ONGOING ARMED CONFLICT Russia Declares Open War on Ukraine And Launches Missles on Major Cities

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Pre-deployment entertainment for newly mobilised soldiers at Yekaterinburg's military camp No32.

Big deal - she doesn't even take off her clothes!

 

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That's true still some guys clearly got excited.

 

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Surveillance video captures the explosion that rocked Crimean bridge today​

Surveillance video from cameras on the Kerch Strait bridge shows the moment a large explosion rocked the roadway, disabling the only bridge connecting annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports that top Russian officials have already blamed the attack on Ukraine, which has not formally taken credit for the blast — though government and military officials have posted several gloating messages online.

 

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A mass burial site after exhumation in Izum, Ukraine, on September 30.

 

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Surveillance video captures the explosion that rocked Crimean bridge today​

Surveillance video from cameras on the Kerch Strait bridge shows the moment a large explosion rocked the roadway, disabling the only bridge connecting annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland.

CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports that top Russian officials have already blamed the attack on Ukraine, which has not formally taken credit for the blast — though government and military officials have posted several gloating messages online.

Wish they had brought the whole thing down!

 

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Putin Strikes across Ukraine In Revenge for Crimea Bridge Bombing​

Horrifc day in Ukraine today with many dead and injured after Putin ordered missle attacks across the entire territory of Ukraine in revenge for the crimea bridege bombing a few days ago. The missle strikes resumed in the evening as well.

Above photo is from Dnipro, Ukraine, on the morning of October 10.

 

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Dashcam video shows moment of missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine​

 

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The number of people killed by Russian missile attacks across Ukraine on Monday has risen to 14, Ukraine's State Emergency Services said tonight.

97 people have also been injured, they say, while over 1,000 emergency workers are involved in rescue efforts.

The widespread attacks are being seen as a significant escalation on Russia's part.

 

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First aid to civilians injured in this morning's bombings in Kyiv.

 

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Good evening everyone.

The death toll from Saturday's explosion on the Crimea bridge has risen to four people, reports the Russian state agency Tass.

The bridge is the longest in Europe and is a symbol of Russia's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

 

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A major road bombed out in Ukraine's central-eastern city of Dnipro has been rebuilt overnight, local officials have said.

They have posted two pictures showing the Kalynova street just after a Russian missile strike on Monday and how it looks after major works on Tuesday.

"We worked all night with gritted teeth," Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov says.

"We will restore everything and rebuild everything. But our hatred will live for centuries," he adds.

 

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Russia Declares Meta a Terrorist Organization​

The Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service has added the US multinational tech company Meta to its registry of organizations involved in terrorism and extremism.

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram has been banned in Russia, says Rosfinmonitoring.

That ban now requires banks to freeze funds for companies on that list and suspend services to their accounts.

On March 21, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow recognized Meta as an extremist organization, claiming that Meta’s management allowed users from Ukraine to call for violence against the Russian military.

The court denied the appeal by the American company. The March court decision did not apply to the WhatsApp messenger, also owned by Meta, since it does not publicly disseminate information.

 

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Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan​

Elon Musk spoke directly to Vladimir Putin before tweeting his peace plan to end the war in Ukraine that would have seen territory permanently handed over to Russia, according to a report.

In a mailout sent to Eurasia Group subscribers, Ian Bremmer claimed Musk told him that the Russian president was “prepared to negotiate” if Crimea remained in Russian hands.

Putin also reportedly insisted to the Tesla chief executive that Ukraine would have to accept permanent neutrality and recognise Russia’s annexation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

According to Bremmer, Musk said Putin told him these goals would be reached “no matter what”, including the possible use of nuclear weapons if Ukraine invaded Crimea.

Bremmer wrote that Musk told him that “everything needed to be done to avoid that outcome”.

Following the alleged conversation with Putin, Musk posted a Twitter poll with his suggestions for ending the war in Ukraine.

