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Russian forces ‘trying to surround’ east Ukraine stronghold; Germany pledges to meet NATO target
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said Friday that the Russian military “does not stop trying to surround” the shattered eastern stronghold of Avdiivka. The industrial hub of Avdiivka, which is regarded as the gateway to Donetsk, has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance. The update from Ukraine’s General Staff reported a series of Russian assaults in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions over the last 24 hours.
Separately, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said via social media that Russian combat losses had climbed to nearly 310,000 since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February last year. The figures could not be independently verified by CNBC. Elsewhere, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov and other key figures at the southern military grouping’s headquarters to discuss the Ukraine war. Ukraine’s Kyiv comes under attack for first time in months, mayor says. Strong explosions heard in the capital in first attack on the city since September.
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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said Friday that the Russian military “does not stop trying to surround” the shattered eastern stronghold of Avdiivka. The industrial hub of Avdiivka, which is regarded as the gateway to Donetsk, has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance. The update from Ukraine’s General Staff reported a series of Russian assaults in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions over the last 24 hours.
Separately, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said via social media that Russian combat losses had climbed to nearly 310,000 since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February last year. The figures could not be independently verified by CNBC. Elsewhere, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov and other key figures at the southern military grouping’s headquarters to discuss the Ukraine war. Ukraine’s Kyiv comes under attack for first time in months, mayor says. Strong explosions heard in the capital in first attack on the city since September.
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Israel has been claiming that Hamas has its bases underneath hospitals and has attacked various hospitals causing heavy casualties there. Hospital authorities and the health Ministry have strongly denied this.
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari has said that Hamas has kept Israel hostages at a hospital basement, and it has evidence including photographs of the same. Hagari further said that the Israeli Navy's elite Shayetet 13 commando unit and the 401st Armoured Brigade have raided Gaza City's Rantisi Hospital, which treats children, and that Hamas operatives were hiding there."Underneath the hospital, in the basement, we found a Hamas command and control centre, suicide-bomb vests, grenades, AK-47 assault rifles, explosive devices, RPGs, and other weapons, computers, money, etc," Hagari said.
"We also found signs that indicate that Hamas held hostages here," he said, adding, "This is currently under our investigation," but that the IDF has intelligence to verify it. "Additionally, we found evidence that Hamas terrorists came back from the massacre (in southern Israel) on October 7 to this hospital, among others, after butchering Israelis in their homes," he added. "Hamas hides in hospitals. Today, we will expose this to the world," he added. Admiral Hagari also said that the IDF has been working to enable the safe evacuation of patients from Rantisi over the last week, as well as from other hospitals in northern Gaza. "Israel helped the hospital managers evacuate the Gaza patients to a safer hospital," he said, adding that the IDF has been informed that 'the last 18 patients in the Rantisi Hospital had safely evacuated to a safer hospital'.
On the other hand Hamas and health Ministry says that IDF has caused heavy casualties in and around hospitals through bombing and raids and finds excuses by blaming the Hospital authorities for their merciless killing of innocent Palestinians specially children and women. for their failure to get the abducted Israelis released from Hamas. UN aid agencies are witness that no Hamas is hiding in hospitals as these agencies are working in aid of the patients in Gaza. So far not a single abduct Israeli could be got released by IDF through their war effort. Only the once released were kind courtesy Hamas through the mediator Qatar through negotiations hence negotiations are the only answer for Israel to get their abducted released. Israel claims of 240 abducted Israelis with Hamas while Hamas has earlier claimed that 50 of them have already been killed in IDF bombing and more are likely to be killed if Israel goes on Bombing for which Hamas will not be responsible.
More than 30 people killed in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp after Israeli strikes hit at least 12 homes. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says operations will "grind to a halt" if no fuel is allowed into Gaza by Wednesday. Hospitals in Northern Gaza have been forced to shut down as Israeli forces continue to attack medical facilities.
More than 11,200 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the official death toll from Hamas’s attacks stands at more than 1,200.
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari has said that Hamas has kept Israel hostages at a hospital basement, and it has evidence including photographs of the same. Hagari further said that the Israeli Navy's elite Shayetet 13 commando unit and the 401st Armoured Brigade have raided Gaza City's Rantisi Hospital, which treats children, and that Hamas operatives were hiding there."Underneath the hospital, in the basement, we found a Hamas command and control centre, suicide-bomb vests, grenades, AK-47 assault rifles, explosive devices, RPGs, and other weapons, computers, money, etc," Hagari said.
"We also found signs that indicate that Hamas held hostages here," he said, adding, "This is currently under our investigation," but that the IDF has intelligence to verify it. "Additionally, we found evidence that Hamas terrorists came back from the massacre (in southern Israel) on October 7 to this hospital, among others, after butchering Israelis in their homes," he added. "Hamas hides in hospitals. Today, we will expose this to the world," he added. Admiral Hagari also said that the IDF has been working to enable the safe evacuation of patients from Rantisi over the last week, as well as from other hospitals in northern Gaza. "Israel helped the hospital managers evacuate the Gaza patients to a safer hospital," he said, adding that the IDF has been informed that 'the last 18 patients in the Rantisi Hospital had safely evacuated to a safer hospital'.
