The Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree under which martial law is introduced in the four Ukrainian regions that Russia has illegally annexed: those of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, reports the Tass. In his speech to the Russian Security Council, Putin issued a decree restricting movement in and out of eight regions bordering Ukraine. The measures apply to the southern regions of Krasnodar, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov and the territories of Crimea and Sevastopol, which Russia annexed in 2014, according to the Guardian.
Kiev rejects any proposal for dialogue and so “the attacks continue, civilians are dying,” Putin said at the meeting of the Russian Security Council, as reported by Interfax. “The constitutional laws on the admission of the four new regions to the Russian Federation – he said – have come into force. As is well known, the Kiev regime has refused to recognize the will and choice of the people and rejects any proposal for dialogue. Rather, the attacks continue. Civilians are dying, “Putin said.
Russian forces eliminated the Ukrainian assault force near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, killing more than 90 soldiers and destroying 14 boats: the leaders of the Russian army announced this, underlining that there were no casualties or damage to the power plant and that the radioactivity levels are normal. At the same time, Russian state-owned nuclear power supplier Rosatom said the situation at the plant was “absolutely under control”. Previously, Russian authorities reported that they had foiled two Ukrainian attempts to take over the plant.
Air alarm in most of the regions of Ukraine: from Kiev to Odessa. Sirens are also ringing in Mykolaiv and Poltava, Chernihiv, Zaporozhzhia, Kirovograd and Cherkasy. This was stated by Sergei Bratchuk, adviser to the head of the Odessa regional military administration, as reported by Ria Novosti. “Alarm. Everyone in the shelters,” he wrote on his Telegram channel Bratchuk. Explosions were heard in central Kiev. This was reported by the AFP correspondent in the Ukrainian capital.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces “started an offensive in the direction of Novaya Kamenka-Berislav in the Kherson region“On the field there are” up to two infantry battalions of the 128th assault brigade and one tank battalion of the 17th brigade, “said the deputy head of the pro-Russian regional administration Kirill Stremousov, quoted by the Interfax news agency. The preparations preceded the offensive attack. There are a lot of Ukrainian intermediate-range drones and a reconnaissance plane, ”Stremousov said.
“About 50 employees of the Zaporizhzhia power plant are prisoners of the Russians“The Ukrainian operator Energoatom told AFP. According to the head of the regional military administration of Mykolayiv Vitaly Kim” the Russians are preparing to bomb Kherson, which is occupied by them “.” They are evacuating the population, they say. that the Ukrainian armed forces will shoot, hit Kherson. But knowing the Russian tactics I have a feeling that the Russians are preparing to strike Kherson, “said Kim, quoted by UNIAN.
The Russians hit the Burshtynskaya TPP thermal power plant in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of southeastern Ukraine and a fire broke out. This was claimed by Svitlana Onyshchuk, head of the regional military administration of Ivano-Frankivsk, as reported by UNIAN. “Today, our region was hit by rockets again. They hit Burshtynskaya TPP causing a fire. All services are working, rescuers are on the spot,” he said, adding that there are no casualties.
The Russian military opened fire on ambulances in the community of Dvorichna, in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine. The Center for Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Medicine of the Kharkiv Regional Council wrote on Facebook, as reported by Ukrinform. “The enemy continues to wreak terror among civilians in the liberated areas of Kharkiv with missile attacks. In today’s bombing of the Dvorichna district, three specialized emergency medical services vehicles were severely damaged, some employees of the Emergency Service remained wounded”.
In the occupied areas, the Russians are looting museums and burning Ukrainian-language books: this was stated by the Ukrainian Army General Staff in its morning report, as reported by Ukrinform. “The invaders destroy Ukrainian cultural heritage in the occupied territories, looting museums and burning Ukrainian literature books,” the report reads. The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has documented more than 500 cases of Russian war crimes against Ukrainian cultural heritage.
“Russia’s targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure are marking a new chapter in an already cruel war. The international order is clear. These are war crimes. Targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure with the clear aim of depriving men, women and children of water, electricity and heating as winter approaches. These are acts of pure terror. And we have to call them as such “, said the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in the European Parliament. “Russia has again attacked Kiev with nearly 30 drones, killing innocent people, including a pregnant woman. Not a day goes by without Putin and his regime giving terrible news and lies.” This was underlined by the EPP group leader Manfred Weber in the debate on the European Council in plenary in Strasbourg. “Taking into account all the victims, we never tire of saying that Putin is a war criminal. Putin must lose and Europe will never stop supporting Ukraine. Never. This message unites us,” Weber remarked at the Plenary. , where the debate also touched on the words of Silvio Berlusconi on Putin.
