Four million people in Ukraine are without electricity due to Russian bombing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced in his traditional evening speech.
For a week, the Russian military has bombed Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, and the Kiev region energy operator has warned that unprecedented power outages are on the way.
Russian forces in Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region are carrying out mass thefts of medical equipment and ambulances to make the area uninhabitable, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, quoted by Reuters.
Ukrainian troops have massed near Kherson in the south of the country, prompting Russian-appointed officials to evacuate many residents. Kherson is one of four regions that Moscow claims are part of Russia.
“The occupiers have decided to close the medical facilities in the cities, seize medical equipment, ambulances, everything. They are putting pressure on the doctors who are still left … to move to the territory of Russia. “ Zelensky said.
“Russia is trying to turn the Kherson region into a no-man’s land”, he added in a video speech, saying that pro-Russian forces had realized they couldn’t hold the city and therefore were taking what they could.
Ukrainian officials regularly accuse retreating Russian troops of looting, Reuters recalls.
Over 69,000 Russian fighters have been killed since the war began
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion – on February 24 until October 28, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated nearly 69,700 Moscow fighters, the Ukrainian staff announced on Facebook, as quoted by Ukrinform.
Kiev troops have so far destroyed 2,640 Russian army tanks, 5,378 armored cars, 1,698 artillery systems, 379 skeet missile systems, 192 anti-aircraft weapons, 272 aircraft, 251 helicopters, 351 cruise missiles, 16 ships and boats, etc. . The data is specified, adds the agency.
Kiev doubts that Russia has completed the mobilization
Zelensky disputed Moscow’s claim that the partial mobilization had ended.
“Although Russia is trying to increase the pressure on our positions by using mobilized people, they are so poorly prepared and equipped, used so ruthlessly by the command that it allows us to assume that Russia may soon need a new wave of people to send to war. We are preparing for this – we are preparing for the fact that the current Russian leadership will seek new opportunities to continue the war. In particular thanks to their accomplices in Iran “.
According to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, 82,000 Russian troops are already in Ukraine.
The announcement of the end of the mobilization came shortly after the Russian-appointed Kherson administration announced that the evacuation of the city’s residents had ended.
In the past 24 hours there has been rocket and artillery fire north of the southern city of Kherson by both the Ukrainian and Russian forces.
Over 14 million people have fled Ukraine
According to data from the UN refugee agency, a total of 14.3 million people have fled Ukraine so far, DPA reported.
Three quarters of them went to the four neighboring countries of the EU: Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
According to a study by international agencies, more than seven million people were displaced in Ukraine in August.
Most of them are women and nearly a third have been displaced more than once, according to a joint report published by the EU Asylum Agency, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the ‘International Organization for Migration (IOM). .
At the same time, more than six million displaced people in or from Ukraine have decided to return to their homes by August.
Kadyrov announced successes in Ukraine
Units of the Chechen Republic of Russia control 1,200 kilometers of front lines in Ukraine, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov told Telegram today, TASS reported.
“Nearly 10,000 true children of the Chechen people are fighting at the forefront of the battles and every week they receive reinforcements, at least 200 people, from the republican capital Grozny alone.” says Kadyrov.
Russian forces at the front “have no problems with weapons, ammunition, ammunition, personal protective equipment and food” – “All the necessary medicines, equipment and automotive equipment are available”, he assures.
The Chechen leader also reported on Telegram about the “successes of the separate special operation” Vazmezdie “in Ukraine – according to him, from 25 to 27 tm, Russian forces killed 657 Ukrainian soldiers in the Nikolaev and Kryvyi Rih area and remained injured another 300, and around the city of Soledar – 95 fighters from Kiev, they also destroyed more than 50 pieces of equipment, reported the Russian online publication “Lenta”.
