Russian forces blocked another cross-border incursion allegedly by Ukraine into south-western Russia, a local official claimed.
An “armed group” attempted to breach the border between Ukraine and Russia’s Bryansk region yesterday but was beaten back, local governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said. The Russian local official did not specify whether Ukrainian soldiers carried out the attack.
Bryansk region neighbours Kursk province, where Ukraine launched a surprise push on 6 August that rattled the Kremlin and constituted the largest attack on Russia since the second World War.
The region has been previously attacked by two murky groups – the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion.
This comes as president Vladimir Putin said Russia would use “a range of responses” if the US and its Nato allies allowed Ukraine to strike inside his country with Western long-range weapons.
On the frontline, Russia lost nearly 200 soldiers, with 80 confirmed fatalities in Ukraine’s east, in the past 24 hours where a fierce battle is underway, military officials said.
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Russian troops thwart another attempted Kursk-like incursion, official says
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Russia loses nearly 200 soldiers in past 24 hours, Ukraine says
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‘Ukraine plus Northern Europe’ co-operation format gaining speed, says Zelensky
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South Korea to brief Nato on North Korean troops in Russia
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Putin says Russia will respond if Ukraine permitted to strike with long-range weapons
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Estonian security chief says Russia suffering biggest losses over October
Russia says it destroys 21 Ukrainian drones overnight
04:56 , Arpan Rai
Russia’s air defence units destroyed 21 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s defence ministry said this morning.
Of these, 13 drones were destroyed over the border Belgorod region, six over the Bryansk region, also bordering Ukraine, while the remaining two were destroyed over the Voronezh and Kursk regions each, the ministry said.
ICYMI: Vladimir Putin denies having any contact with Donald Trump
04:32 , Barney Davis
Vladimir Putin has denied having any contact with former US president Donald Trump.
Speaking after the BRICS summit in Kazan on Thursday (24 October), the Russian president said: “This is something that has been constantly discussed for more than one year.
“At one time, we were accused of this, and Trump himself of being somehow connected with Russia. Then, as a result of an investigation in the United States itself, everyone came to the conclusion, including in the Congress, as far as I know, that this was complete nonsense, that nothing like this had ever happened.
“It didn’t happen before, and it doesn’t happen now.”
Vladimir Putin denies having any contact with Donald Trump
‘Ukraine plus Northern Europe’ co-operation format gaining speed, says Zelensky
04:06 , Arpan Rai
Volodymyr Zelensky said cooperation within the ‘Ukraine plus Northern Europe’ format is gaining speed with more steps that can increase pressure on Russia expected in the coming week.
“They understand that it is necessary to create problems for the aggressor, so that Russia loses the opportunity to spoil the life of the world,” Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address last night.
“We will talk (in the coming week) with the ‘Nordics’ about new fundamental steps that can increase the pressure on Russia for this war and for the sake of honest diplomacy,” he said.
The five Nordic countries – Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland – are all now Nato countries and have all been staunch supporters of Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion.
Russia loses nearly 200 soldiers in past 24 hours, Ukraine says
03:48 , Arpan Rai
Russia lost nearly 200 soldiers, with 80 confirmed fatalities in Ukraine’s east where a fierce battle is underway, officials said.
Russian forces made 27 attempts to breach Ukrainian defences on the Pokrovsk front near Myroliubivka, Promin, Krutyi Yar, Vyshneve and Selydove but were met with strong resistance, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said.
Around 189 Russian soldiers on this front have been killed or injured, adding to Russia’s losses, the military officials said in a late night update.
In the past 24 hours, 142 combat clashes took place on the frontline and the most intense fighting was reported from Pokrovsk and Kurakhove fronts, with additional activity of Russian troops on the Kupiansk, Lyman and Vremivka fronts, the military officials said.
Russian troops thwart another attempted Kursk-like incursion, official says
03:30 , Arpan Rai
Russian forces blocked another cross-border incursion by Ukrainian troops into south-western Russia, a local official claimed.
