(Kyiv) Russia was branded “incendiary” by Canada at the G20 on Saturday amid accusations that it has positioned missiles to launch missiles from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Kyiv, Ukraine, and is seeking to resume its murderous offensive. East.
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In a sign of the Kremlin’s desire to continue the war at all costs – the Russian army has lost, according to Western experts, between 15 and 20,000 men in four months – its representatives have visited a military base south of Tehran twice recently. Iran’s war on drones, White House national security adviser Jack Sullivan said Saturday, satellite images support.
Russia began a campaign to recruit volunteers in June, which intensified in July, with each of its 85 regions expected to mobilize at least 400 men, or more than 30,000 soldiers, according to the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW). .
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A firefighter monitors operations to remove debris from the ruins of a damaged building in Nikopol.
The cost of the war is economic, first and foremost for Russia, which has been strangled by sanctions, but also for the rest of the world, as the West argued at the G20 in Bali, although it ended on Saturday. Report, as there is no consensus on the matter.
Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Russia’s participation was “ridiculous” and “like inviting arsonists to a firefighter’s meeting.”
The accusations are similar to those in Ukraine, where the national operator of nuclear power accused the Russian military of installing missile launchers at the site of a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia (south). Restriction from March.
“The situation is very tense and the tension is increasing day by day. Aggressors bring […] They have already hit the other side of the “Dnieper River” and including missile systems in the Nikopol region, 80 kilometers southwest of Zaporizhia, Energodam head Petro Kodin said in a telegram.
According to him, about 500 Russian soldiers are on the site of this Ukrainian power plant, which is the largest in Europe.
“We Are Alive”
The governor of the Dnipro region, Valentin Reznichenko, condemned “a deluge of fire in the morning” in the Nikopol region on Saturday, “grat missiles in residential areas” and damaged 12 buildings, a school and a university.
In Nikopol, he reported, “rescuers found two dead in the rubble.”
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A soldier observes a crater and a school hit by a Russian missile.
On Friday evening, the Ukrainian Air Force said Russian Kh-101 missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea near Dnipro at around 10pm and four of them were destroyed.
The Southern Regional Command said the situation was “tense but under control” early on Saturday.
“The enemy continues to attack […] But failing to win on the ground is accelerating missile and airstrikes,” he said on Facebook.
Further north, near the country’s second city, Kharkiv, the town of Sukhiv was hit by Russian missiles on Friday evening, killing three people, the region’s governor, Oleg Sinekoubov, announced.
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A worker cleans the central square of Kramatorsk, where a crater was left after a Russian strike.
In the east on Friday evening, the main city of Kramatorsk in the still Ukrainian-controlled Donbass basin in the Donetsk region was hit by multiple explosions.
“We’re alive, it’s a good day,” Olga Dekanenko, a 67-year-old woman, told AFP as she leaned on her cane and strolled through the rubble of her home in Konstantinovka, a town on the front lines. Russian artillery.
She doesn’t even remember what happened at dawn. Her dilapidated little room overlooks the garden where the rocket fell, and she finds herself at the foot of her bed, under blankets, pillows, and stones.
A 24e Died in Vinnytsia
Ukraine and its Western allies are reeling from Thursday’s devastating cruise missile attacks that hit central Vinnytsia, hundreds of kilometers west of the frontline.
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An aerial view of the official residence in Vinnytsia, which was hit by a Russian strike on Thursday
The death toll in the attack rose to 24 on Saturday. “Unfortunately, a woman died today in the hospital, she suffered 85% burns,” announced Vinnytsia Region Governor Sergiy Borsov, adding that 68 people, including four children, were still being treated.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Friday evening that the process of identifying those responsible for the attack had already begun.
“Russian society, with its many murderers and executioners, will continue to perish for generations, and this is through its own mistakes,” he said.
Faced with international condemnation, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had targeted Vinnytsia for a meeting with “the command of the Ukrainian Air Force with representatives of foreign arms suppliers”.
However, a senior US defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was “no indication of a military target in the vicinity”.
Russia does not recognize any wrongdoing or crimes by its armed forces in Ukraine, and formally ensures that it attacks only military targets.
In the Donbass, separatist forces and the Russian military said they were continuing to advance and were in the process of taking full control of the besieged city of Sivarsk after taking Lysisansk further east earlier this month.
“Russia has already made premature and false declarations of victory” aimed at “demonstrating the success of the operation to Russian public opinion” and boosting troop morale, the British Ministry of Defense observed. He insisted that Russian attacks in the Donbass had been “reduced” in the face of Ukrainian resistance.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday that Minister Sergei Shoigu visited the soldiers involved in the attack in Ukraine, without specifying the date of this visit, but was it the second since June or in Ukraine? Russia.
The ministry added that he “gave necessary instructions to further increase” the military pressure.
US President Joe Biden on Saturday announced $1 billion in aid to the Middle East and northern South Africa as the war’s aftermath raises serious concerns about food security in parts of the planet.
