Ukraine: Soviet-age dam destroyed near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Vladimir Putin has actually revealed Russia will start releasing tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus next month – Moscow’s very first relocation of such bombs outside Russia given that the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Russian president said the weapons would be released after unique storage centers are all set in simply under a month’s time.
It follows he, last month, revealed he wished to release tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, in an evident caution to Nato over its assistance for Ukraine.
“Everything is going according to plan,” Mr Putin informed his ally and Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko.
“Preparation of the relevant facilities ends on July 7-8, and we will immediately begin activities related to the deployment of appropriate types of weapons on your territory,” he said, according to a Kremlin records of his remarks.
Earlier, Ukraine‘s domestic security service said it had actually obstructed a phone call showing a Russian “sabotage group” exploded the Kakhovka hydroelectric station and dam in southern Ukraine. The damage of the center on Tuesday released mass flooding, requiring countless locals to leave and wreaking ecological havoc.
Russian strike damages facilities at Ukrainian military airfield – guv
Russia fired rockets and attack drones at the main Ukrainian area of Poltava overnight, causing “some damage of facilities and equipment” at the Myrhorod military airfield, the local guv said on Saturday.
The attack that utilized ballistic and cruise rockets likewise harmed 8 personal domestic houses and numerous lorries, guv Dmytro Lunin said on Telegram messenger. No casualties were reported.
Matt Mathers10 June 2023 08:25
Three killed in Russian drone attack on Odesa over night – Ukraine
Three civilians were killed throughout a Russian drone attack on the Black Sea city of Odesa in the early hours of Saturday after drone particles fell on a home block beginning a fire, the Ukrainian armed force said.
Air defences in Odesa area shot down 8 “Shahed” drones and 2 rockets in the latest in a wave of over night air campaign on Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, a representative for the southern military command said.
“As an outcome of the air battle, particles from among the drones fell onto a high-rise home, triggering a fire,” the military authorities, Natalia Humeniuk, said in a declaration.
The emergency situation services said 27 individuals, consisting of 3 kids, were injured, however that the fire had actually been quickly put out and 12 individuals were rescued from the building.
Matt Mathers10 June 2023 07:29
Three individuals pass away throughout a Russian drone attack on Odesa oblast
Three individuals passed away and a minimum of 10 more were hurt throughout a Russian drone attack on Odesa Oblast today, regional reports said.
According to Ukraine’s southern command, Russian forces assaulted the area utilizing Iranian-made drones. Officials, nevertheless, declared that all the drones were destroyed by Ukrainian forces.
A high-rise domestic building was harmed by the falling particles. The resulting fire has actually given that been snuffed out, authorities said.
The blast wave likewise harmed the neighbouring domestic structures.
Maroosha Muzaffar10 June 2023 07:00
Five dead and 13 missing out on due to floods after Kakhovka dam damage, Ukrainian authorities declare
At least 5 individuals in Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts were killed, and 13 more were missing out on the other day, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Ukraine’s interior ministry reported that lots of settlements on both banks of the Dnipro River are flooded.
The ministry said, 4 of the 5 victims passed away in southern Kherson Oblast, where 48 settlements have actually been flooded, consisting of 34 on the Ukraine-managed west bank of the Dnipro River and 14 on the Russian-inhabited east bank, the Kyiv Independent reported.
Mykolaiv Oblast cops chief reported on 8 June that another victim passed away in the neighbouring Mykolaiv Oblast, where 23 settlements have actually been flooded.
Maroosha Muzaffar10 June 2023 06:30
Over 130 surges tape-recorded throughout Sumy Oblast, Ukraine authorities declare
Russian forces assaulted 7 neighborhoods in Sumy Oblast the other day, the military administration of the area mentioned on Telegram.
According to authorities, Russian forces targeted the neighborhoods of Velyka Pysarivka, Bilopillia, Krasnopillia, Myropillia, Shalyhyne, Yunakivka, and Novoslobidske, according to Kyiv Independent.
An overall of 133 surges were tape-recorded throughout the 7 neighborhoods.
One regional was supposedly hurt in the Yunakivka neighborhood. The attacks likewise harmed a domestic building, a shed, and a garage in the exact same neighborhood.
Maroosha Muzaffar10 June 2023 06:00
Russian ambassador to the United States says Washington not trying to find ‘diplomatic settlement of the conflict’
Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov mentioned the other day that the United States does not mean to try to find methods to a diplomatic settlement of the dispute in Ukraine, the TASS news firm reported.
