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G7 leaders warn of 'severe consequences' if Russia uses nuclear weapons
The leaders of the G7 have condemned Russia's most recent missile attacks in Ukraine "in the strongest possible terms", and vowed to stand "firmly" with Kyiv "for as long as it takes".
The "indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilian populations constitute a war crime" by Russian forces, they said in a joint statement following their meeting with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
They vowed to hold President Vladimir Putin and those responsible for the attacks on Ukraine to account.
They also said they would "never recognise" Russia's "illegal annexation" of Ukrainian territory or "the sham referenda that Russia uses to justify it".
The statement continued:
No country wants peace more than Ukraine, whose people have suffered death, displacement and countless atrocities as the result of Russian aggression.
Leaders "deplore deliberate Russian escalatory steps', including the partial mobilisation of reservists and "irresponsible" nuclear rhetoric, it said:
We reaffirm that any use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons by Russia would be met with severe consequences.
It added:
We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support and will stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes.
Roughly 30% of the Ukraine's energy infrastructure has been hit by Russia since Monday, officials said.
The Kremlin has confirmed that President Vladimir Putin will meet his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Thursday to discuss Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin has told the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency that he is "open to dialogue" on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Elon Musk denied a report that he spoke with Putin before tweeting a proposal to end the war in Ukraine that would have seen territory permanently handed over to Russia.
Belarus' defence ministry has said the joint deployment of forces with Russia on its borders is a defensive measure. The moves were to ensure "security" along the border between Belarus and Ukraine, it claimed.
A deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been kidnapped by Russian forces, Ukraine's state nuclear energy company Energoatom said.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Russia's military strikes have damaged hundreds of cultural sites around Ukraine, the AP reports.
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\nForensic investigators on Tuesday lifted a black plastic bag from the trench and unzipped it to reveal a decomposed body in a bloody uniform of the Ukrainian armed forces. The remains were briefly inspected by investigators, then placed in another body bag and set among several others beside the trench. Authorities said children have been found among the dead, and that most victims appeared to have died as the result of the heavy shelling that besieged the city for months.
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Authorities said the investigation was ongoing and that it was too soon to say whether the victims showed signs of execution or torture, the AP also reported.
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It's 9pm in Kyiv and Moscow. Here's where we stand:
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Russia continued to attack key infrastructure in Ukraine with missile strikes on Tuesday. Amid warnings from the UN and some Nato countries that Moscow may be committing a war crime with its continuing deadly blitz on civilian targets, Russia's defence ministry confirmed its troops continued to launch long-range air strikes on Ukraine's energy and military infrastructure.
\n The leaders of the G7 have condemned Russia's most recent missile attacks in Ukraine "in the strongest possible terms", and vowed to stand "firmly" with Kyiv "for as long as it takes". The "indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilian populations constitute a war crime" by Russian forces, they said in a joint statement following their meeting with President Zelenskiy.
\n Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has warned leaders of the G7 nations that President Vladimir Putin still has "room for escalation". Zelenskiy also called on G7 leaders for more air defence capabilities to stop Russia and to help Ukraine fund an air defence system after dozens of Russian attacks knocked out power facilities across the country.
\n President Zelenskiy has accused Russia of trying to directly draw Belarus into its war in Ukraine. Zelenskiy, who joined a virtual meeting with heads of the Group of Seven nations on Tuesday, called on leaders to support an international monitoring mission on the Ukraine-Belarus border. Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, said the mobilisation of troops in Belarus poses a threat to Ukraine's supply lines in the north of the country.
\n Belarus' defence ministry has said the joint deployment of forces with Russia on its borders is a defensive measure. The moves were to ensure "security" along the border between Belarus and Ukraine, it claimed. On Monday, the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, said he had ordered troops to deploy with Russian forces near Ukraine in response to what he said was a clear threat to Belarus from Kyiv and its western allies.
\n Nato is "closely monitoring" Russia's nuclear forces, its secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said. The Russian leader's veiled nuclear threats are "dangerous and irresponsible", Stoltenberg said. He added that any deliberate attack against allies' critical infrastructure "would be met with a united and determined response".
\n A deputy head of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been kidnapped by Russian forces, Ukraine's state nuclear energy company Energoatom has said. Valeriy Martynyuk was seized on Monday and is being detained in an unknown location, Energoatom said in a post on Telegram.
\n President Vladimir Putin has told the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, that the situation around Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is "of concern". At a meeting in St Petersburg broadcast on Russian state television, Putin told Grossi that Moscow was open to dialogue and would discuss "all issues" concerning the nuclear facility's operations.
\n Turkey's foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, has called for a ceasefire in Ukraine just days ahead of a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Vladimir Putin. Çavuşoğlu urged "a viable ceasefire and a just peace" based on Ukraine's territorial integrity. Erdoğan and Putin are expected to meet on Thursday in Kazakhstan's capital Astana to discuss Ukraine and bilateral relations, the Kremlin confirmed.
\n Moscow would not turn down a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, at the G20 meeting next month, Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said. Moscow was open to talks with the west on the Ukraine war but had yet to receive any "serious offers" to negotiate, Lavrov said in an interview on Russian state television.
