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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure was affected when Kyiv imposed national limits on electricity consumption.
Meanwhile, close fans of advances in Ukraine will be keeping an eye on what happens after Russian President Vladimir Putin imposed martial law in 4 illegally annexed regions in Ukraine: Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south, and Donetsk and Luhansk in the east.
Zelenskyy called on men in what Ukraine describes as “temporarily occupied zones” in southern and eastern Ukraine to resist conscription into the Russian armed forces. “Please avoid it as much as you can. Try to leave the occupied territory,” he said.
Kherson is drawing attention right now after the Russian-installed government began a mass evacuation of civilians on Wednesday.
Russian officials said citizens deserve to leave the Kherson region west of the Dnipro River and deserve Russian regions to warn that Ukraine was about to renew its counteroffensive to retake Kherson, saying the military apparatus and body of workers were piling up near the area.
Russian television footage on Wednesday showed crowds gathered and waiting to cross the Dnipro River. Ukraine said Russia was “propaganda” to scare Kherson’s citizens into fleeing.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss continued coordination to address Ukraine’s pressing humanitarian and security crises.
“Secretary Blinken and Secretary-General Guterres the importance of safeguarding the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the UN, that is, in light of Russia’s illegal attempt to annex Ukrainian territory,” according to a State Department statement.
—Amanda Macias
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu meet with infantrymen on a stopover at an army education center in the western military district for reservists mobilized outside the city of Ryazan.
— Mikhail Klimentiev | AFP | fake images
The Ukrainian military said Russia had introduced more than a dozen Iranian-made drones into civilian infrastructure.
“The enemy once introduced a major Iranian strike drone attack on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure,” the Ukrainian military said in an update on Facebook. “Out of 20 drones, 15 were effectively shot down by the Ukrainian Defense Forces. “
Russia and Iran have denied that the drones in Ukraine are Iranian.
—Amanda Macias
The organization that oversees Ukraine’s grain export had allowed 3 ships to leave the besieged country.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement announced in July between Ukraine, Russia, the United Nations and Turkey, said ships were carrying 141,500 metric tons of grain and other crops.
Two shipments will depart from Yuzhny-Pivdennyi in Ukraine to Spain and Turkey with corn, sunflower meal and sunflower oil. A shipment will depart from Odessa to European Union countries and bring 60 000 tonnes of rapeseed.
Learn about the Black Sea Grain Initiative here.
—Amanda Macias
The photos show concrete bomb shelters installed near bus stops in Kharkiv.
— Vyacheslav Madiyevskyi / Ukrinform/Future Publishing Getty Images
The Pentagon has reiterated Western claims that Russian forces are Iranian drones on the battlefield in Ukraine.
“It’s indicative of the kind of rhetoric you’re hearing from Russia and Iran,” Pentagon press secretary Brig of the Air Force said. General Pat Ryder asked about Moscow and Tehran’s denials that Russia has used Iranian drones.
“Obviously they are,” Ryder said, referring to downed Iranian drones discovered in Ukrainian cities.
On Wednesday, Iranian and Russian representatives at the UN strongly denied reports that Tehran had Moscow with a fleet of drones for use in Ukraine.
Asked what possible steps Washington would take to deal with Iran’s arms transfer, Ryder declined to give the main points of any possible diplomatic or economic steps Washington would take.
“Our purpose remains to help the Ukrainians and their struggle,” Ryder said, adding that the United States is coordinating with Ukrainian officials more security assistance systems and the imaginable delivery of air defense systems to counter Russian missile and drone attacks.
—Amanda Macias
U. S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov signed a joint statement of intent to create a U. S. Infrastructure Task Force. The U. S. and Ukraine are in the U. S. and
The new functioning organization will be dedicated to fulfilling Ukraine’s wartime wishes and rebuilding post-conflict infrastructure.
The U. S. Infrastructure Task Force The U. S. -Ukraine will also seek collaboration with the U. S. sector. U. S.
“Rebuilding infrastructure will be a pillar of Ukraine’s prosperity and national security,” Raimondo said in a statement.
“The Department of Commerce is proud to help lead the U. S. -Ukraine Infrastructure Task Force, which will facilitate the collaboration needed to build a safe and resilient Ukraine. “
—Amanda Macias
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Tehran of supplying Moscow with a fleet of drones for use in Ukraine.
“Iran provides drones [to Russia],” Zelenskyy said in an interview with Canadian television network CTV.
He said Iran is making “bloody money” as Ukrainians die in the attacks, according to the Associated Press.
In recent days, Moscow has carried out several devastating missile and drone moves against what Ukraine has described as civilian targets, as well as critical infrastructure such as electrical installations. Russia and Iran have denied that the drones in Ukraine are Iranian.
Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, told reporters that the drones discovered in Ukraine are not Iranian but Russian-made. He said photographs of the drones shot down in Ukraine obviously had Russian inscriptions. However, he added that he is not a drone expert and may not elaborate.
