http://feed.informer.com/digests/PAZ5XAQQ1J/feeder Russia and Ukraine News Review Respective post owners and feed distributors Tue, 27 Nov 2018 05:28:04 -0500 Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/ukraine-war-briefing-drones-f-16s-and-patriots-on-dutch-menu-of-aid-to-kyiv-ukrainians World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:475b4ba1-3489-a7be-2ef5-404b68ac1894 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 20:05:39 -0400 <p>Netherlands’ defence minister makes surprise visit and backs strikes into Russia; anti-Kremlin Russian activist dies fighting on Ukrainian side. What we know on day 957</p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia+ukraine">See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage</a></strong> </li></ul><p>The Dutch defence minister, Ruben Brekelmans, said on a surprise visit to Kyiv on Sunday that his country will invest €400m in <strong>advanced drone development with Ukraine</strong> and deliver more F-16s in the coming months. “Both surveillance drones, more defensive drones, but also the attack drones, because we see that Ukraine needs those more offensive drones also to target military facilities,” Brekelmans said. The Netherlands has pledged €10bn in military support for Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion and spent around €4bn so far.</p><p>After visiting Kharkiv, pummelled by Russian glide bombs, Brekelmans said <strong>attacking military targets in Russia</strong> was the only way to defend the city. The Netherlands has driven international partners to supply Ukraine with F-16 jets and pledged 24 of them. The first batch is already operating in Ukrainian airspace, according to the minister, while the others will be delivered “in the upcoming months and maybe beginning of next year”. The Netherlands has announced a plan to <strong>assemble a Patriot air-defence system for Ukraine</strong>. While Brekelmans said it had struggled to source some parts, Ukraine was already using one Dutch-supplied Patriot radar and “three launchers are going to be delivered very soon”.</p><p>Anti-Kremlin activist <strong>Ildar Dadin</strong>, who had been imprisoned in Russia for protesting against Vladimir Putin, was <strong>killed on the frontline while fighting on the Ukrainian side</strong>, his relatives and Russian media said Sunday. “It is with deep regret that I must inform you that Ildar Dadin – call sign Gandhi – died yesterday in combat in the Kharkiv region” in north-east Ukraine, said his friend and former Russian MP Ilya Ponomarev, who is living in exile. Dadin was the <strong>first Russian citizen to be convicted</strong> under a 2014 law clamping down on protests in the country.</p><p>Russian forces attacked Ukraine overnight with 87 Shahed drones and four different types of missiles, officials said on Sunday. A <strong>49-year-old man was killed in the Kharkiv region</strong> after his car was hit by a drone, said the regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov. A gas pipeline was damaged and a warehouse set alight in the city of Odesa, Ukrainian officials reported. Ukraine’s air force said air defences destroyed 56 of the 87 drones and two missiles over 14 Ukrainian regions, including the capital, Kyiv. Another 25 drones disappeared from radar “presumably as a result of anti-aircraft missile defence”.</p><p>Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that it had shot down <strong>four Ukrainian drones</strong> over its Kursk, Voronezh and Belgorod regions.</p><p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he will <strong>present his “victory plan” at the 12 October meeting of the Ramstein group</strong> of Ukraine’s allies against Russia. Ukraine’s president presented it to Joe Biden in Washington last week but the contents have not been made public. It is known that the plan includes Ukrainian membership in Nato and the provision of long-range missiles to strike inside Russia. <strong>Biden, the US president, is due to attend the 12 October summit.</strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/ukraine-war-briefing-drones-f-16s-and-patriots-on-dutch-menu-of-aid-to-kyiv-ukrainians">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia Europe World news Warren Murray and agencies Photograph: Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/ukraine-war-briefing-drones-f-16s-and-patriots-on-dutch-menu-of-aid-to-kyiv-ukrainians World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:ba1216d5-b91d-1166-2998-ad11cf66f227 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 20:05:39 -0400 <p>Activist was once jailed in Russia under anti-protest law; drones, F-16s and Patriots on Dutch menu of aid to Kyiv. What we know on day 957</p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia+ukraine">See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage</a></strong></li></ul><p>Anti-Kremlin activist <strong>Ildar Dadin</strong>, who was once imprisoned in Russia for protesting against Vladimir Putin, was <strong>killed on the frontline while fighting on the Ukrainian side</strong>, his relatives and Russian media said Sunday. “It is with deep regret that I must inform you that Ildar Dadin – call sign Gandhi – died yesterday in combat in the Kharkiv region” in north-east Ukraine, said his friend and former Russian MP Ilya Ponomarev, who is living in exile. Dadin was the <strong>first Russian citizen to be convicted</strong> under a 2014 law clamping down on protests in the country.</p><p>The Dutch defence minister, Ruben Brekelmans, said on a surprise visit to Kyiv on Sunday that his country will invest €400m in <strong>advanced drone development with Ukraine</strong> and deliver more F-16s in the coming months. “Both surveillance drones, more defensive drones, but also the attack drones, because we see that Ukraine needs those more offensive drones also to target military facilities,” Brekelmans said. The Netherlands has pledged €10bn in military support for Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion and spent around €4bn so far.</p><p>After visiting Kharkiv, pummelled by Russian glide bombs, Brekelmans said <strong>attacking military targets in Russia</strong> was the only way to defend the city. The Netherlands has driven international partners to supply Ukraine with F-16 jets and pledged 24 of them. The first batch is already operating in Ukrainian airspace, according to the minister, while the others will be delivered “in the upcoming months and maybe beginning of next year”. The Netherlands has announced a plan to <strong>assemble a Patriot air-defence system for Ukraine</strong>. While Brekelmans said it had struggled to source some parts, Ukraine was already using one Dutch-supplied Patriot radar and “three launchers are going to be delivered very soon”.</p><p>Russian forces attacked Ukraine overnight with 87 Shahed drones and four different types of missiles, officials said on Sunday. A <strong>49-year-old man was killed in the Kharkiv region</strong> after his car was hit by a drone, said the regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov. A gas pipeline was damaged and a warehouse set alight in the city of Odesa, Ukrainian officials reported. Ukraine’s air force said air defences destroyed 56 of the 87 drones and two missiles over 14 Ukrainian regions, including the capital, Kyiv. Another 25 drones disappeared from radar “presumably as a result of anti-aircraft missile defence”.</p><p>Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that it had shot down <strong>four Ukrainian drones</strong> over its Kursk, Voronezh and Belgorod regions.</p><p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he will <strong>present his “victory plan” at the 12 October meeting of the Ramstein group</strong> of Ukraine’s allies against Russia. Ukraine’s president presented it to Joe Biden in Washington last week but the contents have not been made public. It is known that the plan includes Ukrainian membership in Nato and the provision of long-range missiles to strike inside Russia. <strong>Biden, the US president, is due to attend the 12 October summit.</strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/ukraine-war-briefing-drones-f-16s-and-patriots-on-dutch-menu-of-aid-to-kyiv-ukrainians">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia Europe World news Warren Murray and agencies Photograph: Vasily Maximov/AFP/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/salman-rushdie-to-publish-first-work-of-fiction-since-2022-stabbing World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:3620a496-9369-91cf-7033-aa374536b36f Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:52:00 -0400 <p>The author, who lost an eye as a result of the attack, tells Lviv BookForum he is working on a trilogy of novellas</p><p>Salman Rushdie, who survived a stabbing attack in 2022 that cost him an eye, is writing a new work of fiction, he has told the audience at Lviv BookForum.</p><p>The author’s new work will comprise three novellas, each of about 70 pages, and each relating to one of “the three worlds in my life: India and England and America. And they all in some way consider the idea of an ending.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/salman-rushdie-to-publish-first-work-of-fiction-since-2022-stabbing">Continue reading...</a> Salman Rushdie Books Culture Ukraine Europe World news Charlotte Higgins in Lviv Photograph: Nastya Telikova https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/world/europe/ukraine-war-dogs.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:8da371bf-c4b1-51e2-e520-ae64762c14af Sun, 06 Oct 2024 05:00:48 -0400 Dog ownership has surged over the past two years as people seek companionship. In Kyiv, Yorkies, poodles and bichons frisés now rule the streets. Dogs Pets Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Kyiv (Ukraine) Ukraine Russia Constant Méheut and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/06/ukraine-war-briefing-kyivs-military-claims-downing-of-russian-fighter-plane-over-donetsk-region World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:1960b6ac-e158-f5db-8835-3f5b34884687 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 21:03:01 -0400 <p>Bomber reportedly shot down near city of Kostiantynivka as Russian forces claim capture of another eastern Ukrainian village. What we know on day 956</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia+ukraine">See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage</a></li></ul><p><strong>Ukrainian forces said they shot down a Russian warplane in Ukraine’s east on Saturday</strong>. The bomber was downed near the city of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region, the head of its military administration, Serhiy Horbunov, was quoted as saying by Ukraine’s public broadcaster, Suspilne. Photos showed charred remains of an aircraft after it landed on a house that caught fire.</p><p><strong>Ukraine said five civilians were killed by Russian shelling in the country’s south and east while Russian forces claimed to have made gains in Ukraine’s east</strong>. A 65-year-old woman and an 86-year-old man were killed in the city of Toretsk and the village of Velyka Novosilka, prosecutors in the Donetsk region said. In the Zaporizhzhia region, two men aged 44 and 46 were killed by Russian shelling in the village of Mala Tokmachka, said the regional governor, Ivan Fyodorov. Prosecutors in the Kharkiv region said a 49-year-old man died when the car he was driving was hit by a Russian drone.</p><p><strong>Russian forces captured the village of Zhelanne Druge in the Donetsk region, Moscow’s defence ministry claimed</strong> on Saturday. The village is located close to Pokrovsk, a logistics hub for the Ukrainian army that is threatened by the advance of Russian troops. If confirmed, the village’s capture would come three days after Ukrainian forces said they were withdrawing from the frontline town of Vuhledar, about 33km from Zhelanne Druge, after a hard-fought two-year defence.</p><p><strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would present his “victory plan” at the 12 October meeting of the Ramstein group of nations</strong> that supplies arms to Ukraine. The plan had “clear, concrete steps towards a just end to the war”, the Ukrainian president said on X on Saturday, adding that the 25th Ramstein meeting would be the first to take place at the leaders’ level. “The determination of our partners and the strengthening of Ukraine are what can stop Russian aggression.” Zelenskyy presented his plan to the US president, Joe Biden, in Washington in September.</p><p><strong>Nine people were wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a passenger bus in the Donetsk city of Horlivka</strong>, according to the city’s Russian-installed mayor, Ivan Prikhodko.</p><p><strong>Russia launched three guided missiles and 13 attack drones at Ukraine overnight into Saturday, Ukraine’s air force said</strong>. The missiles were intercepted, three drones were shot down over the Odesa region and 10 others were lost, it said. Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday that air defences shot down 10 Ukrainian drones overnight in three border regions, including seven over the Belgorod region, two over the Kursk region and one over the Voronezh region.</p><p><strong>Ukrainian prosecutors said they were investigating allegations Russian forces executed four Ukrainian prisoners of war and said a possible suspect for the killings was in custody</strong>. “The investigation was initiated by interrogations of Russian prisoners of war, during which testimonies were obtained regarding the commission of the crime,” the prosecutor’s office in the north-eastern Kharkiv region posted on Telegram on Saturday. The servicemen are alleged to have been killed on the orders of Russian military command over the summer at an aggregate plant in Vovchansk, which has been the focus of fierce fighting.</p><p><strong>Russian prosecutors called for a seven-year sentence at the trial of a US citizen accused of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine against Russia</strong>, Russian news agencies reported. Prosecutors asked the court to take into account 72-year-old Stephen Hubbard’s age and said he had admitted guilt, according to Interfax on Saturday. They asked that he serve the sentence in a maximum-security penal colony. The US embassy in Moscow said it was aware of the reports of an American citizen’s arrest but could not comment further “due to privacy restrictions”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/06/ukraine-war-briefing-kyivs-military-claims-downing-of-russian-fighter-plane-over-donetsk-region">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia Europe World news Guardian staff and agencies Photograph: RFE/RL/Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/world/europe/ukraine-donbas-strategy-russia-war.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:9ffaa1db-6fc5-d950-01ed-b5e86b6c7e62 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 09:12:06 -0400 The idea is to use rope-a-dope tactics, letting Russian forces pound away until they have exhausted themselves. It’s far from clear if the Ukrainian strategy will succeed. 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Children and Childhood Disabilities Chemotherapy Eyes and Eyesight Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Pain-Relieving Drugs Tumors Chernivtsi (Ukraine) Kyiv (Ukraine) Odessa (Ukraine) Russia Lynsey Addario https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/opinion/president-biden-middle-east-ukraine.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:0b9bd9b5-1d5e-d0c1-1145-9fbae7839a07 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:00:34 -0400 The sidelining of the White House in global crisis spots is a big red flag. Presidential Election of 2024 United States International Relations United States Politics and Government Defense and Military Forces Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Iran-Israel Proxy Conflict Hezbollah Biden, Joseph R Jr Harris, Kamala D Netanyahu, Benjamin Trump, Donald J Eastern Europe Iran Israel Middle East Russia Ukraine United States Ross Douthat https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/05/there-is-a-sense-of-safety-here-the-artists-keeping-culture-alive-in-kharkiv-ukraine World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:f4f322f3-e98c-807d-04b1-ed752ca3e938 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 05:00:21 -0400 <p>War has created a ‘new era of collaboration’ among the Ukrainian city’s creatives, with artists, poets and curators working together</p><p>People living in the frontline Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have been close enough to death to look it in the eye – and make some kind of peace with its proximity. These are the hardcore ones, equipped “with nerves of steel” according to Nataliia Ivanova, the director of the Yermilov Centre, the city’s contemporary art gallery.