The Wagner Group has reportedly possibly resumed recruiting infantrymen under the leadership of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s son, Pavel Prigozhin.
Ukrainska Pravda reported that the mercenary organization is a unit of the Russian National Guard, which recruits infantrymen from Perm and Novosibirsk.
The Wagner group in Novosibirsk reported that recruitment had been going on for two or three days.
The bureau said it was looking for former soldiers and convicts from its ranks.
Telegram channels linked to the Wagner Group have said they will not settle for former mercenaries who joined the Russian Defense Ministry after the Yevgeny Prigozhin mutiny, Ukrainska Pravda reports.
The Defense Ministry’s attempt to incorporate the paramilitary organization into its ranks is one of the central problems of the confrontation between Wagner and the Kremlin.
Tensions came to a head when Prigozhin spearheaded a failed coup against senior military officials in June.
In August, Russian investigators said he had died in an accident.
North Korea has sent more than a million artillery shells to Russia since August, South Korea’s most sensible intelligence firm told officials at a closed-door news conference.
Politician Yoo Sang-bum said South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) estimates that about two months of materials were transported through shipments and other means, accompanied by a North Korean weapons expert.
North Korea is operating its munitions factories at full capacity to meet Russian demands and mobilize its citizens to increase production, according to Yoo, according to the NIS.
NIS officials did not respond to a request for confirmation from Mr. Yoo.
Pyongyang and Moscow have denied that North Korea is moving weapons to Russia, while increasing the visibility of their partnership.
Regular readers will remember Kim Jong Un’s infrequent stopover to meet Putin in September, which raised fears that Russia would get weapons in exchange for generation that would bolster Putin’s missile and nuclear weapons program.
But the NIS believes that Russian aid will most likely be limited to traditional capabilities, Mr. Yoo.
The United States, South Korea and Japan issued a joint statement Thursday condemning what they described as North Korea’s source of ammunition and military devices for Russia.
Ukraine accused Russia of throwing “explosive objects” into civilian ships in the Black Sea.
Fighter jets have carried out three such launches in the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military said, as the country tried to build a new sea route with Russia’s approval.
Russia has said it will consider any shipments as a possible military target after it subsidized a U. N. -brokered grain deal in July that allowed some major food exports to Ukraine.
Ukrainian news firm Suspilne reported that a spokeswoman for Ukraine’s Southern Command was quoted as saying that Russia dropped guided aerial bombs, sea mines and unknown explosive devices near the corridor.
Photos taken via Reuters show members of the 15th Separate Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade using a Shark drone for release in the Kharkiv region.
This morning we reported how Russia launched a series of attacks overnight, setting fire to an oil refinery in Kremenchuk, Poltava region.
Authorities revealed that Kremenchuk is just one of the largest cities and towns attacked in 24 hours since the beginning of 2023.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko shelled 118 settlements in 10 regions of Ukraine.
“This is the number of cities and towns affected since the beginning of the year,” he said.
The Kherson region came under heavy attacks that night, with airstrikes targeting several villages, killing at least one person, he said.
Mr. Kymenko provided the following main points about other regions of Ukraine. . .
Kharkiv: One person was killed in Petropavlivka after shelling of Kupyn district.
Donetsk: Another user killed in shelling of Pivzhne village.
Dnipropetrovsk: the city of Nikopol and two villages were hit.
Mykolaiv: Houses destroyed by artillery in the city of Ochakiv.
Klymenko added that about 100 firefighters were needed to put out the blaze in Kremenchuk.
Off the front, a war of words has broken out between Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president, and Carlsberg.
Jacob Aarup-Andersen, the brewer’s chief executive, said Russia stole his business when the government in July took over Carlsberg’s majority stake in Russian brewer Baltika.
The Carlsberg group suspended its investments in Russia shortly after the invasion and has been looking to sell Baltika since last year.
Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, mocked the executive leader for suggesting that Carlsberg could simply leave Russia without being punished.
“Like their brethren in the Western collection, they abandoned everything in Russia for political reasons. . . and they thought they would be left alone,” he wrote.
“‘We are giving sanctions and weapons to the Ukrainian regime, but don’t touch our property, or at least let us sell it profitably. ‘”
Carlsberg said it had severed ties with Baltika, terminated all licensing agreements and would strike a deal with Moscow that would give the impression the seizure is legitimate.
