Russia Ukraine warfare latest: Kyiv positive factors floor in counteroffensive as Putin condemned for ‘inhuman’ attack

Defence minister Sergei Shoigu has inspected the manufacture of Sarmat, Russia‘s new silo-based intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile system, due to enter service shortly, his ministry said on Saturday.

Shoigu essentially repeated comments by President Vladimir Putin that the missiles were being made combat-ready, but the timing of the statement added to an intensification of Russia‘s nuclear rhetoric in its standoff with the West over the war in Ukraine.

“Re-equipping the Strategic Missile Forces with this system, which will become the basis of Russia‘s ground-based strategic nuclear forces, is a priority in ensuring the country’s defence functionality,” Shoigu was quoted as saying.

On Thursday, Putin stated Russia had efficiently examined the Burevestnik, a nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable cruise missile with a possible vary of many hundreds of miles.

And after Putin declined to rule out the likelihood that Russia might perform explosive nuclear weapons assessments for the primary time in additional than three many years, officers on Friday promptly stated Moscow would take steps to revoke its ratification of the worldwide Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Russia‘s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which it calls a “special military operation”, prompted the West to send billions of dollars of weapons to Ukraine, and Finland and Sweden to seek to join the U.S.-led NATO alliance.

In response, Moscow has suspended its participation in the New START treaty, the last remaining pact limiting the size of the Russian and U.S. nuclear arsenals, and hinted at a possible use of nuclear weapons if it feels sufficiently threatened.

“Disturbed” by the move, the US denounced it as endangering “the global norm” against nuclear test blasts.

The announcement by Mikhail Ulyanov on Friday added new fuel to tensions between Russia and the United States over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and arms management disputes between the world’s largest nuclear weapons powers.

Many wakened dazed within the Ukraine’s Hroza on Friday – with the village within the northeast of the nation having misplaced a sixth of its residents within the devastation attributable to a Russian missile strike the day past.

Ihor Klymenko, minister of inside affairs of Ukraine, stated the village solely had 330 residents – and that at the least 52 had been killed within the assault. He added that each household had at the least one person they knew on the wake for Ukrainian soldier Andrii Kozyr contained in the cafe (and grocery store) that was wrecked by the missile.

That wake adopted a funeral that had been an try and rebury a father who had been killed in Russian-occupied territory final yr. Now candles mark the spot the place the lives of these mourners had been misplaced.

The strike in Ukraine’s northeastern village of Hroza left tons of grieving as they misplaced members of the family. The pictures beneath present just some of the bereaved.

A Russian journalist detained in Cyprus for allegedly being a menace to nationwide safety has left the island, Cypriot media stated on Saturday.

The journalist’s detention on Thursday in Nicosia sparked a uncommon disaster in relations between Russia and Cyprus, with the Cypriot ambassador summoned to the international ministry in Moscow for an evidence.

Russian information shops have recognized the journalist as Alexander Gasyuk, who labored in Cyprus for state-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta. He was quoted as telling TASS that he was manhandled by Cypriot police and that he was informed his residence allow was being revoked as a result of he was allegedly a safety menace.

Russia‘s Foreign Ministry said any suggestion of inappropriate activities by the journalist were “absolutely far-fetched”.

Cypriot state broadcaster CyBC reported that Gasyuk had left Cyprus late Friday. His family had also left, it reported.

Cyprus has been tight lipped over the incident, other than to say authorities were taking all appropriate measures to protect national security. A foreign ministry spokesperson declined further comment when approached by Reuters on Saturday.

It was unclear how long Gasyuk worked in Cyprus.

Based on his most recent dispatches, he covered an independence day parade in Nicosia on Oct 1 which focused on Russian-made tanks being on display, celebrations by a number of Russians living in Cyprus of annexation of territories in Ukraine and an interview with Russia‘s ambassador to the island.

Cyprus and Russia have close cultural and business links, but those have cooled significantly since the war in Ukraine. Nicosia has followed its EU partners in imposing wide-ranging sanctions on Moscow.

The governor of Russia‘s Belgorod region said on Saturday that one civilian had been killed in the village of Urazovo, near the Ukrainian border, as a result of Ukrainian shelling.

Russian air defence systems downed three Ukrainian missiles over the region, he said earlier.

Attacks on regions of Russia adjoining Ukraine have become an almost daily occurrence in the last few months.

Kyiv does not typically claim responsibility for attacks on targets inside Russia.

“Disturbed” by the move, the US denounced it as endangering “the global norm” against nuclear test blasts.

The announcement by Mikhail Ulyanov on Friday added new fuel to tensions between Russia and the United States over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and arms management disputes between the world’s largest nuclear weapons powers.

However, it could take a number of months earlier than DNA evaluation can determine the vast majority of the stays. For now, the names are scrawled on cardboard or white plastic squares, and strings mark the boundaries of the recent graves.

Dozens of individuals gathered within the native cafe for a meal to honour Andrii Kozyr, a soldier who died within the warfare towards Russia, with almost each family within the village sending somebody to mourn the native son.

Ukrainian forces have continued counteroffensive operations close to Bakhmut and superior in western Zaporizhia Oblast on October 6, in accordance with the Institute for the Study of War’s latest report.

Ukrainian navy sources reported a profitable offensive south of Bakhmut close to Andriivka.