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(Bloomberg) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said “a mass burial site” had been discovered in Izyum, a city that Ukrainian forces recaptured from Russian troops in the recent counteroffensive. President Joe Biden announced that the United States would give Ukraine up to $600 million. on more weapons from Pentagon stockpiles
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Uzbekistan as Moscow grapples with the army’s first setbacks in Ukraine. Putin promised a briefing on China’s “concerns,” while Xi said the allies could bring “stability and positive energy” to the world. .
Ursula von der Leyen, the leading executive of the ECU union, arrived in Kyiv for the third time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, he called on allies to supply Ukraine with all the military aid it requests.
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U. S. to Give Ukraine an Additional $600 Million in Military Aid
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The Russian invasion destroyed 14% of Ukraine’s grain storage
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Russian forces are strengthening the first line of defense in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions in eastern and southern Ukraine by moving reserves and deploying remnants of removed sets from the Kharkiv axis, Ukraine’s General Staff said on Facebook. Ukrainian troops repelled several attacks from cerca. al the city of Bakhmut, according to the statement. In Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, 8 missiles hit the water formula on Wednesday night, causing flooding and prompting transient evacuations.
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Usa. U. S. to Give Ukraine Another $600 Million in Military Aid (4:00 a. m. )
Biden said the United States would give Ukraine up to $600 million in additional weapons from Defense Department stockpiles for its fight against Russia. it took advantage of US stockpiles to send weapons to Ukraine from September 2021.
The $600 million aid includes ammunition for Himars rocket systems; 1,000 155 mm “precision-guided” artillery shells; 36,000 105 mm shells; as well as demining teams, according to a Defense Ministry press release issued Thursday night.
Funeral site discovered in Izyum, according to Zelinskiy (1 h 55)
Zelenskiy said “a mass burial site” was found in Izyum, a city that Ukrainian forces abandoned last week over the advance of Ukrainian forces. released on Friday. He visited Izyum on Wednesday.
“Tomorrow there will be Ukrainian and foreign hounds in Izyum. We need the world to know what is going on and what the Russian profession has led to,” he said, referring to Bucha, a city near Kyiv where evidence of atrocities was found. he found out after a Russian withdrawal. ” Russia leaves death everywhere. And he will have to be responsible for it. The world will have to hold Russia accountable for this war. “
U. S. imposes new sanctions on Russia (8:50 p. m. )
The United States has announced a new wave of sanctions against Russia’s military intelligence and defense industry, as well as those accused of stealing Ukrainian crops, in a new effort to limit Putin’s ability to wage war.
The State Department sanctioned 31 defense, technology and electronics entities, while the Treasury Department imposed restrictions on 22 officials and added others who “oversaw the seizure or theft of loads of thousands of tons of Ukrainian grain,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. in a prayer.
“The other people named today, from perpetrators of violence to an official who facilitated the planned expulsion of young people from Ukraine, provide examples of the habit that is synonymous with the Russian government’s unprovoked war,” Blinken said.
The Russian invasion destroyed 14% of Ukraine’s grain garage (19:33)
Russia has destroyed, broken or taken over 14 percent of Ukraine’s crop garage services since its invasion in February, endangering the world’s food source and threatening long-term crops, according to a report backed by the U. S. government. USA
The researchers tested satellite images of 344 garage services, out of about 1400 across the country, and concluded that ukraine’s grain garage capacity had been reduced to 49. 8 million metric tons, to a pre-war capacity of 58 million metric tons.
“Now, with the lack of garage for Ukrainian farmers, this may cause an availability crisis in terms of Ukrainian farmers deciding to skip a planting cycle because they have nowhere to put the grain,” Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Yale School of Public Health, which led the research, in an interview.
US von der Leyen says Ukraine gets all the weapons it is looking for (19:17)
European Commission President von der Leyen has called on allies to provide Ukraine with all the military aid it requests to repel the Russian invasion, as Kyiv advances in a counteroffensive.
“Ukraine gets all the military apparatus it needs,” von der Leyen, the EU’s executive leader, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Kyiv.
Ukrainian troops have shown that “if they have the capabilities of the army, they themselves,” von der Leyen said.
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The European Investment Bank donates 500 million euros to Ukraine (6. 30 p. m. )
The European Investment Bank has delivered 500 million euros ($500 million) to Ukraine from the first of its 1. 59 billion euro “urgent reaction program,” the bank said on its website.
The budget is intended to help the government fix roads, bridges and infrastructure and the state railway company Ukrzaliznytsya and road operator Ukravtodor. A previous program of 668 million euros was awarded to Ukraine in the month following the Russian invasion.