\n Vladimir Putin has made strategic errors in his pursuit of the war in Ukraine partly because there are so few restraints on his leadership, according to the head of the British spy agency GCHQ. Russia's soldiers are running out of supplies and munitions and initial gains made by Moscow are being reversed, Jeremy Fleming said in a rare public address.
\n Western diplomats are predicting that the number of countries voting to oppose the illegal annexation of parts of eastern Ukraine will have fallen from a similar vote held at the UN in March. The UN's general assembly is due to vote this week on an EU-sponsored motion condemning the annexation of parts of eastern Ukraine off the back of sham referendums.
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Elon Musk has denied a report that he spoke with Vladimir Putin before tweeting a proposal to end the war in Ukraine that would have seen territory permanently handed over to Russia.
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\nWe very much hope that, thanks to your efforts, we will be able to reduce all rhetoric and bring this area of our cooperation to normal, despite all the turbulence and complex processes that are taking place on the world stage.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 3, 2022
- Redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision. Russia leaves if that is will of the people.
- Crimea formally part of Russia, as it has been since 1783 (until Khrushchev's mistake).
- Water supply to Crimea assured.
- Ukraine remains neutral.
The leaders of the G7 have condemned Russia's most recent missile attacks in Ukraine "in the strongest possible terms", and vowed to stand "firmly" with Kyiv "for as long as it takes".
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Leaders "deplore deliberate Russian escalatory steps', including the partial mobilisation of reservists and "irresponsible" nuclear rhetoric, it said:
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Russia continued to attack key infrastructure in Ukraine with missile strikes on Tuesday. Amid warnings from the UN and some Nato countries that Moscow may be committing a war crime with its continuing deadly blitz on civilian targets, Russia's defence ministry confirmed its troops continued to launch long-range air strikes on Ukraine's energy and military infrastructure.
\n The death toll from Monday's Russian missile attacks on a swathe of Ukrainian cities has risen to 19 people, with over 100 wounded, according to figures from the Ukrainian state emergency services. Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, warned on Monday of even more "severe retaliation" following Saturday's attack on the Kerch bridge linking Russia and Crimea.
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An attack on the Lviv region in western Ukraine on Tuesday left parts of the city without electricity. The mayor of the city, Andriy Sadovyi, appealed to residents to keep water supplies on hand ahead of expected service interruptions following Russian strikes which appear to have hit critical power infrastructure in the region.
\n Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has accused Russia of trying to directly draw Belarus into its war in Ukraine. Zelenskiy, who joined a virtual meeting with heads of the Group of Seven nations on Tuesday, called on leaders to support an international monitoring mission on the Ukraine-Belarus border. Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, said the mobilisation of troops in Belarus poses a threat to Ukraine's supply lines in the north of the country.
\n Belarus' defence ministry has said the joint deployment of forces with Russia on its borders is a defensive measure. The moves were to ensure "security" along the border between Belarus and Ukraine, it claimed. On Monday, the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, said he had ordered troops to deploy with Russian forces near Ukraine in response to what he said was a clear threat to Belarus from Kyiv and its western allies.
\n Nato is "closely monitoring" Russia's nuclear forces, its secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said. The Russian leader's veiled nuclear threats are "dangerous and irresponsible", Stoltenberg said. He added that any deliberate attack against allies' critical infrastructure "would be met with a united and determined response".
\n Six people have been injured in a second Russian strike at the Ladyzhyn thermal power plant (LTPP) in Ukraine's Vinnytsia region, according to reports. Russia targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure in a series of coordinated attacks across Ukraine for the second day in a row on Tuesday.
\n A deputy head of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been kidnapped by Russian forces, Ukraine's state nuclear energy company Energoatom has said. Valeriy Martynyuk was seized on Monday and is being detained in an unknown location, Energoatom said in a post on Telegram.
\n Turkey's foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, has called for a ceasefire in Ukraine just days ahead of a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Vladimir Putin. Çavuşoğlu urged "a viable ceasefire and a just peace" based on Ukraine's territorial integrity. Erdoğan and Putin are expected to meet on Thursday in Kazakhstan's capital Astana to discuss Ukraine and bilateral relations, the Kremlin confirmed.
\n Moscow would not turn down a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, at the G20 meeting next month, Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said. Moscow was open to talks with the west on the Ukraine war but had yet to receive any "serious offers" to negotiate, Lavrov said in an interview on Russian state television.
\n Vladimir Putin has made strategic errors in his pursuit of the war in Ukraine partly because there are so few restraints on his leadership, according to the head of the British spy agency GCHQ. Russia's soldiers are running out of supplies and munitions and initial gains made by Moscow are being reversed, Jeremy Fleming said in a rare public address.
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Western diplomats are predicting that the number of countries voting to oppose the illegal annexation of parts of eastern Ukraine will have fallen from a similar vote held at the UN in March. The UN's general assembly is due to vote this week on an EU-sponsored motion condemning the annexation of parts of eastern Ukraine off the back of sham referendums.
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Hello, Léonie Chao-Fong still here with all the latest news from Ukraine. Feel free to get in touch on Twitter or via email.
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It comes after the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, said he had ordered troops to deploy with Russian forces near Ukraine in response to what he said was a clear threat to Belarus from Kyiv and western backers.
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President Putin is "failing in Ukraine" and his "attempted annexations, partial mobilisation, and reckless nuclear rhetoric represent the most significant escalation since the start of the war", he said.
