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Russian forces attacked a dam on the Inhulets River near Kryvyi Rih, that of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with 8 cruise missiles, according to Ukrainian officials, causing flooding in parts of the city and evacuating residents.
Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of Kryvyi Rih’s army administration, said last night on Telegram that russian missiles hit a “very giant hydrotechnical structure,” widely reported as a dam near the city. The rising water level in the river prompted a city official to ask citizens to leave parts of the city.
In other news overnight, Zelenskyy involved in a car accident, the president’s workplace said overnight, but he was not injured in the incident that occurred in Kyiv.
Presidential Press Secretary Serhii Nykyforov said last night that “a collision with the escort vehicles and the Ukrainian president” and that law enforcement “would be aware of all the cases of the accident. “
Earlier on Wednesday, he said the country’s armed forces were moving “towards victory” by praising the return of the Ukrainian flag to reconquered territory.
Germany will supply two more rocket launchers to Ukraine, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said.
“We have to deliver two more MARS II multiple rocket launchers, adding two hundred rockets, to Ukraine,” he told a Bundeswehr conference.
Training of Ukrainian operators will begin in September, he said.
“In addition to this, we will send 50 Goofy armored worker transport vehicles to Ukraine,” Lambrecht said, referring to an armored vehicle that the German military used extensively in the NATO army’s operation in Afghanistan.
He also said he nearly concluded an agreement on an exchange of infantry fighting vehicles with Greece and Ukraine, meaning Germany will soon deliver 40 Marder ILVs to Greece, while Greece, in turn, will deliver 40 of its Soviet-made BMP-1s. . IFV in Ukraine.
— Reuters
A new report from the monitoring organization Conflict Observatory shows that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has rendered about 15% of the services of Ukraine’s crop garages useless, either because they were seized by Russian troops or because the fighting was irreparable.
In a press release highlighting the report, a spokesman for the U. S. State Department. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration said the planned destruction of civilian food garage services may constitute a war crime. The United States “calls for further investigation through appropriate mechanisms,” he said.
Ukraine’s prestige as the world’s leading grain exporter has helped turn its regional war with Russia into a global food crisis.
Several primary countries, Egypt, Malaysia and Indonesia, count on Ukraine for more than a quarter of their total wheat imports.
— Cristina Wilkie
New images have emerged of the village of Nova Husarivka in northeastern Ukraine, recently liberated after months of Russian occupation. The photographs were taken through Gleb Garanich for Reuters.
The photographs reveal a great deal of damage to homes and civil infrastructure. They also reveal several pieces of Russian artillery that appear to have been abandoned by Russian troops in their hasty retreat from the village the first week of September.
Next, Vitali Orlov, a resident of Nova Husarivka, observes a formula for launching Russian rockets on his destroyed farm.
Here, a destroyed Russian Armored Workers’ Transport Corps (APC) can be seen desert near the village.
Below, Olena Kushnir looks at Russian shells near her destroyed home.
Local resident Olha Nemashkina stands in her destroyed space in the village of Nova Husarivka.
—Scott Mlyn
The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency approved a new, not easy, solution for Russia to end its profession of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, diplomats said at today’s closed-door meeting.
The document calls on Russia to “immediately stop all movements opposing the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and any nuclear facilities in Ukraine. “
It passed with 26 votes in favor, two against and seven abstentions, diplomats said.
Russia and China are the countries that voted against, while Egypt, South Africa, Senegal, Burundi, Vietnam, India and Pakistan abstained, they added.
IAEA inspectors visited the nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, in late August and said they planned to leave two inspectors at the plant permanently while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued.
— Reuters
President Joe Biden will meet Friday with the sister of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, the two U. S. figures recently detained in Russia, the White House confirmed.
“I wanted to let them know that they were on their minds and that their team is working on that every day, making sure Brittney and Paul get home safely,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
“As we have already said, we know that Russia is illegally detaining Brittney and Paul in unbearable conditions,” he added.
Griner was sentenced in August to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to drug charges. Whelan was convicted of espionage in June 2020 and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
“We would like to say that we have news of Brittany and Paul’s return to Array, unfortunately it is not where the negotiations are at the moment,” Jean-Pierre said.
Biden’s management recently introduced a prisoner exchange with Russia to secure the release of Griner and Whelan, but Moscow rejected the deal.
“The Russians are satisfied with the offer we have put on the table,” Jean-Pierre said.
—Emma Kinery
The Ukrainian military continues its main counteroffensive in the Russian-occupied southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, a Ukrainian army spokesman said thursday in a Facebook post.
Vladyslav Nazarov of the Southern Operations Command said the artillery sets of the Ukrainian Defense Forces have carried out more than firing missions only in the day beyond.
