from the editors
The news of Thursday 27 October live
• The war in Ukraine has reached the 245th day.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin said the risk of a global conflict was high.
• NATO response: Russia is not using false pretexts for escalation.
• Russia has been conducting drills to counter a possible enemy nuclear attack.
09:57 – Kyiv, the Russians continue to reinforce the defense lines in Kherson
In the Kherson region, the Ukrainian General Staff reported in the morning bulletin that active hostilities continue with the enemy, who again fired on the settlements in the Berislav region, injuring civilians and damaging houses, shops, pharmacies and factories. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russians continue to equip the defensive lines on the left bank of the Dnieper, conduct defensive operations and try to occupy the lines. The enemy – the Ukrainians explain – twice tried to break through our defenses. He was unsuccessful and retired with losses.
09:56 – Russian bombs on Donetsk, three civilians were killed yesterday
Three civilians were killed and two others wounded in yesterday’s Russian attacks in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, head of the regional military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko told Telegram, as reported by Ukrinform. Three civilians from the Donetsk region were killed by the Russians in Bakhmut. Two more people were injured yesterday, Kyrylenko wrote, adding that it is currently not possible to establish the number of victims in Mariupol and Volnovakha.
09:54 – Moscow returns to shake the Kiev ghost dirty bomb at the UN
The Russian Federation considers the danger of Kyiv using a dirty bomb to be high: it has the capacity to manufacture it, says Moscow’s Permanent Mission to the UN.
09:30 – Energy rationed in Kyiv, planned power outages
The electric utility company forced energy rationing by temporarily suspending service in the Kyiv region. As reported by the Ukrainian press, the breaks, dubbed stabilization, were arranged by NEK Ukrenergo and started at 5:38 a.m. local time this morning. Consumers have been divided into three groups and to know the periods of blackout that affect them, they must consult the DTEK website. Each group will be separated during a specific period: to understand what time of day you may have a power outage, provide your address and you will be given a schedule of possible outages during the day and week.
09:14 – Putin: Great efforts for prosperity and peace in Eurasia
Addressing participants and guests at the Eurasian Economic Forum in Baku, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that Russia will continue to strive to create stability and prosperity in Eurasia. Tass reports it. Every year the importance of Eurasia grows, new economic centers are strengthened, integration groups are formed and their potentials are bundled. Cooperation between the states of the region is based on the principles of sovereignty, equality, mutual trust and respect. For its part, Russia will continue to make active efforts to create a continental space of peace, stability and prosperity in Greater Eurasia, Putin’s message said.
08:37 – Filorussi, in the night the power plant in Crimea hit
The power plant in Crimea was hit by a drone attack during the night, according to the pro-Russian authorities. Last night there was a UAV attack on the Balaklava thermal power plant, Moscow-based Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Telegram. The transformer was minimally damaged. There were no injuries, he added.
08:06 – Kyiv, 18 Russian airstrikes in the last 24 hours
Russian forces have launched 18 airstrikes against Ukraine in the past 24 hours, the General Staff of the Kyiv Armed Forces said this morning, the Kyiv Independent reported. The Moscow Army also launched four attacks using Cruise Missiles and 56 using Multiple Launch Missile Systems (Mlrs) during the same period. At the same time, the Ukrainian army repelled the Russian offensive at Bilohorivka in the Lugansk region and at Bakhmut, Ivanhrad, Soledar, Maiorsk, Krasnohorivka and Marinka in Donetsk.
7:44 am – Blinking: We are doing everything we can to help Europe
The United States is doing everything it can to help Europe deal with the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine, particularly with regard to energy insecurity. This was stated by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during an interview with Bloomberg News restarted by the State Department. According to the minister, the roughly nine months since the start of Russian aggression (on Ukraine) have been remarkable in view of Europe’s distance from its decades-old dependency on Russia. According to Blinken, Europe has already significantly reduced its dependence on Russian oil and gas, a development that will have profound strategic implications in the years and decades to come.