At least four civilians died and another 12 were injured in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine during yesterday’s Russian attacks, the regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said, as reported by the Kyiv Independent. Kyrylenko specified that civilians were killed in Kurakhovo, Bakhmut, Kurdiumivka and Siversk. Additionally, the bodies of eight other civilians were found in the liberated city of Lyman.
Pro-Russian authorities in the Kherson region plan to evacuate around 50,000-60,000 people to the left bank of the Dnieper River In a week. This was stated by the interim governor Volodymyr Saldo aired on Solovyov Live, as reported by Ria Novosti. The commander of the Integrated Group of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, Army General Sergey Surovikin, said yesterday that the Russian Armed Forces were in possession of information that Kiev was preparing a massive missile attack on the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. .
Igor ‘Strelkov’ Girkin, accused of torture and murders among other things by the Kiev prosecutor’s office, reappeared on Telegram where he wrote: “Active in the Russian army since October 14”. Unian reports it. Two days ago Ukrainian military intelligence (Gur) put a $ 100,000 bounty on his head and today, intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov claims “Girkin has already arrived in the occupied territories of Ukraine.” Nicknamed ‘Strelkov-il rifleman ‘or’ shooter ‘, played a key role in the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014. An international arrest warrant issued by the Netherlands weighs on him for the missile that destroyed the Malaysian Mh17 civil plane in which 298 died. people.
One third of the power plants out of order due to Russian raidswith more than 1,100 locations across Ukraine still without electricity. The capital Kiev, for hours in the dark, under a shower of kamikaze drones. And the Moscow army which, after more than a month on the defensive, threatens to return to the attack starting from the Kharkiv region, a symbol of the defeat at the end of the summer. Ten days after the Kremlin’s appointment as sole commander of the offensive, the scorched earth strategy imposed by ‘General Armageddon’ Serghei Surovikin hits Ukrainian civilians harder and harder: a ruthless imprint now evident, with the aim of weakening the resistance of the population, while the Russian troops reorganize.
“Another type of Russian terrorist attacks: targeting energy and critical infrastructure. Since October 10, 30% of Ukrainian power plants have been destroyed, causing massive blackouts across the country” – from Kiev to Kryvyi Rih, from Kharkiv in Dnipro, about four thousand settlements hit by blackouts in 10 days – is the budget released by President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to which “there is no more room for negotiations with the Putin regime”. The margin for negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, always very low, is currently zeroed even according to the key mediator of the crisis, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, fresh from last week’s meeting in Astana with the tsar, who has defined a direct dialogue “now impossible”.
Meanwhile, the new course of the conflict has definitively plunged into terror even the Kiev region, the scene of most of the 190 raids that in one week they caused over 70 victims and 240 injured. The last two deaths in the capital just a few hours ago, when yet another energy plant in the Ukrainian capital was attacked, which remained for hours in the dark in various neighborhoods. Critical infrastructure remains the main focus of the hammering of Moscow with missiles, drones and artillery, sounding constant air alerts across the country. Raids that were harshly condemned by the international community, with the leaders of France and Great Britain, Emmanuel Macron and Liz Truss, denouncing “barbarian attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine”.
Under new pressure, Ukraine returns to invoke the delivery of long-range weapons from the West and collects from NATO the promise of a delivery within days of defense systems against the fearsome Iranian drones Shahed. Kiev also intensifies pressure on Israel, to which it has sent an official request for the supply of an air defense system. “If Israel’s policy really consists in constantly opposing Iran’s destructive actions, then it is time it openly sided with Ukraine,” said Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who at the same time proposed to Zelensky to stop the diplomatic relations with Tehran, which sells weapons to Moscow, including missiles, but has always denied that they are used for the offensive.
Meanwhile, on the ground, Putin’s forces are preparing to relaunch military operations in the Kharkiv oblast. The Moscow Defense claimed that it had regained control of the village of Gorobyevka, which would be the first to return to Russian hands after the resounding retreat in September. In the region, Kiev denounced, the bombing of energy infrastructures continues, while missiles launched from the Belgorod border area hit a warehouse for humanitarian aid.
On the other hand, no offensive movement appears at the moment from Belarus, where joint troops from Moscow and Minsk have been deployed. These forces, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin assured, “will not attack anyone” because their mission “is strictly defensive”.
“About five million residents of Donbass and the southeastern regions of Ukraine have found refuge in Russia.” This was stated by the secretary of the Moscow Security Council, Nikolaj Patrushev, at the end of today’s meeting of the body, chaired by Vladimir Putin, as reported by Interfax.