</p><p>Daily life in Kharkiv.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/05/there-is-a-sense-of-safety-here-the-artists-keeping-culture-alive-in-kharkiv-ukraine">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Culture Museums World news Art Europe Charlotte Higgins in Kharkiv; photographs by Julia Kochetova Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/05/ukraine-war-briefing-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-employee-killed-in-ukrainian-car-bomb-attack Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:5978b9e9-cc97-8eb2-50ac-8073b03802db Fri, 04 Oct 2024 21:30:24 -0400 <p>Ukrainian military intelligence says it eliminated ‘war criminal’ and collaborator; blaze after strike on Voronezh oil depot, Russia. What we know on day 955</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia+ukraine">See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage</a></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/05/ukraine-war-briefing-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-employee-killed-in-ukrainian-car-bomb-attack">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia Europe World news Guardian staff and agencies Photograph: Russian Investigative Committee/Reuters https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/oct/04/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:cae832a6-9592-7260-9972-593c1aa715ca Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:35:36 -0400 <p>The Middle East crisis, the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Femen activists in Kyiv and Paris fashion week: the last seven days as captured by the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_twenty_photos_/">world’s leading photojournalists</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/oct/04/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures">Continue reading...</a> Photography Art and design Culture World news Israel-Gaza war Lebanon Hamas Gaza Israel Palestinian territories Middle East and north Africa Ukraine Russia Climate crisis Jim Powell Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/world/europe/ukraine-war-children-cancer.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:1bf96196-1fa8-7517-fce9-282b7bb719c6 Fri, 04 Oct 2024 05:51:24 -0400 Sonya Liakh was diagnosed with eye cancer at age 2. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted her treatment, her family faced a desperate struggle. Children and Childhood Disabilities Chemotherapy Eyes and Eyesight Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Pain-Relieving Drugs Tumors Chernivtsi (Ukraine) Kyiv (Ukraine) Odessa (Ukraine) Russia Lynsey Addario https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000009686974/the-wars-toll-on-sick-ukrainian-children.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:4b6f9f30-c91a-66b5-bce9-53a78c7ff434 Fri, 04 Oct 2024 05:01:29 -0400 Sonya, a young Ukrainian girl, was being treated for eye cancer. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. Lynsey Addario, a photographer on assignment for The New York Times who has covered every major war and humanitarian crisis of her generation, tells Sonya’s story. Ukraine Kyiv (Ukraine) War and Armed Conflicts Russia Lynsey Addario, Rebecca Suner, Nikolay Nikolov and James Surdam https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-says-west-dragging-out-delivery-of-long-range-weapons World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:577e0755-2ba3-a710-e4b5-e92bbf5682b2 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:27:53 -0400 <p>At a media appearance with new Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted western delays in supplying weapons. What we know on day 954</p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia+ukraine">See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage</a></strong></li></ul><p><strong>Nato’s chief Mark Rutte has told Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy that his goal as head of the military alliance is to ensure that “Ukraine prevails”.</strong> In a major show of support for Kyiv, Rutte went to the Ukrainian capital for his maiden trip as secretary general of the alliance. Rutte said he chose Kyiv as his first trip “to make crystal clear to you, to the people of Ukraine and to everyone watching, that Nato stands with Ukraine”.</p><p><strong>In a joint media appearance with Rutte, Zelenskyy blasted western delays over supplying long-range weapons</strong>. “We need sufficient quantity and quality of weapons, including long-range weapons, that, in my opinion, our partners are already dragging out,” Zelenskyy said. The Ukrainian leader also called on Nato members to take a more active role in helping his country to fend off Russian aerial attacks. “We will continue to convince our partners of the need to shoot down Russian missiles and drones,” Zelenskyy said, adding “what works in the skies of the Middle East and helps Israel defend itself can also work in the skies of our part of Europe.”</p><p><strong>Asked to respond on Zelenskyy’s comments</strong>, deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said, “we have a limited supply of long-range missiles” and “we’re not dragging it out”.</p><p><strong>Ukraine has opened its first recruitment office in Poland aiming to enlist citizens for its fight against Russia’s invasion</strong>. The move comes as Kyiv is scrambling to bolster its ranks to stave off Moscow’s invasion. Ukraine announced its plans to recruit a “Ukrainian Legion” in July, hoping to convince thousands of men who have fled the country to avoid the war to enlist. The government estimates that about 300,000 people of combat age are living in Poland.</p><p><strong>Thousands of people in Berlin demonstrated against Germany’s military support for Ukraine during a rally organised</strong> <strong>by a radical leftwing collective.</strong> Participants gathered in the German capital and brandished placards reading “Negotiations! No weapons!”, “No to war” and “Pacifism is not naive”. Some also held anti-American signs. One of their main demands was for Germany to stop sending weapons to Ukraine. Far-left populist leader Sahra Wagenknecht, who attended the Berlin protest, has long called for an end to weapon deliveries to Kyiv and opposes a plan to deploy US long-range missiles in Germany. Germany has been the second-largest contributor of military aid to Ukraine after the United States, but plans to halve its budget for that aid next year.</p><p><strong>Ukraine has said a Russian drone attack killed three people, including a young child, in its northern Chernigiv border region</strong>. Russian drones hit a gas truck that was making deliveries to households in a border village, Ukraine’s national police force said on Telegram. “The truck exploded and residential buildings caught fire.” Three people were killed in the blast, including a child born in 2018, the police said. Four others were hospitalised, including two children, aged four and 13.</p><p><strong>Russia’s defence ministry confirmed reports that its forces had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/ukraine-forces-withdrawn-vuhledar-donetsk">taken control of the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar</a></strong>, crediting what it called decisive action taken by units in its “East” military grouping. The town, which Russia calls Ugledar, had resisted Russian assaults for more than two years.</p><p><strong>Croatia will host a Balkans leaders summit on Ukraine next week that will also be attended by Zelenskyy, Croatia’s prime minister said on Thursday</strong>. The aim of the meeting, to be held in the southern Adriatic resort of Dubrovnik, is that the “whole region supports Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in the fight for freedom”, Andrej Plenkovic said during a regular government session. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, a government statement said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-says-west-dragging-out-delivery-of-long-range-weapons">Continue reading...</a> Russia Ukraine Europe Nato Guardian staff Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/opinion/trump-election-apprentice.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:bafe9667-51a0-7b7b-6b47-26f5b3e181b2 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 14:54:03 -0400 It’s unnerving how many fortunate things have happened to this guy. 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Middle East War and Armed Conflicts Israel-Gaza War (2023- ) Iran-Israel Proxy Conflict Hamas Hezbollah International Relations United States International Relations Foreign Aid Peace Process Gaza Strip Israel Iran United States Lebanon Russia China Biden, Joseph R Jr Netanyahu, Benjamin Putin, Vladimir V Nasrallah, Hassan Sinwar, Yehya United Nations Roger Cohen https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/russia-exiled-opposition-hammer-attack-navalny-ally Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:85a5183b-7d0c-1078-1c63-cb1fac38f1a9 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 07:59:44 -0400 <p>Accusations that another Kremlin critic ordered attack on Leonid Volkov throws scattered opposition into further disarray</p><p>When Leonid Volkov, a longtime partner of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/12/navalny-ally-leonid-volkov-injured-in-hammer-attack-in-vilnius">brutally attacked with a hammer</a> outside his home in Lithuania in March, it initially seemed yet another case of the Kremlin hunting down its enemies abroad.</p><p>The assailant smashed open Volkov’s car window and struck him repeatedly with a hammer, breaking his left arm and damaging his left leg. Western officials and opposition figures assumed the attack, which took place a few weeks after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/26/vladimir-putin-had-alexei-navalny-killed-to-thwart-prisoner-swap-allies-claim">Navalny’s mysterious death in prison</a>, had been orchestrated by the Kremlin.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/russia-exiled-opposition-hammer-attack-navalny-ally">Continue reading...</a> Russia Alexei Navalny Mikhail Khodorkovsky Europe World news Vladimir Putin Pjotr Sauer and Shaun Walker in Warsaw Photograph: Courtesy of X user @teamnavalny/AFP/Getty Images https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/podcasts/biden-helene-trump.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:947b8150-aaea-f787-2ea6-c5f7bed8cb56 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:21:47 -0400 Plus, making fall foliage pop for the colorblind. State Legislatures Federal Aid (US) United States Politics and Government Presidential Election of 2024 Storming of the US Capitol (Jan, 2021) Iran-Israel Proxy Conflict Biden, Joseph R Jr Trump, Donald J Iran Israel Russia Tracy Mumford, Christopher Flavelle, Alan Feuer, Robert Jimison, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/opinion/putin-russia-nuclear-weapons.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:0ea42e89-a2c4-4c79-1ea7-4ffe9da6cdf5 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:13:44 -0400 Last week the president of Russia appeared to lower the threshold for his country’s use of nuclear weapons. It wasn’t subtle, and it wasn’t meant to be. Nuclear Weapons Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Putin, Vladimir V International Relations North Atlantic Treaty Organization Russia Ukraine Lawrence Freedman https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/movies/intercepted-review-ukraine-war-russian-soldiers.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:d8c005b6-0011-2890-cbc3-9b91087277a8 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:04:02 -0400 In leaked phone calls home, Russian soldiers grapple with the war they’re waging. This new documentary sets the calls’ swagger and anguish against images of the invasion’s devastation. Documentary Films and Programs Intercepted (Movie) Karpovych, Oksana Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Ukraine Russia Defense and Military Forces Manohla Dargis https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/world/europe/russian-oil-tankers-gabon.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:7819ca1f-0660-3083-f8ed-fe66d14933ed Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:02:25 -0400 A shadowy network of ships has registered in Gabon, highlighting how Vladimir V. Putin is building an economy beyond the reach of Western sanctions. Russia Embargoes and Sanctions Assets, Frozen Ships and Shipping Freight (Cargo) Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline Politics and Government United States International Relations Rosneft Sovcomflot Putin, Vladimir V Sechin, Igor I Gabon Rebecca R. Ruiz and Jacob Judah https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/ukraine-war-briefing-russian-strike-hits-kharkiv-apartment-block-ukrainian-troops-quit-vuhledar Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:bd1f3e7b-7e72-2809-2017-17d8c2807f61 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:46:35 -0400 <p>Zelenskyy urges western backing akin to that for Israel after Kharkiv strike; Ukraine’s 72nd mechanised brigade leaves eastern town of Vuhledar after more than two years. What we know on day 953</p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia+ukraine">See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage</a></strong></li></ul><p><strong>A Russian guided bomb struck a five-storey apartment block in Kharkiv late on Wednesday, starting fires and injuring at least 10 people</strong>, local officials said. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the strike underscored the need for more help from Ukraine’s western backers. He pointed to Iran’s strike on Israel as an example of allies working together to shoot down incoming rockets and missiles. “Ukraine must receive the necessary, and most importantly, sufficient help from the world, from our partners … Every time in the Middle East, during criminal Iranian strikes, we see how the international coalition acts together.”</p><p><strong>Ukraine’s army said it had withdrawn from the eastern town of Vuhledar, handing Russia one of its most significant territorial advances in weeks</strong>. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/ukraine-forces-withdrawn-vuhledar-donetsk">Luke Harding writes</a> that Ukraine’s 72nd mechanised brigade had defended Vuhledar for more than two years. The military command in Kyiv said its troops left late on Tuesday to preserve personnel and combat equipment.</p><p><a href="https://x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1841289522614882614?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">According to the ISW</a>, the <strong>loss of Vuhledar</strong> will not fundamentally alter offensive operations because it is <strong>“not a particularly crucial logistics node”</strong>. Russian forces would now have to manoeuvre across open terrain in order to link up with units farther north. But, Harding writes, the <strong>overall picture for Kyiv is grim</strong>, with Russian forces advancing in eastern Ukraine at their quickest rate for two years. Russian bloggers said Moscow’s forces could now try to push from Vuhledar towards Velyka Novosilka, just over 30km (20 miles) to the west in Zaporizhzhia province. Russian forces currently control 98.5% of the Luhansk region and 60% of the Donetsk region.</p><p><strong>In Kyiv</strong>, the head of the capital’s military administration said fragments from a downed <strong>Russian drone damaged an apartment building</strong> in one of the capital’s eastern districts. There was no indication of any casualties.</p><p>Crowds of <strong>ultra-Orthodox Jews</strong> in their tens of thousands celebrated the Jewish new year in the <strong>Ukrainian city of Uman</strong> on Wednesday despite the difficulties for many of travelling from one theatre of conflict to another. Followers of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov gather every year in his honour in Uman where he was buried in 1810. This year’s <strong>Rosh Hashanah</strong> coincided with a sweeping ballistic missile attack on Israel by Iran, a potentially dangerous new phase in the war triggered by the Hamas-led assault on Israel in October 2023.