News from the Ukraine/Russian conflict is less today due to the Hamas/Israel attacks…..`
Attacks against Odessa….
Dutch non-military aid going to the Ukraine….
Russia moves to send its grain to Africa while Ukraine is shipping its grain by ship again via the Black Sea….
The Russian Navy has moved away from the Crimea where the Ukraine can shoot at them….
Drone attacks continue….
Ukraine troops gain ground on Bakhmut….
The Ukraine has begun to try to switch media focus on the longer aspect of the Ukraine offense….
Russian President Putin has also begun to talk about strecching the conflict out to wear out the West’s support for the Ukraine….
Zelensky also warns about Russia targeting Ukraine power plants when the weather gets cold….
Putin’s hardliners want to wave the nuclear weapon flag to get the Ukraine and West to sit down and settle allowing Russia to keep what they have of the Ukraine right now….Putin has NOT moved to do so…..
Here’s the latest on the war and its impact across the globe.
Post reporters at the scene in Hroza, Kharkiv region, witnessed the body of only one person wearing a uniform and morgue workers said they saw no evidence of multiple military personnel among the dead — despite Russia’s claims that it attacks only military targets. Several relatives of the fallen soldier were killed in the attack, including his widow. A child named Ivan was also among the dead.
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, deployed a field team to the site to speak to survivors and gather more information about the Hroza attack, spokeswoman Liz Throssell said in a statement. It is clear that “everybody in this small community has been affected,” she said.
An overnight attack on the port city of Odessa hit a boardinghouse, play area and port infrastructure, Ukraine’s southern command said. “The enemy attacked Odessa with supersonic anti-ship missiles of the ‘Onyx’ type, launched from the coastal missile complex” in Crimea, it posted on Telegram. Residential buildings were damaged, with four people suffering injures.
Russian envoy Mikhail Ulyanov said that Russia plans to revoke its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the United States in a post on social media Friday. TheKremlin said Friday that any decision to revoke its ratification of the treaty would not signify intent to conduct nuclear tests, while Washington said the move would endanger global norms.
The Netherlands will allocate about $108 million in a new support package for Ukraine, the Dutch government said Friday. About $32 million will go toward buying gas and bolstering electricity ahead of winter, and about $64 million will go to Dutch companies helping with Ukraine’s reconstruction, a statement said.
Russia will begin delivering grain to African nations within the next month and a half, Russian news agency Interfax reported. In July, Moscow pulled out of a key deal that allowed for the safe wartime transport of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea, and has since said that it could replace Ukraine as a grain supplier to the African continent.
The United States will restrict trade with 42 Chinese companies because of their support for developing Moscow’s military technology and providing Russia with U.S.-origin integrated circuits, the U.S. Commerce Department said Friday, Reuters reported.
The United States expelled two Russian diplomats from the country in retaliation for the expulsion of two U.S. diplomats in Moscow last month, according to the State Department. “The department will not tolerate the Russian government’s pattern of harassment of our diplomats,” spokesman Matthew Miller said, the Associated Press reported. “Unacceptable actions against our embassy personnel in Moscow will have consequences.”
Russia said it had foiled a Ukrainian drone attack in the Black Sea near Crimea overnight. The Defense Ministry said in a statement on Telegram there had been “an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack,” but was “stopped.” Air defense systems on a “small missile boat of the Black Sea Fleet detected and destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle,” close to the southwestern coast of the Crimean Peninsula, it added.
Zelensky warned in his nightly address that Russia “will once again try to destroy our energy system” this winter. Ukraine is “preparing for winter, protecting our generation facilities, ensuring electricity and heat,” he said.
Russia said at least one person had died in the Belgorod region, after Ukraine’s military “fired at the village of Urazovo.” The regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said Saturday that “the man was on the street at the time of the shelling, and he died on the spot from his wounds.” At least 14 houses were also damaged, he said, and emergency services were on-site. Gladkov said three Tochka-U tactical missiles in the region had also been shot down by Russia’s air defense systems over Belgorod and the town of Novy Oskol.
Ukraine has reportedly advanced in western Zaporizhzhia, the Washington-based think tank Institute for the Study of War said in an analysis Friday. Citing Ukrainian military sources, the institute said that Kyiv’s forces have conducted successful offensive actions south of Bakhmut and advanced toward a tree line between Robotyne and Verbove.
Ukraine battles to shape the narrative on its grueling counteroffensive: Four months of brutal fighting and steep losses have not yielded the counteroffensive results that Ukraine and its Western backers hoped for, but in recent weeks they have focused on reshaping the narrative.
They’re seeking to manage expectations and, as winter approaches, shore up support, which has begun to waver in some Western countries including the United States, Emily Rauhala, Alex Horton and Mary Ilyushina report.
In recent news conferences, typically restrained briefers have departed from their notes to urge journalists to look beyond trench-to-trench developments and to consider the “fuller picture” of the war, in a bid to control the narrative of how the world views the conflict….