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Russia introduced new attacks on Ukraine overnight, after a wave of missile movements surprised major Ukrainian cities on Monday.
The attacks left many Kyivans without water or electricity. Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said the source of water and electricity for the citizens of the capital was restored on Tuesday morning.
He also criticized Russia’s “barbaric attacks” on the city yesterday. More shelling was reported in southern and eastern Ukraine on Tuesday morning.
Elsewhere, the United Nations warned that global food prices are expected to begin to emerge again, in part due to the fall of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement between Ukraine and Russia that has seen Ukraine’s major agricultural exports resume.
The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down 3 Iranian Shahed-136 “kamikaze” drones in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to a translation via NBC News.
Last week, Ukrainian army spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said the country’s air force had shot down more than three hundred Iranian Shahed-136 drones since Russia brought the new weapons to the battlefield. Ihnat has in the past praised Western air defense systems for countering Russian missile attacks. .
In weeks, Moscow has carried out several devastating missile and drone moves opposed to what Kyiv has described as civilian targets and critical infrastructure, such as electrical installations.
Iran’s and Russia’s representatives at the United Nations have categorically denied reports that Tehran has provided Moscow with a fleet of drones for use in Ukraine.
—Amanda Macias
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said no one can impede the Russian economy or undermine the country’s political stability, according to state media.
In a message to a convention loyal to economic cooperation, Lavrov told participants that “that is to say that no one can ever impede the Russian economy or undermine domestic political stability,” according to a report by the official Tass news agency.
Lavrov said that despite foreign sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, Russia was able to triumph over the economic difficulties it faced.
“We have already faced sanctions. The experience of recent decades is helping us to effectively triumph over the challenge,” the official noted, insisting that Russia is not isolated internationally.
“We have a lot of friends all over the world. We are constantly strengthening relations with a wide diversity of countries within the CIS, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America,” he said, adding that it was not Russia’s “choice to cut mutual ties” with the West.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for more aircraft to combat the Russian invasion, in particular, calling for F-15 and F-16 fighter jets.
“The air force of the Ukrainian armed forces is heroically fighting against the enemy that is obviously superior,” Zelenskyy said on Facebook on Tuesday.
“They do this through replaced aircraft inferior to the occupants’ new aerial vehicles. They have already lost at least 500 helicopters and planes, but those victories come at a high cost,” he said.
Along with Zelenskyy’s message, there is a video in English about the paintings of Ukrainian army pilots. The Ukrainian government video says modern air defense systems and Western aircraft, especially F-15 and F-16 jets, would help tip the balance of forces in Ukraine’s favor.
—Holly Ellyatt
Three ships had left Ukrainian ports by midday on Tuesday from the Black Sea grain export deal, the UN-led coordination center said on the day of the sailing after Russia suspended its participation in the initiative.
He said the movement of the ships was approved through the delegations of Ukraine, Turkey and the UN at the Istanbul-based Joint Coordination Center (JCC) and the Russian delegation was informed.
Amir Abdulla, UN coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative, “continues his discussions with the 3 member states with the aim of resuming full participation in the JCC,” he said.
The export deal agreed through Russia and Ukraine and negotiated through Turkey and the United Nations in July to alleviate a global hunger crisis caused in part by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and the previous blockade of its ports.
Twelve ships departed Ukrainian ports on Monday, the highest day for exports since the program began, while two arrived.
President Vladimir Putin said Russia’s resolution to suspend participation in the program is a reaction to a drone strike on Moscow’s fleet in Crimea on Saturday that he blamed on Ukraine. Moscow said Monday it is “unacceptable” for ships to pass through the corridor.
Kyiv has not claimed the duty of the attack and denies the protection room of the grain program for military purposes. The UN said no grain ships were heading to the Black Sea on Saturday.
— Reuters
Russian officials in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine are expanding an evacuation zone.