EU may pay €5 billion for Ukraine by mid-October: von der Leyen (16:39)
The European Parliament has approved 5 billion euros in macro-financial assistance for Ukraine and the amount is likely to arrive next month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a joint press conference with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv.
Ukraine expects more budget to be provided under the EU assistance program this year, Zelenskiy said. The reconstruction of Ukraine will be the subject of a special European congress in Berlin on October 25, where experts from around the world will talk about the approaches, von der Leyen. Said.
Ursula von der Leyen promised Ukraine’s “easiest” to the European market and said she would “work as hard as possible” to achieve this goal.
Germany to send more rocket launchers and armoured cars (3:52 p. m. )
Germany will send two more Mars II rocket launchers and 50 Goofy armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, the Defense Ministry in Berlin said. Ukrainian troops will travel to Germany this month for training.
Foreign Minister Olaf Scholz has come under pressure in recent days to supply more heavy weapons to Kyiv and continue his counter-attacks opposed to Russia, with some members of his ruling coalition urging the government to send Leopard 2 war tanks.
Angolan President Calls on Russia to End Clash (3:26 p. m. )
Joao Lourenço, President of Angola, Russia’s longtime best friend, called on Moscow to end the war in Ukraine. “It is vital that the Russian government takes the initiative to end the conflict,” Lourenço said in the Angolan capital, Luanda. as he was sworn in for a momentary term.
A cessation of hostilities could simply create “a new environment to negotiate a new peace architecture for Europe and pave the way for the much-desired reform of the UN Security Council,” said Lourenço, who studied military strategy in the Soviet Union. in the 1970s defeated.
Russian convicts presented freedom to have interaction in the war (14:49)
Convicts of Russian prisoners are presented in advance in exchange for their commitment to fight on the front lines in Ukraine.
The move comes as the Kremlin struggles to close ranks between Ukrainian combat casualties and counterattacks, and as President Vladimir Putin resists a politically unpopular mass mobilization.
Read more: Russian convicts presented at large if they sign up for war in Ukraine
G-7 vows to hinder Russian war device (14:45)
Industry ministers from the Group of Seven pledged to “maintain and expand” efforts to prevent Russia from profiting from its invasion of Ukraine and restrict President Vladimir Putin’s ability to wage war.
“We discussed other imaginable trade-related measures to help the Ukrainian economy,” the ministers said at a joint meeting after an assembly in Neuhardenberg, Germany, in the presence of Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.
“We will continue to coordinate long-term industrial and investment measures for Ukraine’s recovery efforts and ask all partners to join our efforts and interact with us to help Ukraine rebuild its long term,” the ministers added.
Putin says he understands China’s considerations (13:37)
President Vladimir Putin told his counterpart Xi Jinping that he understood China’s “questions and concerns” related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as the leaders began their first face-to-face talks since the war began.
Praising China’s “balanced position” on the “Ukraine crisis,” Putin laid out the situation “in detail. “In brief televised remarks at the start of the meeting, the Russian leader also criticized what he called “U. S. provocations. “and its satellites in the Taiwan Strait. “
The two men meet on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a Beijing-led organization seen as a counterweight to U. S. -dominated alliances. Putin is expected to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan there on Friday.
Read more: Putin tells Xi he understands China’s ‘concerns’ over war in Ukraine
Zelenskiy aims through several cruise missiles (1:10 p. m. )
Kryvyi Rih cruise missiles caused “serious destruction” at a commercial business in Kryvyi Rih on Thursday, regional governor Oleksandr Vilkul said on Telegram.
The city is still recovering from flooding that followed the eight Russian Kinzhal and Iskander missiles that hit its water formula Wednesday night. Residents of several municipal districts were evacuated and more than a hundred buildings were flooded after the point of the river rose following the impact of a missile on a main dam. Rescue groups had to demolish two more dams downstream to evacuate the excess water.
Russia says long-range missiles would be a ‘red line’, IFX REPORTS (12:52 p. m. )
The source of long-range missiles to Ukraine would cross a “red line” and make the United States part of the conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, according to Interfax.
The Pentagon sent its high-precision artillery shell, the GPS-guided Excalibur, to Ukraine, according to budget documents released earlier this month.
Read more: Maximum Precision U. S. Artillery Shell Adds to Ukraine’s Weapons
Ukraine says army has liberated settlements (12:02 p. m. )
Troops liberated 400 settlements in a few days of counteroffensive, most of them in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his diary last night.
Some 150,000 people no longer live under the Russian profession or lead a “normal and safe” life, he said.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereschuk said between 1 and 1. 2 million Ukrainians in the territories are still occupied by Russian troops.
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