The Ukrainian president said his troops were holding out in two key cities in the eastern Donbass region, despite repeated attacks.
President Zelenskyy called the tactic “crazy” when he delivered his same nightly speech.
Russia has attempted to capture Bakhmut, which is located on the main road leading to the Ukrainian cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
Enemy troops attacked Bakhmut 8 times before lunch on a specific day, presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said Tuesday. However, they went back in time.
The president did not mention what is happening near the southern city of Kherson, still controlled by pro-Russian forces, but said he expected fierce combat there.
A major attack across Ukraine has been expected for several weeks in Kherson, the largest urban attack still held in Russia, but has not yet begun.
The United States effectively introduced a rocket to conduct nearly a dozen experiments with hypersonic weapons, the Pentagon said.
Hypersonic systems fly at speeds several times the speed of sound, 3,500 mph (5,633 km/h) or more.
The United States, Russia and China are developing next-generation hypersonic weapons, as they can be difficult to protect due to their speed and ability to replace course.
The Kremlin has claimed to have used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine.
Wednesday’s test used a smaller, more affordable sounding rocket to conduct the experiments. It is intended to validate long-term facets of the U. S. hypersonic weapons program. U. S.
Ukraine’s defense minister says he believes Russia is “blackmailing” the world in negotiations by waving the specter of a filthy bomb.
Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, Oleksii Reznikov said the Russian government seeks to divert attention from his country’s failed military mobilization and also prevent Western nations from supplying weapons and gadgets to Ukraine.
Earlier this week, Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defense minister, claimed that Ukraine was preparing to use a grimy bomb (a mixture of explosive and radioactive materials) on its own territory to discredit Russia.
He presented no evidence and his claim was denied without delay by Ukraine, Britain, the United States and NATO, among others.
Now, Reznikov has claimed that Russia’s ambition is only to create a sense of anxiety as a prelude to negotiations that would presumably allow Russia to keep the land it has illegally seized.
“You can listen to them: Lavrov, Shoigu and others”, M. Reznikov.
“All the Kremlin gangsters are trying to convey [the message] to their capitals that they are in a position to negotiate.
“It’s attractive because they see the mobilization crusade as a big failure for them. They are looking for a new outlet for their interests.
“And I think they seek to prevent their countries from supporting Ukraine, to prevent them from handing over new weapons, to prevent Ukraine from being more efficient. “
When I asked him about the option of a negotiated settlement, he told me that there would be “no negotiation or payment across the country to stay in front of the Kremlin. “
But he added that a deal could most likely be imagined in the first seven years after the occupation, and mentioned the Anglo-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong as a style that might have worked.
“But right now, no,” he said. We have a surely understandable plan to liberate all our territories. It’s clear. “
Reznikov also warned that Russia could have taken radioactive from nuclear power plants at Chernobyl or Zaporizhzhia for use in the structure of a grimy bomb, a prospect he said “worried him. “
He said he did not believe Russia would use nuclear weapons, largely because of the fury it would generate in countries such as India and China. And he reiterated his call on foreign partners to supply Ukraine with more air defense systems as a pressing priority.
The head of the Ukrainian president’s office, Andriy Yermak, had known the citizen as Joshua Jones in the past.
Washington has highlighted Saudi Arabia’s aid to Ukraine and its vote against Russia’s annexation to the United Nations, but those measures do not compensate for Riyadh’s OPEC resolve to reduce oil production, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
Speaking at an event hosted via Bloomberg, Blinken reiterated that Joe Biden’s management is consulting with members of Congress on moves to better reflect U. S. interests.
Russian investigators raided the Moscow home of Ksenia Sobchak, the daughter of Vladimir Putin’s former boss and mentor.
Sobchak, 40, made a name for herself as a socialite and truth TV star and known as the “Paris Hilton of Russia” before becoming a television journalist and opposition activist.
She is the daughter of the late Anatoly Sobchak, the first democratically elected mayor of St. Petersburg, where Mr. Putin was a deputy in the 1990s.
Sobchak, a vocal critic of the Russian president, who ran in the 2018 election as an opposition candidate, took only fourth place and 1. 7% of the vote.
Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny says she ran in a bid to democratize the race and described it as a “parody of the liberal candidate. “
According to Russian news agencies Tass and RIA-Novosti, police raided Sobchak’s luxury home on the outskirts of Moscow based on his investigation into alleged wrongdoing through his media director.
Kirill Sukhanov arrested for extortion, which he denies.
The Kremlin released footage showing members of its military conducting exercises related to education for a “massive nuclear attack. “
More than 70,000 people left the Kherson region last week, Russia-appointed governor Vladimir Saldo said, according to TASS news agency.
In an interview with the Crimea-24 TV channel, Saldo said citizens abandoned the domain amid Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
He said: “It’s complicated to collect statistics here, they will only be the right kind where records are kept. People touch the center of a call and express a desire to move to the left bank. “
“However, Kherson is a city on the water and other people here have their own boats. Still, I’m sure more than 70,000 people moved in last week after launching a ferry crossing service. “
Russian investigators raided the home of Russian journalist and former presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, according to reports.
Sobchak, 40, first rose to fame as a socialite and truth TV star before becoming involved in politics when he joined mass protests in Moscow against Vladimir Putin in 2011-2012.
She then became a journalist before running in the 2018 Russian presidential election as a liberal challenger and completing them with about 1. 7% of the vote.
She is also the daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, a liberal mayor of St. Petersburg. Putin, deputy in the 1990s.
Today, investigators said the search for Mr. Sobchak in Moscow is part of an investigation into alleged wrongdoing through its media director, Kirill Sukhanov, who arrested on extortion charges.
State news agencies TASS and RIA-Novosti said Sobchak fled Russia, and TASS said he bought tickets to Dubai and Turkey to lie to authorities, but went to Belarus, from where he moved to Lithuania.
The images launch ballistic missiles into the air as Russian strategic nuclear forces participated in exercises.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Vladimir Putin that the training was aimed at simulating a “massive nuclear attack” introduced in retaliation for a nuclear attack on Russia.
And Biden’s management said he won the early completion of the annual exercises.