Speaking about the next United States package of military help to the Kyiv authorities, he said: “The United States continues to pump up its wards with new batches of deadly weapons. The appropriations for these purposes of such impressive financial resources indicate one thing: Washington does not intend to look for ways to a diplomatic settlement of the conflict.”
He included that Washington “did nothing to bring the regime of [Volodymyr] Zelensky to the negotiating table”.
He continued: “On the contrary, they are methodically pushing their puppets to continue sacrificing human lives in the name of the extravagant goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia. It is impossible for Washington to retreat from this task. At stake is the reputation of the country’s leadership, which has chosen the path of war, and not diplomatic solutions.”
Maroosha Muzaffar10 June 2023 05:30
Ukraine deals with ‘hugely worse’ humanitarian circumstance after dam rupture, UN help chief says
The humanitarian circumstance in Ukraine is “hugely worse” than prior to the Kakhovka dam collapsed, the UN’s leading help authorities alerted the other day.
Undersecretary-General Martin Griffiths said an “extraordinary” 700,000 individuals need drinking water and alerted that the devastations of flooding in among the world’s crucial breadbaskets will almost undoubtedly result in lower grain exports, greater food rates worldwide, and less to consume for millions in requirement.
“This is a viral problem,” he said in an interview with Associated Press. “But the truth is this is only the beginning of seeing the consequences of this act.”
Maroosha Muzaffar10 June 2023 05:00
United States ambassador to UN ‘gravely concerned’ by growing military cooperation in between Russia and Iran
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States ambassador to the United Nations says she is “gravely concerned by the growing military cooperation between Russia and Iran” and required an examination into Iran’s transfer of attack drones to Russia.
“I am gravely concerned by the growing military cooperation between Russia and Iran which continues to enable Russia’s prosecution of its brutal war against Ukraine,” Ms Thomas-Greenfield said.
She says Russia and Iran are both breaching UN Security Council Resolution.
She mentioned info launched by the United States earlier Friday which recorded how Iran “has provided Russia with hundreds of one-way attack UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles], as well as UAV production-related equipment.” The ambassador said Russia has actually been utilizing these UAVs in recent weeks to let loose rocket strikes on Kyiv and “scare Ukrainian civilians.”
The White House declared the other day that Russia has actually received numerous drones from Iran to attack Ukraine.
Citing freshly declassified info, the White House said the drones or Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles [UAVs], were integrated in Iran, delivered throughout the Caspian Sea and after that utilized by Russian forces versus Ukraine.
Maroosha Muzaffar10 June 2023 04:30
Russia has actually received numerous Iranian drones to attack Ukraine, White House says
The White House declared the other day that Russia has actually received numerous drones from Iran to attack Ukraine.
Citing freshly declassified info, the White House said the drones or Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles [UAVs], were integrated in Iran, delivered throughout the Caspian Sea and after that utilized by Russian forces versus Ukraine.
“Russia has been using Iranian UAVs in recent weeks to strike Kyiv and terrorise the Ukrainian population, and the Russia-Iran military partnership appears to be deepening,” White House representative John Kirby said in a declaration.
“We are also concerned that Russia is working with Iran to produce Iranian UAVs from inside Russia.”
Mr Kirby likewise said that the United States knew that Russia was getting products from Iran needed to build a drone factory that might be completely functional early next year.
“We are releasing satellite imagery of the planned location of this UAV manufacturing plant in Russia’s Alabuga Special Economic Zone.”
Maroosha Muzaffar10 June 2023 03:54
Russia declares it exploded sophisticated Ukrainian tank, however video reveals its helicopter assaulted a tractor
A rough black-and-white gunsight video Russia launched today to strengthen a claim its military exploded a few of Ukraine’s most terrifying tanks in fact recorded the damage of a tractor, according to a visual analysis by The Associated Press.
The Russian Embassy in Washington revealed Monday on Twitter its forces had “annihilated” 8 German-made Leopard tanks, amongst the most sophisticated and effective weapons NATO nations have actually offered to Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Defense then published a video Tuesday on the social networks network Telegram with text stating it revealed “footage of the destruction of foreign armoured vehicles, including Leopard tanks.”
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Eleanor Noyce10 June 2023 03:00