Faced with Russian infantrymen in the south who are more prepared to protect their positions than the Russians in the retaken areas of the northeast, the Ukrainians have focused on isolating Russian outfits by bombing the bridges and roads the Kremlin needs to resupply the front lines.
The photo above and below show Ukrainian troops on Thursday in southern Ukraine firing a giant artillery cannon at Russian positions.
— Cristina Wilkie
The Treasury Department imposed sanctions for the first time on the head of one of Russia’s most infamous government agencies, the so-called Presidential Commission for the Rights of the Child.
Maria Alexeyevna Lvova-Belova heads the firm known through the United Nations as the main organizer of the mass deportations of orphans and young Ukrainians separated from their families to Russia.
At a recent UN assembly on the Russian deportation of Ukrainians, U. S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield reported that in July alone, “more than 1,800 young people were transferred from Russian-controlled ukrainian spaces to Russia. “
Many young people were “separated from their families and taken to orphanages before being given up for adoption in Russia,” he said.
According to the Treasury Department’s sanctions report, Lvova-Belova spearheaded “the forced adoption of Ukrainian youth into Russian families, the so-called ‘patriotic education’ of Ukrainian youth, legislative adjustments aimed at accelerating the granting of Citizenship of the Russian Federation to ukrainian youth, and the planned abduction of Ukrainian youth through Russian forces. “
— Cristina Wilkie
“There is a lot for good here in Kyiv,” European Union Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen told a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the streets of the Ukrainian capital.
“We will never live up to the sacrifice that Ukrainians are making,” von der Leyen told reporters. “But what we can tell them is that they will have their European friends by their side for as long as it takes. “
Von der Leyen praised the speed with which the EU and Ukraine connected Ukraine’s electricity grid to the EU, a task she intended to carry out at least two years before the war but was completed in two weeks.
“Ukraine now provides electric power to the EU, and we need to build it and therefore create steady profit streams for Ukraine,” he said.
Making her third visit to Ukraine since the start of the war, von der Leyen pressed on the importance of facilitating Ukraine’s economic integration into Europe.
He noted that 98% of the price lists of Ukrainian exports to the EU have already been removed. But “there are a lot of non-tariff barriers that we can remove. “
The European Parliament voted in June to settle for Ukraine as an official candidate for EU membership.
— Cristina Wilkie
Yuliia “Taira” Paievska, a Ukrainian volunteer doctor, testified before the U. S. Helsinki Commission. She had been tortured for 3 months in Russian captivity.
“When I was in captivity, I tortured and they tried to get me to confess to alleged crimes I had never committed,” Paieyska said at a hearing at the U. S. Capitol in Washington, D. C.
“They didn’t care to know the truth. They were just looking for me to admit my guilt for something I had never committed,” he said.
Paievska also detailed the remedy of some of her fellow detainees and described the conditions that gave the impression of violating the Geneva Conventions governing the remedy of prisoners and civilians in time of war.
“Prisoners in cells, screaming for weeks of torture and lack of medical help,” he told lawmakers.
“A wrestler who punched for 3 hours and then threw it into the basement like a bag, and just a day later someone came up to him,” he said.
“Pregnant prisoners were well known to their relatives and the state,” Paievska said in an obvious reference to rape in captivity.
“A dead child in his mother’s arms. A seven-year-old boy with a gunshot wound, dying in my lap,” he said.
Russia has denied committing atrocities in its invasion of Ukraine for months. But foreign investigators have documented scores of glaring war crimes cases, ranging from torture and rape to mass executions.
— Cristina Wilkie
The U. S. Navy’s amphibious attacksends the USS Kearsarge in foreign education in the Baltic Sea amid Russia’s war in Ukraine and tensions in the region.
The Kearsarge is the first shipment of the Wasp class to participate in foreign education in the Baltic in at least two decades. Associated Press reporters visited the shipment last week.
“This is the first time we’ve remembered and it’s been very exciting,” said Captain Tom Foster, commander of the Kearsarge.
Along with other U. S. Navy ships. In the US, the Kearsarge has been educating for several months with the Swedish and Finnish armies, which officially implemented their NATO membership after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
The objective of the is to promote safety and security in the region.
“For the past few months, we have operated in the Baltic and the Mediterranean,” said Capt. Aaron Kelley, commander of Kearsarge’s amphibious loan group.
– Associated Press
U. S. lawmakers this morning hear testimony from Yuliia “Taira” Paievska, a Ukrainian volunteer doctor who won a sequel at the start of the war for her dramatic videos of emergency medical personnel on the battlefield.
