Cover photo: Joe Biden, in Washington, October 11, 2022. Kevin Dietsch / AFP
- After Russian bombardments on a scale not seen in months, Moscow claimed responsibility for new “massive” attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure on Tuesday. At a virtual meeting with the G7 later in the day, the Ukrainian President said, Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for help in creating an “air shield” over Ukraine.
- Mr. Zelensky called on Unesco to exclude Russia from its ranks after an inventory of about 540 “heritage objects, cultural institutions and religious buildings” damaged or destroyed since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
- G7 members ‘strongly condemned’ the “indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilian populations” that constitute “a war crime” and promise to “hold President Vladimir Putin to account”.
- The G7 also accused Russia of “wanting to go straight to the war with Belarus.”after creating a joint force with Moscow, “purely defensive,” Minsk declared.
- US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “misjudged” the capabilities of his army. to occupy Ukraine, even though he is “a reasonable person”. The White House tenant was reluctant to meet him at the next G20 summit in Indonesia in November.
- In eastern Ukraine, in the Donetsk region, Authorities announced on Tuesday that they had exhumed the bodies of 78 civilians in two towns recently recaptured by Ukrainian forces. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, some bodies showed signs of “violent death”.
- The United States is waging an all-out offensive to persuade as many countries as possible to pass a resolution discussed at the United Nations, condemning Moscow’s annexation of Ukrainian territories.
- France has announced the deployment of armored infantry and Leclerc tanks and a doubling of its military personnel in Romaniato reinforce the local NATO mission there.
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