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But we remain vigilant.
The Kremlin has confirmed that President Vladimir Putin will meet his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Thursday to discuss Ukraine.
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He suggested Russia was willing to listen to any suggestions regarding peace talks:
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Speaking about the possibility that Turkey could host talks between Russia and the west, Lavrov said Moscow would be willing to listen to any suggestions but could not say in advance whether this would lead to results.
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The death toll from Monday's Russian missile attacks on a swathe of Ukrainian cities has risen to 19 people, with over 100 wounded, according to figures from the Ukrainian state emergency services.
\n Strikes continued on Tuesday. An attack on the Lviv region in western Ukraine on Tuesday left parts of the city without electricity. Governor Maksym Kozytskyi has said "At this moment, it is known about three explosions at two energy facilities in the Lviv region". Mayor of the city, Andriy Sadovyi, appealed to resident to keep water supplies on hand ahead of expected service interruptions.
\n The Ladyzhyn thermal power plant (LTPP) in the Vinnytsia region was struck on Tuesday morning. Regional head Serhiy Borzov said: "An attack was launched on the LTPP. Two Shahed-136 kamikaze drones."
\n There has been a lengthy air raid warning in place all morning in Kyiv, with governor Oleksiy Kuleba claiming that at least one rocket had been shot down.
\n Valentyn Reznichenko, the governor of Dnipro, has claimed that air defence systems had shot down four missiles over the region. Vitaliy Kim, the governor of Mykolaiv, has said that "there are still missiles in the air" and that Ukraine's air defences continue to work.
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The head of GCHQ has said the UK spy agency has not seen any indicators that Russia is preparing to use a tactical nuclear weapon in or around Ukraine despite recent bellicose statements from Vladimir Putin. Jeremy Fleming, speaking on Tuesday morning, said it was one of GCHQ's tasks to monitor whether the Kremlin was taking any of the preliminary steps needed before a tactical weapon was being made ready.
\n Fleming is expected to say in a rare public speech delivered later on Tuesday that Putin is making strategic errors due to unconstrained power. "Far from the inevitable Russian military victory that their propaganda machine spouted, it's clear that Ukraine's courageous action on the battlefield and in cyberspace is turning the tide," Fleming will say. "With little effective internal challenge, Putin's decision-making has proved flawed"
\n The deployment of a joint task-force of Russian and Belorussian troops within Belarus poses a threat to Ukraine's supply lines in the north of the country, according to Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's ambassador to the UK.
\n Prystaiko also said that Russia is "running out of sophisticated weapons" and using missiles like "dumb bombs", and said that Ukraine was still making progress on the frontline but "not as spectacular as it used to be a couple weeks ago". He said in the south "we are closing the circle" and that "there are almost 20,000 Russian soldiers there. If you manage to capture them it will be a huge blow for the whole campaign."
\n Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, leader of the democratic opposition in Belarus, has called on Russian soldiers to leave the country.
\n Belarus could face more sanctions if it gets more and more involved in the Ukraine conflict, France's foreign affairs minister Catherine Colonna told French radio
\n A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said "We are gravely concerned that some of the attacks appear to have targeted critical civilian infrastructure … indicating that these strikes may have violated the principles on the conduct of hostilities under international humanitarian law."
\n Mass bombardments of Ukrainian cities by Russia constitute war crimes under international law, the presidents of the Bucharest Nine group of countries, accompanied by the presidents of North Macedonia and Montenegro, said on Tuesday.
\n Thérèse Coffey, deputy prime minister of the UK, said Monday's strikes showed "this is a time for other countries to continue the level of support that they've been showing, and where necessary to escalate their level of support directly to the Ukrainian armed forces."
\n The German chancellor has attempted to make reassurances that the country's energy supply will be secure this winter. Olaf Scholz said: "I am happy to say to you today, if we all continue to adapt to the changed situation – the citizens, the companies and the politicians – then we will get safely through this winter."
\n Ukraine's ambassador to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, has called Russia a "terrorist state" at a General Assembly meeting on Monday night. Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, in turn accused Ukraine of rivalling "the most outrageous terrorist organisations" after a bridge linking Russia to the annexed Ukrainian territory of Crimea was attacked.
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A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said "We are gravely concerned that some of the attacks appear to have targeted critical civilian infrastructure … indicating that these strikes may have violated the principles on the conduct of hostilities under international humanitarian law."
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\nWe've seen, because of the declaration for mobilisation, that it's running short of troops. So I think the answer to that is pretty clear. Russia and Russia's commanders are worried about the state of their military machine.
\nThe word I've used is 'desperate'. We can see that desperation at many levels inside Russian society and inside the Russian military machine.
\nIt certainly doesn't imply complacency.
\nRussia, as we've seen in the dreadful attacks yesterday, still has a very capable military machine. It can launch weapons, it has deep, deep stocks and expertise. And yet, it is very broadly stretched in Ukraine.
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Fleming was also asked about the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons.
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Pressed on something specific the UK could offer, she continued:
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\nBut this is a time for other countries to continue the level of support that they've been showing, and where necessary to escalate their level of support directly to the Ukrainian armed forces, as we have done
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Israeli-Russian billionaire Yuri Milner said on Monday he has renounced his Russian citizenship after leaving the country in 2014.
Milner is the founder of internet investment firm DST Global, and made a fortune by betting on Chinese tech companies like e-commerce platforms Alibaba and JD.com.
"My family and I left Russia for good in 2014, after the Russian annexation of Crimea," Milner said in a tweet. "And this summer, we officially completed the process of renouncing our Russian citizenship."
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— Yuri Milner (@yurimilner) October 10, 2022
Milner has been an Israeli citizen since 1999 and has not visited Russia since 2014, according to a fact sheet on DST Global's website.
Milner also has no assets in Russia, 97% of his personal wealth was created outside of the country and "Yuri has never met Vladimir Putin, either individually or in a group," according to the website.
Ukraine's state emergency service has reported that the death toll from Russia's attacks on Ukrainian cities on 10 October has risen to 19, with the number of injured rising to over 105.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 11, 2022
Ukraine's State Emergency Service provided updated information on casualties following Russia's widespread missile attacks across Ukraine on Oct. 10.
Hong Kong's leader John Lee said Tuesday he will implement only United Nations sanctions – not US, UK or EU sanctions – after the US warned the territory's status as a financial centre could be affected if it acts as a safe haven for sanctioned individuals, AP reports.
Lee's statement Tuesday came days after a luxury yacht connected to Russian tycoon Alexey Mordashov docked in the city.
Mordashov, who is believed to have close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was sanctioned by the US, UK and the European Union in February after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Hong Kong authorities have said that they do not implement unilateral sanctions imposed by other governments.
"We cannot do anything that has no legal basis," Lee told reporters. "We will comply with United Nations sanctions, that is our system, that is our rule of law," he said.
A US State Department spokesperson said in a statement Monday that "the possible use of Hong Kong as a safe haven by individuals evading sanctions from multiple jurisdictions further calls into question the transparency of the business environment."
The State Department spokesperson also said the city's reputation as a financial centre "depends on its adherence to international laws and standards."
The UK Ministry of Defence has published its daily update from Ukraine, reporting that "the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that General Sergei Surovikin had been appointed as overall commander of its Joint Group of Forces conducting the 'special military operation' in Ukraine" on 8 October.
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— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) October 11, 2022
Find out more about the UK government's response: https://t.co/VbuADMF0JY
🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/S9P7kmoo0X
Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emine Dzheppar, reports that Russia fired at least fifteen rockets on Zaporizhzhia last night, targeting "an educational institution, a medical institution and residential buildings."
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— Emine Dzheppar (@EmineDzheppar) October 11, 2022
Citing the Oblast Military Administration, media outlet Ukrainska Pravda reports that that Ladyzhynska power plant in the southwestern city of Vinnytsia was shelled a short while ago by two Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.
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— Ukrainska Pravda in English (@pravda_eng) October 11, 2022
Ukranian state news agency Ukrinform reports that 98 miners are still trapped underground following Russia's shelling of Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian president Vlodymyr Zelensky's home town.
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G7 leaders will hold crisis talks with Zelenskiy in attendance. The leaders are likely to discuss the global energy crisis sparked by Russia's invasion, amid plans to introduce a global cap on the price of Russian oil to target Putin's revenues.
\n UK Prime Minister Liz Truss is expected to call for a full meeting of Nato leaders to happen in the coming days
\n United Arab Emirates president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan will visit Moscow on Tuesday to meet Putin.
\n Jeremy Fleming, the head of the British spy agency GCHQ will say in a speech on Tuesday that Vladimir Putin has made strategic errors in his pursuit of the war in Ukraine partly because there are so few restraints on his leadership.
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The UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss, is expected to call for a full meeting of Nato leaders in coming days as the G7 holds crisis talks on Tuesday following Russian strikes on Kyiv and other major Ukrainian cities.
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The G7 video call will also be attended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
G7 leaders are also likely to discuss the global energy crisis sparked by Russia's invasion, amid plans to introduce a global cap on the price of Russian oil to target Putin's revenues, PA reports.
Ukraine stepped up calls for western allies to provide anti-air and anti-missile systems in response to Monday's strikes, which have so far killed 14 and injured 97.
Kyiv was targeted for the first time in months, while Russia also hit civilian areas and energy infrastructure across the country, from Kharkiv in the east to Lviv near the Polish border.
The death toll from Russia's strikes on Kyiv and other cities on 10 October has risen to 14, while 97 have been injured, Ukraine's State Emergency Services said in an update on Monday night.
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","elementId":"2b558f16-d7ed-4f55-b914-0ffdbd50ded0"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TweetBlockElement","html":"\n","url":"https://twitter.com/SESU_UA/status/1579539268934201344?s=20&t=Yi3dqrj5VAhRjFwryz59FQ","id":"1579539268934201344","hasMedia":false,"role":"inline","isThirdPartyTracking":false,"source":"Twitter","elementId":"dabeba19-8f8d-45f8-a069-00aab14e169b"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"🔸Станом на 21:00 внаслідок ракетних обстрілів залишаються знеструмленими 1 тис. 307 населених пунктів у Київській (13), Львівській (353), Сумській (766),Тернопільській (169) та Хмельницькій (6) областях.
— DSNS.GOV.UA (@SESU_UA) October 10, 2022
🔸Загинуло 14 осіб, травмовано 97 осіб. pic.twitter.com/3qAydhDW70
Many of the locations hit by cruise missiles and kamikaze drones during the morning rush hour appeared to be solely civilian sites or key pieces of infrastructure, apparently chosen to terrorise Ukrainians.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 11, 2022
Russian forces targeted an infrastructure site in the city of Zaporizhzhia, according to Zaporizhzhia Oblast Governor Oleksandr Starukh. Information on casualties and damages has not yet been reported.
The Guardian has not confirmed this independently. We will bring you more shortly.
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his country was "dealing with terrorists" and accused Russia of targeting power facilities and civilians following the missile attacks. "They deliberately chose such a time, such goals, in order to cause as much harm as possible," the Ukrainian leader said.
\n US president Joe Biden said the US "strongly condemns" the Russian missile strikes on cities across Ukraine, which demonstrate Putin's "utter brutality" against the Ukrainian people. In a separate statement, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said the international community "has a responsibility" to make clear that Putin's actions are "completely unacceptable".
\n The United Nations general assembly voted to reject Russia's call for the 193-member body to hold a secret ballot later this week on whether to condemn Moscow's move to annex four partially occupied regions in Ukraine. Diplomats said the vote on the resolution would likely be on Wednesday or Thursday.
\n Australian troops could help train Ukraine's armed forces following Russia's "appalling" attack on Kyiv, the country's Defence Minister, Richard Marles, said on Tuesday.
\n Members of the Group of Seven, and Zelenskiy, will hold emergency talks on Tuesday, a German government spokesperson has confirmed. Zelenskiy confirmed he would address G7 leaders, adding that he had spoken to Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz, about increasing pressure on Russia as well as aid for Ukraine.
\n Vladimir Putin has made strategic errors in his pursuit of the war in Ukraine partly because there are so few restraints on his leadership, the head of the British spy agency GCHQ will say in a speech on Tuesday.
\n The former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has been included on a list of wanted persons put together by Ukraine security officials. A statement released by Ukraine's security service, the SBU, said Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security, was wanted under a section of the criminal code dealing with attempts to undermine Ukraine's territorial integrity and the inviolability of its borders. Most of the Russian Security Council's members are on the list.
\n The International Committee of the Red Cross has confirmed its teams have paused their field work in Ukraine for security reasons. The Norwegian Refugee Council have also said that it has paused its aid operations in Ukraine until it is safe to resume. "Our aid workers are hiding from a barrage of bombs and in fear of repeated attacks," it said.
\n The president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, will visit Moscow on Tuesday to meet Putin, UAE state media reported. Mohamed "will discuss with President Putin the friendly relations between the UAE and Russia along with a number of regional and international issues and developments of common interest", the UAE's state-owned news agency WAM said.
\n The European Union has announced it will extend a bloc-wide protection scheme for Ukrainian refugees into 2024. Ukrainians in the EU who choose to return to their country will still be able to maintain their refugee status, as long as they notify the relevant EU country of their move, according to the EU's home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson.
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Key events
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Russian strikes have damaged hundreds of cultural sites, Zelenskiy says
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Ukraine says 30% of energy infrastructure hit by Russia's missiles
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Bodies exhumed from mass grave in Lyman
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Summary of the day so far
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Elon Musk denies he spoke to Putin before Ukraine war tweet
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Putin tells IAEA chief he is 'open to dialogue' on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
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Elon Musk spoke to Putin before tweeting Ukraine peace plan - report
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G7 leaders warn of 'severe consequences' if Russia uses nuclear weapons
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Zelenskiy warns G7 leaders that Putin 'still has room for further escalation'
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Zelenskiy accuses Russia of 'trying to directly draw Belarus into this war'
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Nato 'closely monitoring' Russia's nuclear forces
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Putin to meet Erdoğan on Thursday to discuss Ukraine
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Lavrov: Russia would consider Putin-Biden meeting at G20
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UN official 'concerned' Russian attacks may have 'violated the principles on the conduct of hostilities'
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Parts of Lviv without electricity after attack on critical infrastructure – mayor
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'Desperation' spreading in Russian military and society, says GCHQ
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UK spy chief: 'supplies and munitions are running out' for Russia
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Ukraine's emergency services: 19 died, 105 wounded in yesterday's attacks
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UK's deputy PM: 'other countries' should 'escalate level of support directly to Ukrainian armed forces'
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Israeli-Russian billionaire Yuri Milner renounces citizenship
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Death toll from 10 October strikes rises to 19
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Hong Kong leader will implement only UN sanctions – not US, UK or EU sanctions
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Russian MoD 'increasingly factional', says UK
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15 explosions registered in Zaporizhzhia overnight – Ukraine deputy foreign affairs minister
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Reports of shelling in Vinnytsia
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98 miners trapped underground following Russian strikes – Ukraine state media
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UK PM expected to call for full meeting of Nato leaders as G7 to hold crisis talks
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Death toll in 10 October strikes on Ukraine rises to 14
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Reports of strikes overnight in Zaporizhzhia
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We're closing the blog for now, but we'll be back soon with more. For now, some key links and updates from the day:
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Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, asked G7 leaders to supply more air defence systems and for an international monitoring mission on the Belarusian border.
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The UN and some Nato countries warned that Moscow may be committing a war crime with its continuing deadly blitz on civilian targets.
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The French president, Emmanuel Macron, described the attack, in which cruise missiles and armed drones rained down on parks, playgrounds, power stations and other civilian targets, as "a profound change in the nature of this war".
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Roughly 30% of the Ukraine's energy infrastructure has been hit by Russia since Monday, officials said.
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The Kremlin has confirmed that President Vladimir Putin will meet his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Thursday to discuss Ukraine.
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Vladimir Putin has told the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency that he is "open to dialogue" on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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Elon Musk denied a report that he spoke with Putin before tweeting a proposal to end the war in Ukraine that would have seen territory permanently handed over to Russia.
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Belarus' defence ministry has said the joint deployment of forces with Russia on its borders is a defensive measure. The moves were to ensure "security" along the border between Belarus and Ukraine, it claimed.
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A deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been kidnapped by Russian forces, Ukraine's state nuclear energy company Energoatom said.
Russian strikes have damaged hundreds of cultural sites, Zelenskiy says
Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Russia's military strikes have damaged hundreds of cultural sites around Ukraine, the AP reports.
In a speech to Unesco, the Ukrainian president urged the UN cultural agency to expel Russia, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Unesco World Heritage Committee. Zelenskiy said Ukraine was nominating the Black Sea city of Odesa to be inscribed on the agency's World Heritage list, AP reported. He also said that 540 "objects of cultural heritage, cultural institutions and religious buildings" have been destroyed or damaged since the start of Russia's invasion in February. He added:
Why are representatives of Russia still among you? What are they doing at Unesco?"
As millions in Ukraine are facing blackouts due to the Russian missile attacks on energy infrastructure, the government has urged civilians to cut their electricity use and not use domestic appliances such as ovens and washing machines, Reuters reports:
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Ukrainians had voluntarily cut their electricity consumption by an average of 10% on Monday after Russia's attacks, and urged them to limit use between 5pm and 11pm local time on Tuesday.
"We are united and will stand firm," he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
"Please don't turn on energy-intensive appliances: electric stoves, electric kettles, power tools, heaters and air conditioners, ovens and irons, microwave ovens, coffee makers, washing machines and dishwashers."
Ukraine says 30% of energy infrastructure hit by Russia's missiles
Ukraine's energy minister, Herman Halushchenko, has told CNN that Russian missiles have hit roughly 30% of the country's energy infrastructure since Monday.
Halushchenko said:
We send this message to our partners: we need to protect the sky. Russians they are not playing on some games on international laws. They don't care about any kind of international agreements or conventions."
He also told CNN that this was the first time since the start of war that Russia had "dramatically targeted" Ukraine's energy infrastructure and that Ukraine was working to reconnect quickly from other sources.
Russia's defence ministry earlier confirmed that its troops were continuing long-range air strikes on Ukraine's military and energy infrastructure. Reports suggested that six people were injured in a second Russian strike at the Ladyzhyn thermal power plant (LTPP) in Ukraine's Vinnytsia region.
Halushchenko's comments come after some Nato countries and the UN have warned that Russia may be committing a war crime with its ongoing attack on civilian targets.
Ukrainians in Prague rallied this evening to protest Russian missile strikes, the AP reports:
The protesters held blue-and-yellow crosses with the names of the cities hit by the Russian missiles.
"Ukraine needs air defenses to be able to prevent the massacres of the civilian population and destruction of our cities," Anastasiia Sihnaievska told the crowd.
"We are protecting our right to live," said Sihnaievska, who fled her town of Zhytomyr because of the Russian invasion. People chanted "Russia's terrorist!" and "More weapons for Ukraine!"They unveiled a giant Ukrainian flag and displayed banners that read "Air defense systems for Ukraine," "We will not forget, We will not forgive," and "Stop bombing Ukraine."
Some photos below from the demonstration, which as the AP noted, came the same day that the presidents of Czechia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Montenegro said the missile strikes against Ukrainian civilians "constitute war crimes under international law".
The US will be watching which nations side with Russia at Wednesday's General Assembly vote on the resolution condemning Russian annexations in eastern Ukraine, the US ambassador to the UN said today, CNN reports.
— Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield (@USAmbUN) October 11, 2022President Putin's attempt to annex regions of Ukraine is a brazen violation of the UN Charter.
All Member States must make that clear this week.
We must stand together. pic.twitter.com/UBwtOOp2E7
Linda Thomas-Greenfield said there were roughly 70 co-sponsors of the resolution and that the vote was geared toward "defending the UN" and its charter, the network reported. She said she couldn't predict how China, India or other nations would vote.
Earlier in the week, Russia unsuccessfully pushed for a secret ballot for the vote.
Bodies exhumed from mass grave in Lyman
Forensic workers in protective gear pulled several bodies wrapped in black plastic from a mass grave in Ukraine's liberated city of Lyman today as authorities work to assess the death toll and damage from more than four months of Russian occupation, the Associated Press reports.
An AP reporter said that 10 body bags lay beside a roughly 100ft (30-metre) trench, and that authorities said 32 bodies had been exhumed so far in the city, which is in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. The head of the Donetsk region's military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said the victims in the mass grave were Ukrainian soldiers, and that there were also 22 civilians buried in individual graves at the site, located by a cemetery on the outskirts of Lyman.
This was the second burial site uncovered in Lyman so far. More background from the AP:
As Ukrainian authorities entered the city, they found that many civilian residents had been killed by shelling. Others, mostly older people, had died during the Russian occupation because of a lack of food and medicine, Mark Tkachenko, communications inspector for the Kramatorsk district police of the Donetsk region, told the AP.
The destruction in Lyman, a key rail and transit hub, is so widespread that large portions of the city have been completely destroyed. Ukrainian authorities are now working to restore basic infrastructure and investigate how civilians lived and died during the Russian occupation.
Forensic investigators on Tuesday lifted a black plastic bag from the trench and unzipped it to reveal a decomposed body in a bloody uniform of the Ukrainian armed forces. The remains were briefly inspected by investigators, then placed in another body bag and set among several others beside the trench. Authorities said children have been found among the dead, and that most victims appeared to have died as the result of the heavy shelling that besieged the city for months.
Authorities said the investigation was ongoing and that it was too soon to say whether the victims showed signs of execution or torture, the AP also reported.
More from the AP reporter on the ground:
Strikes on Dnipro today killed four people and injured 19. Miraculously, no one travelling on this city bus at morning rush hour was killed. pic.twitter.com/4iqQKvtivS
— Justin Spike (@jspikebudapest) October 10, 2022
Summary of the day so far
It's 9pm in Kyiv and Moscow. Here's where we stand:
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Russia continued to attack key infrastructure in Ukraine with missile strikes on Tuesday. Amid warnings from the UN and some Nato countries that Moscow may be committing a war crime with its continuing deadly blitz on civilian targets, Russia's defence ministry confirmed its troops continued to launch long-range air strikes on Ukraine's energy and military infrastructure.
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The leaders of the G7 have condemned Russia's most recent missile attacks in Ukraine "in the strongest possible terms", and vowed to stand "firmly" with Kyiv "for as long as it takes". The "indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilian populations constitute a war crime" by Russian forces, they said in a joint statement following their meeting with President Zelenskiy.
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Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has warned leaders of the G7 nations that President Vladimir Putin still has "room for escalation". Zelenskiy also called on G7 leaders for more air defence capabilities to stop Russia and to help Ukraine fund an air defence system after dozens of Russian attacks knocked out power facilities across the country.
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President Zelenskiy has accused Russia of trying to directly draw Belarus into its war in Ukraine. Zelenskiy, who joined a virtual meeting with heads of the Group of Seven nations on Tuesday, called on leaders to support an international monitoring mission on the Ukraine-Belarus border. Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, said the mobilisation of troops in Belarus poses a threat to Ukraine's supply lines in the north of the country.
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Belarus' defence ministry has said the joint deployment of forces with Russia on its borders is a defensive measure. The moves were to ensure "security" along the border between Belarus and Ukraine, it claimed. On Monday, the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, said he had ordered troops to deploy with Russian forces near Ukraine in response to what he said was a clear threat to Belarus from Kyiv and its western allies.
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Nato is "closely monitoring" Russia's nuclear forces, its secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said. The Russian leader's veiled nuclear threats are "dangerous and irresponsible", Stoltenberg said. He added that any deliberate attack against allies' critical infrastructure "would be met with a united and determined response".
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A deputy head of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been kidnapped by Russian forces, Ukraine's state nuclear energy company Energoatom has said. Valeriy Martynyuk was seized on Monday and is being detained in an unknown location, Energoatom said in a post on Telegram.
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President Vladimir Putin has told the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, that the situation around Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is "of concern". At a meeting in St Petersburg broadcast on Russian state television, Putin told Grossi that Moscow was open to dialogue and would discuss "all issues" concerning the nuclear facility's operations.
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Turkey's foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, has called for a ceasefire in Ukraine just days ahead of a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Vladimir Putin. Çavuşoğlu urged "a viable ceasefire and a just peace" based on Ukraine's territorial integrity. Erdoğan and Putin are expected to meet on Thursday in Kazakhstan's capital Astana to discuss Ukraine and bilateral relations, the Kremlin confirmed.
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Moscow would not turn down a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, at the G20 meeting next month, Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said. Moscow was open to talks with the west on the Ukraine war but had yet to receive any "serious offers" to negotiate, Lavrov said in an interview on Russian state television.
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Vladimir Putin has made strategic errors in his pursuit of the war in Ukraine partly because there are so few restraints on his leadership, according to the head of the British spy agency GCHQ. Russia's soldiers are running out of supplies and munitions and initial gains made by Moscow are being reversed, Jeremy Fleming said in a rare public address.
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Western diplomats are predicting that the number of countries voting to oppose the illegal annexation of parts of eastern Ukraine will have fallen from a similar vote held at the UN in March. The UN's general assembly is due to vote this week on an EU-sponsored motion condemning the annexation of parts of eastern Ukraine off the back of sham referendums.
The US is speeding up the shipment of two National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) to Ukraine, the White House said.
President Joe Biden had pledged to support Kyiv's air defences in a phone call with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday, following a wave of devastating Russian missile attacks on cities across Ukraine.
The US has approved sending Ukraine a total of eight NASAMS air defences so far, with two expected to be delivered soon and six more sent over a longer time frame.
Speaking to reporters, the White House's national security council spokesperson John Kirby said:
We think that we're on track to get those first two over there in the very near future. We are certainly interested in expediting the delivery of NASAMS to Ukraine as soon as we can.