Vladimir Saldo, the Russian leader of the region that partially occupies Russia, said last Monday on Telegram that he would expand an evacuation zone in the domain and called on civilians on the east bank of the Dnipro River, which divides the Kherson region in two, to leave their homes.
Saldo repeated a claim, which Kyiv says is unfounded and false, that Ukrainian forces are making plans to destroy the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric plant’s dam to flood parts of Kherson. Kiev says Russia could plan such an attack and look for culprits. Ukraine.
“There is an imminent danger of flooding territories due to the planned destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant and the water of a cascade of power plants upstream of the Dnieper [Dnipro River],” Saldo said.
“In such a situation, I made the misleading but accurate resolution to announce the organized movement of the civilian population from the municipalities of Berislav, Belozersky, Snigiryovsky and Aleksandrovsky to the left bank of the Dnieper,” he said.
Reuters reported that the expanded evacuation zone is to an additional nine-mile zone. “We will bring the civilian population to the left bank in an orderly, step-by-step manner,” Saldo said.
Officials installed by Russia in Kherson have already displaced thousands of other people from the Kherson region to Russian territory, with Ukraine telling citizens not to comply with what it considers forced relocations.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukraine’s National Police said it had exposed 34 sites where Russian forces illegally detained and tortured people.
“Thirty-four sites where Russians illegally detained and tortured citizens were discovered in the unoccupied areas: Kharkiv region – 24, Kherson region – 3, Kyiv region – 3, Sumy region – 2, Donetsk, Chernihiv regions – 1 each,” the national police press service published on Telegram said, according to a translation by the Ukrinform news agency.
Ukrainian police forces and foreign investigators continue to uncover and document evidence of alleged war crimes committed through Russian professional forces, adding to the widespread frequency of rape and torture, as well as massacres that Ukraine considers war crimes.
Russia says it is not targeting civilians despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary with the bombing of residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.
As of Oct. 31, Ukrainian police had filed 40,742 charges for thieves for alleged crimes committed by Russian military “and their accomplices” in Ukraine, Ukrinform reported.
—Holly Ellyatt
Russia has most likely moved giant ballistic missiles into Belarus as a “message to the West,” Britain’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
In an intelligence update on Twitter, the ministry said Russia most likely deployed AS-24 Killjoy (air-launched ballistic missiles) in Belarus “primarily to send a message to the West and present Belarus as complicit in the war. “
Belarus is a strong best friend of Russia, even though it is widely noted as Moscow’s subordinate. Although not directly involved in the Ukraine conflict, it helped Russia in the war and missiles were introduced into Ukraine from Belarus.
The ministry said Moscow has “very limited stockpiles” of AS-24 Killjoy missiles and “continues to use its complex long-range munitions in opposition to targets of limited operational importance. “more in terms of achieving more goals in Ukraine. “
The UK said evidence that Russia deployed such missiles in Belarus came after footage showed two MiG-31K Foxhound interceptor aircraft “almost parked at Machulishchi airfield in Belarus on October 17, with a giant cartridge stored nearby in a protective ground berm. “
“Most likely, the cartridge is paired with the AS-24 Killjoy air-launched ballistic missile, a giant munition that the MiG-31K variant is suitable for carrying. “
He noted that Russia has not yet deployed such weapons in Belarus and, although it occasionally introduced such weapons into the war in Ukraine, “stocks are probably very limited. “
“It continues to use its long-diverse complex munitions as opposed to targets of limited operational importance,” he noted, and, with a diversity of more than 2,000 km, basing Killjoy missiles in Belarus “gives Russia little additional merit in terms of additional targets. in Ukraine. “
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukraine reported more shelling in several regions overnight, including heavy frontline fighting in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, a day after witnessing a wave of attacks in several regions.
Shelling was reported in Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region and missile movements in the southern port city of Mykolaiv overnight, demolishing part of a building and killing one resident, Reuters reported.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported in its morning update that fighting remained intense on the front line in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. He said on Facebook that the Russian military “focuses its efforts on containing the Ukrainian defense forces with safe instructions and not on preventing offensive operations. “on the instructions of Bakhmut and Avdiivka” in Donetsk.