An “armed group” attempted to breach the border between Ukraine and Russia’s Bryansk region yesterday but was beaten back, local governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said.
The Russian local official did not specify whether Ukrainian soldiers carried out the attack but claimed the situation was “stable and under control” by Russia’s forces in the evening.
Responsibility for previous incursions into Russia’s Belgorod and Bryansk regions has been claimed by two murky groups: the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion.
Bryansk region neighbours Kursk province, where Ukraine launched a surprise push on 6 August that rattled the Kremlin and constituted the largest attack on Russia since the second World War.
South Korea to brief Nato on North Korean troops for Russia
03:10 , Arpan Rai
A high-level delegation from South Korea will brief the North Atlantic Council about North Korea’s troop deployment to Russia today, Nato has said, after the US expressed grave concern over the possible use of the troops against Ukraine.
“Ambassadors from Nato’s Indo-Pacific partners – including Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea – have been invited to attend,” the military alliance added. The North Atlantic Council is Nato’s main decision-making body.
Ukrainian military intelligence said on Thursday that about 12,000 North Korean troops, including 500 officers and three generals, were already in Russia, and training was taking place on five military bases.
Speaking on the same day, Russian president Vladimir Putin did not deny that North Korean troops were in Russia. But he said it was Moscow’s business how to implement a treaty with Pyongyang that includes a mutual defence clause to aid each other against external aggression.
Several injured in Russian air attacks on Kharkiv
02:59 , Arpan Rai
Several people were injured overnight in Russia’s multi-wave air attacks on the Ukrainian northeastern Kharkiv region, Ukrainian military officials said early today.
Two people were hospitalised late yesterday after Russia hit the city of Kharkiv – the administrative centre of the wider Kharkiv region – with precision guided bombs and damaged several residential buildings, the city’s mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
There were more attacks on the city later in the night, Terekhov said, partially damaging several buildings.
At least four more people suffered various injuries in the Kharkiv region later in the night after Russia launched more attacks, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram.
In an attack on the city of Chuhuiv, a residential building was damaged, Syniehubov said. He added there were no injuries in that attack.
Trump explains how he would stop the war in Ukraine
02:30 , Barney Davis
Donald Trump told podcaster Joe Rogan he would be able to negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine if he was elected.
Asked how he would avoid the course of WW3, he said: “I know both very well. If I told you exactly what I would do I could never get the deal done.”“I believe as President-elect I would get that war stopped and stopped fast.
“We have tremendous power in the US. I stopped other wars just by using tariffs.”
Everything we know about Kim Jong-un’s army joining Russian invasion
01:01 , Barney Davis
The US has joined Ukraine and South Korea in confirming reports of North Korea dispatching troops, estimated to be in the thousands, to aid Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Are North Koreans soldiers fighting in Ukraine war? Here’s what we know
Mapped: Where has Russia made advances on the frontline in Ukraine?
Sunday 27 October 2024 23:00 , Barney Davis
Russian forces are making swift and “significant tactical advances” into the eastern Ukrainian city of Selydove, war monitors have said.
Open source data suggests Russian forces advanced in September at their fastest rate since March 2022, despite Ukraine taking a part of Russia’s Kursk region.
Tom Watling reports:
Mapped: Where has Russia made advances on the frontline in Ukraine?
Sunday 27 October 2024 21:45 , Barney Davis
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff said that a full withdrawal of Russian troops, and not just peace talks, were essential to ending his country’s more than 2-1/2-year-old war against Moscow.
The chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, was addressing an international meeting devoted to implementing a peace plan, one of several gatherings staged as a follow-up to last June’s world “peace summit” hosted by Switzerland.
“Don’t expect this war to end when the warring sides begin to talk to each other,” Yermak told the gathering, according to the president’s website.
“Don’t be deceived. This war will end when the last soldier of the occupying army returns home.”
583 Ukrainian children killed so far in war
Sunday 27 October 2024 20:05 , Barney Davis
583 children were killed, two of them within the past day, reported the Prosecutor General’s Office on Telegram.
