Ukranian-Russia War in the Cold War: Putin’s Last Opposal to Become the President of the Kremlin
Russia said Thursday its forces would help evacuate residents of occupied Kherson to other areas, as Ukraine’s offensive continued to make gains in the region. The announcement came shortly after the head of the Moscow-backed administration in Kherson appealed to the Kremlin for help moving residents out of harm’s way, in the latest indication that Russian forces were struggling in the face of Ukrainian advances.
Russia’s vilified declaration that they had annexed four areas of Ukranian origin, including Lyman, has been complicated by its withdrawal from the area. Taking the city paves the way for Ukrainian troops to potentially push further into land that Moscow now illegally claims as its own.
The fighting is at a critical point in the war between the two countries. Facing Ukrainian gains on the battlefield — which he frames as a U.S.-orchestrated effort to destroy Russia — Putin this week heightened threats of nuclear force and used his most aggressive, anti-Western rhetoric to date.
Russia has launched a series of missiles and drones over the last few days, mostly at the energy infrastructure of the Ukranian republic. It has been shown that the damage has been substantial but Ukrainians claim they have taken out around half of the missiles that have been fired.
The Kremlin launches air and missile raids on Ukraine’s infrastructure: Zelensky’s attack in Zaporizhia
The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, blamed the retreat, without evidence, on one general being “covered up for by higher-up leaders in the General Staff.” He called for more drastic measures to be taken.
Meanwhile, on the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula, the governor of the city of Sevastopol announced an emergency situation at an airfield there. Explosions and huge billows of smoke could be seen from a distance by beachgoers in the Russian-held resort. The plane rolled off the runway and the bullets on the plane caught fire.
Escalation in the war: Monday’s strikes come on the heels of other recent attacks across Ukraine. Last week, Russian forces intensified missile attacks on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia over the past week, with at least 43 civilians dead in the past week, including 14 on Saturday alone, according to Zelensky. Then the huge explosion occurred early Saturday severely damaging the only bridge connecting annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland, causing parts of the structure to collapse. At least three people were were killed, according to Russian officials. The blasts were described by Putin as a terrorism attack and as being of Ukrainian special services.
Recent fighting has focused on the regions just north of Crimea, including Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lamented the latest attack in a Telegram post.
A convoy of people trying to escape from the area was attacked and 24 of them were killed. He called it “сruelty that can’t be justified.” He said 13 children and a pregnant woman were among the dead.
Pictures of the attacked convoy were posted by the Security Service of Ukraine. At least one truck appeared to have been destroyed, with corpses in its bed. Another vehicle at the front of the convoy also had been ablaze. There were bullet holes in vehicles that had bodies on the side of the road.
It is believed that the largest coordinated air and missile raids yet on Ukraine’s infrastructure were launched by the Kremlin last week. The wide-ranging attacks included the use of self-destructing explosive drones from Iran, and killed dozens of people.
The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog is expected to visit Kyiv this week to discuss the situation at the Zaporizhzhia facility after Putin signed a decree Wednesday declaring that Russia was taking over the six-reactor plant. The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine considers Putin’s decree to be null and void. The state nuclear operator, Energoatom, said it would continue to operate the plant.
Russia did not say anything about the report. The International Atomic Energy Agency said that Russia had temporarily detained the director-general of the nuclear power plant to answer questions.
The power plant repeatedly has been caught in the crossfire of the war. Russian troops seized the power station in August, and the last reactor was shut down in September as a precautionary measure because of ongoing shelling nearby.
Russian President Putin’s invasion ofUkraine was not a simple border dispute. Even before it started, as Putin initiated – and continuously denied – his march to war, the importance of preventing Russia’s autocratic regime from gaining control of its neighbor, with its incipient democracy, was clear.
NPR’s State of Ukraine (Part I): Ukraine’s annexation crisis in the U.S. and Europe’s support for NATO
The bill that President Joe Biden signed Friday provides more than $12.4 billion in military and economic aid for the war in Ukraine.
Russia’s parliament will ratify its attempted annexation of four Ukrainian territories, widely condemned internationally as illegal. On Monday, the lower house unanimously approved it. The upper house is expected to pass it on Tuesday.
Russian conscripts are being funneled to the front line in east Ukraine but so far Russia’s intensified attacks have proven to be futile, and high Russian casualties are expected.
Sept. 28: Moscow-backed officials in occupied parts of Ukraine made appeals for the regions to join the Russian Federation. Putin’s approval rating fell 6 points to 77% in a poll by the Levada Center. The U.S. Defense Department, meanwhile, announced $1.1 billion in additional security aid to Ukraine.
Oct. 2: Leaders of nine European countries made a joint statement in support of Ukraine joining NATO. And Pope Francis made a strong plea for Putin to end the war.
You can read past recaps here. You can find more NPR’s coverage here. Also, listen and subscribe to NPR’s State of Ukraine podcast for updates throughout the day.
When two Ukrainian protesters came together in a struggle for democracy: The Iranians, the Ukrainians, and the Ukrainians
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Two groups of demonstrators came together on the same day. One was waving Ukrainian flags; the other Iranian flags. When they met, they cheered each other, and chanted, “All together we will win.”
The struggles of the Ukrainian and Iranian people have inspired support for democracy around the world because they hold the moral high ground. Their anthem against fascists and brutality of their enemies have gone viral in this era of social media.
These battles show bravery that is almost unthinkable to us all, and is inspiring equally brave support in places like Afghanistan.
In Iran, the spark was the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last month. She died in the custody of morality police who were called in because of her disobedience to the rules.
In defiance, Iranian women threw their headscarf into the fire, dancing around fires in the night and abandoning their hijabs.
It’s why women are climbing on cars, waving their hijab in the air, like a flag of freedom, and gathering crowds of supporters in city streets, and in universities, where security forces are opening fire to try and silence them.