</p><p>Like thousands of other pilgrims, Rony Eli-Ya <strong>travelled from his home in Israel to Uman this week</strong> for Rosh Hashanah. With Iran having fired ballistic missiles at Israel, Eli-Ya said he was not sure how he would return to his home near Tel Aviv. “We feel war here, and there,” said Eli-Ya, who said he goes to Uman every year. A current Israeli soldier, who wished to remain anonymous, told AFP he was visiting on leave. “The commander gave me 72 hours to go to Ukraine for the celebration and to go back to fight,” he said. “This is a holy day for us.”</p><p><strong>Vladimir Putin has signed into law measures that allow defendants who are already on criminal trial to avoid prosecution if they join the military</strong>. The legislation also allows for <strong>sentences or proceedings to be entirely cancelled</strong> if the enlistee is discharged for age or health reasons. Putin in September called for the military to increase its troop strength by 180,000 and the government’s draft budget this week earmarked a record 32.5% of its spending for the military.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/ukraine-war-briefing-russian-strike-hits-kharkiv-apartment-block-ukrainian-troops-quit-vuhledar">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia Europe World news Warren Murray with Guardian writers and agencies Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/world/europe/russia-putin-birthrate.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:b3da62be-9872-9dd5-1535-64f6adaaa9dc Wed, 02 Oct 2024 11:46:34 -0400 President Vladimir Putin is throwing ever more resources at two interlocked priorities: recruiting more soldiers and encouraging bigger families. Politics and Government Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Birth Rates Defense and Military Forces International Relations Population Draft and Recruitment (Military) Matviyenko, Valentina Putin, Vladimir V Russia Ukraine Anton Troianovski https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/ukraine-forces-withdrawn-vuhledar-donetsk World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:a68d6ee2-e0d6-c647-6b87-06ead2266904 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 11:39:49 -0400 <p>Eastern city had resisted repeated attacks but Russian troops are close to ‘encircling’ it in Donetsk advance</p><p>Ukraine has said that its forces have withdrawn from the eastern city of Vuhledar, a defensive bastion that had resisted repeated Russian attacks since Vladimir Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion.</p><p>The military command in Kyiv said its troops left late on Tuesday. They had retreated in order to preserve personnel and combat equipment, it said, adding that Russian combat units had attacked from three directions and were close to “encircling” the city.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/ukraine-forces-withdrawn-vuhledar-donetsk">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia Volodymyr Zelenskyy Vladimir Putin Luke Harding and agencies Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/boris-yeltsin-asleep-or-legless-in-limerick-ireland-1994 Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:9613f617-a634-8d90-b069-58161e38d0f9 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:09:21 -0400 <p><strong>1 October 1994</strong>: The president of the Russian Federation fails to emerge from his plane at Shannon airport, Ireland</p><p>Tired certainly, but an emotional Russian president? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/23/russia.guardianobituaries">Boris Yeltsin</a> sparked a diplomatic incident yesterday when he was too “indisposed” to get off his plane and have lunch with the Irish prime minister, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/21/albert-reynolds">Albert Reynolds</a>, at Shannon airport.</p><p>Both leaders have been under punishing schedules. Mr Reynolds had just returned from New Zealand. Next week he departs for the United States, whence Mr Yeltsin was returning.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/boris-yeltsin-asleep-or-legless-in-limerick-ireland-1994">Continue reading...</a> Russia Ireland Europe David Sharrockin Belfast Photograph: PA Images/Alamy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/02/biden-israel-ukraine-deescalation World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:af01cc03-69e3-c657-f858-dadec9f3dd6d Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:08:36 -0400 <p>Biden needs better strategies to handle America’s allies. So will the next US president</p><p>The United States is in a trying position with two of its most consequential foreign friends: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukrainian</a> president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/volodymyr-zelenskiy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israeli</a> prime minister <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/benjamin-netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>. Washington has provided broad military backing to both, even when their actions run counter to long-term US interests. A more clear-eyed approach is needed.</p><p>Over the last year, Netanyahu <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/we-are-winning-benjamin-netanyahu-defies-calls-for-a-ceasefire-in-un-speech">repeatedly defied</a> US efforts to de-escalate the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">war in Gaza</a>. Earlier last month he may even have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/netanyahu-israel-attacks-lebanon-hezbollah-ceasefire-calls">intentionally scuttled</a> US diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire. And in the past few days, he has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-hopes-fade-netanyahu">backtracked</a> after agreeing to a ceasefire in Lebanon, publicly embarrassing the Biden administration.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/02/biden-israel-ukraine-deescalation">Continue reading...</a> US foreign policy Israel Ukraine Joe Biden US news World news Lebanon Hezbollah Benjamin Netanyahu Volodymyr Zelenskyy Iran Israel-Gaza war Christopher S Chivvis Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/02/biden-israel-ukraine-deescalation World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:f97a8dc7-ee81-3b3d-4f3d-bf0616080d42 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:08:36 -0400 <p>Biden needs better strategies to handle America’s allies. So will the next US president</p><p>The United States is in a trying position with two of its most consequential foreign friends: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukrainian</a> president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/volodymyr-zelenskiy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israeli</a> prime minister <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/benjamin-netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>. Washington has provided broad military backing to both, even when their actions run counter to long-term US interests. A more clear-eyed approach is needed.</p><p>Over the last year, Netanyahu <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/we-are-winning-benjamin-netanyahu-defies-calls-for-a-ceasefire-in-un-speech">repeatedly defied</a> US efforts to de-escalate the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">war in Gaza</a>. Earlier last month he may even have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/netanyahu-israel-attacks-lebanon-hezbollah-ceasefire-calls">intentionally scuttled</a> US diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire. And in the past few days, he has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/27/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-hopes-fade-netanyahu">backtracked</a> after agreeing to a ceasefire in Lebanon, publicly embarrassing the Biden administration.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/02/biden-israel-ukraine-deescalation">Continue reading...