“The enemy continues to bombard sets of defense forces along the line of contact, carries apparatus to fortify the lines in separate instructions and conducts aerial reconnaissance. It attacks critical infrastructure and civilian housing, in violation of foreign humanitarian law and the customs of war. ” said the spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Andriy Kovalev, said on Tuesday.
A wave of missile strikes targeted Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure on Monday, with the major cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv among the targets. Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power or water for hours, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said. It had been restored by Tuesday morning.
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had spoken with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres about Russia’s resolution of its role in the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Zelenskky said he reaffirmed Ukraine’s help for the deal, which reopened 3 Ukrainian ports for agricultural exports, his call with Guterres.
“We are in a position to remain guarantors of global food security,” Zelenskyy said on Twitter.
The Ukrainian leader also said he had informed Guterres of Russian missile movements and a “harsh” reaction from the UN.
—Amanda Macias
The Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said the FAO Food Price Index had declined for six consecutive months, partly because of the Black Sea Grains Initiative.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a UN-backed deal negotiated in July, eased Russia’s naval blockade and saw the reopening of 3 key Ukrainian ports. Destinations
“The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Food Value Index has fallen for six consecutive months by 16%. According to World Bank models, this decline may have prevented more than 100,000,000 people from falling into poverty,” Grynspan told the UN Security Council. Advice.
Grynspan added that uncertainty over the continuation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative is now causing food costs to rise again.
“Just today, wheat futures costs have risen more than 6 percent,” he said, urging all parties to do “everything imaginable to resume and expand the Black Sea Grain Initiative. “
—Amanda Macias
Turkey’s representative to the United Nations called for “common sense” at a UN Security Council assembly related to Russia’s suspension of its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
“Today, we call for common sense, common sense to recognize the need for restraint, common sense to assume our duty to protect the world’s most vulnerable populations who have turned to the United Nations,” said Representative Feridun Sinirlioğlu. He argued that the agreement be “decoupled from advances on the ground” as was done in intelligent religion and continue to do so.
He also praised the achievements of the Initiative, which has displaced more than 9. 5 million metric tons of cereals and food and lowered global food since its agreement in July.
“The Black Sea Grain Initiative marked a turning point in the way we prioritize the wishes of the most remote, even in times of war,” Sinirlioğlu said.
“Turkey hopes that the explanation of why it succeeds and that the Black Sea Grain Initiative will remain intact and in place,” he said. Turkey has been in contact with Ukraine and Russia for the continuation of the agreement, according to Sinirlioğlu.
Russia suspended its participation in the program over the weekend in reaction to an alleged Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian fleet near Sevastopol.
—Rocio Faber
Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations criticized Russia’s resolution on its role in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement that reopened Ukrainian ports to agricultural exports.
“We are outraged but surprised by Russia’s announcement to suspend its participation in the Black Sea Grains initiative. This announcement came all at once, because Russia has never stopped aggravating the food crisis as a tool of tension and blackmail. The world, Kyslytsya told the UN Security Council.
“We have already heard Russian threats to give up the initiative,” Kyslytsya of the deal, which is set to expire next month.
He added that Russia is carrying out “a blockade surely planned. “
“Their goal is crystal clear to make Ukraine succumb to the Kremlin’s demands through blackmail to bring back the risk of full-scale famine around the world,” he said.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a UN-backed deal negotiated in July, eased Russia’s naval blockade and saw the reopening of 3 key Ukrainian ports. Since August, only about 400 ships with a total of nine million metric tons of agricultural products have left Ukraine ports.
—Amanda Macias
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he had spoken to Finnish President Sauli Niinisto as the Nordic country prepares to join the world’s toughest military alliance.
