Russia Ukraine conflict stay: Ukraine ‘shoots down three Russian bombers’ as Putin’s conflict provides ‘slowing down’

Three Russian bomber plane have been shot down over southern Ukraine, Kyiv’s air drive claims.

“Today, in the Southern direction – minus three Russian Su-34 fighter bombers!,” mentioned Ukraine’s Air Force.

Su-34 plane, that are armed with guided bombs and Kh-59 missiles, can perform long-distance assaults.

Mykola Oleschuk, chief of Ukraine’s air drive, mentioned it had downed the three SU-34s “in a southern direction”, which he didn’t specify.

There had been reviews of a Russian navy helicopter being scrambled to attempt to rescue the pilot of at the least one of many planes.

Russian Telegram accounts prompt the plane had been shot down close to Ukraine’s Kherson bridgehead over the river Dnipro.

Ukraine and Poland have mentioned they’re able to attempt to resolve “problematic” points of their relations, which have been broken by a Polish truckers’ blockade of border crossings.

The pledge emerged from a gathering in Kyiv between Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski, who was on his first official journey overseas.

Ukraine has counted Poland as one in every of its closest European Union allies. Poland, now led by a centrist, pro-EU cupboard below Donald Tusk, has given Ukraine humanitarian and navy help and brought in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees.

But relations have been overshadowed by a protest blockade of a number of border crossings by Polish truck drivers, and what Kyiv has seen as a scarcity of initiative by the earlier Polish nationalist authorities to resolve the issue.

Hauliers are indignant over a lack of business to competitors from Ukrainian truckers who’ve benefited from permit-free access to EU territory because the conflict started.

They need permits for Ukrainian truckers reinstated, one thing Kyiv and the European Commission say isn’t negotiable. The protests have resulted in financial losses for Ukraine and in addition affected very important volunteer navy assist provides.

Poland’s deputy infrastructure minister mentioned after talks along with his Ukrainian counterpart that he hoped the protests could possibly be solved earlier than the top of the 12 months.

A Russian deputy international minister mentioned that talks with the United States on a possible prisoner alternate that will free Americans held in Russia are hampered by publicity and an alleged disparity within the U.S. negotiating stance.

The U.S. State Department mentioned final week that Russia rejected a number of proposals for liberating Paul Whelan, an American convicted of espionage, and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in March and is going through espionage prices.

“Here, as in many other areas, we observe the American traditional desire to get more for ourselves and give the minimum, as they say,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov mentioned in an interview with the Interfax information company that was printed Friday.

The Dutch authorities introduced Friday it’s making ready to provide 18 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, in a lift for the embattled nation that’s rising more and more anxious about assist from its Western allies.

The Dutch protection minister, Kajsa Ollongren, despatched a letter to parliament outlining the plan to donate the subtle jets that was first unveiled in the summertime.

Friday’s determination is a major step towards sending the planes into the skies over Ukraine, however didn’t say when they are going to be delivered.

The authorities mentioned the transfer “allows personnel and budget to be allocated to prepare the devices” to be despatched to Ukraine.

“With F-16s, Ukraine can better defend itself against Russian attacks,” Ollongren mentioned in an announcement.

She added that the planes are “extremely important because the ongoing Russian aggression shows no sign of ending. That is why we are continuing unabated with our support for Ukraine.”

U.S. President Joe Biden’s new government order strengthening U.S. sanctions in opposition to Russia will put new strain on banks to make sure that their companies will not be getting used to assist Russia‘s efforts to circumvent sanctions, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on Friday.

Adeyemo said in an interview on CNBC that most major financial institutions are adhering to U.S. sanctions aimed at preventing Russia from acquiring materials needed for its war effort. But the new executive order due to be signed on Friday allows the Treasury to target banks in countries like China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and other countries that may be willingly or unwittingly helping Russia evade sanctions, Adeyemo said.

“What this tool says is that if you’re a monetary establishment, you must take steps to just be sure you will not be getting used” by Russian entrance corporations to evade sanctions.

Ukraine shot down 24 of 28 Shahed drones launched by Russia in an in a single day attack that broken residential buildings in Kyiv and an infrastructure facility and grain warehouse in southern areas, officers mentioned.

They mentioned greater than two dozen Russian drones focused Ukraine‘s capital, hitting the 24th, 25th and 26th storeys of an apartment building and injuring two people, and causing lesser damage to several other residential buildings.

In the south, Russia again tried to hit port infrastructure – a frequent target since it pulled out of a U.N.-brokered deal reached after Russia‘s February 2022 invasion that allowed safe passage of Ukrainian grain shipments via the Black Sea.

“…Wreckage of the downed (drone) damaged a granary. There was a fire that was quickly tamed by the company’s staff,” the southern navy command mentioned on the Telegram messaging platform, describing the aftermath within the Odesa area.

Russia mentioned its air defences intercepted 5 Ukrainian drones south of Moscow within the area of lower than an hour on Friday.

The defence ministry mentioned 4 had been intercepted over Kaluga area and a fifth was destroyed contained in the Moscow area.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, apparently referring to the latter incident, mentioned fragments of the drone had fallen within the metropolis of Podolsk however no casualties or harm had been reported.

Drone assaults aimed toward Moscow have subsided because the summer time, after they repeatedly hit a business district of the capital and compelled frequent airport closures. In May, two drones exploded on the roof of a building within the Kremlin, with out inflicting any critical harm.

Ukraine mentioned on Thursday that Russia had launched about 7,400 missiles and three,700 Iranian-made Shahed drones at targets in Ukraine in the midst of the 22-month conflict.

The 12 months began with excessive hopes for Ukrainian troops planning a counteroffensive in opposition to Russia. It ended with disappointment on the battlefield, an more and more somber temper amongst troops and anxiousness about the way forward for Western assist for Ukraine‘s war effort.

In between, there was a short-lived rebellion in Russia, a dam collapse in Ukraine, and the spilling of much blood on both sides of the conflict.

Twenty-two months since it invaded, Russia has about one-fifth of Ukraine in its grip, and the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line has barely budged this year.

A crunch has come away from the battlefield. In Western countries that have championed Ukraine’s battle in opposition to its a lot greater adversary, political deliberations over billions in monetary assist are more and more strained.

Former TV journalist, Yekaterina Duntsova, 40, has submitted her paperwork to the Central Election Commission in Moscow to begin the formal technique of coming into the operating.