Musk argued that to reach peace, Russia should be allowed to keep the Crimea Peninsula that it seized in 2014.

He also proposed holding votes in parts of Ukraine occupied by Russia that the Kremlin says it is annexing. “Russia leaves if that is will of the people,” he said.

 

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Strikes on Dnipro today killed four people and injured 19. Miraculously, no one travelling on this city bus at morning rush hour was killed.

 

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Elon Musk Denies he Spoke to Putin about Ukraine War​

Elon Musk today denied reports he spoke to Vladimir Putin before posting a Twitter poll with his suggestions for ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Yesterday Ian Bremmer, head of the Eurasia Group political risk consultancy, alleged that Mr Musk had personally told him about the conversation with Mr Putin.

But Mr Musk has now refuted this.

"I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space," Mr Musk tweeted.

Elon Musk denies he spoke to Putin about Ukraine war

The Tesla boss has denied reports he spoke to the Russian leader before tweeting about the Ukraine war.

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Man grieves over the dead body of a loved one in Mykolaiv.

Good evening everyone and thanks for following our war updates for so many months now.

Lots of developments today so here is my evening summary.

• The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned Moscow that its forces would be “annihilated” by the west’s military response if president Vladimir Putin used nuclear weapons against Ukraine, AFP reports. At the opening of the Diplomacy Academy in Brussels, Borrell said: “Any nuclear attack against Ukraine will create an answer, not a nuclear answer but such a powerful answer from the military side that the Russian army will be annihilated.” The Nato chief, Jens Stoltenberg, also said Russia faced “severe consequences” if it launched a nuclear assault on Ukraine.
• After retreating about 20km in the north of the Kherson sector in early October, Russian forces are likely to be attempting to consolidate a new frontline west from the village of Mylove, according to British intelligence. Heavy fighting continues along this line, especially at the western end, where Ukrainian advances mean Russia’s flank is no longer protected by the Inhulets River, the latest UK Ministry of Defence report reads.
• The Moscow-installed head of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, has urged residents to leave the area and asked Russia to help evacuate people.
• Just hours later Russia confirmed it would evacuate residents from Kherson. The Russian deputy prime minister Marat Khusnullin said on state television: “The government took the decision to organise assistance for the departure of residents of the [Kherson] region to other regions of the country. We will provide everyone with free accommodation and everything necessary.”
• Ukraine’s state emergency service said a 12-year-old boy had been rescued after hours under rubble, after rockets hit a five-story residential building in Mykolaiv.
• Ukraine’s power grid has been “stabilised” after Russian strikes on the country that in particular targeted energy infrastructure, causing power and hot water cuts, the national energy operator Ukrenergo said Thursday.
• A residential building in the southern Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukraine border was hit Thursday in shelling by Kyiv’s forces, the city governor said today. Mykhaylo Podolyak, a senior Ukrainian presidential adviser, denied Kyiv’s military was responsible and said Russia had tried to shell Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on the border “but something went wrong”.
• Russia said it had summoned diplomats from Germany, Denmark and Sweden to complain that representatives from Moscow and Gazprom had not been invited to join an investigation into ruptures of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. “Russia will obviously not recognise the pseudo-results of such an investigation unless Russian experts are involved,” the foreign ministry said.
• Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, did not discuss ways to resolve the conflict in Ukraine at their bilateral meeting on Thursday, the state-run RIA news agency reported, citing the Kremlin.
• The UN general assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to condemn Russia’s annexation of parts of Ukraine as 35 nations abstained including China, India, South Africa and Pakistan. The resolution “condemns the organisation by the Russian Federation of so-called referendums within the internationally recognised borders of Ukraine“ and “the attempted illegal annexation” announced last month of four regions by Russia president Vladimir Putin.
• Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, told Russian television Thursday that the vote was anti-Russian and that the west had used methods of diplomatic terrorism against developing countries in order to force them to vote. He dismissed US claims that Washington did not persuade anyone to vote.
• Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said Ukraine currently had only 10% of what it needed in terms of air defences.
• The UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, said that Russia would run out of supplies and armaments before the west did. He said procurement processes were in place among allies in the west that would ensure that the international community could continue arming Ukraine for years ahead.
• The admission of Ukraine to Nato could result in a third world war, the deputy secretary of the Russian security council, Alexander Venediktov, told Russian state Tass news agency in an interview on Thursday.

