Some NATO member states Lifting restrictions on Ukraine's use of weapons supplied by Western alliesSpeaking at a NATO-Ukraine council meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, diplomatic sources told Agence France-Presse that NATO countries are preparing to deploy longer-range missiles in particular. In an official statement from the meeting, NATO countries said: Condemns Russia's 'indiscriminate' mass attacks across Ukraine this weekNATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said member states reaffirmed their commitment to “step up military support for Ukraine. We must continue to provide Ukraine with the equipment and munitions it needs to defend itself against Russian aggression. This is crucial to Ukraine's ability to keep fighting.”
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Russia was using long-range weapons against Ukraine. Allies “should help Ukraine fight with everything they have.”Whatever we delivered to them And deliver moreSikorsky proposed again Russia to directly seize $320 billion in assets held in Western countriesRather than just lending money secured by the profits, they said, “Let's confiscate assets from the invaders and give them to the victims of the invasion.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, in a live broadcast with Sikorsky, The biggest problem Kiev faced was the fear of escalation from its allies.“War is always about a lot of hardware – money, weapons, resources – but the real issue is always here. Most of our partners are afraid to discuss the future of Russia. This is very unfortunate, because if we Talking about the future of threat sources“Otherwise we can't develop a strategy,” he said.
“We continue to insist that decisiveness is needed,” Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday. Lift Restrictions on Long-Range Attacks Against Ukraine Immediately“We will end the war as soon as possible in a fair way for Ukraine and the whole world,” the Ukrainian president said. Russian glide bomb hits eastern town of Kupyansk “There was a strike in the city centre, people were buried under rubble, unfortunately there have been fatalities,” the local prosecutor's office said. Fourteen people were injured in the strike and the city hall was damaged.
Two days after the Russian missile attack Another Russian attack on Krivoy Rih hotel leaves four dead, five injured Hits central Ukrainian city Official mourningNine civilians were injured and 230 vehicles were destroyed., “At a time when Krivoy Rijk is in mourning, the enemy will strike again,” said Serhiy Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region. “And once again they will target civilians.”
Zelensky said the situation was “Extremely difficult” around Pokrovsk “The main Russian activity and the largest concentration of forces are in the Donetsk region,” the Ukrainian General Staff said, and there had been “intense fighting” in villages near the city. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that Russian troops were Another settlement was obtained The area is 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Pokrovsk, where Ukrainian authorities have ordered mandatory evacuation.
Russian bombing of Donetsk region Killed six people “In the morning, the Russians killed four people and destroyed houses in Izmailivka,” the governor said on Wednesday. Another attack near Chasib Yar killed two more people. More than a dozen homes were damaged and Filashkin said some 30,000 people had been displaced. Pokrovsk and surrounding villages As evacuations continue, it has been reported that banks in the town will be closed by Sunday. Pokrovsk was once home to around 60,000 people.
Ukrainian Russia's military intelligence claimed responsibility for the attack that set an oil depot ablaze in the Rostov region, saying the facility was “directly involved in supplying Russian occupation forces.” Kirov region, Russia Three Ukrainian drones attack oil depotThe fire broke out in the area, about 950 kilometers (600 miles) northeast of the Ukrainian border. Ukraine said its air defense systems shot down a Russian Su-25 fighter jet in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainian authorities are rushing to assess and repair damage caused to their energy infrastructure by Russia's biggest bombing wave of the war. Sean Walker writes from KyivUkraine is still experiencing the end of a very hot summer, and this week's attack has raised concerns about the bitterly cold months ahead. The winter is going to be harsh“That's for sure,” said Natalia Shapoval, director of the Institute of Economics at Kyiv University.
A Russian court has ordered the two to be detained. Colombians suspected of acting as mercenariesIt is a crime under Russian law Reportedly fought in UkraineThe two men, named as Jose Aron Medina and Alexander Ante, were remanded in pretrial detention until October 22. El Tiempo Newspaper According to reports, the two men were fighting on the Ukrainian side and may have been detained on their way home via Venezuela. Venezuela's government has close ties with Moscow.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday Entry ban into Russia Includes 92 U.S. citizens Journalist, lawyerand the gist of the contents is Major defense industry companies Regarding Washington's Russophobia, the Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich Released this month in a prisoner swap after 16 months in Russian detention, he said of the ban: “It’s a terrible thing. “Laughable” and part of an attack on press freedom.
Ukraine's first lady said her country's children need to be able to see themselves Not as a generation of war victims, but as a “generation of victors” She visited a respite camp in the western city of Uzhhorod, far from the front line, where many children are due to spend a few weeks before returning to the frontline cities, set up by the charity Voice of the Children as a respite from the war. The trauma they face again and again“We need an end to the war, an end to the educational infrastructure, and a secure environment for parents,” she said. “We really hope that our children can actually go to school, see and interact with their teachers and friends, but at the moment that's not possible.”