The Repressive Regimes of Ukraine and Their Implications for the Future of the United States and the Security and Security of the Euro-Region
After all, it was less than a decade ago that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military entered Syria’s long civil war, helping to save the dictator Bashar al-Assad (as Iran had).
By flipping the narrative of the conflict over the past two months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has achieved one of his own key objectives: showing Ukraine’s Western allies that their military aid can help Kyiv win the war.
“”The enemy can attack our cities, but it won’t be able to break us. The occupiers will get only fair punishment and condemnation of future generations, and we will get victory,” wrote Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Yesterday, Russia hit at least 11 Ukrainian cities with missiles in its broadest aerial assault against civilians since the invasion’s early days. But even amid destruction, many people sheltered for only a few hours. Some quickly went back to their lives. As my colleague Megan Specia, a Times foreign correspondent, left a shelter in the capital of Kyiv, she saw residents walking dogs and riding electric scooters.
The repressive regimes in Moscow and Tehran are now isolated, pariahs among much of the world, openly supported for the most part by a smattering of autocrats.
While Russia’s use of Iranian weapons may say more about its desperation in the war than Tehran’s military prowess, experts say that media reports about Iran’s killer drones are bolstering its image as it tries to show the world that its arms can compete in international conflict.
The two regimes have very different ideologies, but have a common willingness to project power abroad.
Niloofar Hamedi, a journalist, was the first person to report on the case of Mahsa Amini. The profession of journalism is dangerous in Russia. It’s okay to criticize Putin. After trying and failing to kill opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Putin’s people manufactured charges to keep him in a penal colony indefinitely.
There is more than simply passing interest in the low probability of the Iranian regime falling. It would be transformative for their countries and their lives, heavily influenced by Tehran. After all, Iran’s constitution calls for spreading its Islamist revolution.
it is a time of uncertainty and expectation for the rest of the world. Some viewed Putin as a genius six months ago. The myth has been destroyed. The man who helped suppress uprisings and entered wars now doesn’t seem to be around anymore.
The Zlatev-Bohm Deal: A Step Towards the Arms-Against-Arms System in the War Between the USA and Ukraine
Mr. Zlatev and his new business partner, a local osteopath, took their first crack at international arms dealing. The deal relied on layers of middlemen and transit as depicted in the documents obtained by The New York Times. It is in a gray area, designed to avoid the arms-export rules of other countries.
They wrote to the Ministry of Defense that time was of the essence. They outlined a plan to sell American, Bulgarian and Bosnian arms to Ukraine.
And a second senior administration official provided the following summary of air defense aid provided to Ukraine from the US: “We have transferred more than 1,400 Stinger anti-air systems to Ukraine, as well as air surveillance and multi-mission radars. We enabled our Allies to transfer air defense systems of their own to Ukraine – including Slovakia’s transfer of a critical S-300 system in April. In August, President Biden made an announcement regarding a new assistance package for the country of Ukraine. We will continue to provide Ukraine with what it needs to defend itself.”
The country’s president announced hours ago that the military had regained control over three more villages in the region that was annexed by Russia.
Governor Oleksandr Starukh wrote on his Telegram channel that many people were rescued from the multi-story buildings, including a 3-year-old girl who was taken to a hospital for treatment.
The Russia-Russian conflict in Zaporizhzhia and its future at the IAEA: Russian-American officials and the European political community
Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Zaporizhzhia, which is also home to a nuclear plant, in violation of international laws on Wednesday. The city of the same name remains under Ukrainian control.
Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, plans to talk with Ukrainian officials about the Russian move. He will discuss how to repair and set up a safe area around the facility, which has been damaged in the fighting, and had staff kidnapped by Russian troops.
The leaders from more than 40 countries are in Prague this Thursday to start a “European political community” aimed at boosting security and prosperity across the continent.
Peskov did not specify which additional Ukrainian territories Moscow is eyeing, and he wouldn’t say if the Kremlin planned to organize more of the “referendums” in Ukraine that the Ukrainian government and the West have dismissed as illegitimate.
The borders of Russia are not known and Putin has promised to defend the territory with nuclear weapons.
Anticipation is mounting for a possible battle for Kherson, a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine. Russian officials are preparing for a possible counteroffensive by the Ukrainians.
Russian medics lack supplies and military hospitals are full of wounded Russians, said the deputy head of the Ukrainian regional government. Russian soldiers will be sent to the area of Crimea once they are stable.
The first 20 bodies from a mass burial site have been exhumed in the city of Lyman, which was recently recaptured after a months-long Russian occupation. Initial indications are that around 200 civilians are buried in one location, and that another grave contains the bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. The civilians were placed in single graves, while the military was buried in a 40-meter long trench.
Lyman sustained heavy damage both during the occupation and as Ukrainian soldiers fought to retake it. A 71-year-old man who gave his name only as “Mykola” was among the 100 residents who lined up for aid.
Moscow’s “Disaster” of the Crimean Bridge Blast: Vladimir Putin Blames Ukraine for the Attack and a Breakdown of Russian Diplomacy
He said they want the war to end so that the shops and hospitals can get back to normal. We do not have anything yet. Everything is destroyed and pillaged, a complete disaster.”
Zelenskyy told the Moscow leadership in his address that it had already lost the war it launched on February 24.
Putin blames Ukraine for attack on Crimean bridge: Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the Crimea bridge blast, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukrainian “special services” of the attack. He said Monday’s strikes were in response to the attack, but Ukrainian intelligence says the strikes had been planned since early last week.
The Institute for the Study of War said videos of the bridge indicated the damage from the explosion “is likely to increase friction in Russian logistics for some time” but not cripple Russia’s ability to equip its troops in Ukraine.
He said that the route of the truck had taken it to many places, including Georgia, North Ossetia and Krasnodar in southern Russia.