One child was killed in Kyiv and one in Dnipro in overnight airstrikes.
“As of the morning of October 26, 2024, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 583 children were killed and more than 1,655 sustained injuries of varying severity.
“Children were most affected in the following regions: Donetsk region – 595, Kharkiv region – 454, Dnipropetrovsk region – 183, Kherson region – 181, Kyiv region – 133, Zaporizhzhia region – 145,” the report says.
In total, more than 2,238 children have been affected by the war.
Russian forces repel Ukrainian border attack in Bryansk
Sunday 27 October 2024 19:01 , Barney Davis
Russian forces thwarted an attempt at another cross-border incursion by Ukraine into southwestern Russia, a local official reported on Sunday.
It came months after Kyiv staged a bold assault on its nuclear-armed enemy that Moscow is still struggling to halt.
An “armed group” sought on Sunday to breach the border between Ukraine and Russia’s Bryansk region, its governor, Aleksandr Bogomaz, said but was beaten back.
Mr Bogomaz did not clarify whether Ukrainian soldiers carried out the alleged attack, but claimed on Sunday evening that the situation was “stable and under control” by the Russian military.
NATO meeting after US expresses grave concern over the possible use of the North Korean troops against Ukraine
Sunday 27 October 2024 17:50 , Barney Davis
A high-level delegation from South Korea will brief the North Atlantic Council about North Korea’s troop deployment to Russia on Monday, NATO said on Sunday.
“Ambassadors from NATO’s Indo-Pacific partners including Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea Ãhave been invited to attend,” the military alliance added. The North Atlantic Council is NATO’s main decision-making body.
Ukrainian military intelligence said on Thursday that about 12,000 North Korean troops, including 500 officers and three generals, were already in Russia, and training was taking place on five military bases.
Speaking on the same day, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not deny that North Korean troops were in Russia. But he said it was Moscow’s business how to implement a treaty with Pyongyang that includes a mutual defence clause to aid each other against external aggression.
Intense firefighting with 84 encounters between Ukraine and Russia reported so far today
Sunday 27 October 2024 16:50 , Barney Davis
Ukrainian forces have reported a “tense frontline” as Russian forces try to break through their defence with as many as 84 battles being fought on Sunday.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posting to Facebook, said: “The situation on the frontline remains tense.
“The enemy, despite the significant losses inflicted to him by our defenders, continues to try to break through the defence of Ukrainian troops.”
They added: “The enemy made aviation strikes in the areas of Stepnogo, Bilovodiv, Basivka and Junakivka, which are in Sumy region, dropping a total of 12 aviation bombs.
“The enemy struck and on his territory, according to the available information, for today the Russians have carried out 15 air strikes on the Kursk region – using 18 air bombs.
“Today in the Kharkiv direction Russian occupiers twice stormed the defensive borders of the Ukrainian army in the Vovchansk district, our defenders repelled the attacks of the Russians.”
Two killed in Kherson region drone and artillery strikes
Sunday 27 October 2024 15:30 , Barney Davis
Two civilians were killed in Russian attacks on Sunday in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, which is split by the front line and regularly hit by Russian artillery, drones and missiles, the regional governor said.
An elderly man was killed after explosives were dropped on him from a drone and another man was killed by artillery fire, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on the Telegram messenger.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday Russia had used more than 1,100 guided aerial bombs, 560 attack drones and about 20 missiles over the past week against Ukraine.
“Russia does not stop in its terror against Ukraine. Daily aggression against our people, our towns and villages. Strikes with various types of weapons,” Zelenskiy, who urged Kyiv’s allies on Saturday to intensify pressure on Moscow, said on Telegram.
Power outages reported after Russian strikes
Sunday 27 October 2024 12:57 , Barney Davis
People living in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv and Khmelnytskyi have faced power outages over the past 24 hours after intense Russian bombardments.
