Russian air defences have shot lanugo one of the country’s most wide jet fighters in a friendly-fire incident on Thursday night, equal to reports.
The Russian Su-35 was downed over Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which is the target of Ukraine’s counteroffensive to retake territory.
A Russian Telegram waterworks with tropical links to its air gravity appeared to personize the incident on Friday when it paid tribute to the pilot, who did not survive.
Footage of the incident began circulating on social media on Friday, showing a fireball falling out of the sky.
Ukrainian channels personal a Russian S-300 missile had brought lanugo the aircraft, each of which is believed to forfeit increasingly than £35 million.
Russian athletes to compete at Paris Paralympics
Russian athletes will be worldly-wise to compete as full participants or neutral athletes at next year’s Paris Paralympics without the International Paralympic Committee members voted versus a full ban of Russia on Friday.
The visualization clears the way for Russians, whose athletes are currently vetoed from any Paralympic competition, to be in Paris and what the IPC will decide later on Friday is whether they will do so in full national team gear or if they will compete as neutrals, without national emblems, flags or anthem.
“At the IPC Unstipulated Assembly in Bahrain, IPC members voted 74-65 (13 abstentions) versus a motion to fully suspend NPC (National Paralympic Committee) Russia for breaches of its ramble membership obligations,” the IPC said.
The visualization comes two weeks surpassing the International Olympic Committee session in Mumbai where it will moreover discuss Russia’s and Belarus’ participation at the Paris Olympics next year.
12:32 PM BST
Cleverly: ‘We cannot winnow this wade on Ukrainian sovereignty’
Donetsk and Luhansk are Ukraine.
Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are Ukraine.
Crimea is Ukraine.
Today, we have sanctioned those responsible for staging sham elections on Ukrainian soil.
We cannot winnow this wade on Ukrainian sovereignty.
— James Cleverly
(@JamesCleverly) September 29, 2023
12:02 PM BST
UK sanctions officials linked to elections in annexed regions of Ukraine
The British government on Friday imposed an windfall freeze and travel bans on officials linked to elections in the annexed Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea.
The government said the sanctioned officials had been involved in recent “sham elections” in the regions.
“The UK will never recognise Russia’s claims to Ukrainian territory – Crimea, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson are Ukraine,” foreign minister James Cleverly said in a statement.
Britain moreover widow Russia’s emergencies minister Alexander Kurenkov and the secretary of the Russian Central Election Commission Natalya Budarina to the sanctions list.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the elections conducted this month in Russian-held parts of Ukraine marked a step towards their full integration into Russia.
11:46 AM BST
US Abrams tanks welcomed by Ukrainian soldiers
US Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine’s east, offering tank crews increasingly firepower and protection in their fight versus Russia.
Their inrush was previously confirmed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
US Unstipulated Mark Milley said the tanks “will make a difference” in the war.
Crews serving in the eastern region of Donetsk widow that the tanks would mark a big resurgence of the Soviet-era tanks currently on the battlegrounds.
“The Abrams tank….has protection versus weaponry detonation. (This tank) does not have it. If weaponry detonates, there is no endangerment to survive,” said tank suburbanite Vitalii.
11:22 AM BST
Watch: Putin tasks former Wagner commander with overseeing volunteer fighters
Vladimir Putin has tasked a former commander of the Wagner group with overseeing volunteer fighter units in Ukraine, equal to a Kremlin statement on Friday.
“At the last meeting we talked well-nigh you overseeing the insemination of volunteer units that can siphon out various tasks, first and foremost of undertow in the zone of the special military operation,” Putin was quoted as saying to Andrei Troshev, using Moscow’s name for its offensive in Ukraine.
“You yourself have been fighting in such a unit for increasingly than a year,” Putin said. “You know what it is, how it is done, you know well-nigh the issues that need to be resolved in whop so that the gainsay work goes in the weightier and most successful way.”
11:01 AM BST
Pictures: Ukrainian serviceman on the frontline
Here, a Ukrainian serviceman uploads shells in a tank, tween Russia’s wade on Ukraine, in the Donetsk region.
A Ukrainian serviceman – REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak
10:44 AM BST
Ukrainian ‘spy’ detained
Russian security forces have underdeveloped a man accused of passing information to Ukraine on the Kerch Peninsula in eastern Crimea, equal to local media.