The city of Dnipro has a large population of civilians. One site hit was a bus stop, nestled between high rise apartment buildings. A missile exploded in front of a bus on its way to pick up commuters, blowing out the windows of nearby apartments.
“Then there was another explosion,” Mucola Markovich said. He shared an apartment with his wife on the fourth floor.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reaction to the blast of a bridge between Crimea and Kiev: “We’re doing our part,” said Gallyamov
About 3 kilometers (2 miles) away in another neighborhood ravaged by a missile, three volunteers dug a shallow grave for a German shepherd killed in the strike, the dog’s leg blown away by the blast.
Abbas Gallyamov, an independent Russian political analyst and a former speechwriter for Putin, said the Russian president, who formed a committee Saturday to investigate the bridge explosion, had not responded forcefully enough to satisfy angry war hawks. He said the attack and response have “inspired the opposition,” while loyalists are demoralized.
When the authorities say that we’re winning and everyone is doing their jobs, it demoralizes them.
dictators seem to prefer hardwiring territory with expensive, record-breaking infrastructure projects. Putin personally opened the longest bridge in Europe by driving a truck across it. That same year, one of the first things Chinese President Xi Jinping did after Beijing reclaimed Macau and Hong Kong was to connect the former Portuguese and British territories with the world’s longest sea crossing bridge. The road bridge opened after two years of delays.
Crimea is a popular vacation resort for Russians. People trying to drive to the bridge and onto the Russian mainland on Sunday encountered hours-long traffic jams.
The key areas of concern in the front line are neighborhood towns. Soledar and Bakhmut, where extremely heavy fighting continues,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address Sunday.
Ukraine’s nuclear power plant collapse and missile attacks: Russia’s escalating war against Ukraine and its ill-equipped adversaries
— The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, meanwhile, said that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s biggest, had been reconnected to the grid after losing its last external power source early Saturday following shelling.
The Ukrainian authorities say that Russia hit multiple cities with missiles and drones. You should be aware of Monday’s developments.
Russian missile attacks on Monday and Tuesday had a negative impact on the electricity supply to much of the country. A lot of work is needed to fix damaged equipment, and the Ukrainian Prime Minister has asked people to reduce energy usage during peak hours.
India and China called for de-escalation after the strikes. In a statement, India expressed its “deep concern” at the escalating of the conflict and called for a cessation of hostilities and return to the path of dialogue. The attack was also condemned by other European leaders.
At least 40 incoming air attacks were taken down by the country’s air defenses, but many more succeeded, according to a statement from the country’s top brass. The Ukrainian officials claimed that Iranian-made suicide drones were responsible for a lot of the attacks. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has allowed Russia to use his country as a staging ground for attacks on Ukraine, and after today’s attacks requested further assistance from the Russian government in anticipation of Ukrainian retaliation.
“It’s a tough morning when you’re dealing with terrorists,” said Zelenskyy in the video, which recalled the selfie he took the night Russia invaded in February. “They’re choosing targets to harm as many people as possible.”
One explosion was heard as early as 6:45 a.m. local time in the Shevchenkivskyi district. According to authorities, as of 9:00 a.m., there had been four hit in Kyiv. One of the strikes was near the main train station in Kyiv, and was hit by an adviser to the minister. Authorities have asked people to stay indoors.
The head of the department of transport for Dnipro city council stood by the wreck as he spoke, noting that there was lots of public transport in the city. He added that the bus driver and four passengers had been taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
“It’s hard to believe that the Russian military is incompetent,” a protester told the RIAS on a Moscow balcony
“It’s hard for me to find any logic to their work because we only use our transportation for civilian purposes,” he said.
Just next to the bus stop, the windows on the first floor balcony used to be. There was shattered glass on the ground. He said he had been watering the plants on his balcony and went to his kitchen to make breakfast.
“The explosion blew open all of my cabinets, and nearly knocked me to the ground,” he said. “Only five minutes before, and I would have been on the balcony, full of glass.”
“We warned Zelenskyy that Russia hadn’t really started yet,” wrote Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a loyalist to Putin who repeatedly has attacked Russia’s Defense Ministry for incompetence in carrying out the military campaign.
The Response of Ukrainians to the Overnight Blast of the Bridge Between Kiev and Crimea During the weekend Air-Rattle Warfare
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It was never out of the question that the Kremlin would react to the huge explosion that hit the landmark bridge in Ukraine over the weekend.
The video on social media showed hits near the National University ofKyiv and near the Presidential Office Building. Five people were killed as a result of strikes on the capital, according to Ukrainian officials.
Reports of missiles and drones being shot down came in as the area around my office remained eerily quiet between the air raid sirens. (Normally at this time of the day, nearby restaurants would be heaving with customers, and chatter of plans for upcoming weddings and parties).
The air raid sirens and Russian attacks made the calm in Ukrainian cities far from the country’s war-torn battlefields unbearable.
Indeed, millions of people in cities across Ukraine will be spending most of the day in bomb shelters, at the urging of officials, while businesses have been asked to shift work online as much as possible.
Just as many regions of Ukraine were starting to roar back to life, and with countless asylum seekers returning home, the attacks risk causing another blow to business confidence.
The symbolism of the only bridge linking mainland Russia and Crimea cannot be overstated for Putin. That the attack took place a day after his 70th birthday (the timing prompted creative social media denizens to create a split-screen video of Marilyn Monroe singing ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President”) can be taken as an added blow to an aging autocrat whose ability to withstand shame and humiliation is probably nil.
The reaction among Ukrainians to the explosion was instantaneous: humorous memes lit up social media channels like a Christmas tree. Many shared their sense of jubilation via text messages.
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It was also an act of selfish desperation: facing increasing criticism at home, including on state-controlled television, has placed Putin on unusually thin ice.
