2023-10-05 20:25:00
At least 51 people, including a child, were killed by a Russian strike in Groza, a village in eastern Ukraine, during a gathering on the sidelines of the funeral of one of its residents, the authorities announced this Thursday, October 5 .
Ukraine continues to ask its Western allies for more anti-aircraft defense systems to deal with missile launches and drone deployments by Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, currently in Spain for a meeting with European leaders, initially provided a death toll of 48 after this “obviously brutal Russian crime” in this locality located near Kupiansk, a town close to the line front which is regularly the target of Russian bombings. This toll was then revised upwards by the Ministry of the Interior, rising to 51 deaths.
The UN coordinator in Ukraine said she was “dismayed” by the strike. It completely destroyed a store and a cafe when around sixty people were there, particularly after a funeral, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on national television. “There were villagers in the store and villagers in the cafe were also gathered” for a tribute to a deceased person, said Igor Klymenko, specifying that Groza has 330 inhabitants.
“Pieces of grenade” found in bodies of Prigozhin plane crash victims
Russian President Vladimir Putin said this Thursday that “pieces of grenades” were found in the bodies of victims of the August crash of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane, which “did not suffer any external impact.” “.
“The head of the Investigative Committee reported to me a few days ago. Fragments of grenades were found in the bodies of the victims of the air disaster. There was no external impact on the “airplane,” Vladimir Putin said at the international forum in Valdai, Russia.
Russia’s mission is to “build a new world”, assures Putin
Also in Valdai, Vladimir Putin assured that his country’s mission was to “build a new world”, castigating Western “hegemony” and placing his assault in Ukraine in this perspective, and not that of a “territorial conflict “.
“We are essentially faced with the task of building a new world,” Vladimir Putin said at the political forum.
Europe ‘cannot replace’ US support for Ukraine: Borrell
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stressed on Thursday that Europe cannot replace US support for Ukraine, as the political crisis in Washington raises questions about continued US aid. United.
“Obviously, Europe cannot replace the United States,” he declared upon his arrival at the summit of the European Political Community in Granada, in the south of Spain, while recalling that the EU was studying the creation of a fund of 20 billion euros over four years to continue to support the Ukrainian army.
A Chinese company sold two satellites to Wagner
The Russian paramilitary group Wagner, long present in Ukraine and active in Africa, signed a contract with a Chinese company to acquire two observation satellites and command images, providing it with unprecedented intelligence power, according to this document consulted by the AFP.
According to a European security source, some of these images were even used by its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in August in the crash of his plane, to prepare his mutiny in June, the greatest threat ever experienced by President Vladimir Putin in 20 years of power.
Zelensky inquiet
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday expressed concerns about US support for Ukraine due to a “difficult election period” in the United States. “Difficult election period in the United States. There are discordant voices. Some of them are very strange,” said Volodymyr Zelensky, who spoke in English, upon his arrival at the summit of the European Political Community in Granada, in the south of Spain.
26,000 Ukrainians missing
More than 26,000 Ukrainians, including 15,000 military personnel, have been missing since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, the Ukrainian government announced on Thursday.
“Among them, 11,000 are civilians and around 15,000 are military personnel,” Deputy Interior Minister Leonid Tymchenko said on national television.
Russian town attacked by Ukrainian army
The governor of the Russian region of Kursk Roman Starovoit accused the Ukrainian army on Thursday October 5 of having fired cluster munitions, a controversial weapon, on the city of Rylsk, injuring one civilian. “The border town of Rylsk came under fire from cluster munitions by Ukraine,” Starovoit wrote on his Telegram channel. “A woman was injured by shrapnel, she was hospitalized,” according to the governor.
Washington announced in July that the Ukrainian army was beginning to use these weapons delivered by the United States, a very controversial use because the charges they disperse can cause many collateral civilian victims. In an interview broadcast at the beginning of July by the CNN channel, American President Joe Biden confided that he had made a “very difficult decision” in delivering these weapons to Ukraine. Russia had denounced these supplies, although its army also uses them in Ukraine, according to numerous witnesses and independent organizations.
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Ukraine says it shot down 24 Russian drones overnight
The Ukrainian army announced Thursday morning that it had shot down 24 explosive drones out of a total of 29 launched by Russia on the territory of Ukraine during a new night attack. These Iranian-made Shahed-type aircraft were fired from eastern Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow before being shot down in southern and central Ukraine, the Air Force said. Ukrainian on Telegram, without specifying which targets the other five hit.
In the Kirovograd region (center), infrastructure was affected, the regional governor said in the morning on Telegram, specifying that the incident did not cause any casualties. Russia carried out a campaign of massive bombing of Ukrainian infrastructure in the winter of 2022-2023, regularly plunging millions of people into the cold and the dark.
Russian fleet to set up base in separatist region of Georgia
The Russian fleet will set up a base in Abkhazia, a pro-Russian separatist region of Georgia, the territory’s leader announced Thursday, as Ukraine intensifies its attacks against the Russian Black Sea fleet in Crimea.
“We have signed an agreement and, in the near future, the Russian military navy will have a permanent anchor point in the Ochamchire district” on the Black Sea coast, Aslan Bjania told the Russian newspaper Izvestia.
Joe Biden worried about assistance to Ukraine
Joe Biden, who for the first time showed his concern on the subject on Wednesday October 4, promised a “major speech” to demonstrate that it was “extremely important” to continue to support Ukraine militarily and financially. The Democratic president also admitted that the chaos within the Republican Party, which is paralyzing one of the chambers of the American Congress, “worried” him about the future of this assistance.
The Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, was ousted from his post on Tuesday due to a revolt by elected officials from the right wing of the Republican Party, who are particularly opposed to the release of additional funds for Kiev. “This worries me but I know that there is a majority of elected officials in the House of Representatives and the Senate, in both parties, who have said that they support funding aid to Ukraine” , said Joe Biden.
“I am always worried about a dysfunction,” he said again, the day after this historic dismissal. Without repeating his usual assurances that the United States would continue to support Kiev “as long as necessary”, the American president instead insisted that it was “in the interest (of the country) that Ukraine succeeds” in the face of Russia’s invasion.
US supplies Iranian munitions to kyiv
Washington announced on Wednesday that it had given Ukraine small-calibre munitions that had been seized during their transfer from Iran to the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which Tehran supports. The United States transferred “approximately 1.1 million rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces” on Monday, the US military command for the Middle East (Centcom) said in a statement.
These munitions were seized by the US Navy in December 2022 while they were being transferred to the Houthis in Yemen by the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Centcom explained. The transfer was in violation of a UN Security Council resolution.
Ukraine wants to get new anti-aircraft systems before winter
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assured Wednesday that his country was doing “everything” to obtain new anti-aircraft systems from the West before winter to face a possible new campaign of massive Russian bombings. “We are doing everything to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems before winter. And now we are waiting for certain decisions from our partners,” the Ukrainian president said in his evening video speech posted on social networks.
He also called for works to be “carried out as soon as possible” to ensure the protection and reconstruction of critical infrastructure in Ukrainian cities. Russia carried out a campaign of massive bombing of Ukrainian infrastructure in the winter of 2022, regularly plunging millions of people into the cold and the dark.
Westerners have provided Ukraine with anti-aircraft systems, including powerful American Patriot batteries, but these defenses are not always enough to intercept all Russian drones and missiles. At the same time, Ukraine is carrying out its own drone strikes and bombings, which have become almost daily, of targets in Russia.
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