Ukraine war latest: Putin blames Kyiv for morning drone attacks on Moscow

Russia is blaming Ukraine for 3 drone attacks on Moscow in the early hours of Sunday early morning.

A security personnel was hurt and Vnukovo airport on the southern borders of the capital was required to close, according to Russia’s state news company, while among the office complex harmed was home to 3 federal government ministries in addition to property houses, regional media reported.

One drone was shot down in the surrounding Moscow area by air defence systems and 2 others crashed into the beyond 2 structures in the Moskva-Citi business district in the capital, which is a number of miles from the Kremlin, triggering “insignificant damage”, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

The Russian Defence Ministry described the occurrence as an “attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime” and said 3 drones targeted the city. There was no instant remark from Ukrainian authorities, who seldom if ever take duty for attacks on Russian soil.

It was the 4th such effort at a strike on the capital area this month and the 3rd today, sustaining issues about Moscow’s vulnerability to attacks as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags out into its eighteenth month.

Pope Francis on Sunday contacted Russia to reverse its choice to abandon the Black Sea grain deal, under which it had actually permitted Ukraine to export grain from its seaports regardless of the continuous war.

“I attract my bros, the authorities of the Russian Federation, so that the Black Sea effort might be resumed and grain might be carried securely,” Francis said throughout his weekly Angelus message.

Global wheat costs have actually surged considering that Russia on July 17 gave up the pact, which was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July 2022, and started targeting Ukrainian ports and grain facilities on the Black Sea and Danube River.

Addressing crowds in St Peter’s Square, the pope advised the faithful to continue hoping “for martyred Ukraine, where war is damaging whatever, even grain,” calling this “a serious insult to God.”

The leader of the world’s almost 1.4 billion Catholics said “the cry of countless bros and siblings who are struggling with cravings is rising to the sky”.

Russia left of the Black Sea deal after stating its needs to alleviate sanctions by itself grain and fertilizer exports had actually not been satisfied. Moscow likewise grumbled that insufficient grain had actually reached poor nations.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin provided to provide Africa with grain, a few of it free of charge, however the chair of the African Union, Azali Assoumani, reacted that this “might be not rather adequate”.

This significant video reveals the minute a surge went off straight outside a Russian administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine.

In the video, we see a point-of-view from inside a vehicle driving along the roadway. Moments later on, a substantial surge is activated near the best side of the vehicle, outside a building.

This video was apparently shared on the social networks website Telegram by a regional reporter, revealing the minute of the surge.

As the surge takes place, the driver of the vehicle swerves around it and continues driving along the roadway.

The video appears to suggest that something strikes at the place from above, falling and taking off on effect.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who has actually in some cases raised the spectre of a nuclear dispute over Ukraine, said on Sunday that Moscow would need to utilize a nuclear weapon if Kyiv’s continuous counter-offensive was a success.

Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, a body chaired by President Vladimir Putin, said in a message on his authorities social networks accounts that Russia would be required to draw on its own nuclear teaching in such a circumstance.

“Imagine if the.. offending, which is backed by NATO, was a success and they detached a part of our land then we would be required to utilize a nuclear weapon according to the guidelines of a decree from the president of Russia. There would just be no other alternative. So our opponents must wish our warriors’ (success). They are making certain that an international nuclear fire is not sparked,” he said.

Medvedev, who has actually cast himself as one of Moscow’s most hawkish voices, seemed describing part of Russia’s nuclear teaching which sets out that nuclear weapons can be utilized in reaction to hostility versus Russia performed utilizing traditional weapons which threatens the presence of the Russian state.

Putin said on Saturday that there were no major battleground modifications to report in recent days which Ukraine had actually lost big quantities of military equipment considering that 4 June. Kyiv says its forces are making some development in their drive to retake area, albeit at a slower rate than wanted.

Kremlin critics have in the previous implicated Medvedev of making severe declarations in an effort to deter Western nations from continuing to supply Ukraine with arms.

Amid the devastations of war, Sergey, an experienced Wagner mercenary, discovered himself facing the unrelenting violence that has actually ended up being a way of living and death on the cutting edge. The savage dispute, the sense of betrayal from the Kremlin, and rumours of plots, all integrated to develop an environment of unpredictability and fear.

At completion he chose to abandon the Wagner group and the savage, meat-grinding battle of Donbas where remains accumulated, and towns and cities were taken down.

With the future of the mercenary group in the balance after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s stopped working march on Moscow and worry of future retribution, Sergey cannot forget the dreadful things he saw in the months of bloody dispute.

In June, a disastrous surge destroyed the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, flooding big locations of land. As the flood waters decline, Bel Trew has actually taken a trip to the impacted locations to discover shellshocked Ukrainians attempting to put their lives back together.

Homes and businesses have actually been destroyed by the floods, with numerous people displaced. It’s likewise destroyed big swathes of farming land that Ukraine required to grow grain and crops for around the world circulation. And on the horizon, fears about the occupied nuclear reactor remain.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that the Russian Navy would receive 30 brand-new ships this year.

Putin was speaking at an event in St Petersburg to mark Russia’s yearly Navy Day after evaluating a parade of warships on the River Neva.

Russian president Vladimir Putin appeared to minimize not going to a financial top in Johannesburg next month amidst a debate over an arrest warrant provided versus him by the International Criminal Court, stating he does not believe his existence there is “more crucial than my existence here, in Russia.”

Mr Putin’s remarks come more than a week after South African authorities said he will not participate in the 22-24 August event, which unites a bloc of establishing economies called BRICS, due to the fact that of the warrant, despite the fact that he was at first welcomed.