What is crucially important now is for Washington and other allies to use urgent telephone diplomacy to urge China and India – which presumably still have some leverage over Putin – to resist the urge to use even more deadly weapons.
Furthermore, high tech defense systems are needed to protect Kyiv and crucial energy infrastructure around the country. With winter just around the corner, the need to protect heating systems is urgent.
Turkey and the Gulf states, which receive a number of Russian tourists, need to be pressured to join in if the West is to have an impact on Russia.
Anything short of these measures will only allow Putin to continue his senseless violence and further exacerbate a humanitarian crisis that will reverberate throughout Europe. A weak reaction will be taken as a sign in the Kremlin that it can continue to weaponize energy, migration and food.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken also spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Monday to reiterate US support following the deadly strikes. Biden is expected on Tuesday to join an emergency video conference with G7 leaders during which Zelensky is expected to address the group.
Biden continued to engage with allies and partners to hold Russia accountable for war crimes, as well as provide security and economic assistance for the Ukranian people.
The US will still provide short- and long-range air defense systems to Ukraine even if there is a change in the US calculus, a senior administration official said.
The US had not delivered NASAMS to Ukraine as of late september. At the time, Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said two systems were expected to be delivered in the next two months, with the remaining six to arrive at an undetermined date.
Estimating Russian missile inventories is guesswork. In May, President Volodymr Zelensky said Russia had launched 2,154 missiles and had probably used up 60% of its precision-missile arsenal. That looks like a lot of hope.
The deputy head of Moscow’s Security Council said recently that he thinks the Kremlin should aim for a complete dismantling of Zelensky’s regime.
There will probably be additional support packages for Ukraine announced in the near future according to John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council.
Kirby told CNN that the man feels pressure at home and abroad, but only he knows how he will react to it.
We continue to watch his nuclear capabilities, best we can. And what I can tell you today is that we just don’t see any indications that Mr. Putin has made a decision to use weapons of mass destruction or even nuclear weapons. And we’ve seen nothing, Kate, that would give us cause to change our own deterrent posture,” Kirby said.
Biden warned last week of the risks of nuclear threats from Putin and the risk of Armageddon. But multiple US officials have said the comment was not based on any new intelligence about Putin’s intentions or changes in Russia’s nuclear posture.
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Critical and civil infrastructure was hit in 12 regions and the capital, where more than 30 fires broke out, the emergency services said, adding the blazes have been put out.
“We can confirm that Russian military personnel that are based in Crimea have been piloting Iranian UAVs, using them to conduct strikes across Ukraine, including strikes against Kyiv,” Kirby said, referring to unmanned aerial vehicles.
The Ukrainian government and people of the country know that the Russian mix of missiles will wreak much more havoc on the civilian population if they persist with the tactic of using many missiles.
The great unknown is just how far such a blitz is depleting Russian inventories – and whether increasingly they will resort to stocks of older, less accurate but equally powerful missiles.
The Pentagon believed that Moscow had more of its pre-war inventory of missiles than the rest of the world, but that Russia was running the lowest on air-launched cruise missiles.
Some of the inventory was dispatched this week. Western officials say that Russia has a large amount of weapons, which are mostly older and less precise KH-22 missiles. Weighing 5.5 tons, they are designed to take out aircraft carriers. Dozens of casualties were caused by a KH-22 at a shopping mall in June.
The Russians have also been adapting the S-300 – normally an air defense missile – as an offensive weapon, with some effect. These have wrought devastation in Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv, among other places, and their speed makes them difficult to intercept. But they are hardly accurate.
He told CNN’s Richard Quest that this was the “first time from the beginning of the war” that Russia has “dramatically targeted” energy infrastructure.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that Ukraine needed “more” systems to better halt missile attacks. The air defense systems provided by NATO Allies are making a difference because many incoming missiles were shot down by the Ukrainian air defense systems. “But of course, as long as not all of them are shot down, of course there is a need for more.”
Drones have been in use in the Middle East for several years, but, Lob said, “the Iranians have been working on their indigenous drone capabilities since the Iran-Iraq war, since the 1980s,” giving Tehran ample time for further advancement.
At Wednesday’s meeting, a wish-list was prepared by Ukraine that included missiles for their existing systems, and a transition to Western-origin layered air defense system.
He told the meeting that the system would not control all of the air space over Ukranian, but they were meant to control the priority targets. Short-range low-altitude systems and then medium-range medium altitude and then long-range and high altitude systems are what you are looking at.
Western systems are beginning to trickle in. The Ukrainian Defense Minister said that a new era of air defense has begun, with the arrival of the first IRIS-T from Germany and two units of the US National Advanced Surface-to- Air Missile System expected soon.
“This is only the beginning. We need more, according to one of the people at theBrussels meeting, who was quoted before he met with the donors. I feel optimistic.
These items are usually off-the-shelf. The IRIS-T had to be manufactured for Ukraine. Governments in the western region have limited inventories of such systems. Ukraine is a mega- country under attack from three directions.
The Air Defense Task Force of Kerch in Ukraine: Prime Minister Valerii Zaluzhniki, the commander of the air defense battalion, and a Russian ambassador to Ukraine
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander of the Ukrainian army, thanked Poland for its help in training the air defense battalion, which destroyed nine of 11 Shaheeds.
Poland had given Ukrainians systems to destroy drones. Last month there were reports that the Polish government had bought advanced Israeli equipment (Israel has a policy of not selling “advanced defensive technology” to Kyiv) and was then transferring it to Ukraine.
President Zelensky of Ukraine told the international community how much money his country needed to rebuild to keep it afloat. He gave that figure to the board of governors. $17 billion needs to be spent on rebuild schools, hospitals, transport systems and housing and $2 billion is needed to increase exports to Europe and restoreUkraine’s energy infrastructure, Mr. Zelensky said.