Ukraine’s Energy Ministry reported that a substation in Khmelnytskyi had been shut down during an air raid, resulting in a blackout for residents and industry.
Another Russian attack on a substation in Dnipropetrovsk resulted in equipment being switched off, causing a power outage for household consumers and a water utility.
The power supply has since been restored.
Overhead lines went out of service in Donetsk after fighting cut power to a substation.
Substations, household consumers, energy facilities and local industry were cut off from the power grid during a Russian drone attack on Sumy Oblast. The power supply has been restored.
76-year-old woman injured in village airstrike
Sunday 27 October 2024 11:57 , Barney Davis
The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office has revealed the damage of strikes on a Ukrainian village.
“The investigation revealed that on October 26 at approximately 9pm, Russian troops conducted an air strike on the village of Malynivka in the Chuhuiv district.
“The storage facilities of the farm sustained damage.
“There were no casualties.
“Additionally, yesterday at approximately 10pm the Russian military shelled the village of Kruhliakivka in the Kupiansk district with artillery. A 76-year-old woman was injured, and residential buildings were damaged,” the statement says.
Russia puts down wave of Ukrainian counterattacks in Kursk
Sunday 27 October 2024 10:57 , Barney Davis
Russian troops repelled eight new counterattacks by Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region, the Interfax news agency cited Russia’s defence ministry as saying on Sunday.
News agency Reuters could not immediately verify the battlefield reports.
Russian artillery kills two, injures 14 in overnight strikes
Sunday 27 October 2024 10:38 , Barney Davis
Russia shelled eight towns and villages in Donetsk leaving two people killed, nine civilians and four police officers injured.
The National Police of Ukraine reported that the towns Kostiantynivka, Kurakhove, Mykolaivka, and Toretsk, as well as the villages of Kostiantynopil, Markove, Rozdolne, and Sontsivka were damaged, including 22 residential buildings.
“The Russian military dropped two FAB-250 bombs equipped with a guidance module on Kostiantynivka, killing one person and injuring three civilians.
In Mykolaivka, another civilian was killed with damage caused to a civilian car, a motorcycle, and a power line.
Kostiantynopil was hit by shelling from a Tornado-S multiple rocket launcher injuring two residents and causing damage to three civilian homes and a car.
Russia claims victory over Donetsk village
Sunday 27 October 2024 09:38 , Barney Davis
Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had taken control of the village of Izmailivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Russian state news agency RIA reported on Sunday.
News agency Reuters could not immediately verify the battlefield reports.
Russia launches drone attack on Kyiv for second night, Ukraine says
Sunday 27 October 2024 07:15 , Namita Singh
Russia launched a multi-wave drone attack on Kyiv for the second straight night, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital said this morning.
“It seems that now every night, without long breaks, the Russian armed forces attack the peaceful city of Kyiv,” Serhiy Popko, head of the military administration said on Telegram messaging app.
“Last night, the enemy made another attack on the capital.”
He added that Russia launched around 10 drones in several waves, from different directions and at different heights, but Ukrainian air defence units destroyed all of the weapons on their approach to the city.
No injuries or major damage were reported, Mr Popko added. He said that the Air Force will release data on the full-scale of the overnight attack on Ukraine later on Sunday.
Reuters could not independently verify the report. There was no immediate comment from Russia on the overnight attack on Kyiv.
Putin says Russia will respond if Ukraine permitted to strike with long-range weapons
Sunday 27 October 2024 06:57 , Namita Singh
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin said Moscow will use “a range of responses” if the US and its Nato allies allow Ukraine to use Western long-range weapons to strike inside Russia, according to remarks published on Sunday.
The Russian defence ministry “is thinking about how to respond to the possible long-range strikes on Russian territory, it will offer a range of responses”, Putin told state TV reporter Pavel Zarubin in video remarks published on Zarubin’s Telegram messaging account.
Russia says it downs at 51 Ukrainian drones overnight
Sunday 27 October 2024 06:01 , Namita Singh
Russia’s air defence units destroyed or intercepted 51 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian defence ministry said early this morning.