On the other hand Hamas and health Ministry says that IDF has caused heavy casualties in and around hospitals through bombing and raids and finds excuses by blaming the Hospital authorities for their merciless killing of innocent Palestinians specially children and women. for their failure to get the abducted Israelis released from Hamas. UN aid agencies are witness that no Hamas is hiding in hospitals as these agencies are working in aid of the patients in Gaza. So far not a single abduct Israeli could be got released by IDF through their war effort. Only the once released were kind courtesy Hamas through the mediator Qatar through negotiations hence negotiations are the only answer for Israel to get their abducted released. Israel claims of 240 abducted Israelis with Hamas while Hamas has earlier claimed that 50 of them have already been killed in IDF bombing and more are likely to be killed if Israel goes on Bombing for which Hamas will not be responsible.
More than 30 people killed in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp after Israeli strikes hit at least 12 homes. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says operations will "grind to a halt" if no fuel is allowed into Gaza by Wednesday. Hospitals in Northern Gaza have been forced to shut down as Israeli forces continue to attack medical facilities.
More than 11,200 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the official death toll from Hamas’s attacks stands at more than 1,200.
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Russia-Ukraine war has entered its 630th day. , Main developments so far are that a Russian rocket and artillery attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson killed two people and injured at least 11, damaging a hospital and more than a dozen homes. Local governor Oleksandr Prokudin said a family driving home from a medical appointment was also hit by artillery fire, leaving one man dead and a two-month-old baby injured.
Russian military bloggers reported that Ukrainian troops had secured a foothold on the occupied eastern bank of the Dnipro river in the village of Krynky, about 35km (22 miles) upstream from Kherson. T
Russia’s defence ministry said reports from two state news agencies – RIA Novosti and TASS – on troop movements in Ukraine were false and a “provocation”. The agencies reported that Russian troops were being moved to “more favourable positions” east of the Dnipro River, but quickly removed the alerts after publishing them.
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Andriy Yermak, a top aide to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Washington, DC and promised sustained US support for Ukraine. Blinken spoke to Yermak about “steps we can take together with Ukraine to harden its infrastructure for the upcoming winter,” said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. “We, of course, in the last winter saw Russia trying to take down energy sites in Ukraine. They may very well do that again”.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said officials were finalising the “last details” of a proposed 12th package of sanctions on Russia that will include a diamond ban. The European Commission, the EU executive, could approve the proposed package on Wednesday and it would then go to the Council of the EU, made up of the bloc’s 27 member countries, for discussion and approval.
Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Dubinsky has been formally notified that he is suspected of treason for allegedly spreading misinformation about the political leadership and cooperation with Russia’s military intelligence. Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, said that a politician was under suspicion but did not name the suspect. He was later named by lawmaker Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, who is the first deputy head of the parliamentary committee on anti-corruption policy, and another lawmaker, Oleksiy Honcharenko. Dubinsky was expelled from the ruling party in 2021 after he was put on a US sanctions list over alleged election meddling. He has denied the accusations.
Lawyers for Russian artist Alexandra Skochilenko, who faces as many as eight years in prison for replacing supermarket price tags with demands for an end to the war in Ukraine, told a court the 33-year-old would not survive a jail term and should be freed. Skochilenko, who is known as Sasha, has already spent more than 18 months in jail in St Petersburg and denies the formal charge of knowingly spreading false information about the Russian army.
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said the country will block the disbursement of the next tranche of military aid to Ukraine under the European Peace Facility (EPF) until Kyiv provides “guarantees” that OTP bank or other Hungarian firms will not be blacklisted as “international sponsors of war”.
A report from the Washington, DC-based Institute for Science and International Security said Russia was making progress on the construction of a factory to mass produce Iranian-designed Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.
Ukraine fears Russia's effort to destroy energy sources in coming winter.
Russian military bloggers reported that Ukrainian troops had secured a foothold on the occupied eastern bank of the Dnipro river in the village of Krynky, about 35km (22 miles) upstream from Kherson. T
Russia’s defence ministry said reports from two state news agencies – RIA Novosti and TASS – on troop movements in Ukraine were false and a “provocation”. The agencies reported that Russian troops were being moved to “more favourable positions” east of the Dnipro River, but quickly removed the alerts after publishing them.
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Andriy Yermak, a top aide to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Washington, DC and promised sustained US support for Ukraine. Blinken spoke to Yermak about “steps we can take together with Ukraine to harden its infrastructure for the upcoming winter,” said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. “We, of course, in the last winter saw Russia trying to take down energy sites in Ukraine. They may very well do that again”.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said officials were finalising the “last details” of a proposed 12th package of sanctions on Russia that will include a diamond ban. The European Commission, the EU executive, could approve the proposed package on Wednesday and it would then go to the Council of the EU, made up of the bloc’s 27 member countries, for discussion and approval.
Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Dubinsky has been formally notified that he is suspected of treason for allegedly spreading misinformation about the political leadership and cooperation with Russia’s military intelligence. Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, said that a politician was under suspicion but did not name the suspect. He was later named by lawmaker Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, who is the first deputy head of the parliamentary committee on anti-corruption policy, and another lawmaker, Oleksiy Honcharenko. Dubinsky was expelled from the ruling party in 2021 after he was put on a US sanctions list over alleged election meddling. He has denied the accusations.
