Elon Musk faraway from billboards thanking westerners for supporting Ukraine
Russia has focused Kyiv’s central district with a kamikaze drone bombardment through the morning rush-hour, witnesses and high officers in Ukraine mentioned.
The Ukrainian capital is claimed to have been focused with self-destructing drones inbuilt Iran, per week after the same bombardment which additionally hit different cities throughout the nation, killing 19 individuals.
It got here because the nation’s president Volodymyr Zelensky known as upon Ukrainian civilians to seize any Russian troopers they encounter of their neighbourhoods, to make use of as bargaining chips for the return of captured Ukrainians.
“That is extraordinarily essential – everybody who captures the Russian navy supplies us with the chance to launch our heroes,” Mr Zelensky mentioned, including that “we have to seize the occupiers – as many as attainable”.
There was intense combating in a single day between Russian and Ukrainian forces round two cities within the Donetsk area of japanese Ukraine.
And a day earlier, 11 Russian troopers have been shot useless by gunmen at a navy coaching floor in Belgorod, prompting Russia to name for a prison investigation.
Mykolaiv hit by Russian kamikaze drone assault, mayor says
Russian kamikaze drones are claimed to have struck tanks stuffed with sunflower oil at a terminals within the metropolis of Mykolaiv late final evening.
Amongst Ukraine’s largest ports, the Black Sea metropolis Mykolaiv – close to the Kherson area – halted shipments at first of Vladimir Putin’s invasion and has been below fixed shelling in latest months, however Kyiv is pushing to open the port to develop shipments of meals below a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey.
“In Mykolaiv, three drones hit an object of commercial infrastructure, the place tanks with sunflower oil have been ignited,” mentioned the town’s mayor Oleksandr Senkevich.
The regional emergencies service revealed images of big tanks with flames and smoke rising over them.
The assault occurred hours earlier than explosions within the capital Kyiv from suspected Iranian-made drones.
Andy Gregory17 October 2022 09:03
Ukraine ‘shoots down 37 Iranian-made drones’
Since 9pm native time, Ukraine has shot down 37 Iranian Shahed-136 drones and three cruise missiles launched by Russia, based on Kyiv’s ministry of defence.
Andy Gregory17 October 2022 08:39
Residential buildings hit throughout assaults on Kyiv, mayor says
Mayor Vitaliy Klichko has urged individuals in Kyiv’s central Shevchenko district to take shelter after assaults on the Ukrainian capital activated air raid sirens.
Following the drone assault, a hearth broke out in a non-residential constructing within the Shevchenkivskyi district, Mr Klitschko mentioned, including that a number of residential buildings have additionally come below assault.
Particulars of casualties from the assaults weren’t instantly clear.
My colleague Shweta Sharma has extra on this report:
Russia assaults Kyiv with kamikaze drones, sending Ukrainians scrambling for shelter
‘Extremely tense second, sending police scattering and folks working for shelter’
Andy Gregory17 October 2022 08:32
Drones very important to Russia and Ukraine’s warfare efforts
Earlier this month, our worldwide correspondent Bel Trew reported on the so-called kamikaze drones used to strike Kyiv as we speak:
For either side of this warfare, one of many rising stars is the drone – be they makeshift or skilled, armed or reconnaissance.
Ukrainian commanders declare over the previous couple of months that Russia has been inflicting severe injury on their forces and civilian inhabitants as a result of deployment of dozens of just lately launched Iranian kamikaze Unmanned Aerial Autos or UAVs. So they’re making an attempt to win the drone warfare.
Russia has wreaked havoc with kamikaze drones. Now Ukraine is combating again
In an artillery warfare of attrition, drones have taken centre stage within the battle for Ukraine, reviews Bel Trew from Pokrovsk, Kharkiv and Kyiv
Andy Gregory17 October 2022 08:26
Kyiv residents cut back vitality consumption to keep away from blackouts, state-owned agency says
The Ukrainian authorities is urging a nationwide discount of vitality consumption and, in some areas, implementing rolling blackouts – as repairs are carried out on broken energy stations and different amenities.