Eighteen of the drones were intercepted over the Tambov region, some 450km southeast of Moscow, the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app.
Another 16 were destroyed over the Belgorod border region and the rest over the Voronezh, Oryol and Kursk regions in Russia’s south.
One woman was moderately injured as a result of the drone attack on Belgorod, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Telegram. He added that a few cars were also damaged.
Tambov governor Maxim Yegorov said a Ukrainian drone fell onto the Michurinsky district, sparking a short-lived fire but causing no injuries or material damage.
The Russian defence ministry reports only how many drones its units destroy, not how many Ukraine launches. Russian officials also rarely disclose the full scale of damage inflicted by the attacks, especially when they involve military or energy infrastructure.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Ukrainian official says full Russian withdrawal needed to establish peace
Sunday 27 October 2024 05:45 , Barney Davis
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff yesterday said that a full withdrawal of Russian troops, and not just peace talks, were essential to ending the war.
The chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, was addressing an international meeting devoted to implementing a peace plan, one of several gatherings staged as a follow-up to last June’s world “peace summit” hosted by Switzerland.
“Don’t expect this war to end when the warring sides begin to talk to each other,” Mr Yermak told the gathering, according to the president’s website.
“Don’t be deceived. This war will end when the last soldier of the occupying army returns home.”
The gathering was attended in person in Kyiv and online by representatives of 56 countries and organisations.
Mr Yermak told the meeting that concerted international pressure on Russia should set a precedent.
“This will prove to the entire world that the pursuit of international conquests in the 21st century is immoral and senseless. Whatever has been seized will have to be returned to the rightful owners,” he was quoted as saying.
The international community, he said, had to prove stronger than any aggressor, “however strong that aggressor might be”.
Russian attacks prompts Ukraine’s Zelensky to ask allies for more resolve
Sunday 27 October 2024 05:18 , Namita Singh
A string of Russian attacks killed and injured civilians in widely separated parts of Ukraine, prompting president Volodymyr Zelensky to issue a new call to Kyiv’s allies yesterday to intensify pressure on Moscow.
Rescue teams in the central city of Dnipro completed operations on Friday after Russian missile attacks that killed five people, including a child, and injured more than 20.
A Russian glide bomb killed one person and injured three yesterday in Kostiantynivka, near the front line in Donetsk region, the regional governor said.Russian shelling killed two people in a small town west of the Ukrainian-held southern city of Kherson.
And in Kyiv, a drone struck a high-rise apartment building on Friday west of the city centre, killing a teenage girl.
Mr Zelensky, in his nightly video address, said the assaults showed Russia was “determined to continue its aggression”.
“These are conditions in which the lack of stronger decisions from partners to support Ukraine only encourages (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to invest further in terror,” Mr Zelensky said.
“The world can stop the escalation of war. Abstractions and words are not enough for this. Concrete steps are needed.”
Russia launches drone attack targeting Ukraine’s Kyiv, mayor says
Sunday 27 October 2024 04:15 , Namita Singh
Ukraine’s air defence units were in operation early this morning trying to repel a wave of Russian drones headings towards Kyiv, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital said.
“Stay in shelters,” Vitali Klitschko, the mayor, said on the Telegram messaging app.
Mapped: Where has Russia made advances on the frontline in Ukraine?
Sunday 27 October 2024 04:01 , Barney Davis
Mapped: Where has Russia made advances on the frontline in Ukraine?
Russian forces advance towards Ukraine’s strategic Pokrovsk, military bloggers say
Sunday 27 October 2024 03:45 , Namita Singh
Russian forces have advanced further into several eastern Ukrainian towns, bringing them closer to capturing the strategic city of Pokrovsk, Russian and Ukrainian bloggers said.
“The enemy advanced in Selydove,” DeepState, a group with close links to the Ukrainian army that analyses combat footage, wrote on the Telegram messaging app late yesterday. It posted a map indicating Russian troops in the town’s southeast.