Lawyers for Russian artist Alexandra Skochilenko, who faces as many as eight years in prison for replacing supermarket price tags with demands for an end to the war in Ukraine, told a court the 33-year-old would not survive a jail term and should be freed. Skochilenko, who is known as Sasha, has already spent more than 18 months in jail in St Petersburg and denies the formal charge of knowingly spreading false information about the Russian army.
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said the country will block the disbursement of the next tranche of military aid to Ukraine under the European Peace Facility (EPF) until Kyiv provides “guarantees” that OTP bank or other Hungarian firms will not be blacklisted as “international sponsors of war”.
A report from the Washington, DC-based Institute for Science and International Security said Russia was making progress on the construction of a factory to mass produce Iranian-designed Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.
Ukraine fears Russia's effort to destroy energy sources in coming winter.
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There appears to be no pause in Russia Ukraine war as the war rages along Danipro and on the energy hubs where Russia is bombing the sources to see that Ukraine faces swear winter. Tousands of people without power in Ukraine after Russian strikes on energy hubs in southern and eastern Ukraine have been left without power after Russian strikes on energy facilities, the Ukrainian government has said. Last winter, systematic targeting of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure by Russia left millions without light or heating. Zelenskiy said this week that western support had allowed Ukraine to improve its air defences ahead of the coming winter months.
At least nine people were killed in Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, according to local officials. Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson regional military administration, said shelling on Thursday had targeted residential areas, shopping districts, and administrative buildings. Another two people were killed in the eastern region of Donetsk, according to the acting head of its military administration.
Russian casualties since the start of the war now stand at 316,760, according to the Ukrainian military. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said he has “no doubt” Vladimir Putin will still be Russian president after the election in March. Putin has not yet announced his intention to run but is widely expected to stand for another six-year term. Asked what the next president should be like in an interview with student journalists, Peskov said: “The same.”A total of 4.4m tonnes of cargo, including 3.2m tons of grain, has been shipped via Ukraine’s new Black Sea shipping corridor since it was established in August, according to a report by the Interfax-Ukraine agency. A UN-brokered deal that had allowed Ukrainian exports to pass through the Black Sea fell through in July after Russia withdrew, prompting Ukraine to announce a “humanitarian corridor” hugging the sea’s western coast.
The British foreign secretary, David Cameron, followed his trip to Ukraine on Thursday with a visit to neighbouring Moldova. Moldovan president, Maia Sandu, posted a photo of her and Cameron together to social media and said the two had met on Thursday night to discuss “Black Sea security, bilateral cooperation and our united stance against corruption”.
The Dutch government has announced that it has earmarked an additional €2bn in military aid for Ukraine in 2024. It is part of a wider package that includes an initial €102m (£89m) for reconstruction and humanitarian aid that will be increased during the year if needed.
Finland’s government has announced a new package of defence equipment for Ukraine worth €100m (£88m). It said the package would be the 20th provided by Finland since the start of the war and would bring the value of all support given to €1.5bn (£1.3bn).
The country’s defence minister, Antti Häkkänen, said in a statement that further details on the package’s contents and the delivery schedule would not be disclosed for security reasons.
“What is at stake in Ukraine’s defence struggle is the security environment outlook on Europe and Finland,” he said.
“Together with our allies, we remain unwavering in our commitment to support Ukrainians.”
Finnish authorities plan to put up barriers at four of the country’s nine border crossings with Russia at midnight local time (10pm GMT) on Friday.
Helsinki has accused Moscow of deliberately funnelling migrants and asylum seekers to the crossings in retaliation for Finland’s increased defence cooperation with the US.
Finland’s Border Guard said 300 asylum seekers – mostly from Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and Syria – had arrived this week, almost 100 of them by midday on Friday alone.
The four crossings being closed – Vaalimaa, Nuijamaa, Imatra and Niirala, all at the southern end of the border – are usually the busiest points of travel between the two countries.
“[One can] only express deep regret that the Finnish authorities have taken the path of destroying bilateral relations,” Russian state news agency Tass quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying when asked about the issue on Friday.
“Russia has never in modern history threatened Finland. We had no reason for any confrontation. Now they have chosen this path.
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As the war enters its 635th day, these are the main developments.
US Secretary of state Lloyd Austin insists US 'will continue to stand with Ukraine in their fight for freedom against Russian aggression'
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday demanded rapid changes in the operations of Ukraine's military medical system, as he announced the dismissal of the commander of the medical forces.
More than 2,400 Ukrainian children aged 6-17 have been taken to Belarus from four regions of Ukraine that are partially occupied by Russian forces, a study by Yale University has found.
Ukraine says conducted Successful Operations on Dnipro East Bank. It also says that out of 10 Iranian Missiles sent by Russia 9 have been downed. The Ukrainian army said it has pushed Russian forces back as far as 8 km (5 miles) from the banks of Dnipro river in the southern Kherson region. Ukrainian and Russian forces have been entrenched on opposite sides of the Dnipro for more than a year after Russia withdrew its troops from the western bank last November. Ukraine said last week it had made a breakthrough. “Preliminary figures vary from 3 to 8 kilometres (2 to 5 miles), depending on the specifics, geography and landscape of the left bank,” army spokeswoman Natalia Gumenyuk told Ukrainian television when asked how much progress Kyiv had made. She added that there remained a “lot of work to do”.