“We discussed Russia’s war against Ukraine and Finland’s path to NATO. Finland is already safer and your club will make us all safer and stronger. We hope to have them soon as full members of our alliance,” Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter. .
Niinisto showed the call in a separate tweet, adding that his country looks forward to “Finland’s long-term role as a NATO ally. “
He said the two men explained the ratification procedure for Finland’s incorporation into the alliance and shared updates on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
—Amanda Macias
US State Department spokesman Ned Price said Russia’s suspension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative amounted to “collective punishment” for the world.
“Any act through Russia to disrupt critical grain exports is necessarily a sign that the Kremlin doesn’t care whether other people and families around the world pay more for food or go hungry,” Price told a news conference.
“We have noticed that Russia has interaction in what appears to be collective punishment for the Ukrainian people, once again and cruelly in the context of a war that Russia itself has unleashed. But Moscow’s suspension of the initiative would amount to collective punishment for the rest of Ukraine. “the world. “
Price noted that the suspension affects low- and middle-income countries, which have been the beneficiaries of the vast majority of the agreement’s grains. Two-thirds, or 66%, of cereals went to emerging countries, adding 19% to emerging countries. the least evolved countries in the world, according to Price.
“It’s not in anyone’s interest. This is not in Russia’s interest. It is not in the interest of the foreign network to see how much of a form of global collective punishment now to keep it suspended,” he said.
Price handed over all U. S. power to the United Nations, which helped negotiate the deal initially, in its efforts to maintain the humanitarian lounge and inspire cooperation between Russia and Ukraine on grain exports.
“We will do what we can with the secretary-general as he looks to take this grain initiative and add a degree of longevity to it,” Price said.
—Rocio Faber
President Joe Biden blamed rising fuel costs on Russia’s war in Ukraine before outlining steps his administration has taken to address emerging energy costs for American consumers.
“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in March literally drove up fuel costs around the world and because of the moves made since then,” Biden said, adding that costs have since decreased.
“That difference makes all the difference in a moment,” Biden said. “Not everyone has stepped forward. The oil industry didn’t,” Biden added, blaming oil corporations for “their war profits. “
—Amanda Macias
Heavy fighting is taking place in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, with the country’s armed forces fighting to liberate 24 settlements and facing active Russian resistance in the process.
“Our armed forces are actively fighting for the liberation of our territories. We still have an average of 24 settlements under occupation. I say ‘on average’ because the stage is becoming the front,” Oleg Synehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Armed Forces. Administration, he said on a national telethon, news firm Ukrinform reported Monday.
Synehubov said Ukrainian forces were “making any and all efforts to absolutely liberate the domain as soon as possible,” but that Russian groups were “actively resisting and were not going to leave. “
“The scenario is really tense there,” he added, and both sides are looking for their positions.
“Defense and fortification structures are being built. Let me remind you that we have a 315 km border with the Russian Federation. The Russians are strengthening positions from their territory. In fact, a structure is being built in fortified areas, concrete structures,” Synehubov said. .
—Holly Ellyatt
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Russia’s bombing of parts of Ukraine on Monday morning had disrupted civilian energy infrastructure.
“Missiles and drones hit 10 regions, where 18 items [facilities] were damaged, most of which are energy-related,” he said on Telegram. “Hundreds of settlements in seven regions of Ukraine have been isolated. The consequences may have been much worse. But thanks to the heroic and professional paintings of the air defense forces, 44 of the more than 50 missiles fired on our territory were shot down,” he added.
A series of missile movements hit Ukraine’s major cities on Monday morning, with the capital Kyiv and cities in the northeast and south targeted. Much of Kyiv is electricity and water as a result of the attacks.
Kyivvodokanal, an app company that provides water to Kyiv, said Monday that 80 percent of the city’s citizens have water supply lately.
—Holly Ellyatt
Kyiv is surprised when a ‘massive’ wave of missile movements hits Ukrainian cities; Wheat Costs as Grain Agreement Stalls
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