Mother Kateryna with her family cry over the coffin of her son Ihor Kusochek, Ukrainian soldier of the Azov brigade who was killed at the frontline in Toretsk, during the funeral ceremony in Bobrovytsia, Chernihiv region, Ukraine (AP)
Tom Watling5 October 2024 08:27
1728111600Kremlin prisoner-swap exclusive: How I survived 11 months in Putin’s gulag
Jabed Ahmed5 October 2024 08:00
1728108000Vladimir Putin wants to wipe us off the map, Ukraine’s top tennis player warns
Jabed Ahmed5 October 2024 07:00
1728104400Russia knocked out most infrastructure in Ukraine’s Pokrovsk, local official says
Russia has knocked out around 80 per cent of critical infrastructure in the town of Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub in Ukraine‘s east, as Moscow’s troops inched forward, a local official said.
Serhiy Dobriak, Pokrovsk’s military administration head, said Russian forces were at about 4 miles from the town, which is at an intersection of roads and a railway that makes it an important logistics point for the military and for civilians in the eastern Donetsk region.
Russia forces have focused some of their heaviest assaults in recent weeks on Pokrovsk, which could allow it to consolidate and advance the front line in the region.
“The enemy is leaving us without power, without water, without gas. Prepares us for the winter, so to say,” Dobriak said on national television.
Some 13,050 residents remain in the town and Ukrainian officials are pressing on with an evacuation plan that has been going on for some weeks. Just a month and a half ago, the town hosted more than 48,000 people, he said.
Russia continued to pummel the town on Thursday, launching a total of nine glide bombs and injuring four people in two attacks which damaged infrastructure, Dobriak said.
He said the daily attacks targeted energy facilities and other vital infrastructure. Almost half of Pokrovsk, 10 nearby villages and one smaller town were without power, he said, adding the energy infrastructure was “almost impossible to repair”.
Jabed Ahmed5 October 2024 06:00
1728100800No prospect for Ukraine war negotiation ‘anytime soon’, say western officials
There is no prospect for negotiation “anytime soon” over the war in Ukraine, western officials have said.
They added that Ukraine was unlikely to reverse recent gains by Russia with “relative stability on the front line” expected.
Russia captured the tactically significant town of Vuhledar on Wednesday, as officials said Moscow would now “seek to exploit opportunities in villages and towns in its vicinity in the coming weeks”.
However, they added that Russia would not be able to “fundamentally capitalise on these gains”.
Western officials said: “We’re not going to suddenly see a breakthrough and a rapid advance of Russia westwards.
“It will just continue to be this slow grind.”
Jabed Ahmed5 October 2024 05:00
1728097200Kosovo’s leader says Russia prevailing in Ukraine would threaten 25 years of peace in the Balkans
Tom Watling5 October 2024 04:00
1728093600Watch: Russian fighter jet narrowly misses American aircraft off coast of AlaskaRussian fighter jet narrowly misses American aircraft off coast of Alaska
Jabed Ahmed5 October 2024 03:00
1728090000Poland to start beefing up northeastern defences by year-end, minister says
Poland will start building the first elements of enhanced defence lines on its borders with Russia and Belarus by the end of 2024, a deputy defence minister has said.
Spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Warsaw laid out plans in May to spend 10 billion zlotys (£1.97 billion) to beef up its northern and eastern borders with fortifications, surveillance, reconnaissance and anti-drone systems by the end of 2028 to deter adversaries or help repel a potential attack.
“In the next three weeks, we will be able to carry out the first tests of the East Shield elements on Polish military training grounds, and this year we will start building the first elements … on the northern and eastern borders,” Cezary Tomczyk told a press conference.
He said the project would be developed in cooperation with Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as well as with British and American forces.
The war in Ukraine has spurred Poland to boost defence spending to 4.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024 and a planned 4.7% in 2025.
Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz was asked at the same event about defence spending beyond 2025, and said the upward trend should be maintained.
Jabed Ahmed5 October 2024 02:00
1728086400A roundup of yesterday’s events
If you are joining now, here is a roundup of the events that happened yesterday:
Russia attacks Ukraine’s critical infrastructure with 19 drones overnightUkraine’s military says it hit fuel storage facility in Russia’s Voronezh region
Huge Russian fuel depot blaze put out
Firefighters put out a huge blaze at a fuel depot in Russia’s Ural mountains, and a series of drone strikes were reported in areas close to the Ukrainian border, one of which also started a small fire at a fuel depot.
More than 140 clashes on the frontline in past day, Ukraine says
Putins forces conducted 67 airstrikes, including dropping of 135 guided aerial bombs, according to a situation update from the Ukrainian army
Russia knocked out most infrastructure in Ukraine’s Pokrovsk, local official says
Russia has knocked out around 80 per cent of critical infrastructure in the town of Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub in Ukraine‘s east
Jabed Ahmed5 October 2024 01:00
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