The United Kingdom’s defence ministry said that there were “few immediate prospects of major changes in the front line,” saying neither Russia nor Ukraine had made meaningful progress on the battlefield. In a statement, it said that intense fighting was concentrated near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, Avdiivka in the Dontesk region, and on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
Russia launched several waves of drone attcks on Kyiv for the second successive night, triggering air raid warnings. Ukraine’s Air Force said its air defence systems destroyed 15 of the 20 Shahed kamikaze drones targeting the Kyiv, Poltava and Cherkasy regions. There were no initial reports of “critical damage” or casualties. On Saturday, Russian drone attacks caused power outages in more than 400 towns and villages in the south, southeast and north of Ukraine.
Five people, including a three-year-old girl who was outside with her grandmother, were injured in Russian artillery shelling of Kherson, according to Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. One person was killed by shelling in the northeastern Sumy region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanded swift changes in the operations of Ukraine’s military as he met Defence Minister Rustem Umerov. Zelenskyy said “priorities were set” noting there was “little time left to wait for results”. Zelenskyy said he had also replaced Major-General Tetiana Ostashchenko as commander of the Armed Forces Medical Forces, saying the armed forces needed a “fundamentally new level of medical support”.
Bohdan Yermokhin, an orphaned Ukrainian teenager who was taken to Russia from the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol during the war and prevented from leaving in March, has returned to Ukraine. Yermokhin, now 18, told the Reuters news agency his return was a “very pleasant gift”. Ukraine estimates about 20,000 children have been taken illegally by Russia. Zelenskyy welcomed Yermokhin’s return and thanked Ukrainian officials, international organisations, and particularly UNICEF, and authorities in Qatar for help in mediation.
Zelenskyy imposed sanctions on 37 Russian groups and 108 people including two former Ukrainian top officials now in Russia for their alleged involvement “in the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territory” and individuals who “in various ways help Russian terror against Ukraine”.
Pro-war Russian nationalist Igor Girkin, who is in custody awaiting trial for inciting extremism, said he wanted to run for president. Also known by the alias Igor Strelkov, the former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer has repeatedly said Russia will face a revolution and even a civil war unless President Vladimir Putin’s military top brass fight the war in Ukraine more effectively. Girkin helped Russia to annex Crimea in 2014 and then to organise pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine.
US Secretary of state Lloyd Austin insists US 'will continue to stand with Ukraine in their fight for freedom against Russian aggression'
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday demanded rapid changes in the operations of Ukraine's military medical system, as he announced the dismissal of the commander of the medical forces.
More than 2,400 Ukrainian children aged 6-17 have been taken to Belarus from four regions of Ukraine that are partially occupied by Russian forces, a study by Yale University has found.
Ukraine says conducted Successful Operations on Dnipro East Bank. It also says that out of 10 Iranian Missiles sent by Russia 9 have been downed. The Ukrainian army said it has pushed Russian forces back as far as 8 km (5 miles) from the banks of Dnipro river in the southern Kherson region. Ukrainian and Russian forces have been entrenched on opposite sides of the Dnipro for more than a year after Russia withdrew its troops from the western bank last November. Ukraine said last week it had made a breakthrough. “Preliminary figures vary from 3 to 8 kilometres (2 to 5 miles), depending on the specifics, geography and landscape of the left bank,” army spokeswoman Natalia Gumenyuk told Ukrainian television when asked how much progress Kyiv had made. She added that there remained a “lot of work to do”.
The United Kingdom’s defence ministry said that there were “few immediate prospects of major changes in the front line,” saying neither Russia nor Ukraine had made meaningful progress on the battlefield. In a statement, it said that intense fighting was concentrated near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, Avdiivka in the Dontesk region, and on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
Russia launched several waves of drone attcks on Kyiv for the second successive night, triggering air raid warnings. Ukraine’s Air Force said its air defence systems destroyed 15 of the 20 Shahed kamikaze drones targeting the Kyiv, Poltava and Cherkasy regions. There were no initial reports of “critical damage” or casualties. On Saturday, Russian drone attacks caused power outages in more than 400 towns and villages in the south, southeast and north of Ukraine.
Five people, including a three-year-old girl who was outside with her grandmother, were injured in Russian artillery shelling of Kherson, according to Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. One person was killed by shelling in the northeastern Sumy region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanded swift changes in the operations of Ukraine’s military as he met Defence Minister Rustem Umerov. Zelenskyy said “priorities were set” noting there was “little time left to wait for results”. Zelenskyy said he had also replaced Major-General Tetiana Ostashchenko as commander of the Armed Forces Medical Forces, saying the armed forces needed a “fundamentally new level of medical support”.