The images captured hundreds of cargo trucks backed up and waiting to cross from Crimea into Russia by ferry, some five days after the bombing. The images, captured on Wednesday by Maxar Technologies, show a big backup at the port in Kerch and a line of trucks miles away at an airport that is apparently being used as a staging area.
Oleg Ignatov, a senior Russia analyst at the International Crisis Group, said the long lines for the ferry crossing had been exacerbated by security checkpoints set up after the bridge explosion.
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Not for the first time, the war is getting close to an unpredictable new phase. “This is now the third, fourth, possibly fifth different war that we’ve been observing,” said Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Programme.
With the cold months nearing and likely bringing a slowdown in ground combat, experts say the next weeks of the war are now expected to be vital, and another potential spike in intensity looms over Ukraine as each side seeks to strike another blow.
It means that, as winter approaches, the stakes of the war have been raised once more. Giles said there was no doubt that Russia wanted to keep it up. The Ukrainian successes have sent a clear message to the Kremlin. “They are able to do things that take us by surprise, so let’s get used to it,” Giles said.
These counter-offensives have shifted the momentum of the war and disproved a suggestion, built up in the West and in Russia during the summer, that while Ukraine could stoutly defend territory, it lacked the ability to seize ground.
The Russians are trying to avoid a collapse of their frontline before winter sets in, according to the author of Russia’s Road to War with Ukraine.
“If they can get to Christmas with the frontline looking roughly as it is, that’s a huge success for the Russians given how botched this has been since February.”
The commander of the Russian army, who was wanted for his involvement in the downing of a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine, has been moved to the front, according to posts on social media. Maksim Fomin and others said thatStrelkov was given the responsibility for an unnamed Russian front-line unit.
Landing a major blow in Donbas would send another powerful signal, and Ukraine will be eager to improve on its gains before temperatures plummet on the battlefield, and the full impact of rising energy prices is felt around Europe.
There are so many reasons why people want to do things quickly in Ukraine. “The winter energy crisis in Europe, and energy infrastructure and power being destroyed in Ukraine itself, is always going to be a test of resilience for Ukraine and its Western backers.”
“We know – and Russian commanders on the ground know – that their supplies and munitions are running out,” Jeremy Fleming, a UK’s spy chief, said in a rare speech on Tuesday.
In its daily update on the conflict Monday, the ISW said that the strikes wasted some of Russia’s dwindling precision weapons against civilians, as opposed to militarily significant targets.
Exactly how much weaponry and manpower each side has left in reserve will be crucial to determining how the momentum will shift in the coming weeks. Ukraine said it intercepted 18 cruise missiles on Tuesday and dozens more on Monday, but it is urging its Western allies for more equipment to repel any future attacks.
Any further Belarusian involvement in the war could also have a psychological impact, Puri suggested. “Everyone’s mind in Ukraine and in the West has been oriented towards fighting one army,” he said. Inside Russia, Belarus joining the invasion “would play into Putin’s narrative that this war is about reuniting the lands of ancient Rus states.”
Giles said the reopening of a northern front would be a new challenge for Ukraine. It would provide Russia a new route into the Kharkiv oblast (region), which has been recaptured by Ukraine, should Putin prioritize an effort to reclaim that territory, he said.
Zelensky wants to drive those gains home and hopes to get more supplies in the short-term. According to the leader, more than half of the missiles and drones launched at Ukraine in a second wave of strikes on Tuesday were brought down.
Ahead of a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine needed more systems to stop missile attacks.
The larger drones that were used by the U.S. in the wars after Sept. 11 were not going to be provided by the White House. Both aircraft can fly for hours while sending live video feeds of the ground and carry laser-guided missiles and guided bombs.
What are kamikaze drones? suicide drones are a type of aerial weapon system. They’re known as a loitering munition because they’re able to wait for time in an area identified as a potential target and only fire once an enemy asset is identified.
Russian and Ukrainian air strikes in Donetsk, a city in the heart of the Kherson province, and an attack on the Pro-Kremlin fighters
On Sunday, the Russian government blamed the Ukrainian government for a rocket attack that hit the mayor’s office in the eastern city of Donetsk. Ukrainian officials said Russian air strikes hit a town across from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Western intelligence officials have accused Russia of using convicts with lengthy sentences for serious crimes in exchange for pay and forgiveness.
Zelenskyy’s office said Moscow was shelling towns and villages along the front line in the east Sunday, and that “active hostilities” continued in the southern Kherson region.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, across from the Nikopol rocket site, and a raft of civilian businesses and residential buildings were damaged by the rockets. Russian and Ukrainians have accused each other of shooting at and around the largest nuclear plant in Europe. It’s run by its pre-occupation Ukrainian staff under Russian oversight.
Russia opened an investigation into a shooting on Saturday in which 11 people were killed and 15 were wounded, two of whom were from a former Soviet republic. The Russian Defense Ministry called the incident a terrorist attack.
France, trying to puncture perceptions that it’s lagging behind in supporting Ukranian people, has pledged air defense missiles and increased military training. Up to 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers will be embedded with military units in France, rotating through for several weeks of combat training, specialized training in logistics and other needs, and training on equipment supplied by France, the French defense minister, Sébastien Lecornu, said in an interview published in Le Parisien.
Moscow’s deportation of Ukrainians is likely to be considered ethnic cleansing according to the Institute for the Study of War.
Russian authorities claimed this week that several thousand children from the southern region of Russia had been put in rest homes and children’s camps due to the Ukrainian counteroffensive. The original comments from Russia’s deputy prime minister were reported on Friday.
Russian authorities have previously admitted that they placed children from Russian held areas ofUkraine who are orphans, in violation of an international treaty on genocide prevention.
Pro-Kremlin fighters were accused by the Ukrainian military of violating international humanitarian law when evicting civilians in occupied territories to house officers in their homes. It said the evictions were happening in Rubizhne, in the eastern Luhansk region. It did not provide evidence for the claim.
