With the Ukraine sending missiles at Moscow and Crimea?
The Russians send more missiles at Ukraine President Zelensky’s home town….
Russia lauches a push in Luhansk in the Northern Ukraine…..
The Ukraine wants to export Graine through Croatia….
Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, was attacked hours after he warned that the war was “returning to the territory of Russia.”
Here’s what we’re covering:
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A Russian missile strike kills 6 people in Kryvyi Rih.
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Ukraine is moving to export its grain through Croatia’s ports.
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Saudi Arabia will host talks about Ukraine’s peace plan, diplomats say.
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A new recording says that Russia’s Wagner mercenary group will stop recruiting.
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Ukraine boosts its fuel supply before winter.
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Extensive minefields impede Ukraine’s counteroffensive, military experts say…..
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Six people were killed and at least 75 injured after two of Russia’s sophisticated Iskander ballistic missiles struck a residential building and a university building in Kryvyi Rih,Zelensky said in his nightly address. Other Ukrainian officials earlier reported that the girl and her mother were injured. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration said one of the dead was found trapped in the rubble of a destroyed laboratory at the university.
Two Russian strikes on Kherson killed at least four people and wounded 17, including a minor hospitalized in serious condition, Kherson Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram. One of the victims was a utility worker killed in the first strike.
Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Syniehubov also reported at least three drone strikes overnight in his region, one hitting a dormitory.
Kuleba said Croatia and Ukraine “will now work on laying the most efficient routes” to Croatian ports on the Danube and the Adriatic Sea, though he did not specify a time-frame. Analysts have warned that global food prices and shortages could spike after Russia left a deal allowing ships carrying Ukrainian grain to safely pass through the Black Sea.
Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has also written opinion pieces for The Washington Post, lost his appeal against a 25-year jail sentence on charges of treason, allegations he denied. Kara-Murza was sentenced in April, and received the harshest penalty yet for opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The Kremlin said Kyiv was behind drone strikes in Moscow and Russian-annexed Crimea, which Russia thwarted over the weekend. Zelensky said Sunday that such attacks are “inevitable,” but Ukrainian officials have neither confirmed nor denied involvement.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday it intercepted adrone that was southwest of Moscow, and two other drones crashed in the capital. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said two office towers were “slightly damaged,” but there were no reports of casualties. Russian forces also claimed Sunday to have intercepted and downed 25 Ukrainian drones in Crimea, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014, adding that there were no casualties or damage.
Russian forces might resume attacking Ukraine’s energy facilities as the country seeks to prevent a repeat of last winter, Zelensky said, when Russian attacks crippled Ukraine’s power grid. In a televised interview, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said Ukraine is using new ways to boost its grid ahead of winter, but he did not specify how, Reuters reported.
Kyiv is set to begin discussing long-term security measures with Washington this week, Ukrainian presidential adviser Andriy Yermak said, referring to a recent agreement with the Group of Seven nations. The plan will be discussed in three phases that culminate in a meeting of heads of state, he said. Yermak reiterated Ukraine’s desire to join NATO, though he acknowledged that the country would not be accepted into the defense alliance until the war ends.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan is expected to attend a Ukrainian-backed peace summit in Saudi Arabia, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive planning. Russia is not attending the summit, which is reportedly intended to give Ukraine’s backers and other countries a chance to align positions on how to end the war.
Pope Francis called on Russia to restore the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which collapsed this month after Moscow withdrew from the deal and refused to guarantee the safety of agricultural cargo in the Black Sea. “I appeal to my brothers, the authorities of the Russian Federation, so that the Black Sea initiative may be resumed and grain may be transported safely,” Francis said Sunday during his Angelus prayer, Reuters reported.
Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan is reinstated after handshake refusal: Two days after Olga Kharlan was disqualified from the world championships following her refusal to shake hands with Russian opponent Anna Smirnova, the International Fencing Federation reinstated Kharlan, allowing her to participate in team competition that began Saturday, Glynn A. Hill reports. Kharlan’s reinstatement came a day after the International Olympic Committee opened a path for the Ukrainian fencer to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Kharlan, a former world champion, won her individual saber bout against Smirnova on Thursday in Milan, after which she rejected Smirnova’s handshake and offered her saber to tap blades instead. Shaking an opponent’s hand is mandatory in fencing, and failure to do so triggers a “black card.” Kharlan was disqualified, prompting outrage from top Ukrainian sports officials….