Bohdan Yermokhin, an orphaned Ukrainian teenager who was taken to Russia from the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol during the war and prevented from leaving in March, has returned to Ukraine. Yermokhin, now 18, told the Reuters news agency his return was a “very pleasant gift”. Ukraine estimates about 20,000 children have been taken illegally by Russia. Zelenskyy welcomed Yermokhin’s return and thanked Ukrainian officials, international organisations, and particularly UNICEF, and authorities in Qatar for help in mediation.
Zelenskyy imposed sanctions on 37 Russian groups and 108 people including two former Ukrainian top officials now in Russia for their alleged involvement “in the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territory” and individuals who “in various ways help Russian terror against Ukraine”.
Pro-war Russian nationalist Igor Girkin, who is in custody awaiting trial for inciting extremism, said he wanted to run for president. Also known by the alias Igor Strelkov, the former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer has repeatedly said Russia will face a revolution and even a civil war unless President Vladimir Putin’s military top brass fight the war in Ukraine more effectively. Girkin helped Russia to annex Crimea in 2014 and then to organise pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine.
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US helping ukrain against "Russian aggression" and killing Palestinian by aiding in "Israeli aggression".
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Your observations are right. Super powers play games. Russia already embroiled in Ukraine by USA, cannot help Palestine openly and USA has been able to make Isral stand against the entire world opinion and resolutions.
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At least five people were wounded after Russia fired more than 70 drones at Kyiv overnight, Ukrainian fficials said, calling it the largest drone attack in the war so far. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attack on the capital an act of “wilful terror”, writing on the Telegram app that “the Russian leadership is proud of the fact that it can kill”.
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Has the Ukraine Russia war reahed a stalemate? No! Russia boosts size of armed forces by 170,000 troops. President Putin’s decree takes number of Russian service personnel to 1.32 million amid continuing Ukraine war. Heavier attacks are expected from Russia on Ukrain in view of the US and West attention on Hamas-Israel war.
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After months of posturing while simultaneously denying any plans to attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin's assaults on multiple cities in Ukraine began overnight on Feb. 24, 2022. Missile strikes across Ukraine are expected to continue. In October 2023, a Russian missile hit a village in northeastern Ukraine, killing 51 people during a gathering to mourn a fallen Ukrainian soldier. Humanitarians anticipate attacks on energy, water and gas systems, particularly near the front line, as winter arrives. International humanitarian law are violated.
Temperatures in winter can drop below -4 degrees Fahrenheit (-20 degrees Celsius), putting millions of people already facing significant challenges in dangerous situations. People taking shelter in displacement centers or people in communities near the frontline, living in damaged homes or without access to heating, are particularly at risk. Putin says Biden claim Russia aims to attack Nato is ‘nonsense’ but warns of ‘problems’ with Finland – as it happened Russia has no interest in fighting with Nato country, Vladimir Putin says, but says he will send military units near border with Finland.dalvinder45
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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 666
UK’s MoD says: Ukrainian military moving to defensive positions. Ukraine’s armed forces are taking up a more defensive posture, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said in its latest analysis of the conflict, after their summer counteroffensive failed to achieve a major breakthrough against Russia’s army and as winter weather sets in after almost 22 months of war. “In recent weeks, Ukraine has mobilised a concerted effort to improve field fortifications as its forces pivot to a more defensive posture along much of the frontline,” the MoD said.Russia’s tax revenue from exports of oil and petroleum products has fallen by 32% after a price ceiling was enacted by the US and its allies to restrict funding for its war in Ukraine, US authoriti said Wednesday. In a statement published by the Treasury Department, the allies also announced that rules surrounding the price cap will be tightened.
Kyiv plans to produce a million FPV (first-person-view) drones, widely in demand on the frontline, and more than 11,000 medium- and long-range attack drones next year, Ukraine’s minister for strategic industries said on Wednesday. “All production facilities are ready, and contracting for 2024 begins,” Oleksandr Kamyshin, the minister, said on Telegram messenger. The figure includes at least 1,000 drones with a range of more than 1,000 km (600 miles), he said.
The international rules-based system needs urgent and fundamental change if it is not to collapse, the Estonian foreign minister has said, calling for “a new global conversation” to begin on how to reform the UN and the international criminal court. Moldova plans to leave the Commonwealth of Independent States, a Russia-aligned trade and political body, by the end of 2024, parliamentary foreign policy committee head Doina Gherman said on Wednesday. The announcement followed a gradual drawdown of Moldova’s participation in the bloc since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova put her name forward to stand in a Russian presidential election in March that Vladimir Putin is expected to win by a landslide. Duntsova, 40, has called for an end to the conflict in Ukraine and the release of political prisoners including opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
A Russian court fined Alphabet’s Google 4.6bn roubles ($50.84m) for failing to delete so-called “fake” information about the conflict in Ukraine and other topics, the Tass news agency reported. The Ria news agency said the fine had also been imposed due to Google failing to remove “extremist content” and the distribution of what Russia calls “LGBT propaganda”.
German federal prosecutors said Wednesday they aim to seize hundreds of millions of euros from an unnamed Russian bank as part of a western crackdown over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “The aim of these proceedings is to seize more than 720 million euros ($789m) deposited by a Russian financial institution in a bank account in Frankfurt am Main due to a suspected attempt to violate embargo regulations” under German law, the prosecutors office said in a statement.