Paievska saved the lives of another 700 people at the start of the war, including those of Russian children and soldiers.
In March, Paievska was captured in Mariupol and was imprisoned in Russia for 3 months. After his release this summer, he competed in the Invictus International Games for Wounded Veterans, where he won 3 medals.
“In the first 20 days of this war, I spent in Mariupol, what hell. Then I spent 3 months in Russian captivity, which is also hell,” Paievska said in her keynote address at a hearing at the U. S. Capitol. U. S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D. C.
“When my tormentors committed suicide to me, I said no,” he said.
— Cristina Wilkie
President Zelenskyy of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine has suffered repeated missile movements over the past day.
Russian forces introduced a missile attack on Kryvyi Rih after launching 8 cruise missiles at a dam near the city yesterday, causing the Inhulets River to rise and flood parts of the city.
Oleksandr Vilkul, head of kryvyi Rih’s army administration, said Thursday morning on the Telegram account that there was an attack while asking civilians to remain in the shelters. A few hours later, he reported that a cruise missile had hit an “industrial company. “
“The destruction is serious,” he said, and the main points related to the strike and its effect were clarified.
—Holly Ellyatt
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he understood China’s Xi Jinping was concerned about the situation in Ukraine, a wonderful acknowledgement of frictions with Beijing over the war after a week of surprising Russian losses on the ground.
Since Russia’s invasion, China has followed a cautious line, criticizing Western sanctions against Russia, but preventing before approving or aiding the army’s campaign.
“We very much appreciate the balanced position of our Chinese friends in relation to the Ukraine crisis,” Putin told Xi in their first meeting since the war began.
“We received your questions and considerations about this. At today’s meeting, of course, we will know our position. “
Xi mentioned Ukraine in his public remarks, nor in a Chinese reading of their meeting, which took a stand in Uzbekistan on the sidelines of a regional summit.
Beijing’s is widely known as a must for Moscow, which wants markets for its energy and resource exports to import high-tech goods as it faces Western-imposed sanctions.
When the two men met, they signed a “no-boundary” friendship agreement between their two countries. Three weeks later, Russia invaded Ukraine.
The Russian president’s comments show a shift in China toward a more critical stance, at least in private. Ian Bremmer, a political science professor at Columbia University, said they were Putin’s “first public signal to detect tension to back down. “
— Reuters
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the path to retake the Russian-occupied parts of the country is clearer.
“The path to the return of all our territories is becoming clearer. We see the contours of the recovery of our state’s territorial integrity. We know it’s a complicated path, but it’s possible to traverse it. And we do,” Zelenskyy said Thursday on Telegram.
His comments come after Ukraine’s successes in the northeast of the country, where it has retaken almost the entire Kharkiv region. Russia has introduced several fatal attacks in southern and southeastern Ukraine, adding missile movements against Kryvyi Rih’s Zelenskyy, which continued today after the movements broke a dam. near the town yesterday, causing flooding in some neighborhoods.
—Holly Ellyatt
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday as the two leaders attend a security summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
The leaders are expected to talk about the war in Ukraine and Taiwan at their assembly at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, according to Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, according to statements published Tuesday by Russian news firm Ria Novosti.
The news firm quoted Ushakov as saying Beijing “has a balanced view of this issue” and understands the reasons for the “army’s special operation,” as Russia calls its invasion of Ukraine.
“If we are talking about a bilateral agenda, then a verbal exchange on industry and economic cooperation will be very vital for this contact. In the current difficult situation, in the face of illegitimate Western sanctions, this cooperation shows stability, continues to gradually expand, grow,” he said.
This will be Xi’s first stopover since the beginning of the covid pandemic. China has tacitly supported Russia’s stance on Ukraine, but has also given the impression of wanting to insulate itself from the global geopolitical and economic consequences of the war, having called for a ceasefire. in Ukraine earlier this year.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukrainian officials released more important points about the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine, which was the target of Russian missile movements yesterday.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of President Zelenskyy’s office, posted on Telegram that after Russian missile attacks on a main dam on the Inhulets River, 112 houses were flooded and rescuers had to save 11 people. No deaths have been reported.
The local government has organized four collection problems for citizens to evacuate in order to succeed in one area, he added, explaining how the river’s point rose after the dam was damaged.
“As a result of such a rupture, the water point of the Ingoulets River rose from one hundred cm to 190 cm,” he said, adding that in order to decrease the water point, it is mandatory to fly a component of the hydraulic work downstream.
After what he described as “the paintings of this long night”, the water point of the river has already dropped 40 cm, a detail also pointed out by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Valentyn Reznichenko.
