Ukraine war latest: Russianmilitary plane crashes as ‘kamikaze’ drone strike in Kyiv kills four

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A Russian military plane has crashed into an apartment block in a Russian port town on the Sea of ​​Azov as it suffered from engine failure, the Russian military announced.

It comes as Vladimir Putin’s forces targeted Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with so-called kamikaze drones, with four people allegedly killed and 19 rescued from a residential building in the capital.

Ukraine’s air force claimed to have shot down roughly 85 per cent of the drones launched in the overnight bombardment by Russia.

Meanwhile, president Volodymyr Zelensky called upon Ukrainian civilians to capture any Russian soldiers they encounter in their neighbors, to use as bargaining chips for the return of captured Ukrainians.

“This is extremely important – everyone who captures the Russian military provides us with the opportunity to release our heroes,” Mr Zelensky said.

There was also intense fighting overnight around two towns in the Donetsk region, a day after 11 Russian soldiers were shot dead by gunmen at a military training ground in Belgorod, prompting Moscow to call for a criminal investigation.

Key PointsShow latest update 1666038603Discussions to continue on Ukraine deal after UN officials’ meetings in Moscow

Discussions will continue on extending and expanding a UN-brokered deal allowing Ukrainian Black Sea grain exports, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday, following UN officials’ “positive and constructive” discussions in Moscow on the deal.

The July deal has allowed more than six million tons of grains and other foods to be exported and is inn danger of expiring in November.

UN trade official Rebeca Grynspan and UN aid chief Martin Griffiths held meetings on Sunday and Monday with Russia Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin, Mr Dujarric said.

Ms Grynspan also held discussions with Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on facilitating exports of Russian grain and fertilizer to global markets.

Mr Griffiths also met with Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Alexander Fomin to discuss more effective implementation of the deal.

“Discussions will continue. Fertilisers and raw materials required to produce fertilizers – that includes ammonia – originating from the Russian Federation are key to worldwide agricultural production,” Mr Dujarric said.

“We are concerned about the next harvest and crisis in the making if fertilizers are not made available quickly and at a reasonable price to farmers all over the world as the sowing seasons begin.”

Eleanor Sly17 October 2022 21:30

1666036803 Pregnant woman among those killed in Russian ‘kamikaze’ drone attack on Kyiv

A young couple who were expecting their first baby were among those killed by Russian “kamikaze” drone strikes on the Ukrainian capital.

Anton Gerashchenko, a senior Ukrainian presidential adviser, said the family had died when a drone struck a residential apartment building. “Bohdan and Victoria, 34, were both found dead. It is reported they were expecting their first child in a few months,” he tweeted.

Four people died in the capital and several others were killed across the country following similar rush-hour drone attacks on other cities. Four explosions were heard across Kyiv, the second such Russian barrage in a week.

Pregnant woman among those killed in Russian ‘kamikaze’ drone attack on Kyiv

America calls the attacks on Ukraine’s capital ‘desperate’

Eleanor Sly17 October 2022 21:00

1666035003Ukraine reveals 108 women freed in prisoner swap

Ukraine has said that over one hundred prisoners have been swapped with Russia in what it called the first all-female exchange with Moscow.

“Another large-scale exchange of prisoners of war was carried out today … we freed 108 women from captivity. It was the first all-female exchange,” the Ukraine’s social chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said on media.

The exchange was confirmed by head of the breakaway region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Denis Pushilin. He said that out of 110 people agreed in the swap, only people had decided to remain in Russia.

Eleanor Sly17 October 2022 20:30

1666033203US, UK to deepen cooperation on Russia with further sanctions

The United States and Britain have announced that they will further their cooperation on sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine as well as on other targets, top financial officials for the two allied nations said in a joint statement on Monday.

“Over time, we expect to realize the benefits of our collaboration not only in relation to the sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but also across other common sanctions regimes,” Andrea Gacki, the head of the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and Giles Thomson, the head of Britain’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, wrote.

Eleanor Sly17 October 2022 20:00

1666031403Belarus to hold live-fire exercises with Russia

The Belarusian defense ministry said on Monday it will conduct live fire exercises and anti-aircraft guided missile launches as part of its joint grouping with Russian forces, Interfax reported.

“Military units of the formations are planned to be the combat and combat four training Republic of Belarus in central part of the country after which they will start from the eastern training activities,” Interfax a Minsk defense official as saying.

The Belarusian defense ministry said last week that Russian troops would deploy to the country to form a new “regional grouping” amid claims from Minsk that Ukraine is preparing to attack its territory. Belarus has offered no evidence of Ukraine’s aggressive intentions.

Eleanor Sly17 October 2022 19:30

1666029603President Zelensky to publish book of wartime speeches

A collection of wartime speeches by Volodymyr Zelensky, featuring an introduction written by the Ukrainian president, will be published on 6th December

The book will be called A Message From Ukraine and include a preface by Arkady Ostrovskym, the Economist’s editor for Russia and Eastern Europe, Crown, a Penguin Random House division, announced on Monday.

Mr Zelensky said in a statement released by Crown: “Supporting Ukraine is not a trend, a meme or a viral challenge.

“It is not a force to rapidly spread across the planet and then just as rapidly disappear.

“If you want to understand who we are, where we are from, what we want and where we are going, you need to learn more about who we are.

“This book will help you do just that.”

Eleanor Sly17 October 2022 19:00

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Smoke bills from residential building as ‘military plane’ crashes in Yeysk, Russia

Eleanor Sly17 October 2022 18:17

1666026183Only a ‘comprehensive rout’ in Ukraine can stop Putin, says ex-Russian diplomat

The only thing that can stop Vladimir Putin is a “comprehensive rout” in Ukraine, according to a Russian diplomat who resigned over the war in May.

Boris Bondarev, who left his post as a counsellor at Russia’s permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva in May, also warned that “any ceasefire will just give Russia a chance to rearm before attacking again.”

Writing in Foreign Affairs, Mr Bondarev warned over the possible consequences of Russia’s implosion, saying: “Russians might unify behind an even more belligerent leader than Putin, provoking a civil war, more outside aggression, or both.”

“If Ukraine wins and Putin falls, the best thing the West can do isn’t to inflict humiliation,” he added, warning that the humiliations Russians suffered after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union should be a lesson for the West.

“Providing aid would also allow the West to avoid repeating their behavior from the 1990s, when Russians felt scammed by the United States, and would make it easier for the population to finally accept the loss of their empire,” he wrote.

Andy Gregory17 October 2022 18:03

1666025765Fireball engulfs apartment block as Russian warplane crashes in Yeysk

A Russian warplane has crashed in a residential area near a domestic port, sparking a fire in an apartment block, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The Su-34 bomber went down in the port of Yeysk on the Sea of ​​Azov after one of its engines caught fire during takeoff, according to the ministry.

Russian investigators said they had launched a criminal investigation into the crash, according to the Associated Press.

Fireball engulfs apartment block as Russian warplane crashes in Yeysk

A Russian warplane has crashed in a residential area near a domestic port, sparking a fire in an apartment block, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Eleanor Sly17 October 2022 17:56

1666023550Russian warplane crashed into the port town of Yeysk

Russia’s military says one of its warplanes suffers engine failure, crashes in port of Yeysk on the Sea of ​​Azov.

The crash has apparently caused a fire that spans 2,000 square meters.

Eleanor Sly17 October 2022 17:19

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