The port area of Izmail, in Odesa, was under fire this morning for three hours and at least one person was killed. The Ukrainian capital was also attacked again with missiles, but the attacks were repelled.
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Blinken’s visit to Ukraine will last two days. New $1 billion support package to be announced
In what is his third official visit to Ukraine since the start of the Russian offensive, the first in a year, Antony Blinken will spend the night in the country for the first time, where he must remain until tomorrow.
In addition to the planned meetings with Volodymyr Zelensky and Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as other civil society officials and figures, during his stay the head of US diplomacy is also expected to announce a new support package for Ukraine, valued at 1 dollar. billion, Reuters reports, citing a senior State Department official.
So far, the United States has contributed $43 billion to Ukraine’s war effort.
According to the same unidentified source, Washington’s objectives for this official visit will include discussing with the Ukrainians the state of the offensive and evaluating the needs not only on the battlefield but also outside it, in order to guarantee the strengthening Ukrainian energy. Security before the winter months.
“The most important thing is that we get a real assessment from the Ukrainians themselves. We want to see and hear how they plan to move forward in the coming weeks,” said the senior US official.
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Antony Blinken arrived in kyiv this morning. It is the third time since the start of the war that the US Secretary of State has visited Ukraine.
Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, arrived in kyiv this Wednesday morning, various Ukrainian media reported, citing sources close to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
It is the third time since the start of the Russian offensive that Antony Blinken has visited the Ukrainian capital, the first since September 2022.
Videos are shared on social networks of the moment the head of US diplomacy is received in kyiv, hours after the city’s anti-aircraft defenses repelled another overnight missile attack.
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Antony Blinken arrived in kyiv this morning. It is the third time since the start of the war that the US Secretary of State has visited Ukraine.
Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, arrived in kyiv this Wednesday morning, various Ukrainian media reported, citing sources close to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Two helicopters and 6 soldiers to transport a cat “with an impressive pedigree”. The revelations of the Russian soldier who deserted
In an interview with New Voice of Ukraine, Maxim Kuzminov, the Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine on August 23, accused Russia’s top military commanders of “living for their own satisfaction”, revealing that there are “countless” situations in which the country’s air and human resources are used in an “illogical or irrational” way, and gave as an example the occasion in which two helicopters and six crew members were used to transport the cat of one of them, which had “an impressive pedigree” .
As a result of the trip, which lasted about an hour, the servicemen were deprived of rest time and “a lot of fuel was burned,” accused 28-year-old Kuzminov, who, leaving the Russian Air Force and moving to the Ukrainian team will receive a reward of 466 thousand euros.
“Our commander needed to transport a cat that had an impressive pedigree. For this, two crews of Mi-8 and Mi-24 were deployed. [helicópteros]. Thus, two helicopters transported this wonderful animal, as it were, from Rostov to Yeisk. [base aérea] — the Mi-8 carried the cat, while the Mi-24 circled to cover it”, quotes the New Voice of Ukraine.
Throughout the interview, in which he guaranteed that Russia “has a shortage of trained pilots”, Maxim Kuzminov also revealed that Russian soldiers are “left to their own devices” and that commanders “never have time to take care of them: they have their own resources”. issues”.
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Russia admits to having “tactically abandoned” Robotyne, a town in the Zaporizia region that Ukraine announced it had recaptured last week
Less than 24 hours after the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it repelled two attacks by Ukrainian forces in the Robotyne area, in the Zaporizia region, a senior Moscow official in the region admitted on Wednesday that the country’s forces had left the town. -what Kiev said was picked up last week.
“The Russian military has abandoned – tactically abandoned – this settlement, because staying on a bare surface when there is no way to fully excavate it… generally makes no sense,” Yevgeny Balitsky was quoted as saying by Sky News. “The Russian army has moved into the hills,” the senior official added.
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49 “elite” Russian soldiers killed in the Donetsk region. bodies left behind
49 soldiers of the 7th Mountain Guards Airborne Division, “elite” paratroopers serving the Russian army, were reportedly killed in combat near the village of Staromayorske, in the Donetsk region, the US think tank revealed on Wednesday Institute for the Study of War ( ISW), citing an audio recording posted by a Russian military blogger on Tuesday.
According to ISW, a Russian soldier, supposedly from the 247th Airborne Division regiment, can still be heard on the recording explaining that it is necessary to go and recover the bodies of the dead soldiers, “because the Russian command is not supervising their recovery.”
According to the think tank, the Russian soldiers now killed in action were cornered as they made their way to the “critical areas” of the Zaporizhia region, to help defend the front line, precisely in the places where the Ukrainian counteroffensive has advanced the most in the last times. weeks.
“The Russian soldier’s statements suggest that elements of the 247th Regiment continue to defend western Donetsk and the eastern Zaporizhya region, despite claims by a senior Russian source in late August that elements are fighting in the area. of Robotyne,” concludes the ISW.
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UK to declare Wagner Group a terrorist organization
The UK government will declare the Wagner group a terrorist organization. With this formalization, being a member or even supporting the group becomes a violation of the anti-terrorism law.
UK to declare Wagner Group a terrorist organization
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New missile attacks on kyiv overnight: “Another attack on a peaceful city with the aim of killing the civilian population”
It was 2:43 a.m. Wednesday when the sirens sounded again in kyiv, reporting a new missile attack on the Ukrainian capital.
According to the city’s military administration, no damage or casualties were caused and all the missiles were destroyed by the city’s anti-aircraft defenses.
“Another enemy missile attack on a peaceful city with the aim of killing civilians and destroying infrastructure,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kiev’s military administration, wrote on Telegram, accusing Russia of launching a “combined” attack with drones. cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
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A three-hour attack on the port of Izmail in Odessa kills one person
At least one person was killed in the Russian attack this morning on the port of Izmail, in the Odessa region, Governor Oleg Kiper reported via Telegram.
The area was under attack by Russian drones for three hours, Kiper wrote on that social network. “Unfortunately one person died. An employee of an agricultural company, seriously injured, died in the hospital.
The port of Izmail, along the Danube and on the border with Romania, is one of the country’s main cereal export points, and had already been the target of attacks this week. In early August, several Izmail port administration buildings were destroyed and the international press described torrents of cereal grains oozing from crumbling silos.
Following this morning’s attack, several buildings were destroyed. Oleg Kiper reported damage to elevators, administrative buildings and agricultural enterprises.
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Zelensky promises more weapons for Ukrainian troops as winter approaches
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