—Amanda Macias
The organization that oversees Ukraine’s grain export said more than 360 ships have left the besieged country in a deal to reopen ports.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative, between Ukraine, Russia, the United Nations and Turkey, reopened 3 Ukrainian ports in August.
So far, 7. 9 million metric tons of grain and other food have left Ukrainian ports.
Learn about the Black Sea Grain Initiative here.
—Amanda Macias
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva told reporters that much progress had been made in revamping the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative, announced in July between Ukraine, Russia, the United Nations and Turkey, has reopened 3 Ukrainian ports for the export of agricultural products.
So far, only about 8 million metric tons of grain and other food products have left Ukrainian ports.
“I say that much has been achieved as a result of the latest consultations. The discussion continues,” Gennady Gatilov told reporters at the UN in Geneva.
The agreement expires in November.
—Amanda Macias
President Joe Biden said British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s resignation would replace the Western commitment to hold Russia accountable for its war in Ukraine.
“The United States and the United Kingdom are strong allies and enduring friends, and that fact will never change,” Biden wrote in a thank you to Truss for his service.
“We will continue our close cooperation with the British government as we work together to address the demanding global situations facing our nations,” Biden added.
—Amanda Macias
Iran’s representative to the UN has strongly denied Western claims that Tehran has Moscow with a fleet of drones for use in Ukraine.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has followed a transparent and consistent position on the stage in Ukraine that has been pronounced since the beginning of the conflict,” Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s representative to the UN, told reporters.
“Iran has advocated peace and a quick end to the confrontation in Ukraine,” Iravani said.
He added that the claims were “baseless and baseless” and claimed that the West was organizing a crusade of disinformation against his country. Iravani, who did not respond to any questions from reporters, also said the allegations were “disappointing. “
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—Amanda Macias
U. S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo highlighted the adverse economic effects of the Russian-Ukrainian war and pushed for a cap on Russian oil at an assembly of finance ministers of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation member countries.
Adeyemo explained how shock shocks, coupled with high energy and food prices, have hurt low-income countries, according to a Treasury Department summary of their talks there. The deputy secretary of the Treasury also noted that the U. S. economy is not being able to do so. global economic headwinds caused by war and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adeyemo said economies will also take advantage of the G-7’s planned cap on Russian oil prices, which the United States hopes will deprive Russian President Vladimir Putin of an investment source for the war in Ukraine while keeping a low-priced source on the market. .
The APEC Finance Ministers’ Meeting concludes on Friday.
—Chelsey Cox
A Russian plane introduced a missile near a British plane patrolling foreign airspace over the Black Sea on Sept. 29, Defense Minister Ben Wallace said Thursday.
Wallace told parliament that Britain had suspended patrols following the incident and raised his views with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Russia said it was a technical malfunction and Wallace said Britain had resumed patrols.
Patrols are now escorted by fighter jets, he added.
— Reuters
Britain’s Defense Ministry said Russia most likely contemplated withdrawing its troops from the Kherson region component west of the Dnipro River after it began evacuating civilians.
The ministry noted that, given recent comments by the new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine about a “difficult situation” emerging in Kherson in southern Ukraine, as well as his approval of plans to evacuate citizens there, which “probably imply that the Russian forces government is seriously withdrawing its forces from the domain west of the Dnipro River. “
“As an operational commander, Surovikin’s announcement highlighting negative news about the ‘army special operation’ is very unusual,” the ministry noted.
However, it would be difficult for Russian forces to withdraw. “A key challenge of any Russian withdrawal operation would be to extract troops and their apparatus across the 1,000-meter-wide river in order. “
“With all permanent bridges severely damaged, Russia will likely rely heavily on a transit barge bridge that ended near Kherson in recent days, and on army pontoon ferry units, which continue to operate in various locations,” the ministry said.
—Holly Ellyatt
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Europe was being tested, while Russian President Vladimir Putin used power and hunger as weapons.
“The brutal war in Ukraine, Putin’s ruthless use of hunger and power as a weapon, the massive increases in value here in Germany and around the world — Germany and Europe are going through tests we haven’t noticed in decades. Tests that Putin has imposed on his imperialist war of aggression,” he told the German parliament on Thursday.
Scholz said Germany, a country that gained more than a portion of its fuel imports from Russia before the war, would spend “this winter” after establishing a select import infrastructure.
“With all these measures, we control filling our reserves in Germany and Europe before winter,” he said, with garage grades above 95 percent.
However, Scholz said Germany would return to coal-fired power plants as a transitional measure. “We remain committed to our established weather targets,” he said.
—Holly Ellyatt
President Zelensky called on men in the occupied spaces of southern and eastern Ukraine to resist conscription into the Russian armed forces. “Please, as much as you can. Try to leave the occupied territory,” he said in his late-night speech on Wednesday.
“If you can’t do that and place yourself in the structures of the Russian army, try at the first opportunity to lay down your arms and come to Ukrainian positions. And most importantly, his life. And be sure to help our other people who are close to you,” he added.