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Girkin has been on an international wanted list over his alleged involvement in the downing of Kuala Lumpur-bound flight MH17, which killed 298 people. He’s facing a murder trial in a Dutch court and is expected to be found guilty.
Recently, Girkin’s social media posts have lashed out at Moscow’s battlefield failures. Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency said Sunday it would offer a $100,000 reward to anyone who captures him.
Anton Gerashcenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Internal Ministry, reported attacks on infrastructure near the city’s main rail station, but lines were operating as normal midmorning Monday.
Zelenskyy’s chief-of-staff, Andriy Yermak, again called on the west to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems. “We have no time for slow actions,” he said online.
The picture of the bomb that was labeled Geran-2 was taken down after commenters slammed him for approving a Russian strike on Iran.
Foreign ministers from the EU are going to Luxembourg for a meeting. The EU’s top diplomat told reporters that the bloc would look into “concrete evidence” of Iran’s involvement in Ukraine.
The attack on the Kamianske district of the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine and the “partnership of convenience between Iran and Russia”
The Mayor of Kyiv said one person was killed in the building that was destroyed. It’s possible that another remains trapped, he said.
The Kamianske district of the Dnipropetrovsk region experienced an attack on energy infrastructure that resulted in serious destruction, according to a military official.
“Currently, all services are working on eliminating the consequences of shelling and restoring electricity supply. Each region has a crisis response plan,” Shmyhal added.
“We ask Ukrainians, in order to stabilize the energy system, to take a united and conscious approach to economical consumption of electricity. Especially during peak hours.
Ukraine’s state energy supplier Ukrenergo said the power grid in the country remains “under control,” adding that repair crews are working to curb the consequences of the attacks.
Shmyhal’s announcement is related to attacks on important energy facilities in Ukraine that have happened over the past week.
“This is a partnership of convenience between two embattled dictatorships,” said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Despite their differences, Iran and Russia have been getting closer because they “share the same threat perception,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a hawkish think tank in Washington. “They see a regional order aligned against them by an extra-regional power,” he said, referring to the United States.
What is the problem with Shahed Unmanned Drones in Ukraine, and how to use them to thwart NATO drills?
NATO will hold nuclear deterrence exercises starting Monday. NATO has warned Russia not to use nuclear weapons on Ukraine but says the “Steadfast Noon” drills are a routine, annual training activity.
Russian agents detained eight people on Oct. 12 suspected of carrying out a large explosion on a bridge to Crimea, including Russian, Ukrainian and Armenian citizens.
They have a disadvantage about Shahed drones being fast, said Ret. The senior adviser at the Center forStrategic and International Studies is Mark Cancian.
“The problem with them is that they’re slow,” Cancian said. “They’re propeller-driven and you know, like all propeller-driven drones, they’re just not very fast so they’re susceptible to being shot down by either missiles or by aircraft guns.”
The US imposed sanctions on an air transportation provider for its involvement in the shipment of Iranian drones to Russia. The Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence said that the US is ready to target producers and procurers who contribute to the program.
Iran is not known as a weapons exporter. Its arms were previously sent to ideologically aligned proxies in Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon, largely to fulfill the Islamic Republic’s own regional agenda. The Ukraine war, say analysts, is changing that.
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The Russian decision to target cities is similar to the German bombing campaign of London in World War II.
“It seems like the Russians are using these the way they use their cruise missiles – that is to strike at the major cities likely with the intention of intimidating the Ukrainian population … but I think from a military point of view that is a mistake,” Cancian said. The Ukrainians are unlikely to break. It is not likely to break.
By focusing on the cities, Cancian added, Ukraine’s military would likely have more time to recover on the front lines, similar to Britain’s recovery in WWII.
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Sending further Iranian weaponry to Russia is a move that will likely cause relations with the US to further deteriorate. On Monday, the US envoy to Iran Rob Malley said the Biden administration is not going to “waste our time” on talks to revive the nuclear deal “if nothing’s going to happen.” Tehran’s support for Russia in the Ukraine war and its crackdown on nationwide protests prompted by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September have prompted the US to impose further sanctions on Iran.
Since Russia invaded, the two countries have cooperated on politics and economics, with the military being the latest facet in their relationship.
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Major General Yahya Safavi, a military aide to the Iranian supreme leader boasted on Tuesday that 22 countries were in the market for Iranian drones.
Iran, which imported most of its weapons before the 1979 revolution, now manufactures 80% of it’s military equipment, he was quoted as saying.
Eric Lob, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, said that for the Iranians, it’s about getting market share, prestige, and solidifying alliances.
Avivi said Iran is likely to be watched very closely by Israel.
He told CNN that it was an opportunity and a threat. “It’s an opportunity for us to really see [Iranian] capabilities on the grounds, learn about what’s going on. One of the things that we worry about is that weapons may end up in Hezbollah or Hamas.
Tehran and Moscow have growing military ties that is bad news for the west, because it shows a close cooperation between Russia and Iran.
Robert Malley told CNN that regime change from Washington isn’t part of the Biden administration’s policy on Iran.
“Our policy is to defend and support the fundamental rights of Iranian citizens just as we want to support the fundamental rights of citizens across the globe. The form of government in Iran will be up to the Iranians to decide,” he said.
“We’ll continue to impose sanctions on the morality police and on those involved in the repression.”U.S. The Biden administration is supporting the protests in Iran, a Envoy to Iran tells me. It has a pic.
Over a month after the death of 22-year old Mahsa Amini calls for regime change has been ringing around the streets.
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Why does the world like to invade? The EU sanctions on the murder of Amini and the killing of protesters, and a bang of the protesters in Iran
Professional Iranian rock climber Elnaz Rekabi said that she “accidentally” competed without a hijab during the Asian Championships in South Korea this week, in an interview with state-run IRNA upon her arrival in Tehran Wednesday.