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that there is no current basis for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and that Kyiv’s proposed peace plan was absurd as it excluded Russia. “We really consider that the topic of negotiations is not relevant right now,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
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As USA ordered seizing of assets of Russia to pay to Ukraine for the ongoing war and to deploy missiles Russia has warned that it will react robustly to Western moves to seize its assets or deploy missiles.
Moscow could sever diplomatic relations with the United States should it confiscate Russian assets frozen under sanctions, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Friday. Officials also said the Kremlin would respond to the deployment of missiles in Europe or Asia, even as Ukraine reported that Russia had unleashed another barrage of attack by drones overnight.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said at least three people were killed and five injured after Russia bombed two coal mines in Toretsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. Some 32 miners who were underground at the time of the attack were brought safely to the surface, he added. The attack also damaged administrative buildings and equipment.
Regional Governor Serhiy Lysak said two women were killed and an 86-year-old man injured in Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, which lies on the Dnipro river. Russian artillery fire also killed another woman in the village of Tyagynka in the Kherson region, officials said. Ukraine’s air force said air defences shot down 34 out of 35 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched in a major Russian attack on 12 Ukrainian regions. The drones were launched in several waves during the night. There were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties.
In its regular update from the front, the General Staff of the Ukrainian military said Ukrainian forces repelled at least 30 Russian attacks near Avdiivka and a further 11 around nearby Maryinka – two of the hottest points on the front line in eastern Ukraine – with a further seven outside Bakhmut.
Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat said Russia had launched about 7,400 missiles and 3,700 Shahed attack drones on the country since it began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ihnat said air defences were able to shoot down 1,600 of the missiles and 2,900 of the drones. Fewer of the missiles were destroyed due to Russia’s use of supersonic ballistic missiles and because Patriot air defence systems from Western allies did not arrive until April this year, he added.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said he accepted an invitation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy to hold a bilateral meeting in the future. Orban said Zelenskyy requested discussions on Ukraine’s ambitions to join the European Union. Orban did not give a date for the meeting, which would be their first since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The EU paid the final tranche of a multibillion-euro support package to Ukraine to help keep its war-ravaged economy afloat. The EU has sent 1.5 billion euros ($1.6bn) each month this year to ensure macroeconomic stability and rebuild critical infrastructure destroyed in the war. The money has also helped pay wages and pensions, keep hospitals and schools running, and provide shelter for people forced from their homes. Future financial support is unclear because Hungary is blocking a new $54bn aid plan.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reacted angrily to a German proposal to seize frozen assets worth more than 720 million euros ($790m) from the Frankfurt bank account of a Russian financial institution. Asked about the plan at a press conference in Tunisia, Lavrov lashed out at German leaders as a “thieving lot”.
A Russian court jailed two men, one of them Ukrainian, for financing an alleged ultranationalist group in Ukraine by selling illegal drugs. The two men were given jailed terms of 16 and 17 years after being found guilty of “financing extremist activities”.
The chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, said Moscow had established “comprehensive” defence cooperation with North Korea but did not go into detail. The United States and South Korea have said Pyongyang could be sending weapons to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine in exchange for Russian technological know-how. Russia has denied the allegation. North Korea is supplying munitions to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine in return for satellite technology, South Korea has said.
Pyongyang has supplied Moscow with more than one million artillery shells since early August, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) reported on Wednesday. In return, Russia is assumed to be providing technology and know-how to North Korea, which is making a third effort to launch a satellite following two failures.
Moscow could sever diplomatic relations with the United States should it confiscate Russian assets frozen under sanctions, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Friday. Officials also said the Kremlin would respond to the deployment of missiles in Europe or Asia, even as Ukraine reported that Russia had unleashed another barrage of attack by drones overnight.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said at least three people were killed and five injured after Russia bombed two coal mines in Toretsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. Some 32 miners who were underground at the time of the attack were brought safely to the surface, he added. The attack also damaged administrative buildings and equipment.
Regional Governor Serhiy Lysak said two women were killed and an 86-year-old man injured in Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, which lies on the Dnipro river. Russian artillery fire also killed another woman in the village of Tyagynka in the Kherson region, officials said. Ukraine’s air force said air defences shot down 34 out of 35 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched in a major Russian attack on 12 Ukrainian regions. The drones were launched in several waves during the night. There were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties.
In its regular update from the front, the General Staff of the Ukrainian military said Ukrainian forces repelled at least 30 Russian attacks near Avdiivka and a further 11 around nearby Maryinka – two of the hottest points on the front line in eastern Ukraine – with a further seven outside Bakhmut.
Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat said Russia had launched about 7,400 missiles and 3,700 Shahed attack drones on the country since it began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ihnat said air defences were able to shoot down 1,600 of the missiles and 2,900 of the drones. Fewer of the missiles were destroyed due to Russia’s use of supersonic ballistic missiles and because Patriot air defence systems from Western allies did not arrive until April this year, he added.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said he accepted an invitation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy to hold a bilateral meeting in the future. Orban said Zelenskyy requested discussions on Ukraine’s ambitions to join the European Union. Orban did not give a date for the meeting, which would be their first since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The EU paid the final tranche of a multibillion-euro support package to Ukraine to help keep its war-ravaged economy afloat. The EU has sent 1.5 billion euros ($1.6bn) each month this year to ensure macroeconomic stability and rebuild critical infrastructure destroyed in the war. The money has also helped pay wages and pensions, keep hospitals and schools running, and provide shelter for people forced from their homes. Future financial support is unclear because Hungary is blocking a new $54bn aid plan.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reacted angrily to a German proposal to seize frozen assets worth more than 720 million euros ($790m) from the Frankfurt bank account of a Russian financial institution. Asked about the plan at a press conference in Tunisia, Lavrov lashed out at German leaders as a “thieving lot”.