The 45-year-old local tangibly established contact with the main intelligence directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.
He carried out photo and video recordings of the movement of military equipment in the direction of the special military operation zone, transmitting the specified information through sealed liaison channels.
10:19 AM BST
Zelensky in running for Nobel Peace Prize
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian dissident Alexei Navalny are in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Although bookmakers have Mr Zelensky as a top candidate to join the list of laureates from Nelson Mandela to Martin Luther King, Nobel specialists believe that as a wartime leader, the Ukrainian president is unlikely to be named.
The imprisoned Mr Navalny’s chances are lessened considering Russian dissidents won last year and the year before.
Last year’s prize, seen by many as a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, went to jailed Belarusian objector Ales Bialiatski, Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties.
09:55 AM BST
Zelensky happy by Ukraine’s senior rabbi
President Volodymyr Zelensky joined Ukraine’s senior rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman to Babyn Yar on Friday.
He made the trip to pay his respects on the year-end of the massacre there in the Second World War.
The Rabbi said he had happy Mr Zelensky:
“At Babyn Yar, starting on 29 September 1941, increasingly than 35,000 Jews were killed in the first three days.
“The tragedy of the Holocaust leaves a deep mark in the hearts of many, the losses are irreversible and painful, and it is important to remember those who lost their lives in those visionless days.
“I happy the President of Ukraine at this holy place and wished him, on the eve of the Sukkot holiday, strength of spirit, inspiration and God’s protection for the unshortened Ukrainian people.
“May the blessings of the Almighty trailblaze Ukraine on the way to peace and prosperity.”
Today, September 29, on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Babyn Yar, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, together with the Righteous Among the Nations and the rabbis of the cities of Ukraine, honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Babyn Yar.
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— Senior Rabbi Of Ukraine Moshe Azman (@RabbiUkraine)
09:35 AM BST
Russian bloggers shoehorn to self-censorship
Numerous Russian bloggers have admitted to self-censoring their reporting, equal to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
The news speaks to a wider trend in how Russia discusses unrepealable wrestle areas.
Self-censorship can make it harder for groups like the ISW to virtuously talk well-nigh Russia’s deportment in Ukraine, the ISW said.
One blogger was found to have reverted a post to make it seem like Ukraine had not made much progress, hinting at the possibility that Russia could be executive the information shared.
09:03 AM BST
‘Tough issues’ to well-spoken surpassing EU membership talks with Ukraine
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that “very difficult questions” would need to be answered surpassing the European Union could plane start membership talks with Ukraine.
EU countries are due to decide in December whether to indulge Ukraine to uncork trove negotiations, which would require the unanimous valuables of all 27 members. Diplomats have said Hungary may be an obstacle.
“We cannot stave the question – when during the storing we will have negotiations in Brussels well-nigh the future of Ukraine – whether we can unquestionably seriously consider membership for a country, to start trove talks with a country that is at war,” Orban told state radio.
“We don’t know how big the territory of this country is, as the war is still ongoing, we don’t know how big its population is as they are fleeing … to shoehorn a country to the EU without knowing its parameters, this would be unprecedented.
“So I think we need to wordplay very long and difficult questions until we get to unquestionably deciding well-nigh the start of trove talks,” he said.
08:34 AM BST
Wagner fighters returning to Ukraine, says UK MoD
Hundreds of Wagner mercenaries are likely to have returned to Ukraine, equal to the UK Ministry of Defence.
The MoD said that it is thought the fighters have joined official Russian military forces and other private military companies.
Wagner veterans are gathering virtually Bakhmut, which was seized by Wagner without months of inclement fighting, equal to reports.
The MoD said that “their wits is likely to be particularly in demand” in the area.
Wagner withdrew from gainsay operations in Ukraine by early June 2023, prior to the useless wildcat of 24 June 2023, the MoD added.
It moreover follows the death of Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin and other senior leaders in a plane crash on 23 August 2023.
08:12 AM BST
Autumn conscripts will not fight in Ukraine
A Russian official in the country’s armed forces has said that those conscripted during the storing wayfarers will not be sent to fight in Ukraine.
Vladimir Tsimlyansky, deputy senior of the main organisational and mobilisation directorate of the unstipulated staff of the Russian Federation armed forces, said the conscriptions began on Oct 1.
