, Knowledge and Forensic Science Journalist
After a Russian plane introduced a missile “in the vicinity” of a Royal Air Force plane flying over the Black Sea on Sept. 29, flight tracking may provide more insight into what happened that day.
The RAF Rivet Joint, a surveillance aircraft, first entered airspace over the Black Sea at 2:45 p. m. m UK time.
He then did his regime patrol in the Black Sea, before returning to the UK after 5:30 p. m.
It is at this time that it is most likely that two Russian SU-27s have “interacted with” the flight, one launching a missile “in the vicinity of the flight. “The Russian Defense Ministry called this a “technical malfunction” of the Russian plane. .
The Rivet Joint was not the only surveillance flight in the domain at the time. A U. S. Air Force Global HawkThe U. S. military, which is controlled remotely and flies at high altitudes, had been patrolling the same Black Sea domain for hours.
The Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy operates in the region. Although the main points of the flights have been released, they were most likely collecting data on anything at sea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy suggested that the authors write about the “terrors” inflicted on their country by Russian forces.
Zelenskyy made the call in a video edition at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
He said: “Instead of carrying culture, Russia imports death.
“So I ask you to do everything you can to let other people know about the terror that Russia has brought to Ukraine.
“Knowledge is the answer. Books, documentary scripts, articles, reports: those are the answers. “
Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, Mr. Zelenska’s wife, Zelenskyy, is scheduled to speak once at the user fair on Saturday.
Russia has claimed that weapons provided through the West to Ukraine end up on the black market and then in the hands of extremist and criminal teams in the Middle East, Central Africa and Asia.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said NATO members had sent a total of at least 700 artillery systems, 80,000 missile systems, 800,000 artillery shells and millions of rounds of ammunition.
“Many of those weapons have already entered or will soon enter the black market,” Zakharova told reporters in Moscow.
“Now the network is facing this. “
Ms. Zakharova did not specify on what evidence her claim was based.
“NATO army shipments end up in the hands of terrorists, extremists and criminal teams in the Middle East, Central Africa and Southeast Asia,” Zakharova added.
Russia has long warned that weapons destined for Ukraine may end up in the hands of criminals, but without offering main points on where the weapons may end up.
Western leaders say they need Ukraine to defeat Russia, even though U. S. President Joe Biden has tried to spare it a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia.