2023-11-03 22:04:48
Cover image: An area destroyed by bombing in Kherson, October 31, 2023. STRINGER / REUTERS
The city of Kharkiv was the target of at least ten Russian drone attacks overnight from Thursday to Friday, local police reported on Telegram. They caused multiple fires and damage to civilian infrastructure, without causing any casualties.Vladimir Putin signed Russia’s exit from the treaty banning nuclear tests. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was opened for signature in 1996, but it never entered into force because it was not ratified by a sufficient number of the forty-nation states. four countries which had nuclear installations at the time of its creation.Fewer Russian attacks around the town of Avdiivka, according to the Ukrainian army. “The enemy continues to try to surround Avdiivka, but in a less active manner, for the moment”said Oleksandr Shtupoun, a spokesman for the Ukrainian army.Moscow disputes the existence of a « impasse » in the Ukrainian conflict. The Kremlin disputes the vision of the situation on the front of the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Valery Zaluzhny. Asked for his views, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “Russia continues its special military operation relentlessly. All set objectives must be achieved. »The German Foreign Minister supports the start of Ukraine’s EU accession negotiations in December. Annalena Baerbock presented the enlargement of the European Union as a geostrategic necessity, while affirming that the Twenty-Seven must engage in profound reforms in order to be able to operate with more than thirty members. Dmytro Kuleba, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, said ” optimistic “.Moscow claims to have intercepted Ukrainian drones near the Zaporizhia power plant. “Nine Ukrainian Copter-type drones were detected and intercepted by air defense equipment in service near the town of Enerhodar”close to the power plant, says the Russian Defense Ministry in a press release, without providing any evidence.Washington sanctions new foreign companies participating in the Russian war effort. The US Treasury announces the strengthening of sanctions once morest 130 people and entities – notably in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates – which take part in commercial exchanges allowing Russia to supply itself with “necessary technologies and equipment” to his war effort in Ukraine.The Wagner Group might supply air defense weapons to Hezbollah, reports the “Wall Street Journal”
US has intelligence that Russian paramilitary group Wagner might supply Russian Pantsir S1 short-range air defense system [code OTAN : SA-22 Greyhound] to Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite movement, reports the American daily.The Wagner Group has ceased to exist, according to the Duma
According to Andrei Kartapolov, the chairman of the Duma defense committee, the group “has been completely dissolved, and most of its fighters are in the process of joining other structures. Some of them continue to carry out missions in African countries, but under, let’s say, another name and under the aegis of the Ministry of Defense. Others signed a contract with the armed forces, while some joined the Russian National Guard [Rosgvardia] ».
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