Wagner troops are back fighting in the Ukraine….
A Russian military leader they thought they took out seems to be alive …
Don’t wait for Russian to get back in U.N. Human Rights Council….
Belarus leader sayts his troops are NOT gonna attack the Ukraine FOR Russia….
Norway has sent $92.5M to Ukraine for winter use…..
Ukraine says it’s trying hard to qualify to enter the European Union, something that EVERYBODY KNOWS Russian leader Putin would NOT be happy about….
The Defense Dept. does NOT want to talk about sending longer range missile’s to Ukraine in the media…..
Mercenaries from the Russian Wagner Group are back fighting on the front line in Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian military official told POLITICO on Wednesday.
Several hundred fighters from the group once ruled by now-dead warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin were spotted fighting in the ranks of different Russian military units on the eastern front, said Colonel Serhiy Cherevatyi….
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“Wagnerites were not hiding. Maybe they thought it would scare our soldiers. In fact, that showed Russia needs new meat for the grinder,” said Cherevatyi, deputy commander of Ukraine’s eastern group of troops for strategic communications. “Wagner as an organization was finished in Bakhmut. Now their more fortunate soldiers are sent to Africa, where there’s more money. The less fortunate ones are back to Ukraine.”
He added that Ukrainian wiretapping and reconnaissance had been used to confirm that former Wagner forces were back on the Donbas battlefield, but warned, “We know everything about them.”
Ukraine’s National Resistance Center previously reported that fewer than 1,000 Wagner mercenaries remained in Belarus as of September….
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Several ships have sailed a new shipping corridor established to evade Russia’s de facto blockade. A military campaign has helped Ukraine gain some control, experts say.
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A new grain corridor highlights Ukraine’s military successes in the Black Sea, experts say.
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Russia puts out another video of the admiral Ukraine claims to have killed.
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Disinformation is a weapon regularly deployed in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Canada’s speaker of the House of Commons quits after honoring a Ukrainian who fought for the Nazis…..
Russian state-run defense TV channel Zvezda News published video on Wednesday that showed Sokolov speaking to reporters. “Surface forces, submarine forces, naval aviation and coastal troops are successfully fulfilling their tasks,” Sokolov said. However, the date the video was filmed remains unclear — in the clip, Sokolov describes an award issued to his unit from Russian President Vladimir Putin in August. Meanwhile, pro-Russian telegram channels in Sevastopol published video of Sokolov giving awards to a soccer team, which had won a tournament that ended on Sept. 18.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that Sokolov had attended a defense meeting this week, but directed further queries to the ministry of defense. Russia’s Defense Ministry had released a video on Tuesday purporting to show Sokolov attending a meeting via video link. In the video, Sokolov briefly appears on screen, but does not speak. The Washington Post did not detect any signs of obvious manipulation in that video but could not independently confirm its authenticity.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to comment Tuesday about whether Sokolov was alive. She told reporters the White House was aware of the meeting video released earlier by Russia’s Defense Ministry, but did not “have anything to confirm at this time.” Ukraine’s special operation forces said that since Russia had been “urgently forced to publish an answer with an apparently alive Sokolov … our units are clarifying the information.”
A Polish cabinet minister is calling for the extradition from Canada of a 98-year-old Ukrainian veteran who fought in a Nazi unit during World War II. The presence of Yaroslav Hunka at an event in the Canadian Parliament last week while Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was speaking, has sparked widespread backlash and led to the resignation of the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, Anthony Rota — an incident Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau called “deeply embarrassing.” Polish Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek said that the event was “scandalous” and that he would be taking steps to extradite Hunka to Poland to face legal proceedings.
Russian representation on the U.N. Human Rights Council is “not consistent with their actions in Ukraine,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Tuesday during a news conference, pointing to alleged war crimes. Russia was expelled from the council shortly after its invasion of Ukraine, but the BBC reported this week that Moscow is seeking to rejoin.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik said he could not imagine his country joining the war in Ukraine alongside Russia, in an interview with the Associated Press. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin, permitted Russia to use Belarusian territory to send troops into Ukraine in February 2022. Lukashenko has said his troops would join the fighting only if Belarus were attacked.
Norway is providing about $92.5 million worth of additional aid to Ukraine, to ensure that “Ukrainians in need have access to the necessary protection and vital assistance” ahead of another winter of war, the government said in a statement.
The Ukrainian government has fully implemented seven recommendations from the European Commission to further its path to E.U. membership, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said. In the announcement, included in a statement unveiling a program aimed at improving opportunities for minorities and Indigenous people, Shmyhal cautioned that there was “still a long and difficult way ahead” on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union bloc. The E.U. granted Ukraine candidate status last year, although experts warn full membership could still be decades away.
Since the start of Russia’s invasion, at least 504 children have been killed in Ukraine, according to data from the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office released Tuesday. More than 1,125 children have also been injured, it said.
The U.S. Defense Department declined to share information about the U.S. providing ATACMS long-range missiles to Ukraine. “I don’t have any announcements to make on ATACMS,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters during a news conference. The Post reported last week that the Biden administration plans to provide a version of the long-range missiles, citing people familiar with the matter.
Zelensky has appointed former soccer player and national team coach Andriy Shevchenko as a presidential adviser,according to a decree posted Tuesday. Shevchenko has been involved in politics since at least 2012, when he ran in a Ukrainian parliamentary election, according to the Kyiv Post, but failed to win a seat.
Russia attacks Odessa port in latest assault on Ukrainian grain: A Russian attack on Odessa was the latest assault on Ukraine’s vital agriculture sector as Moscow seeks to exploit divisions between Kyiv and its European neighbors over grain exports, Alex Horton and Kamila Hrabchuk report. The strike killed at least two people, destroyed granaries and damaged port facilities.
Russian disruptions to Ukraine’s use of the Black Sea as a highway for exporting food have forced Kyiv to explore overland routes, but Ukraine has faced resistance from some of its closest neighbors….