Russian forces have been storming the coal mining town of Selydove in Ukraine’s Donetsk region for the past week. Capturing it would pave the way for a Russian advance on the logistical hub of Pokrovsk 20km (12 miles) northwest.
The Russian news outlet Shot said on Telegram that Moscow’s troops control 80 per cent of Selydove.
The Russian-installed head of Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, said Russian forces had hoisted their unit’s flag on the roof of one of the buildings in the town of Hirnyk, some 14km south of Selydove, Russia’s state news agency RIA reported.
Russian military bloggers also reported that Russian forces were close to taking over the town of Kurakhove, just southwest of Hirnyk.Reuters could not independently verify the reports. Ukraine has not commented on them.
G7 leaders agree to deliver $50bn in loans to Ukraine as soon as December
Sunday 27 October 2024 03:45 , Barney Davis
Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies yesterday reached consensus on delivery of some $50bn in loans to Ukraine backed by the earnings from frozen Russian sovereign assets starting as early as December.
“These loans will be serviced and repaid by future flows of extraordinary revenues stemming from the immobilization of Russian Sovereign Assets,” the G7 statement said.
“Our aim is to begin disbursing the funds by the end of the year,” said the statement, which was released as global finance chiefs were meeting in Washington for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings.
An accompanying statement from G7 finance ministers said that the loans would be disbursed through a series of bilateral loans, starting as soon as 1 December and continuing through the end of 2027 “in installments that will reflect Ukraine’s urgent financing needs.”
Each bilateral loan would enter into force no later than 30 June 2025, which provides some timing flexibility for G7 members to arrange details.
Russia says it downed at least 30 Ukrainian drones overnight
Sunday 27 October 2024 03:30 , Namita Singh
Russia’s air defence destroyed at least 30 Ukrainian drones overnight, the defence ministry said early this morning.
The drones were destroyed over Russia’s southern regions of Voronezh, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk and Belgorod, the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app.
One woman was moderately injured as a result of the drone attack in the border region of Belgorod, the region’s governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. He added that a few cars were also damaged.
Maxim Yegorov, governor of the Tambov region, some 450km southeast of Moscow, said a Ukrainian drone fell in the Michurinsky district of the region, sparking a short-lived fire but causing no injuries or material damage.
The Russian defence ministry reports only how many drones its units destroy, not how many Ukraine launches. Russian officials also rarely disclose the full scale of damage inflicted by the attacks, especially when they involve military or energy infrastructure.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine. Kyiv has often said that its attacks inside Russia target infrastructure key to Russian war efforts and are in response to Moscow’s continued strikes on Ukrainian territory.
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Sunday 27 October 2024 03:01 , Barney Davis
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North Korea doesn’t send enough troops to make difference on battlefield – experts
Sunday 27 October 2024 01:59 , Barney Davis
The US has joined Ukraine and South Korea in confirming reports of North Korea dispatching troops, estimated to be in the thousands, to aid Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
“We are no longer in a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but between Russia, North Korea and Ukraine,” said Marie Dumoulin of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
But analysts said it was unclear how North Korean troops will be used adding the North Korean forces do not have combat experience.
“I don’t think that sending a few thousand North Korean troops, whose level of training we don’t know, will make much difference on the battlefield in operational terms,” said Dumoulin.
“In any case, 10,000 soldiers is not that many,” added Isabelle Facon from the France-based Foundation of Strategic Research.
Kremlin denies WSJ report of Elon Musk’s contacts with Putin
Sunday 27 October 2024 01:02 , Barney Davis
The Kremlin has denied a Wall Street Journal report about regular contacts between Elon Musk and President Vladimir Putin.
“No, this is not true,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Peskov said that Putin had one contact with Musk – the world’s richest man – and it was before 2022.
The Journal said Musk had been in regular contact with Putin since late 2022. Peskov said the report was absolutely false.
‘Unknown gunmen kill one in ambush on Russian military convoy’
Saturday 26 October 2024 21:01 , Barney Davis
One Russian soldier was killed after a planned ambush on a convoy, according to Russian state media.