Zelenskyy’s comments come after Russian President Vladimir Putin put the occupied areas of Russia and Ukraine on a firmer war footing after introducing war in the illegally annexed regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south and Donetsk and Luhansk in the east.
Russia had already begun mobilizing men in the occupied regions to fight in the war against Ukraine after “annexing” the regions, a move that Ukraine and its allies condemned as illegal. Martial law states that civilian administrations in those spaces are now necessarily military.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure had suffered additional damage when Kyiv asked civilians to restrict their energy consumption.
“There is more damage to critical infrastructure. The enemy destroyed three electrical installations today,” Zelenskyy said in his Wednesday night video. “We assume that Russian terror will be directed against electrical installations until, with the help of partners, we will shoot down one hundred percent of enemy missiles and drones,” he added.
Kyiv on Thursday imposed national restrictions on energy consumption following attacks on critical energy infrastructure this week.
Ukraine’s national energy company, Ukrenergo, said Thursday on Telegram that “Russia’s constant missile attacks are destroying our energy infrastructure, and power needs time to repair it. “
“At the same time, it’s colder outside, which historically encourages us to consume more electricity. But now we have to be very conscious and economical with our electricity intake to get through next winter as well as possible. “
“Today, from 7:00 a. m. to 10:00 p. m. m. , consumption restriction measures can be implemented in Ukraine. Your distribution network operator determines when your street will be disconnected precisely,” he said.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the government is preparing for a nationwide blackout of power systems.
“We are running to create cell strength problems for critical infrastructure in towns and cities. We are preparing for various scenarios of imaginable consequences,” Zelenskyy said on messaging app Telegram.
Zelenskyy said the features were discussed at a strategic assembly on safety at power source facilities. The assembly comes as Kyiv accuses Moscow of intentionally critical infrastructure, such as energy facilities.
“Ukraine will protect itself. It doesn’t matter what the enemy plans and does,” Zelenskyy said.
—Amanda Macias
Russia has said that the 4 Ukrainian regions it illegally annexed last month are now the cover of its nuclear arsenal.
The Kremlin arrived here at a time of acute tension, with NATO and Russia set to conduct military training within a while to verify the readiness of their nuclear forces.
When journalists asked reporters if the regions were under Moscow’s nuclear umbrella, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “All those territories are inalienable parts of the Russian Federation and they are all protected. Their security is guaranteed at the same point as [it is] for the rest of Russian territory. “
President Vladimir Putin said last month that Moscow is in a position to use nuclear weapons if it is mandatory to protect Russia’s “territorial integrity. “President Joe Biden said Oct. 6 that his 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.
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International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi hopes to return to Ukraine “soon,” while talks continue to identify a defense coverage zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Reuters reported.
Russia and Ukraine have continually accused others of bombing the site, which has been plagued by power cuts in recent weeks. On Monday, Ukraine’s nuclear force company said Russian bombing had cut off the plant’s external force supply.
“There is an option for him to return to Ukraine and Russia, this is what we agreed in principle, at the moment we are conducting consultations to identify the coverage area,” Grossi told Reuters.
“It’s an interaction where I get responses and reactions from both sides and I’m in favor of new tactics to move forward and for that, at some point, probably very soon, I’ll have to go back. “
Grossi also told Reuters he believed Russia’s nuclear threats were not an immediate possibility, “nothing can be ruled out. “
— Natalia Tam
Russian President Vladimir Putin has imposed martial law on the 4 regions of Ukraine that Moscow illegally annexed last month.
Martial law will be implemented in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the 4 regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed as Russian territory following fictitious referendums in September that Ukraine and its allies condemned as illegal and illegitimate.
The decision, announced when Putin addressed a Russian Security Council assembly on Wednesday, will most likely mean that the regions’ civilian administrations will be replaced by those of the army.
—Holly Ellyatt
The Russian-installed deputy governor in the Kherson region insisted that Russia would not return the city of Kherson and called on citizens to evacuate immediately.
“We’re not going to leave the city. We will hold out until the end. We will not let the Nazis into the city,” Kirill Stremousov said. Russian and baseless officials label Ukrainian forces as “Nazis” in an attempt to demonize them. .
Civilians in Kherson, which Russia claims to have annexed and which is partially occupied through its forces, were ordered to leave the domain as Russian officials expect a full-scale counteroffensive through Ukrainian forces to retake dominance.
The population on the western bank of the Dnipro River was ordered to cross across the water and from there into Russian territories. According to Russian authorities, up to 60,000 more people could evacuate the domain in the next six days.
In development, the region’s interim governor, Vladimir Saldo, told Rossiya-24 TV on Wednesday that access to the Kherson region for civilians will be very limited for seven days due to the turbulent situation.
“Only those who get a pass from the command will be able to enter the area,” Saldo said, according to the Tass news agency. additional.
—Holly Ellyatt
Putin imposes martial law on annexed regions; ‘Battle for Kherson’ may be imminent as civilians are forced to flee
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