The EU imposed sanctions on 11 people and four entities for their roles in the death of Amini and the subsequent suppression of protesters. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian branded the move “superfluous.”
Iran HR, a rights group based in Norway, says at least 215 people have been killed in Iran since protests started in September.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, was summoned to answer for his comments on race by the United Arab Emirates. State news agency WAM reported that the comments were inappropriate and discriminatory as well as contributing to a worsening climate of discrimination worldwide.
Background: There is a previous background. In his remarks at the new European Diplomatic Academy in Bruges, Belgium last week, Borrell called Europe “a garden” and most of the world a “jungle” that “could invade the garden.” It’s important that the gardeners go to the jungle. Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world. Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us,” he said. At a press conference on Monday, Borrell denied that his message was racist or colonialist, news agency EFE reported.
Why it matters? The comments have created a stir on social media in the Middle East, with critics denouncing the speech as promoting a colonial narrative. Most of the Middle East had been under European control until the mid-20th century.
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The State Department of Israel is examining the case of Israel as the most democratic country in the Gulf. Israeli Ambassador Saad Ibrahim Almadi on Twitter
Israel summoned Australia’s ambassador to their country in protest of the previous government’s decision to recognize West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The sovereignty of the holy city should be resolved as part of any negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, according to Australia’s Foreign Minister.
Why it matters? Israel considers all of Jerusalem its “undivided capital.” The east part of the city was taken in the war in 1967, and annexed in a move that was not appreciated by most of the international community. Palestinians want the eastern part of the city to be the capital of a future state.
Background: The US State Department confirmed earlier Tuesday that 72-year-old Saad Ibrahim Almadi has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia after being given a 16-year sentence for tweets critical of the Saudi government. The State Department is still trying to decide whether or not to designate Almadi as wrongly held.
Saudi Arabia has strict social media rules, and has sentenced people in the past to jail for violating them. In August, Saudi women’s rights campaigner Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison for her activity on Twitter, according to court documents viewed by CNN. Another woman, Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani, was sentenced to 45 years in prison for tweets, according to US-based advocacy group DAWN.
The new speaker has not shied away from controversy. When Saudi Arabia proposed joining gulf nations into a union, the speaker of parliament said he was in favor of Gulf integration with conditions.
The announcement had Sadoun beingtrending in Kuwait, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. Kuwait is a country of 4.3 million people, just under 2 million of whom are citizens.
He told the Saudi state-backed news channel Al Arabiyya that his own country enjoys freedom of expression, and that it can’t be a union with countries with different political systems.
Kuwaiti politics are followed closely in the region. The country is seen as being the most democratic of the six Gulf states because of the years-long standoff between the government and parliament.
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Children attend classes in the dirt on Monday, the first day of the new academic year in Yemen’s war-torn western province of Hodeida.
These larger surveillance drones can be expensive, so both Ukrainian and Russian forces have employed quadcopters — battery-powered commercial drones that are far cheaper. A quadcopter flies a shorter distance and hovers over a position before dropping small weapons on enemy troops. After their batteries are recharged, they’re designed to be recovered, rearmed and used again.
The Pentagon stated in March that it would send 100 systems called Switchblades. The next month, the administration said it would provide another 300. Eight days later, the Defense Department said it would send 120 Phoenix Ghost drones to Ukraine. In July, the United States gave money forUkraine to buy more.
In August, the Pentagon said it would send Puma drones — small aircraft that soldiers toss into the air to launch and then control by remote control from up to nine miles away. The animals can stay at altitudes of 500 feet.
Ukraine shot down the first such drone in the country’s east on Sept. 13 and has since downed at least 237, the Ukrainian military said in a statement last week. “We are trying to quickly adapt to the new reality,” Mr. Sak said.
One Ukrainian MiG pilot won folk hero status in Ukraine this month for shooting down five Iranian Shahed-136 drones over the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, only to be forced to eject after crashing into the debris of the last one. The pilot, Karaya — who identified himself by only his nickname, according to military policy — told the local news media afterward, “Within a short period of time, we are adapting to this kind of weapon and are starting to destroy it successfully.”
He said Karaya steered his aircraft away from Vinnytsia after colliding with the debris. The jet crashed into houses in an outlying area, but injured nobody on the ground. Karaya apologized at the site.
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“I visited the scene, said I was sorry for the discomfort I caused the residents and thanked them for their steel nerves,” he wrote on Instagram, saying he showed up in his tattered uniform, missing epaulets. He said it wasn’t a violation of military protocol. “Lost them while leaving the office,” he wrote.
This new expected shipment would mark a significant increase in Iranian support to Russia’s war effort. The exact time of delivery is unknown, but officials think the weapons will be delivered by the end of the year.
The Iranian drones are referred to as loitering munition due to their ability to circle for a while in an area that could be a target and only strike once an asset is identified.
Earlier this month John Kirby, the communications coordinator at the National Security Council, said the presence of Iranian personnel was evidence of Tehran’s direct engagement in the conflict.
We know that those drones have been used to target civilians. And we know that Iran, in the face of all of this evidence, keeps lying and denying that it’s happening,” Malley said.
But it is unclear if the US will be able to prohibit further shipments from going ahead, even as concerns mount about Iranians sending even more advanced weaponry to Russia.
The historian Yuval Noah Harari has argued that no less than the direction of human history is at stake, because a victory by Russia would reopen the door to wars of aggression, to invasions of one country by another, something that since the Second World War most nations had come to reject as categorically unacceptable.
There are still repercussions from what happens far away from the battlefields. When oil-producing nations, led by Saudi Arabia, decided last month to slash production, the US accused the Saudis of helping Russia fund the war by boosting its oil revenues. The Saudis denied the accusation.