A Russian court jailed two men, one of them Ukrainian, for financing an alleged ultranationalist group in Ukraine by selling illegal drugs. The two men were given jailed terms of 16 and 17 years after being found guilty of “financing extremist activities”.
The chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, said Moscow had established “comprehensive” defence cooperation with North Korea but did not go into detail. The United States and South Korea have said Pyongyang could be sending weapons to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine in exchange for Russian technological know-how. Russia has denied the allegation. North Korea is supplying munitions to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine in return for satellite technology, South Korea has said.
Pyongyang has supplied Moscow with more than one million artillery shells since early August, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) reported on Wednesday. In return, Russia is assumed to be providing technology and know-how to North Korea, which is making a third effort to launch a satellite following two failures.
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Israel has neither halted nor reduced the momentum of his attacks even after Security Consul' resolution. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says war will not stop and he is ready to encourage Palestinians in Gaza to leave the enclave, according to Israeli media outlets. Hamas has condemned the statement. Israeli bombing kills Palestinians overnight in Khan Younis, Bureij, Juhor ad-Dik and Nuseirat, according to the Palestinian state news agency Wafa. Palestinian Red Crescent Society tells Al Jazeera that its crews face violations by Israeli forces on a daily basis in Gaza, adding that aid entering the enclave is not enough to meet the needs of civilians. More than 20,674 people have been killed and 54,536 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7. The revised death toll from Hamas’s attack on Israel stands at 1,139.
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Ukraine claims to have destroyed Russian ship in Crimea attack. One person reported killed in attack that targeted the Novocherkassk, which Ukraine said was being used to transport Russian drones.
The Russian Navy landing ship Novocherkassk, pictured before the war in Ukraine [File: Sedat Suna/EPA]
On 26 Dec 202326 Dec 2023. Ukraine’s air force has said it attacked a Russian navy ship at a base in Crimea now controlled by Russia. which Kyiv claimed was carrying drones for use in Moscow’s war.
The Novocherkassk, a large landing ship, was “destroyed” in its air attack, Ukraine’s air force said on the Telegram messaging platform on Tuesday. Russia’s Ministry of Defence and officials confirmed the overnight Ukrainian attack, according to the Interfax news agency. The ministry said the ship was “damaged” after Ukraine used guided missiles launched by aircraft against the vessel in the Crimean port city of Feodosia.
One person was killed and two injured in the attack, the Moscow-installed governor of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, said on Telegram, adding that six buildings had been damaged and their residents evacuated.
The Ukrainian Air Force said: “People say that it [the Novocherkassk] transported Shaheds”, referring to Irnian explosive drones that Russia has used regularly to attack Ukraine. Ukrainian commander Mykola .
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Ukraine War continues for 2024
In the year 2023 Ukrainian troops planned a counteroffensive against Russia but ended with disappointment on the battlefield. There was a short-lived rebellion in Russia, a dam collapse in Ukraine, and the spilling of much blood on both sides of the conflict. Twenty-two months since Russia invaded Ukraine, it has about one-fifth of Ukraine in its grip, and the roughly 1,000km (620-mile) front line has barely budged this year. Western countries that championed Ukraine’s struggle against Russia, political deliberations over billions in financial aid are increasingly strained.
Two years into a war has proved to be costly for Kyiv and Kremlin. Pit expected tthe West’s support to gradually crumble, fractured by political divisions, eroded by war fatigue and distracted by other demands, such as China’s menacing of Taiwan and Israel’s war on Gaza. Western sanctions are biting but not crippling the Russian economy. Russian forces are still dictating much of what happens on the battlefield, where its defensive lines feature minefields up to 20km deep that have largely held back Ukraine’s months-long counteroffensive. The counteroffensive was launched before Ukraine’s forces were fully ready, a hurried political attempt to demonstrate that Western aid could alter the course of the war,
but the expectations for the counteroffensive were unrealistic as It turned out to be a failure.
Putin got a victory he desperately wanted in May in the fight for the bombed-out city of Bakhmut, the longest and bloodiest battle of the war. It was a trophy to show Russians after his army’s winter offensive failed to take other Ukrainian cities and towns along the front line.
A mutiny in June by the Wagner mercenary group was the biggest challenge to Putin’s authority in his more than two decades in power. But it backfired. Putin defused the revolt and kept the allegiance of his armed forces, reasserting his hold on the Kremlin.