Residents of the Kyiv area had lowered their every day common electrical energy consumption by 7 per cent, Ukrenergo mentioned on Saturday, permitting the utility agency to keep away from pressured blackouts.
“It is a direct results of the truth that Ukrainians intentionally restricted the usage of electrical home equipment within the night hours,” the state-owned firm mentioned.
Danylo, 20, a pupil in Kyiv, instructed the Related Press he had lowered his electrical energy use at house “as a result of we perceive that this can be a option to defend ourselves from full loss”.
Danylo, who declined to offer his final identify, added: “Now, it’s a pattern to work for a standard victory,” he mentioned.
Andy Gregory17 October 2022 08:00
Zaporizhzhia energy plant disconnected from grid, Energoatom says
The Zaporizhzhzia nuclear energy station has been lower off from the Ukrainian grid as soon as once more after Russian shelling close by, Ukraine’s state vitality agency Energoatom has claimed.
Referring to Vladimir Putin’s troops, the agency mentioned on Telegram that the “racist terrorists have modified their techniques and are actually making an attempt to blackmail Ukraine and the entire world with missile assaults on distant substations that feed the” Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant.
On Monday, Russian troops as soon as once more fired at substations – vital infrastructure in territory held by Ukraine – ensuing within the communication line at Dniprovska being disconnected, the agency mentioned.
Within the transitional course of, attributable to a short-term voltage drop, the reserve transformer of the Zaporizhzhia plant’s personal wants was turned off and the diesel mills have been began, Energoatom mentioned.
Andy Gregory17 October 2022 07:48
Intense combating reported in Kherson and Donbas
Combating has been notably intense this weekend within the southern Kherson area, and in Donetsk and Luhansk, which make up the commercial Donbas area. These represent three of the 4 areas Russia claimed to have annexed final month after holding what it known as referendums, in votes which have been denounced by Kyiv and Western governments as unlawful and coercive.
“The important thing sizzling spots in Donbas are Soledar and Bakhmut,” Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned in his nightly video message on Sunday, including: “Very heavy combating is occurring there.”
Bakhmut has been a goal of Russian forces since taking the dual industrial cities of Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk in June and July, whereas Soledar is simply north of Bakhmut.
Russia’s defence ministry mentioned that its forces had repelled efforts by Ukrainian troops to advance within the Donetsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv areas. Moscow additionally mentioned it was persevering with air strikes on navy and vitality targets in Ukraine.
Andy Gregory17 October 2022 07:32
Russia taking males from streets for Ukraine warfare – Washington Put up
Russian police and navy officers have conscripted tons of of males up to now week, grabbing them from the road with none discover to be deployed within the Kremlin’s warfare in Ukraine, based on a report by The Washington Put up.
The Russian law enforcement officials did their search at a enterprise centre in Moscow and seized virtually each man in sight, the report added.
Final week, greater than 200 males have been taken away from the dormitories of the Mipstroy1 building firm and on 9 October, the officers grabbed dozens at a shelter for the homeless.
Males are additionally being taken away from the streets and from outdoors metro stations as Russian officers are lurking in condo constructing lobbies to offer males navy summonses.
Arpan Rai17 October 2022 06:44
Extra blasts heard in Kyiv
One other set of explosions has been heard in Kyiv, witnesses have mentioned.
“Extra explosions simply now in Kyiv, we’re within the metropolis centre and second one was close by — I used to be outdoors and heard the previous engine noise,” mentioned warfare reporter Nolan Peterson primarily based in Ukraine.
Arpan Rai17 October 2022 06:23
EU set to coach 15,000 Ukrainian troops, ship extra arms to Kyiv
The European Union’s international ministers are more likely to finalise a mission to coach 15,000 Ukrainian troopers from subsequent month and assist Ukraine with an additional €500m (£433m) value of funding for arms and ammunition as they meet as we speak in Luxembourg.
The navy coaching is predicted to start out in mid-November and would happen on EU territory at one hub in Poland and one other in Germany, two senior EU officers mentioned.
A number of EU nations are already coaching Ukrainian troops on use particular weapons and it will proceed.
Arpan Rai17 October 2022 06:19