“The water point of the Ingoulets River has already dropped 40 centimeters at this time and continues to fall. Thanks to the first responders, the emergency facilities and everyone who painted all night and continues to paint now. Each of you has done a job,” Reznichenko said.
—Holly Ellyatt
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in Kyiv on Thursday to talk about how to advance Ukraine’s bid for the European Union club.
“In Kyiv, for the third time since the beginning of the war with Russia. It’s changed a lot,” von der Leyen said on Twitter.
“Ukraine is now a candidate” for EU membership, he said, adding that he would talk to President Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal about the progress of his membership application.
Ukraine’s application for the club was officially accepted earlier this year, but is expected to take years to register for the union.
—Holly Ellyatt
The way Russian forces withdrew and fled the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine suggests a collapse in command structures, the UK said in its latest intelligence update on Thursday.
“Ukrainian forces continue to consolidate their newly liberated spaces of Kharkiv Oblast. Russian forces have largely withdrawn from the domain west of the Oskil River,” the British Ministry of Defence said on Twitter.
“The way Russian forces withdrew last week varied. Some sets retreated in intelligent order and under control, while others fled in obvious panic,” he said.
“Such abandonment highlights the disorganized retreat of some Russian ensembles and localized failures in command and control. “
The high-value aircraft abandoned due to the withdrawal of Russian forces included essential functions to allow the taste of war focused on Russia’s artillery, the ministry noted, adding at least one Zoopark counterbattery radar and at least one IV14 commando and artillery vehicle. .
—Holly Ellyatt
The unoccupied settlements in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region are Russian fire, a regional official warned Thursday as he ordered the evacuation of citizens.
“The scenario in the unoccupied settlements in the Kherson region is incredibly difficult,” Yaroslav Yanushevych, head of kherson’s regional army administration, told Telegram, noting that one city had noticed that all its houses were broken or destroyed, while 80 percent of its houses had been destroyed. destroyed.
Ukraine recently introduced a counteroffensive in southern Ukraine to retake the Russian-occupied territories. Unlike its counterattack in northeastern Ukraine, which saw most of the Kharkiv region vacated, a significant part of Kherson, the region over Crimea annexed by Russia, remains occupied. through Russian forces even though Ukraine launched a series of counterattacks there and made some advances.
Yanushevych said the first thing the Ukrainian armed forces did in liberating the settlements from the Russian profession was to advise citizens to leave without delay in anticipation of Russian reprisals and attacks.
Yesterday, Yanalyevich said that “in the Kherson region it is still incredibly difficult, active hostilities continue. “
The infrastructure of the region was subjected “every day to devastating destruction due to the bombing of the occupiers. In the temporarily occupied settlements, the Russians continue to capture the administrative premises and loot,” he said. CNBC was unable to determine the data contained in The Manager’s Message.
—Holly Ellyatt
Video source: Metin Aktas | Anadolu | Agency fake images
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited a key city recently liberated by Ukrainian troops and sent a message to the other inhabitants of Crimea: “We will arrive. “
Zelenskyy spoke to reporters after visiting scenes of destruction inflicted by Russian troops and helping raise the Ukrainian flag in Izyum, which only a week ago was sustained by invading forces. A Ukrainian counteroffensive sent Russian troops to retreat and recaptured the city on September 10.
“We will go,” Zelenskyy said, addressing the other people of Crimea. “I don’t know when. And no one knows when. But we have plans. Then we will come, because. . . it’s our land, and it’s our other people. “
Zelenskyy expressed fear for the cumulative effect of Russian television propaganda on young people in Crimea who have never experienced what it is like to be part of Ukraine. The Russian military took Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014.
“The data war is very strong, and Russia has attacked [Crimea] through television, the media. . . and, of course, it will be very complicated for young people when we come,” Zelenskyy said.
—Ted Kemp
The Russians bombed a dam on the Inhulets River near Kryvyi Rih, that of President Zelenskyy, causing flooding in parts of the city and the evacuation of residents.
Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of Kryvyi Rih’s army administration, said last night on Telegram that russian missiles hit a “very giant hydrotechnical structure,” widely reported as a dam near the city.
“Dear other friends of Kryvyi Rih, Russia has committed another terrorist act. They hit a very large hydrotechnical design on Kryvyi Rih with 8 cruise missiles. The attempt is only to wash part of our city with water. We’re tracking the situation, intervention efforts are ongoing, everyone is involved, everyone is on site. But the water point of the Inhulets River has increased,” Vilkul said.
He then named the streets they had to vacate because “the water of the Inhulets River has risen. “
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy director of Zelenskyy’s office, 8 Russian cruise missiles had attacked Kryvyi Rih, calling it a “terrorist act”.