Wagner chief and mutiny leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a mysterious plane crash. And any public dissent about the war was quickly and heavy-handedly stamped out by Russian authorities.The West prompted International Criminal Court in March issued an arrest warrant for Putin on war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. That made it impossible for him to travel to many countries. Ukraine has so far clawed back about half the land that the Kremlin’s forces occupied in their full-scale invasion in February 2022, according to the United States, but it is going to be hard to win back more. War continues as far as the West and USA support Ukraine.
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Cities and infrastructure across the country are hit with Russian drones and missiles, killing 16 people and injuring dozens. Russia has unleashed a huge air assault against Ukraine, illustrating Kyiv’s desperate need for additional defence capabilities. A wave of Russian strikes, using drones and several types of missiles, battered Ukrainian cities on Friday in one of the largest and fiercest bombardments in recent months. With civilian areas across the country hit, Ukrainian officials said the broadside shows the need for increased support from its international partners, which it is struggling to secure.
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Russia said at least 21 people, including three children, were killed and dozens more injured after an attack by Kyiv. Moscow blamed on Kyiv hit a residential area of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine.
Ukraine said at least 21 people were injured after Russia fired two S-300 surface-to-surface missiles at the northeastern town of Kharkiv, hours after the Belgorod attack. The Kharkiv regional chief prosecutor said the missiles came from the direction of Belgorod, about 30km (19 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Russia said at least 21 people were killed in the attack on Belgorod, which lies about 30km (18 miles) from the border [Russia Emergency Situations Ministry Telegram channel via AP]
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that 10 Iranian-made Shahed drones had been shot down across Ukraine’s Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, and Mykolaiv regions. Kyiv’s military administration said air defence systems in the region surrounding the capital repelled a new Russian bombardment late on Saturday night. The Polish Army said it ended a ground search after finding no parts of a suspected Russian rocket that it said had violated the country’s airspace on Friday morning. Poland earlier summoned the Russian charge d’affaires and demanded an explanation for the breach of its airspace.
Russia drew sharp criticism at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for its huge air assault on Ukraine on Friday that damaged a maternity hospital, apartment blocks and schools and killed at least 41 people. Kyiv and its allies called for an urgent meeting of the 15-member body to address the strikes. Russia also called for the UNSC to convene on Saturday following the Belgorod attack, which it described as “a terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime against a civilian city”.
United States President Joe Biden said Russia’s missile attack was a “stark reminder” that Russian President Vladimir Putin remained committed to destroying Ukraine and that “he must be stopped”. Biden urged Congress to “step up” and back continued funding for Ukraine amid opposition from right-wing Republicans.
The mother of Ukrainian army officer Vasyl Medviychuk cries during her son’s funeral ceremony [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the country had exported about 13 million tonnes of cargo on some 400 ships since establishing a protected maritime corridor in August, after Moscow abandoned the Black Sea grain deal brokered by the UN and Turkey that had previously allowed safe passage for Ukraine’s exports.
An overnight barrage of Russian missiles and drones ripped across Ukraine, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Officials said the hours-long bombardment involved 122 missiles and dozens of drones. Ukraine’s Air Force commander called it ‘the most massive aerial attack’ since Russia first invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukraine said at least 21 people were injured after Russia fired two S-300 surface-to-surface missiles at the northeastern town of Kharkiv, hours after the Belgorod attack. The Kharkiv regional chief prosecutor said the missiles came from the direction of Belgorod, about 30km (19 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that 10 Iranian-made Shahed drones had been shot down across Ukraine’s Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, and Mykolaiv regions. Kyiv’s military administration said air defence systems in the region surrounding the capital repelled a new Russian bombardment late on Saturday night. The Polish Army said it ended a ground search after finding no parts of a suspected Russian rocket that it said had violated the country’s airspace on Friday morning. Poland earlier summoned the Russian charge d’affaires and demanded an explanation for the breach of its airspace.
Russia drew sharp criticism at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for its huge air assault on Ukraine on Friday that damaged a maternity hospital, apartment blocks and schools and killed at least 41 people. Kyiv and its allies called for an urgent meeting of the 15-member body to address the strikes. Russia also called for the UNSC to convene on Saturday following the Belgorod attack, which it described as “a terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime against a civilian city”.
United States President Joe Biden said Russia’s missile attack was a “stark reminder” that Russian President Vladimir Putin remained committed to destroying Ukraine and that “he must be stopped”. Biden urged Congress to “step up” and back continued funding for Ukraine amid opposition from right-wing Republicans.
Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the country had exported about 13 million tonnes of cargo on some 400 ships since establishing a protected maritime corridor in August, after Moscow abandoned the Black Sea grain deal brokered by the UN and Turkey that had previously allowed safe passage for Ukraine’s exports.
An overnight barrage of Russian missiles and drones ripped across Ukraine, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Officials said the hours-long bombardment involved 122 missiles and dozens of drones. Ukraine’s Air Force commander called it ‘the most massive aerial attack’ since Russia first invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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Russia says it has targeted Ukrainian military sites in the capital Kyiv and Kharkiv in a new wave of drone and missile attacks in days, in retaliation for a deadly attack a day earlier on the city of Belgorod. The Russian defence ministry said on Sunday it had struck “decision-making centres and military installations” in the northeastern city of Kharkhiv, after Kyiv said that residential buildings, a hotel and cafes had been hit.
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