“Unknown people attacked a military convoy in the Grozny suburbs,” reported Russia’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
“One serviceman was killed and a second was wounded. Measures are being taken to find and detain the attackers,” the statement added.
A local resident described the attack as being “rapid and well-coordinated” with the attackers fleeing shortly after.
The witness was unable to describe the gunmen but indicated that there was more than one attacker.
Putin sidesteps question on North Korean soldiers training in Russia
Saturday 26 October 2024 20:05 , Barney Davis
Vladimir Putin did not deny reports that North Korea sent troops to Russia to join the Russian president’s war in Ukraine but instead pointed to his country’s recent military treaty with Pyongyang which deals with mutual defence.
Mr Putin was asked by a reporter about satellite imagery apparently showing North Korean troops operating in Russia at a news conference on Thursday during the end of the Brics summit in the Russian city of Kazan.
“Images are a serious matter. If images exist, they indicate something,” Mr Putin said. He went on to attack the US for “escalating tensions in Ukraine” and denounced “direct involvement of Nato troops” in the conflict.
Putin sidesteps question on North Korean soldiers training in Russia
Two killed in artillery shelling of Kherson
Saturday 26 October 2024 19:01 , Barney Davis
The head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported that two people were killed in an artillery barrage on Stanislav.
“Unfortunately, today the Russian army took the lives of two more people in the Kherson region. Around two o’clock in the afternoon, the enemy fired on Stanislav with artillery.
“Two men were fatally wounded. Both died at the scene. I express my sincere condolences to the families of the victims,” he said.
The Kherson Regional Military Administration added: “A man, 49, sustained blast trauma and concussion. The victim was outside at the time of the strike. He refused to be hospitalized, so medics treated him at the scene.”
Body recovered from rubble in Radkove village shelling
Saturday 26 October 2024 18:00 , Barney Davis
Kharviv authorities have revealed the body of a man was found in a house in Radkove in the Chuhuiv district,
“Rescuers recovered the body of a dead 65-year-old man from the rubble of a private house in the village of Radkove, Chuhuiv district,” a post from Kharkiv Regional Military Administration read.
Another local resident suffered an acute stress reaction.
Russian forces struck three settlements on 26 October, damaging residential buildings.
Death toll rises to five after Dnipro strike
Saturday 26 October 2024 17:01 , Barney Davis
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Lysak, said the death toll after Russian strikes on the region has risen to five.
“Rescuers have recovered the body of a man from the rubble,” he wrote.
It came after a Russian missile hit a residential area in the central city of Dnipro, killing a 14-year-old and four others with at least 21 others injured including an eight-year-old and teenagers.
The wife and teenage daughter of a local policeman were pulled dead from the rubble, police reported.
The attack damaged more than a dozen apartment buildings, private houses and a medical facility.
Policeman’s wife and daughter killed in Dnipro strike
Saturday 26 October 2024 16:01 , Barney Davis
A Russian missile hit a residential area in the central city of Dnipro, killing a 14-year-old and four others, said regional governor Serhii Lysak.
The wife and teenage daughter of a local policeman were pulled dead from the rubble, police reported.
The attack damaged more than a dozen apartment buildings, private houses and a medical facility.
A man and woman died after a Russian drone dropped explosives on a village in the southern Kherson region, local prosecutors said, while two people in their 60s were killed by shelling in the Kharkiv province in the north east.
Russian strikes kill one and destroy police car in Nikolaiv
Sunday 27 October 2024 13:48 , Barney Davis
An airstrike has killed a civilian and destroyed a police car after attacks in the Nikolaiv region.
FPV drones struck in the suburbs, reportedly struck on Sunday afternoon.
A 43-year-old resident was killed while riding a moped through the village, according to the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration.
FPV drones launched repeated strikes on police officers who arrived at the scene to investigate the attack.
The fire completely destroyed their car but the police officers were not hurt.
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