Syria’s airspace, bordering Israel, is controlled by Russian forces, which have allowed Israel to strike Iranian weapon flows to Hezbollah, a militia sworn to Israel’s destruction. Gantz has offered to help Ukraine develop defensive systems and it will reportedly provide new military communications systems, but no missile shields.
The UN and Turkey brokered agreement allowed for the reopening of the maritime corridors, but this week it was suspended after Russian Navy warships were struck at the port of Sevastopol. Putin’s announcement was immediately followed by a surge in wheat prices on global commodity markets. Those prices partly determine how much people pay for bread in Africa and across the planet.
The war in Ukranian is affecting everyone. The conflict has also sent fuel prices higher, contributing to a global explosion of inflation.
Families and individual lives are affected by higher prices. When they come with such powerful momentum, they pack a political punch. Inflation, worsened by the war, has put incumbent political leaders on the defensive in countless countries.
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And it’s not all on the fringes. Kevin McCarthy, who is expected to be the next speaker of the House, suggested the GOP might consider cutting aid to Ukraine. The letter calling for negotiations was released by the Progressives. Evelyn Farkas, who worked for the Obama administration, said they are all bringing a big smile to Putin.
The war in Ukraine has brought about a synergy between Putin and his fans in the West. Just as a political action committee linked to the former Trump aide Stephen Miller is arguing against spending on Ukraine, somehow linking it to poverty and crime in the US, like-minded figures in Europe are trying to promote their views by pointing to their country’s hardships as the cost of helping Ukraine. For now, support for Ukraine remains strong in Europe and the US, although flagging among Republicans.
Some videos filmed by Ukrainian drones that show Russian infantry being struck by artillery in poorly prepared positions has supported the claims, as has reports in Russian news media of soldiers telling families about high casualty rates. The exact location of the front line cannot be determined because the videos have not been independently verified.
Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the commander of the Ukrainian military, said in a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app on Thursday that Russian forces had tripled the intensity of attacks along some parts of the front. He didn’t say where the attacks are coming from or what the time frame is.
An assessment from the Institute for the Study of War, aWashington-based analytical group, also said that the increase in infantry in the east had not resulted in Russia gaining new ground.
“Russian forces would likely have had more success in such offensive operations if they had waited until enough mobilized personnel had arrived to amass a force large enough to overcome Ukrainian defenses,” the institute said in a statement on Thursday.
In the south, where Ukrainian troops are advancing toward the Russian-occupied city of Kherson, the Ukrainian military said Friday morning that its artillery battalions had fired more than 160 times at Russian positions over the past 24 hours, but it also reported Russian return fire into Ukrainian positions.
With Russian and Ukrainian forces apparently preparing for battle in Kherson, and conflicting signals over what may be coming, the remaining residents of the city have been stocking up on food and fuel to survive combat.
A Western official focused on cybersecurity said that the Ukrainians likely will not reveal the full extent of Russian hacks on their infrastructure and their correlation with Russian missile strikes. That could deprive Russia of insights into the efficacy of their cyber operations, and in turn affect Russia’s war planning, the official said.
Cyber operations aimed at industrial plants can take many months to plan, and after the explosion in early October of a bridge linking Crimea to Russia, Putin was “trying to go for a big, showy public response to the attack on the bridge,” the senior US official said.
For the past few months, Ukrainian cyber officials have to avoid shelling while protecting their networks from Russians and criminals.
The SSSCIP said in a press release that four of their officials were killed by missile attacks on October 10. The four officials did not have cybersecurity responsibilities, but their loss has weighed heavily on cybersecurity officials at the agency during another grim month of war.
Ukrainian government agencies and critical infrastructure have been targeted over the past years by hackers linked to Russian spy and military agencies.
“I don’t think Russia would measure the success in cyberspace by a single attack,” the Western official said, rather “by their cumulative effect” of trying to wear the Ukrainians down.
The Justice Department and private investigators believe that NotPetya wiped out computer systems at many companies in eastern Ukraine as part of Russia’s attack on the country. The incident cost the global economy billions of dollars, as shipping giant Maersk and other firms were disrupted.
That operation involved identifying widely used Ukrainian software, infiltrating it and injecting malicious code to weaponize it, said Matt Olney, director of threat intelligence and interdiction at Talos, Cisco’s threat intelligence unit.
The end product was just as effective, according to Olney who has had teams inUkraine responding to cyber incidents for years. “And that takes time and it takes opportunities that sometimes you can’t just conjure.”
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Zhora is a deputy chairman of the SSSCIP which called for the Western governments to tighten sanctions on Russia for its access to software tools that could feed its hacking arsenal.
A new wave of cyberattacks could be on their way as they fight the battle on the battlefield, according to the Ambassador-at-large for cyber affairs.
“Our main goal is to isolate Russia on the international stage” as much as possible, Sepp said, adding that the former Soviet state has not communicated with Russia on cybersecurity issues in months.
Russia rejoined a U.N.-brokered deal to safely export grain and other agricultural goods from Ukraine, on Nov. 2. Moscow had suspended its part in the deal a few days prior after saying Ukraine had launched a drone attack on its Black Sea ships.
The current agreement expires on Nov. 19. The international community is hoping it will be extended, and that Ukraine and Russia will continue to work together, despite the war, to supply food to the world.
After some Republicans said that the party could reduce funding for Ukraine if it wins more control of the House of Representatives, the country will be watching the election results very closely.
Also Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will host Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Sweden must meet certain conditions to join NATO, according to the man.
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The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday is scheduled to discuss an International Atomic Energy Agency report, in which Ukraine is expected to be on the agenda.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of “energy terrorism,” as attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure left more than 4 million Ukrainians without electricity.
The Pentagon announced $400 million in additional security aid to Ukraine, on Nov. 4, to include 45 refurbished T-72 tanks, 1,100 Phoenix Ghost drones and other vehicles, technology and training.