The village of Tokmak, just 16 kilometers from the front line, is considered the “pillar” of Russian defense, according to the United Kingdom.
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Russia is most likely building new defenses in southern Ukraine, amid “growing concern” among Vladimir Putin’s forces about Kiev’s good fortune in breaking its first defensive line, the British Ministry of Defense said.
Moscow’s troops are reportedly “deploying more checkpoints, hedgehog-shaped anti-tank defenses and digging new trenches” near the village of Tokmak in Zaporizhzhia, situated just 16 kilometers from Ukrainian forces and poised to be a “pillar” of Russian strategy. line, the ministry said.
Meanwhile, Russia claimed to have foiled a coordinated Ukrainian attack on Crimea, and the regional government reported drone strikes in Moscow and several Russian regions, adding an oil depot. This comes after a Ukrainian minister promised that “there will be more drones, more attacks and fewer Russian ships. “
In Dunetsk, the Ukrainian armed forces celebrated the recapture of Andriivka, a village near Bakhmut, after a war in which they claimed Russia had suffered “significant losses,” a liberation the army considered “the key to good fortune in all time. “execution addresses. “
A farm worker was killed and others injured in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine after his tractor hit a mine while plowing a field, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.
Liberated after a long Russian occupation, the Kherson region is heavily mined and farmers threaten their lives by searching for paintings in fields that have still been cleared.
“Once again, I appeal to the other inhabitants of the region. Do not start work until the sappers have inspected the fields. Take care of your safety,” Prokudin said on Telegram.
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Russia’s “concrete wall”, smoothly rebuilt, has forced Kiev to reconsider its existence, but hope remains for a move towards a “hell for leather”, reports Andy Gregory.
The first civilian shipment to Odessa since Russia withdrew from the Black Sea grain deal in July docked at Ukrainian ports, aiming to deliver some 20,000 tons of wheat to Africa and Asia.
Kiev has set up a transition room along the Black Sea coast, but in addition to Russian hostility, sea mines also make the adventure complicated and shipping insurance prices are likely to be the highest for operators.
So far, ships have used the hall to leave Odessa, and Palau’s two flagged bulk carriers, Aroyat and Resilient Africa, are now the first ships to use it to enter Ukrainian ports.
After breaking the grain agreement, Russia intensified its attacks in the southern Odessa region, attacking its port infrastructure and grain silos with missiles and drones; the Ukrainian Air Force Command reported some other attack overnight, whose main target was the Odessa region.
Russian forces fired 10 Iranian-made cruise missiles and six Shahed drones, he said. All the drones and six missiles were shot down, while the rest hit an agricultural facility in the Odessa region.
While Ukrainian forces have “widened their breach” in the Russian first defensive line in Zaporizhzia, the visual lack of heavy apparatus and Ukrainian cars there suggests Kiev’s troops “have still finished advancing on this defensive layer,” analysts said.
However, Kiev continued to advance on Saturday in the region near Robotyne, according to the US think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
“Ukrainian officials have indicated that the series of Russian defensive positions that lately precede the Ukrainian advance are possibly less complicated than the initial Russian defensive layer that Ukrainian forces broke through to the north,” ISW analysts said.
“The [Russian] forces had concentrated the maximum of their fighting strength on the [Russian] defensive positions of maximum complexity to protect them from [Ukrainian] attacks, and those [Russian] forces probably suffered heavy casualties and proceeded to fight in retreats to positions prepared in the current defensive layer.
This came as the British Ministry of Defense warned that Russia would likely create more fortifications in the area Ukraine seeks to advance, and that Moscow would likely make plans to make nearby Tokmak the “pivot” of its second defensive life.
The Russian Defense Ministry claims to have carried out a missile attack on a factory in Kharkiv where armored cars are repaired for the Ukrainian army, after the regional governor accused Moscow’s forces of attacking the construction of a “civilian enterprise” with 4 missiles.
The ministry said when the strike began and did not provide other details.
Regional Governor Oleh Synehubov said Sunday that Russia attacked the construction with four S300 missiles, which are Soviet-era surface-to-air rockets.
Canada will contribute approximately £20 million to a UK-led partnership that buys air defence aircraft for Ukraine to help it repel Russian missile and drone attacks.
The partnership, which also includes the United States, the Netherlands and Denmark, aims to acquire a large number of short- and medium-range air defense missiles and related systems.
In a statement, Defense Minister Bill Blair said the contribution component of the 300 million pounds in military aid to Kiev announced in June through Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Ottawa has committed around £5 billion in aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion.
The world will have to reaffirm its commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals if the ambitious targets are to be achieved, British ministers and diplomats will insist at next week’s UN summit, Dominic McGrath reports.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was accused of snubbing the demonstration in New York, blaming his absence on the strain of his schedule and instead sent a team led by his deputy Oliver Dowden.
He is not the only world leader expected to miss the summit, which is expected to be about the war in Ukraine, synthetic intelligence and the risk of climate change.
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to attend, as are Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia and Ukraine will face off before the UN’s top court, in hearings that run until Sept. 27.
Ukraine took the case to the International Court of Justice just days after the Russian invasion, accusing Moscow of abusing foreign law by saying the invasion was justified to save an alleged genocide in eastern Ukraine.
Future hearings will not discuss the merits of the case and will focus on legal arguments related to the court’s jurisdiction, which Russia opposes.
Based on an initial hearing held in March, the court ordered Russia to halt its military operations in Ukraine without delay, without success, as the court has no means to enforce its rulings. However, experts believe that an imaginable resolution in favor of Ukraine may be vital to any long-term reparations claim.
Russia claims to have foiled a coordinated Ukrainian attack on Crimea, while drones also targeted Moscow, disrupting air traffic in the capital and setting a fire at an oil depot in the country’s southwest, Reuters reports.
Russian air defense systems have destroyed at least six drones pointing at Crimea in other directions, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday, without specifying whether there were any injuries or casualties.
In the Moscow region, a drone was destroyed in the Istra district and another in the Ramensky district, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sothroughanin said, adding that there were no casualties or injuries due to the drone’s wreckage.
At least 30 flights were delayed and six canceled at Moscow airports, Russian news agencies reported.
In southwestern Russia, a Ukrainian drone stormed an oil depot early Sunday, sparking a fire in a fuel tank that later shut down, the regional governor said, with no casualties reported.
Another drone was shot down in Russia’s Voronezh region, local governor Alexander Gusev and the Defense Ministry said, while the Tula government also reported that a drone crashed on the grounds of a logistics center.
Poland has begun enforcing a European Union ban on all passenger cars registered in Russia to enter the country, days after neighboring Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia followed suit.
The move is in line with a recent interpretation of EU sanctions that opposes Moscow. Announcing the imminent imposition of the ban on Saturday, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said: “A car registered in Russia can enter Poland.
“This is a detail of the sanctions imposed on Russia and its citizens as part of the brutal war in Ukraine, because the Russian state today poses a risk to external security. “
In addition to Kaliningrad, Poland borders Belarus and Ukraine. In addition, it borders Germany, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Lithuania, allies of the EU and NATO, where there are no border controls.
Border guards claim that cars labeled in Russia “will be returned to the third country from which they came, either Russia or any other country. “And he adds: “Such movements will be carried out by car even if the engine of the car is not a citizen of the Russian Federation. “
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