A British businessman has been arrested on US charges of conspiring to violate sanctions placed on the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to prosecutors.
Graham Bonham-Carter was arrested in the UK, and New York federal prosecutors will be seeking his extradition, Reuters reports.
Bonham-Carter was also charged with wire fraud for funding US properties purchased by Deripaska and efforts to expatriate Deripaska's artwork in the US.
Daniel Boffey
There was scant attempt to sugarcoat the assessment. With the trams stilled, lights going down across the city and the mobile network intermittent, arguably there was little point in doing otherwise.
"We have to brace ourselves for hard times," said Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv, as he addressed local and international journalists in a building off the western Ukrainian city's cobbled Rynov Square.
Winter was coming and with it "perhaps the worst-ever period for our country", the mayor said.
For all that the missiles would continue to rain down it was the cold that the Russians believed could break the Ukrainian spirit. Stock up on fire wood, buy in heaters, insulate where you can, Sadovyi counselled. It was time for Ukrainians to resort to the "old-time methods".
We are in for hard weeks and months ahead. Four [electricity] substations in the region have been put out of operation and to bring them back into operation they need transformers that are not available. It is hard right now to predict what will happen tomorrow. We will do all we can to keep the medical facilities operating.
Lviv, just 50 miles from the Polish border, has at times felt somewhat removed from Vladimir Putin's war.
Direct attacks have been few and far between. Following the initial shock over the launch of the Russian president's "special military operation", the bars and restaurants had swiftly rediscovered the liveliness that one would expect of an old university town.
When air raid sirens would go off to warn that Russian missiles had been launched, destination unknown, the danger could be barely acknowledged at times. Spring gave way to a relatively care-free summer.
The attacks of Monday and Tuesday changed all that.
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Here are some of the latest images to be sent to us from Ukraine.
Russia has added the US tech giant Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to its list of "terrorists and extremist" organisations, Russian news agencies have reported.
Facebook and Instagram were both banned in Russia in March for "carrying out extremist activities" and the company was accused of tolerating "Russophobia".
Meta had announced back then that the platforms would allow statements such as "death to Russian invaders" but not credible threats against civilians. A Moscow court in June rejected an appeal by Meta, whose lawyer said it was not carrying out extremist activity.
The company has now been added to a list of "terrorists and extremists" by Russia's financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring.
The list concerns "organisations and individuals with regard to which there is information about their involvement in extremist activities or terrorism". The ban does not apply to WhatsApp, which Meta also owns.
Peter Beaumont
Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has asked G7 leaders to supply more air defence systems and for an international monitoring mission on the Belarusian border, as Russia continued to attack key infrastructure in Ukraine with a new wave of missile strikes on Tuesday.
Zelenskiy's comments came amid warnings from the UN and some Nato countries that Moscow may be committing a war crime with its continuing deadly blitz on civilian targets.
Warning that the Russian president "still has room for further escalation", Zelenskiy added that the prompt supply of more air defence systems would accelerate the end of the war.
"When Ukraine receives a sufficient quantity of modern and effective air defence systems, the key element of Russia's terror, rocket strikes, will cease to work," Zelenskiy said in a video-streamed address.
Germany's Der Spiegel magazine reported on Tuesday that Ukraine had received a delivery of the German Iris-T air defence system and the White House National Security Council spokesman, John Kirby, said the US was working to expedite the shipment of sophisticated Nasams air defences capable of engaging Russian cruise missiles that was first announced in August.
While Zelenskiy had been expected to press for additional air defence systems to counter the Russian missile threat, and renewed his call for more sanctions against Moscow, his request for international monitoring of Ukraine's border with Belarus comes amid mounting fears that Minsk is being drawn ever further into the Kremlin's war.
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Elon Musk denies he spoke to Putin before Ukraine war tweet
Elon Musk has denied a report that he spoke with Vladimir Putin before tweeting a proposal to end the war in Ukraine that would have seen territory permanently handed over to Russia.
The Tesla CEO was asked about the report, which was first written about by Ian Bremmer to his subscribers and later picked up by Vice.
No, it is not. I have spoken to Putin only once and that was about 18 months ago. The subject matter was space.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2022
Nato's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said the alliance has been monitoring Russia's nuclear forces and that any deliberate attack against allies' critical infrastructure "would be met with a united and determined response".
Russia continued to attack key infrastructure in Ukraine with missile strikes on Tuesday, amid warnings from the UN and some Nato countries that Moscow may be committing a war crime with its continuing deadly blitz on civilian targets.
Vladimir Putin's veiled nuclear threats are "dangerous and irresponsible", Stoltenberg added. He said Nato had not noticed any changes in Russia's "posture", but would be monitoring it.
Here's more on the report that the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, spoke directly to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, before tweeting his peace plan to end the war in Ukraine.
According to Ian Bremmer's mailout sent to Eurasia Group subscribers, Musk also appeared concerned about direct threats from Putin.
From the Financial Times' Max Seddon:
There's a lot more wild stuff in the full @ianbremmer email: "musk also appeared concerned about more direct threats from putin. while he didn't surface anything explicit with me, he did talk about russian cyber capabilities and russia's potential to disrupt his satellites."
— max seddon (@maxseddon) October 11, 2022
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/11/russia-ukraine-war-putin-live-news-missile-strikes-g7-zelenskiy-crisis-talks-latest-updates
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