</a> US foreign policy Israel Ukraine Joe Biden US news World news Lebanon Hezbollah Benjamin Netanyahu Volodymyr Zelenskyy Iran Israel-Gaza war Christopher S Chivvis Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/ukraine-war-briefing-moscow-pensioner-outrage-at-disgrace-of-huge-spending-on-war World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:01979aa9-9cc0-1d8c-117d-cb8fe0874c02 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:40:44 -0400 <p>Russian troops occupy most of Vuhledar and raise flags; video shows alleged execution of surrendering Ukrainian troops. What we know on day 952</p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia+ukraine">See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage</a></strong></li></ul><p></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/ukraine-war-briefing-moscow-pensioner-outrage-at-disgrace-of-huge-spending-on-war">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia World news Europe Warren Murray with Guardian writers and agencies Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/ukraine-war-briefing-moscow-pensioner-outrage-at-disgrace-of-huge-spending-on-war Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:fecc2c05-2816-79d9-a197-cfe7219a95e0 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:40:44 -0400 <p>Public reacts to news that Russia is to spend more than 40% of its budget on defence and security; Russian troops occupy most of Vuhledar and raise flags. What we know on day 952</p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia+ukraine">See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage</a></strong></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/ukraine-war-briefing-moscow-pensioner-outrage-at-disgrace-of-huge-spending-on-war">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia World news Europe Warren Murray with Guardian writers and agencies Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/ukraine-accuses-russia-of-executing-16-pows-on-eastern-front Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:e038095f-15a4-5f82-1fac-d02b737607c1 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:54:50 -0400 <p>Prosecutor general investigating drone footage apparently showing summary executions of surrendering soldiers</p><p>Authorities in Ukraine have launched an investigation into what they said was the apparent summary execution by Russian troops of 16 Ukrainian soldiers who had surrendered on the eastern frontline.</p><p>“This is the largest reported case of the execution of Ukrainian PoWs on the frontline and yet another indication that the killing and torture of prisoners of war are not isolated incidents,” Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Andriy Kostin, said on X. “This is a deliberate policy of the Russian military and political leadership.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/ukraine-accuses-russia-of-executing-16-pows-on-eastern-front">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia Europe World news Reuters Photograph: Libkos/Getty Images https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-donetsk-vuhledar.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:0c6d65f2-d70a-2f64-f96b-e96947e6d677 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:19:48 -0400 The loss of Vuhledar, at the intersection of two fronts, would complicate the defense of a regional transit hub and strengthen Russian supply lines, Ukrainian soldiers say. Defense and Military Forces Civilian Casualties Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Donetsk (Ukraine) Vuhledar (Ukraine) Ukraine Russia Marc Santora https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/01/film-maker-poet-iryna-tsilyk-captures-surreal-life-in-ukraine World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:3c01ea70-c762-3d68-df5f-c50bf1786f41 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:36:27 -0400 <p>Audiences in flak jackets queued to hear the poet and director on a tour of pounded cities. She talks about depicting life during war, from air raid alerts to hesitating between pinot or zinfandel in the supermarket</p><p>Iryna Tsilyk is tired. The Ukrainian poet and film-maker apologises for her English, unnecessarily, and for her patchy cognitive ability, also unnecessarily. The whole of Ukraine, you could say, is tired: tired of the missiles, the deaths, the stress, the grief, and of the guilt that seems to afflict everyone from frontline soldiers to those in safer exile abroad for “not doing enough”. Tsilyk, an author of light-footed, vivid poems and of tender, quietly devastating films, says she has been diagnosed with depression. She shrugs: it’s the same for a bunch of her friends, probably much of the population.</p><p>It is hardly surprising, given the extreme pressure Ukrainians are living under, more than two and a half years into Russia’s fullscale invasion. Tsilyk’s husband, the novelist Artem Chekh, is in the armed forces. He fought in the war that began in 2014 after the Russian-backed takeovers in the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk. His 10 months in the trenches back then were intensely difficult for the couple. So was its aftermath after the initial euphoria of his return, Tsilyk tells me.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/01/film-maker-poet-iryna-tsilyk-captures-surreal-life-in-ukraine">Continue reading...</a> Poetry Books Culture Hay festival Ukraine Europe Animation in film Film Charlotte Higgins in Kyiv Photograph: - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/01/russian-gang-evil-corp-nato-cyber-attacks-protection-fsb-sanctions Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:ab7ca4ae-f0ab-794c-4e4f-9676591711c3 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:00:10 -0400 <p>NCA says cybercriminal gang used family links to spy agency to shield members targeted by US authorities</p><p>A prolific Russian cybercriminal gang carried out attacks against Nato countries at the behest of state intelligence services and used family links with Russia’s domestic spy agency to protect its members after being targeted by US authorities, according to the UK’s National Crime Agency.</p><p>The dramatically named Evil Corp group had an unusually close relationship with the Russian state, said the NCA.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/01/russian-gang-evil-corp-nato-cyber-attacks-protection-fsb-sanctions">Continue reading...</a> Hacking Russia Cybercrime Nato NCA (National Crime Agency) Crime Europe World news Technology UK news Dan Milmo Global technology editor Photograph: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek/Getty Images https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-donetsk-vuhledar.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:5a44b453-8dca-cf37-fc18-47a74be76662 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:09:45 -0400 The loss of Vuhledar, at the intersection of two fronts, would complicate the defense of a regional transit hub and strengthen Russian supply lines, Ukrainian soldiers say. Defense and Military Forces Civilian Casualties Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Donetsk (Ukraine) Vuhledar (Ukraine) Ukraine Russia Marc Santora https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/ukraine-seim-river-poisoning-chernihiv-ecocide- Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:60b41d38-55cc-134c-2831-852beece446c Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:20 -0400 <p>Russia is suspected of deliberately leaking chemical waste into a river, with deadly consequences for wildlife</p><p>Serhiy Kraskov picked up a twig and poked at a small fish floating in the Desna River. “It’s a roach. It died recently. You can tell because its eyes are clear and not blurry,” he said. Hundreds of other fish had washed up nearby on the river’s green willow-fringed banks. A large pike lay in the mud. Nearby, in a patch of yellow lilies, was a motionless carp. “Everything is dead, starting from the tiniest minnow to the biggest catfish,” Kraskov added mournfully.</p><p>Kraskov is the mayor of the village of Slabyn, in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region. The rustic settlement – population 520 – <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/chernihiv-ukrainians-territory-russia-occupation-kyiv">escaped the worst</a> of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion. But the war arrived last week in a new and horrible form. Ukrainian officials say the Russians deliberately poisoned the Seym River, which flows into the Desna. The Desna connects with a reservoir in the Kyiv region and a water supply used by millions.