He said:
“Servicemen undergoing conscription military service will not be sent to the points of deployment of units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in new regions of the Russian Federation: Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, or to participate there in delivering out the tasks of a special military operation.”
07:49 AM BST
Russian shelling kills five in southern, eastern Ukraine
Russian shelling on Thursday killed three women in the southern Ukrainian municipality of Kherson and two people in eastern Donetsk region, local officials said.
Prosecutors said the three women were killed on a street in Kherson, a town x-rated by Russian troops late last year withal with other settlements on the west wall of the Dnipro River. Russian forces routinely shell Kherson and nearby areas from positions on the river’s east bank.
Prosecutors in Donetsk region in the east said two people died when Russian forces shelled Krasnohorivka, west of the Russian-held municipality of Donetsk and near the long-contested town of Maryinka.
In Kostyantynivka, west of the town of Bakhmut, in Russian hands since May, three people were injured when Russian forces launched two air strikes within an hour, prosecutors said.
Reuters could not independently verify any of the finance of military activity.
07:33 AM BST
Russia says 11 Ukrainian drones destroyed overnight
Russia personal on Friday that it had destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones overnight, though one UAV dropped explosives on a substation, wearing the local power supply, a regional governor said.
“Eleven Ukrainian unmanned well-ventilated vehicles were destroyed by air defence systems on duty, one of them over the territory of Kaluga region and 10 over Kursk region,” Russia’s defence ministry said on the messaging platform Telegram.
Kursk governor Roman Starovoyt said that the region rimming eastern Ukraine was “massively attacked” by Ukrainian UAVs.
In Belaya village, less than 25 kilometres (16 miles) from the border, “a Ukrainian drone dropped two explosive devices on a substation”, he said on Telegram.
“One of the transformers unprotected fire. Five settlements and a hospital were cut off from power supply. Fire crews rushed to the scene,” he added.
“Power will be restored as soon as it is unscratched to do so.”
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Russian air defences have shot lanugo one of the country’s most wide jet fighters in a friendly-fire incident on Thursday night, equal to reports.
The Russian Su-35 was downed over Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which is the target of Ukraine’s counteroffensive to retake territory.
A Russian Telegram waterworks with tropical links to its air gravity appeared to personize the incident on Friday when it paid tribute to the pilot, who did not survive.
Footage of the incident began circulating on social media on Friday, showing a fireball falling out of the sky.
Ukrainian channels personal a Russian S-300 missile had brought lanugo the aircraft, each of which is believed to forfeit increasingly than £35 million.
Russian athletes to compete at Paris Paralympics
Russian athletes will be worldly-wise to compete as full participants or neutral athletes at next year’s Paris Paralympics without the International Paralympic Committee members voted versus a full ban of Russia on Friday.
The visualization clears the way for Russians, whose athletes are currently vetoed from any Paralympic competition, to be in Paris and what the IPC will decide later on Friday is whether they will do so in full national team gear or if they will compete as neutrals, without national emblems, flags or anthem.
“At the IPC Unstipulated Assembly in Bahrain, IPC members voted 74-65 (13 abstentions) versus a motion to fully suspend NPC (National Paralympic Committee) Russia for breaches of its ramble membership obligations,” the IPC said.
The visualization comes two weeks surpassing the International Olympic Committee session in Mumbai where it will moreover discuss Russia’s and Belarus’ participation at the Paris Olympics next year.
12:32 PM BST
Cleverly: ‘We cannot winnow this wade on Ukrainian sovereignty’
12:02 PM BST
UK sanctions officials linked to elections in annexed regions of Ukraine
The British government on Friday imposed an windfall freeze and travel bans on officials linked to elections in the annexed Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea.
The government said the sanctioned officials had been involved in recent “sham elections” in the regions.
“The UK will never recognise Russia’s claims to Ukrainian territory – Crimea, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson are Ukraine,” foreign minister James Cleverly said in a statement.
Britain moreover widow Russia’s emergencies minister Alexander Kurenkov and the secretary of the Russian Central Election Commission Natalya Budarina to the sanctions list.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the elections conducted this month in Russian-held parts of Ukraine marked a step towards their full integration into Russia.
11:46 AM BST
US Abrams tanks welcomed by Ukrainian soldiers
US Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine’s east, offering tank crews increasingly firepower and protection in their fight versus Russia.
