• Kiev used American Atacms long-range missiles against the Russians.
• Biden calls for 105 billion for Ukraine, Israel and the border
• Zelensky: “Impressive Russian losses these days”.
• Lavrov: “The West should stop providing aid to Kiev and begin negotiations.”
• Medvedev accuses the USA: “They are dragging the world into the abyss.”
10:49 p.m. – Russian attack on a post office, at least six victims in Kharkiv
A Russian missile hit a post office in the Kharkiv region, killing at least six people and injuring 14 others. This was reported by Rbc Ukraine online, stating that it was the Novaya Poshta terminal that was destroyed by the explosion. According to local sources, the victims are between 19 and 42 years old. Of the injured, seven are in moderate condition and another seven are in serious condition.
10:26 p.m. – Biden: “The success of Israel and Ukraine is critical to our national security”
“The success of Israel and Ukraine is critical to our national security,” writes US President Joe Biden in a statement published on X/Twitter. “History has taught us that terrorists and dictators cause more death and destruction when they do not pay a price,” he added.
8:02 p.m. – Zelensky thanks Biden for the new aid package to support Ukraine
“This week, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, took a very significant step, for which I am sincerely grateful to him: a new package of permanent and reliable support for Ukraine – defense and economic – has been prepared to protect our people and freedom,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on his Telegram channel.
4:33 p.m. – Tajani: “We support the independence of Ukraine”
“We continue to persecute the Ukrainian civilian population and the Italians will rebuild the Odessa Cathedral.” “We are strongly committed and politically support the independence of Ukraine in accordance with international law violated by Russia,” said Council Vice President and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on the sidelines of the Forza Italia per l’event Umbria and Italy underway in Perugia.
4:29 p.m. – Kiev: “No ceasefire if Moscow does not leave the occupied territories”
Ukraine will not negotiate a ceasefire with Russia as long as Moscow refuses to withdraw from occupied Ukrainian territories. This was stated by Secretary of the Ukrainian Security Council Oleksiy Danilov, as reported by Ukrinform. “There are no worthwhile negotiations as long as Russia continues to occupy Ukrainian territory, including Crimea,” Danilov argued, expressing his belief that the situation will radically change as soon as F-16 fighter jets arrive from the West to take over Strengthen air defense.
3:18 p.m. – Zelensky hears from Erdogan that Turkey will hold peace talks in Malta
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. As the Ukrainian president writes on X, “we discussed the next round of negotiations on a peace formula in Malta”. Zelensky reports that “Turkey will participate and bring its voice and its authoritative position.” In addition to the talks in Malta, the situation in the Middle East is also on the table, where the two leaders “agreed on the need , to ensure the protection of civilians and respect for humanitarian law,” as well as food security and the transportation of food grains Ukrainian.
1:26 p.m. – Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih is bombed
At least two civilians were killed and others injured in air strikes by Russian forces in Ukraine, on the front line and in other parts of the country. A Russian rocket hit an industrial site in Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Volodymir Zelensky. A 60-year-old man was killed and his wife is in hospital with serious gunshot wounds. In the south, in the Kherson region, another civilian was killed and another injured.
11:25 a.m. – Kiev and “ecocide”: 55 billion in environmental damage
(Giusi Fasano, sent to Kiev) A common global approach to investigating “ecocide” as a war crime. This is what Ukraine wants, which, as Attorney General Andriy Kostin explained in a press conference yesterday, is “the first country in history” to investigate mass environmental destruction – specifically – as a war crime. The prosecutor also announced that Ukraine is working with international partners to train the country’s law enforcement agencies in ecocide investigations. The aim, according to Kostin, is to create a common and global mechanism to bring to justice those who commit the same crimes in other parts of the world.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has disclosed the data available to him in the last few hours. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has reportedly cost more than €55 billion in environmental damage so far. The damage associated with the destruction of the Kahkovka dam alone amounts to 3.8 billion euros: “The worst act of ecocide in the last 70 years,” said the prime minister.
8:32 a.m. – The Ukrainians are concentrating on Tokmak
A few more weeks before the mud of autumn blocks troop movements: According to the Economist, the Ukrainians will do everything they can to drive the Russians out of the Zaporizhzhia region. In this way they were able to advance the last-minute recapture of the city of Tokmak, which was now considered the minimum target of the counteroffensive that had begun at the beginning of the summer. Things didn’t go as Kiev had hoped. The border has shifted slightly, but overall the Ukrainians have inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in recent months. And that will count when the good weather returns.
3:28 a.m. – Russian missile on Kryvyi Rih, one civilian killed
One person died and another was injured in an attack by Russian forces last night on Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the head of the military administration of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak, reported on Facebook, as reported by Ukrinform. “Another terrorist attack by the Russian army against civilians. “The enemy fired a missile at a cooperative in Kryvyi Rih,” Lysak wrote. The victim is a 60-year-old man, while a 57-year-old woman sustained shrapnel wounds and was taken to hospital in a serious condition.
3:28 a.m. – Biden will ask Congress for 60 billion for Ukraine and 10 for Israel
(from Viviana Mazza, our New York correspondent) “We are at a global turning point,” Joe Biden said that night in a speech to the nation, his second in the Oval Office of his presidency. He compared Putin to Hamas, saying that despite their differences, both “want to wipe out neighboring democracies.” He drew on scenes from trips to Ukraine and Israel, the first U.S. president since Lincoln to visit a war zone not under direct American control. In an interview in recent days, he reiterated that “America” could “manage both wars.” We have the ability and the obligation. We are a necessary nation” and which must remain “a beacon in the world”: “We cannot allow terrorists and tyrants to win: if they are not stopped, they will cause more destruction”…