07:40 – UN optimistic about return of grain shipments to world markets
A senior UN official says he is relatively optimistic that the deal to return Ukrainian wheat, Russian wheat and fertilizers to world markets will be extended beyond mid-November. But Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations says Moscow needs to see the movement of its own exports first. Both commented on the deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July. It brought in over 8.5 million tons of food from three Black Sea ports in Ukraine. But the Russian envoy says Russian shipments to world markets never took place
06:16 – Environment, the Kremlin could block marine protection in Antarctica
Delegations from Russia and Ukraine will meet in Australia this week to decide the future of Antarctica’s pristine waters. Some experts say new marine protected areas and rules are badly needed to prevent overfishing, but that Russia could use its veto power to block progress again. Reaching the consensus needed for new action among this diverse group of 27, which also includes China, the United States and the European Union, has always been a major challenge. And when two of the members are at war and relations between China and many Western nations have deteriorated, consensus has become an even greater obstacle.
06:06 – Russia strengthens Kherson with newly recruited soldiers
Ukraine: Russia strengthens Kherson recruited as ‘cannon fodder’, Ukrainian military intelligence told CNN Milan, Oct 27 (askanews) – Russia is strengthening Kherson with recruits they use as cannon fodder. Ukrainian military intelligence says Moscow is strengthening the city with recently mobilized soldiers. The head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Service, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, told CNN that the Russians are trying to remove and take with them all remnants of their so-called administration and bring new ones with “cannon fodder” to Kherson, mobilized Russian soldiers and preparing for fighting in the field before.
04:42 – Ukraine is an EU candidate country. But the road remains long
Ukraine: Supported, accelerated EU accession of the unwanted French Prime Minister, barbaric violations of the laws of war by Russia. Accelerated accession of Ukraine to the European Union is not in the interest of the EU or Kiev, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said last night, quoted by Russian media. Ukraine was unanimously recognized as a candidate country for EU membership at the June European Council. The road to membership is long and arduous. There will be no accelerated procedure or simplified requirements. It is neither in the interest of the EU nor Ukraine, said Borne, according to Tass. In a debate in the French Senate on the war in Ukraine, the prime minister stressed that Russia would have to answer for barbaric violations of martial law, reports the French agency AFP.
04:38 – UN maps damage to Ukrainian cultural heritage by satellite
The United Nations will use before-and-after satellite imagery to monitor the damage done to Ukraine’s cultural heritage by Russian aggression: its tracking platform will be unveiled in a few weeks. Damage from the day of the invasion to date would affect 207 cultural sites: 88 religious sites, 15 museums, 76 buildings of historical and artistic interest, 18 monuments and 10 libraries. The most affected areas are in eastern Ukraine and around the capital: Donetsk with 59 cultural sites damaged, followed by Kharkiv with 51, Kyiv with 30 and Luhansk with 25. Our conclusion that the negative picture could continue to deteriorate, Krista Pikkat, Unesco Director of Culture and Emergencies, admitted at a briefing in Geneva: Recovery.
03:29 Russian attacks on Zaporizhia. No information on victims
Russian attacks overnight on Kyiv Oblast and Zaporizhia, according to local authorities quoted by the Kyiv Independent. Governor Oleksiy Kuleba reported that Moscow targeted one of the municipalities in the capital region without specifying which ones, but according to initial information there are no casualties. The interim mayor of Zaporizhia, Anatoly Kurtev, reported that Russian troops hit the city and the surrounding area, causing a fire. No information on casualties and other damage is currently available.
01:38 – USA: Plans for new nuclear bombs in NATO bases are accelerating
We, along with our allies and partners around the world, will continue to support Ukraine while defending ourselves against brutal Russian aggression. We must keep NATO strong and united as we face the threats of today and tomorrow. This was stated by US President Joe Biden at a meeting with US defense leaders. The United States is therefore accelerating plans to upgrade the deployment of new nuclear bombs at NATO bases in Europe. According to some sources, the arrival of the updated B61-12 gravity bombs in the old continent, originally planned for next spring, is now scheduled for December. The rumor of older weapons being replaced with newer versions comes at a time of high tension following Russia’s threats over Ukraine’s potential use of nuclear power.
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