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/ukraine-seim-river-poisoning-chernihiv-ecocide-">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia World news Europe Luke Harding and Artem Mazhulin in Slabyn, Ukraine. Photographs by Alessio Mamo Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/ukraine-war-briefing-fight-hard-through-autumn-zelenskyy-urges-forces Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:1860a5fc-bb84-8558-d847-d6d0e2ecfc8d Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:18:05 -0400 <p>Mark Rutte to take Nato reins from Jens Stoltenberg; ‘I don’t really buy it’ says former Trump adviser of boasts about ending war. What we know on day 951 </p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia+ukraine">See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage</a></strong></li></ul><p><strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that the situation was “very, very difficult” on the frontline of the war against Russia</strong>, as well as in terms of “our capabilities, our future capabilities and our specific tasks”, with Ukraine’s forces needing to do everything they could over the autumn period.</p><p><strong>Ukrainian military bloggers have reported in recent days that the Russians have been advancing on the hilltop town of Vuhledar, which Ukraine’s forces have defended over the course of the war, in the south of the Donetsk region</strong>. Russian troops have also been advancing slowly for months further north, with the aim of capturing the entire Donbas region, made up of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.</p><p><strong>Nato members should not be deterred from giving more military aid to Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s “reckless Russian nuclear rhetoric”, the alliance’s outgoing secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, has said as he hands the job over to Mark Rutte</strong>. “Every time we have stepped up our support with new types of weapons – battle tanks, long-range fires or F-16s – the Russians have tried to prevent us,” Stoltenberg said. “They have not succeeded and also this latest example should not prevent Nato allies from supporting Ukraine,” he added, referring to Vladimir Putin’s recent supposed changes to Russian nuclear doctrine. Stoltenberg said Nato had not detected any change in Russia’s nuclear posture “that requires any changes from our side”.</p><p><strong>Mark Rutte, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/mark-rutte-takes-charge-of-nato-at-a-perilous-moment-for-ukraine">writes Jennifer Rankin</a>, takes the reins of Nato at a perilous moment for Ukraine as it faces a third winter fighting Russia’s brutal invasion</strong>. Nato allies recently pledged to bolster long-term support to Ukraine “so it can prevail in its fight for freedom”. Rutte is a blunt-speaking liberal who led four Dutch coalition governments over 13 years. He will formally take over as Nato secretary general on Tuesday morning.</p><p><strong>HR McMaster, a US national security adviser during Donald Trump’s presidency, has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/30/trump-ukraine-war-plan">dismissed as “a real myth”</a> the Republican presidential nominee’s boasts that he would broker an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine if elected in November</strong>. “I don’t really buy it,” HR McMaster said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. “It’s a real misunderstanding of war to assume that you can get a favourable political outcome without a favourable military outcome. That’s never really happened in war.”</p><p><strong>Three journalists working for independent Russian media outlets were arrested in Moscow on Monday outside a concert celebrating the Kremlin’s claimed annexation of Ukrainian regions, a rights group said</strong>. Citing the detainees’ relatives, human rights NGO OVD-info said one of the journalists worked at the news site Republic and the other two for SOTAvision, which said its reporters – who were denied access to the celebration on Red Square – had been arrested while interviewing spectators. The outlet is one of the last Russian media still working to document the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent.</p><p><strong>Russia is planning to draft 133,000 troops between October and January, according to a decree signed by Vladimir Putin that affects those not in the reserve and who are eligible for military service</strong>. Russia plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/russias-defence-spending-to-rise-by-25-next-year-the-highest-since-the-cold-war">boost its defence budget by almost 30%</a> next year as it diverts resources to its war on Ukraine, spending more on the military than welfare and education combined, a draft budget indicates.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/ukraine-war-briefing-fight-hard-through-autumn-zelenskyy-urges-forces">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Russia Europe World news Warren Murray with Guardian writers and agencies Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/opinion/kamala-harris-ukraine-war.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:01d4e574-857a-283a-8b56-4ea705bff37d Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:05:02 -0400 What would a President Harris do about the war in Ukraine? United States International Relations United States Politics and Government Presidential Election of 2024 Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Biden, Joseph R Jr Harris, Kamala D Trump, Donald J Zelensky, Volodymyr Russia Ukraine Ross Douthat https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/world/europe/russia-defense-budget-ukraine-war.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:19e4677c-1856-c00c-f106-917a8a0b0097 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:54:18 -0400 The Kremlin plans a 25 percent increase to more than $145 billion in 2025, a year in which it had intended to cut military spending. Politics and Government Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates) Defense and Military Forces Putin, Vladimir V Russia Ukraine Inflation (Economics) Budgets and Budgeting Ivan Nechepurenko https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/russias-defence-spending-to-rise-by-25-next-year-the-highest-since-the-cold-war World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:4e5d51b5-dae2-b65c-42cc-9120e53f05d1 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:23:43 -0400 <p>Defence and security will amount to 40% of government spending as Vladimir Putin continues war against Ukraine</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</a> is set to increase its spending on defence by 25% in 2025, the highest since the cold war, as Vladimir Putin vows to continue his war efforts in Ukraine and further escalate his standoff with the west.</p><p>The latest planned increase in spending will take Russia’s defence budget to a record 13.5tn rubles (£109bn) in 2025, according to draft budget documents published on Monday on the parliament’s website. That is about 3tn rubles more than was set aside for defence this year, which was the previous record.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/russias-defence-spending-to-rise-by-25-next-year-the-highest-since-the-cold-war">Continue reading...</a> Russia Vladimir Putin Ukraine World news Europe Pjotr Sauer Photograph: Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/russias-defence-spending-to-rise-by-25-next-year-the-highest-since-the-cold-war Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:3785172e-9225-a94f-d0da-794255235769 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:23:43 -0400 <p>Draft documents say defence and security will make up 40% of government spending as Putin continues war against Ukraine</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</a> is to increase its spending on defence by 25% to its highest on record, as Vladimir Putin vows to continue his war efforts in Ukraine and further escalate his standoff with the west.</p><p>The latest planned increase in spending will take Russia’s defence budget to a record 13.5tn rubles (£109bn) in 2025, according to draft budget documents published on Monday on the parliament’s website. That is about 3tn rubles more than was set aside for defence this year, which was the previous record.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/russias-defence-spending-to-rise-by-25-next-year-the-highest-since-the-cold-war">Continue reading...</a> Russia Vladimir Putin Ukraine World news Europe Pjotr Sauer Photograph: Getty Images https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/opinion/iran-israel-hezbollah-hamas-lebanon-nasrallah.