 

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Russia Dive-bombs Kyiv with Iranian Kamikaze Drones​

Russia has hit Ukraine with a wave of attacks, dive-bombing the capital, Kyiv, with what appear to be Iranian-made kamikaze drones.

Critical infrastructure was hit in the Kyiv, Dnipro and Sumy regions, with electricity cut in hundreds of towns and villages, the government says.

At least eight people were killed, four in Kyiv and four in Sumy.

Calls have mounted for sanctions on Iran, which continues to deny supplying drones to the Russian military.

A week ago, the Ukrainian capital was hit by Russian missiles at rush hour, part of nationwide attacks which left 19 dead.
In the latest attack, starting at around 06:30 (03:30 GMT), 28 drones targeted the capital but only five hit targets, according to the Mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko.

The city reverberated to the rattle of gunfire as anti-aircraft batteries frantically tried to shoot them down. Video on social media
appeared to show one interception.

Ukraine war: Russia dive-bombs Kyiv with 'kamikaze' drones

Calls mount for sanctions on Iran for supplying the drones after eight deaths across the country.

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Iran Agrees to Supply Missiles as well as Drones to Russia​

A test firing of Iran's surface-to-surface Fateh 110 missile.

Iran has deepened its commitment to supplying arms for Russia’s assault on Ukraine by agreeing to provide a batch of medium-range missiles, as well as large numbers of cheap but effective drones, according to US and Iranian security officials.

The surface-to-surface missiles are designed to supplement the severely run-down stock of Russian missiles, as part of a bid to systematically destroy Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure ahead of a brutal winter.


The UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, flew to Washington at short notice to discuss the dangerous new phase in the war, share intelligence on Iran’s involvement and discuss what package of new air defence can be provided to Ukraine to help the nation stave off the attacks.

The Iranian sale of missiles to Russia took place following a series of meetings including one in Moscow on 18 September and another on 6 October when Iran’s first vice-president, Mohammad Mokhber, two senior officials from Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards and an official from the Supreme National Security Council visited Moscow.

Reuters cited an Iranian official briefed on the October trip saying: “The Russians had asked for more drones and those Iranian ballistic missiles with improved accuracy, particularly the Fateh and Zolfaghar missiles family.”

The two short-range missiles are capable of striking targets at distances of 300km (185 miles) and 700km (435 miles) respectively.

Iran agrees to supply missiles as well as drones to Russia

Defence secretary Ben Wallace flies to Washington to discuss dangerous new phase in invasion of Ukraine

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Cars move along a dark road during the energy conservation on Thursday, October 20, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine

 

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Kherson is "tense" as more Russian soldiers are on streets than locals, Ukrainian official says​

An apartment building is seen ruined in Kherson, Ukraine, on October 26.

The situation in the Russian-occupied southern city of Kherson is “tense,” with Russia stationing a large number of Russian soldiers there, a city official told Ukrainian TV on Friday.

“People in the occupied territories with whom I communicate say that there are more Russian soldiers on the city streets than the local residents,” said Halyna Luhova, a member of Kherson’s city council.

The UK’s defense ministry in its daily intelligence update on Friday said it was “likely” that “mobilized reservists” had been sent to reinforce Russian troops in the regional capital and Dnieper river’s west bank.

Serhii Khlan, an adviser to the governor of the Kherson region, told Ukrainian television that occupying forces had looted local businesses and civilians who remained in the city had been forced to become self-sufficient.