“After all, rockets target buildings that are important for people’s livelihoods,” he said in a Telegram post with a video showing the upper water levels in the river and partially submerged trees on the banks.
“Today, Russian troops have directed the maximum of their weapons to hydrotechnical structures. The purpose is obvious: an attempt to create an emergency situation. They don’t care if other people run out of water or if the city floods. They want us to panic so that it’s complicated for us to make decisions. So let’s not panic,” he said.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, involved in a turn of car fate in Kyiv last night, said the president’s office delayed in the evening.
Zelenskyy was not injured in the incident, the cases of which are being investigated lately.
Presidential press secretary Serhii Nykyforov said on Facebook last night that he “collided with the Ukrainian president’s and escort’s vehicles. “
“The doctors accompanying the head of state provided medical assistance to the driver of the car and transferred him to an ambulance. The president performed the test through a doctor, no serious injuries were found. Law enforcement will take note of all cases of the accident. . “
—Holly Ellyatt
The Pentagon has praised a series of meteoric advances Ukraine has made to Russian forces in the war-weary south and east of the country.
“Certainly, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have noticed that ukrainians show remarkable adaptability and their ability to use their combat functions prudently,” Pentagon press secretary Air Force Brig said. Pat Ryder told reporters at the Pentagon.
“So we’re not surprised that they drove as fast as they did,” he added.
Ryder declined to verify Ukrainian government reports that mentioned the express achievements the country had made, adding that he would speak on behalf of a foreign army.
He added that the United States will continue to provide security assistance to Kyiv and praised the “remarkable adaptability of Ukrainian forces on the battlefield. “
—Amanda Macias
Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that his government is preparing another aid program for the war-torn country.
“The Ukrainian armed forces and others have shown immense courage. It is a pride to see reports of good fortune on Ukraine’s Eastern Front; it is a sure sign that our collective help has had a positive effect and will have it. “continue,” Pevkur said, according to an Estonian reading of the meeting.
Estonia, one of NATO’s smallest member countries and a country bordering Russia, has donated two cash hospitals to Ukraine since the outbreak of Russian war last February.
Pevkur met with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov.
“I am interested to hear the Minister of Defence talk about the main points of the aid we want now; this will be the basis for the progression of our next aid programme to Ukraine. In addition, lately we are contributing to education efforts,” he added. . .
—Amanda Macias
A former senior British military official told Sky News there is a 30 to 40 percent chance that the Russian armed forces will give in and the war will end before Christmas.
Retired RAF Marshal Edward Stringer, former director general of the Defence Academy and director general of Joint Forces Development, Strategic Command, told Sky’s Kay Burley that in the past he thought the war would continue next year, but things have changed on the ground.
He said: “I don’t see if the Russians are going to rebuild their armed forces so that they can regain the initiative and resume the offensive.
“And now we will see how this plays out on the floor and Zelenskyy is expected to be in a position where he can start negotiating favorable terms and even defeat the entire Russian invasion of his country.
“In the end, all conflicts end in negotiations. You have to evaluate to what extent you want to keep the channels open and to what extent you allow him (Putin) to think that he is still part of the circle of relatives of nations.
“I always thought I would continue next year. I think it’s imaginable now, and we hate being the user who says it’s all over over Christmas, but it’s imaginable now that there will be a collapse of the Russian. “military forces. . . it’s a smart 30-40%, and that calls into question Putin’s long term, Putin and the West deserve to think a lot now about what the post-Putin world looks like. “
Read the message here from Sky News.
— News from Heaven
Vladimir Putin’s top envoy to Ukraine told the Russian leader at the start of the war that he had reached a tentative agreement with Kyiv that would satisfy Russia’s call for Ukraine to remain out of NATO, but Putin rejected it and continued his military campaign. according to 3 of the other people close to the Russian leadership who spoke to Reuters.
Ukrainian envoy Dmitry Kozak told Putin he believed the deal he had reached eliminated the need for Russia to continue a large-scale career in Ukraine, the sources said. first time.
Putin had continually claimed before the war that NATO and its military infrastructure were moving closer to Russia’s borders by accepting new members from Eastern Europe, and that the alliance is now preparing to bring Ukraine into its orbit as well. Putin has publicly stated that this poses an existential risk to Russia, forcing it to respond.
But, despite his earlier help for the deals, Putin made clear the presentation of the Kozak deal that the concessions approved by his aide did not go far enough and that he had expanded his agreements to include annexing parts of Ukraine. territory, the resources said. As a result, the case was dismissed.
Read the full story via Reuters here
— Reuters
Ukraine is “toward victory,” Zelenskyy says; Troops extirpate “collaborators” in recovered territory
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