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:7fdf30c2-a30d-1840-2c0c-44eee0b9421d Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:23:18 -0400 The devastating blow to Hezbollah by Israel has a place in the global struggle between the “coalition of inclusion” and “coalition of resistance.” It could be the keystone. International Relations Iran-Israel Proxy Conflict Israel-Gaza War (2023- ) United States International Relations Hezbollah Netanyahu, Benjamin Iran Lebanon China Russia Nasrallah, Hassan Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations Thomas L. Friedman https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/politics/us-axis-china-iran-russia.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:10747b8b-7076-5a78-1703-bc6ad089c764 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:19:39 -0400 The Biden administration is struggling to halt cooperation among Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. It feels urgency over the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East while also aiming to protect Taiwan. Pezeshkian, Masoud Biden, Joseph R Jr Blinken, Antony J Kim Jong-un Putin, Vladimir V Xi Jinping International Relations United States International Relations Defense and Military Forces Cold War Era China Iran North Korea Russia Edward Wong https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/politics/us-axis-china-iran-russia.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:6e68cae5-633c-873d-96f4-bce91524da96 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:22:37 -0400 The Biden administration is struggling to halt cooperation among Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. It feels urgency over the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East while also aiming to protect Taiwan. Pezeshkian, Masoud Biden, Joseph R Jr Blinken, Antony J Kim Jong-un Putin, Vladimir V Xi Jinping International Relations United States International Relations Defense and Military Forces Cold War Era China Iran North Korea Russia Edward Wong https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/kursk-kyiv-drones-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-war-live-updates World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:def29787-4052-4fd9-e7a0-0f4bca976292 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:54:59 -0400 <p>Prosecutors claim the May 2023 bombing in the Nizhny Novogorod region was conducted at the direction of Ukraine’s security services</p><p>A single Russian ship, carrying Kalibr missiles, continues its combat duty in the<strong> Black Sea</strong>, the Ukrainian navy said in an operational update <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=935888831912033&amp;set=a.292820822885507">posted</a> to Facebook this morning.</p><p>“There is one hostile ship in the Black Sea, carrying Kalibr cruise missiles with a total volley of up to four missiles. No hostile ships in the Sea of Azov,” the post reads.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/kursk-kyiv-drones-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-war-live-updates">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Vladimir Putin Volodymyr Zelenskyy Russia Kyiv Denmark Yohannes Lowe (now) with Kevin Rawlinson and Luke Jacobs (earlier) Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/30/trump-ukraine-war-plan World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:112b7399-9d23-71e3-92f6-33b1cfcaa1d9 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:30:51 -0400 <p>Second of Trump’s four national security advisers says his boasts are ‘a real myth – it’s a real misunderstanding of war’</p><p>A former US national security adviser during <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a>’s presidency has dismissed the Republican White House nominee’s boasts that he would broker an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine if elected in November as “a real myth”.</p><p>“I don’t really buy it,” HR McMaster said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation. “I think it’s a real myth – it’s a real misunderstanding of war – to assume that you can get a favorable political outcome without a favorable military outcome.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/30/trump-ukraine-war-plan">Continue reading...</a> Donald Trump Trump administration Russia Ukraine US news US elections 2024 Ramon Antonio Vargas Photograph: Thomas Kienzle/AFP/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/kursk-kyiv-drones-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-war-live-updates Russia | The Guardian urn:uuid:5b9179b4-a8ca-49b7-f6a5-2ff93af62f39 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:26:19 -0400 <p>Russian forces have now launched the highest number of drone strikes in a single month since the conflict began in February 2022</p><p>A single Russian ship, carrying Kalibr missiles, continues its combat duty in the<strong> Black Sea</strong>, the Ukrainian navy said in an operational update <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=935888831912033&amp;set=a.292820822885507">posted</a> to Facebook this morning.</p><p>“There is one hostile ship in the Black Sea, carrying Kalibr cruise missiles with a total volley of up to four missiles. No hostile ships in the Sea of Azov,” the post reads.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/kursk-kyiv-drones-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-war-live-updates">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Vladimir Putin Volodymyr Zelenskyy Russia Kyiv Denmark Yohannes Lowe (now) with Kevin Rawlinson and Luke Jacobs (earlier) Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/kursk-kyiv-drones-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-war-live-updates World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:24a0720b-b8c6-1692-8fee-ad966ca70110 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:26:19 -0400 <p>Prosecutors claim the May 2023 bombing in the Nizhny Novogorod region was conducted at the direction of Ukraine’s security services</p><p>A single Russian ship, carrying Kalibr missiles, continues its combat duty in the<strong> Black Sea</strong>, the Ukrainian navy said in an operational update <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=935888831912033&amp;set=a.292820822885507">posted</a> to Facebook this morning.</p><p>“There is one hostile ship in the Black Sea, carrying Kalibr cruise missiles with a total volley of up to four missiles. No hostile ships in the Sea of Azov,” the post reads.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/30/kursk-kyiv-drones-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-war-live-updates">Continue reading...</a> Ukraine Vladimir Putin Volodymyr Zelenskyy Russia Kyiv Denmark Yohannes Lowe (now) with Kevin Rawlinson and Luke Jacobs (earlier) Photograph: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/world/europe/russia-attacks-east-ukraine-kursk.html NYT > Russia urn:uuid:ee22ea44-179f-248a-e00b-c0285dc67394 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:22:25 -0400 Cities across Ukraine have suffered airstrikes in recent days, and Moscow is pressing a slow advance in the east. Kyiv has hit back against arms depots, trying to disrupt Russian logistics. Defense and Military Forces Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022) Civilian Casualties Bombs and Explosives Ukraine Russia Constant Méheut https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/american-man-pleads-guilty-in-moscow-court-to-charge-of-fighting-for-ukraine World news: Ukraine | theguardian.com urn:uuid:669ef289-416a-bd12-cf80-2dffcd08158c Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:55:46 -0400 <p>Stephen James Hubbard, 72, is first US citizen to be tried as a mercenary in Russia during the war with Ukraine</p><p>A US citizen has pleaded guilty in a Moscow court to charges of fighting for Ukraine, marking the first known instance of an American being tried as a mercenary in Russia.</p><p>Russian state media reported that Stephen James Hubbard, 72, of Michigan, had admitted he had received money to fight for Ukraine against Russia.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/30/american-man-pleads-guilty-in-moscow-court-to-charge-of-fighting-for-ukraine">Continue reading...</a> Russia US news Ukraine Europe Pjotr Sauer Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images