At the end of the summer break, we reported that students were returning to schools in the Kharkiv metro to continue their studies in a safer environment against Russian bombs.
Now, opera singers have been exploiting their talents underground in the northeastern city, hoping to return to the level for the first time in 20 months.
The basement of a former monolithic Soviet-era Communist Party conference corridor features a stage, a makeshift orchestra pit and rows of seats.
Mass public events have been banned in the city, which is under missile attack from across the Russian border, 30 miles away.
“We miss betting on stage,” said Olena Starikova, a member of the group, after a costume rehearsal.
“We’ve sung in many places – garages, forests, schools, kindergartens, hospitals – and nothing beats the stage.
“Opera is a fairy tale. All of us, the ballet group, the opera group, are all happy. “
Still, the government says many citizens have returned to Kharkiv since fleeing at the start of the invasion, with another 1. 2 million people currently living there.
According to a U. S. think tank, Russian officials are likely to be increasingly involved in weakening authoritarianism in parts of Russia.
The reaction of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen republic, to the attack that erupted on a Russian airport on Sunday suggested he was seeking to demonstrate the strength of his strength in the region, the Institute for the Study of War said.
He ordered security forces to shoot would-be rioters in the head if they responded to three precautionary shots, Russian state media RIA reported.
“Russian officials would possibly be increasingly involved in weakening authoritarianism in regions on the outer edge of the Russian Federation,” the ISW said.
Kadyrov was quick to reiterate in a Telegram post Putin’s baseless claims that the insurrection was the result of Western “manipulation” through social media.
“Kadyrov’s reactions to the unrest in Dagestan suggest that he is primarily involved in maintaining his unshakable faith in Putin and then demonstrating the strength of his authoritarian regime over Chechnya,” the ISW said.
The explanation for the insurrection at the airport is that “anti-Israeli” protesters stormed a runway at Makhachkala airport in Dagestan as a Red Wings flight from Tel Aviv landed there, Russian media reported.
They reportedly chanted anti-Semitic slogans and searched for the passengers on the flight.
All flights from the airport were subsequently diverted, Russia’s Rosaviatsia aviation authority said.
Russia’s Interior Ministry said another 60 people had been arrested and 150 of the “most active protesters” had been identified.
The U. S. is important to Ukraine, as of July 31 it had committed about $70 billion in aid, far more than any other country, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
But divisions have emerged recently in the House and among presidential candidates, with Republicans criticizing the foothold.
Explained: Biden’s Congress will provide $106 billion in additional funding, with most of the cash going to bolster Ukraine’s defenses and the rest split between Israel, the Indo-Pacific, and border control.
But last week the House elected Republican Mike Johnson as speaker, who expressed considerations about Ukraine’s investment and advised that he would not pass Johnson’s bill.
He told Fox News that investments in Ukraine and Israel deserve to be treated separately.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he was aware of “considerable political resistance” among some U. S. politicians, but that there was still enough to provide more aid.
Volodymyr Zelensky and his troops had managed to diminish the strength of Moscow’s army in the Black Sea.
With an increase in Kyiv’s allies, this could lead to Ukraine’s final victory over Russia, he said.
The Black Sea has a very important theater of war, and Moscow uses its fleet to launch long-range attacks on Ukraine.
For Vladimir Putin, the waters – along with the Mediterranean Sea – are also a vital springboard for projecting his strength in the Middle East, Europe and the West.
“When we provide even more security in the Black Sea, Russia will lose all ability to dominate this region and increase its malign influence over other countries,” Zelensky said last night.
Ukraine has stepped up drone air and sea strikes against Russian army targets at sea, damaging shipyards and shipyards in the port of Sevastopol and their targets.
One notable attack came in late September, when Ukraine said it had targeted the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in occupied Crimea with Storm Shadow cruise missiles, a weapon provided by the United Kingdom and France.
The extent of the damage Ukraine has caused to the Black Sea fleet in recent months remains unclear. . . still for M. Zelensky.
“Ukraine’s past fortune in the Black Sea war will go down in the history books, even if it is not talked about much today,” he said.