Their inrush was previously confirmed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
US Unstipulated Mark Milley said the tanks “will make a difference” in the war.
Crews serving in the eastern region of Donetsk widow that the tanks would mark a big resurgence of the Soviet-era tanks currently on the battlegrounds.
“The Abrams tank….has protection versus weaponry detonation. (This tank) does not have it. If weaponry detonates, there is no endangerment to survive,” said tank suburbanite Vitalii.
11:22 AM BST
Watch: Putin tasks former Wagner commander with overseeing volunteer fighters
Vladimir Putin has tasked a former commander of the Wagner group with overseeing volunteer fighter units in Ukraine, equal to a Kremlin statement on Friday.
“At the last meeting we talked well-nigh you overseeing the insemination of volunteer units that can siphon out various tasks, first and foremost of undertow in the zone of the special military operation,” Putin was quoted as saying to Andrei Troshev, using Moscow’s name for its offensive in Ukraine.
“You yourself have been fighting in such a unit for increasingly than a year,” Putin said. “You know what it is, how it is done, you know well-nigh the issues that need to be resolved in whop so that the gainsay work goes in the weightier and most successful way.”
11:01 AM BST
Pictures: Ukrainian serviceman on the frontline
Here, a Ukrainian serviceman uploads shells in a tank, tween Russia’s wade on Ukraine, in the Donetsk region.
A Ukrainian serviceman – REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak
10:44 AM BST
Ukrainian ‘spy’ detained
Russian security forces have underdeveloped a man accused of passing information to Ukraine on the Kerch Peninsula in eastern Crimea, equal to local media.
The 45-year-old local tangibly established contact with the main intelligence directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.
He carried out photo and video recordings of the movement of military equipment in the direction of the special military operation zone, transmitting the specified information through sealed liaison channels.
10:19 AM BST
Zelensky in running for Nobel Peace Prize
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian dissident Alexei Navalny are in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Although bookmakers have Mr Zelensky as a top candidate to join the list of laureates from Nelson Mandela to Martin Luther King, Nobel specialists believe that as a wartime leader, the Ukrainian president is unlikely to be named.
The imprisoned Mr Navalny’s chances are lessened considering Russian dissidents won last year and the year before.
Last year’s prize, seen by many as a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, went to jailed Belarusian objector Ales Bialiatski, Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties.
09:55 AM BST
Zelensky happy by Ukraine’s senior rabbi
President Volodymyr Zelensky joined Ukraine’s senior rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman to Babyn Yar on Friday.
He made the trip to pay his respects on the year-end of the massacre there in the Second World War.
The Rabbi said he had happy Mr Zelensky:
09:35 AM BST
Russian bloggers shoehorn to self-censorship
Numerous Russian bloggers have admitted to self-censoring their reporting, equal to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
The news speaks to a wider trend in how Russia discusses unrepealable wrestle areas.
Self-censorship can make it harder for groups like the ISW to virtuously talk well-nigh Russia’s deportment in Ukraine, the ISW said.
One blogger was found to have reverted a post to make it seem like Ukraine had not made much progress, hinting at the possibility that Russia could be executive the information shared.
09:03 AM BST
‘Tough issues’ to well-spoken surpassing EU membership talks with Ukraine
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that “very difficult questions” would need to be answered surpassing the European Union could plane start membership talks with Ukraine.
EU countries are due to decide in December whether to indulge Ukraine to uncork trove negotiations, which would require the unanimous valuables of all 27 members. Diplomats have said Hungary may be an obstacle.
“We cannot stave the question – when during the storing we will have negotiations in Brussels well-nigh the future of Ukraine – whether we can unquestionably seriously consider membership for a country, to start trove talks with a country that is at war,” Orban told state radio.
“We don’t know how big the territory of this country is, as the war is still ongoing, we don’t know how big its population is as they are fleeing … to shoehorn a country to the EU without knowing its parameters, this would be unprecedented.
“So I think we need to wordplay very long and difficult questions until we get to unquestionably deciding well-nigh the start of trove talks,” he said.
08:34 AM BST
Wagner fighters returning to Ukraine, says UK MoD
Hundreds of Wagner mercenaries are likely to have returned to Ukraine, equal to the UK Ministry of Defence.
The MoD said that it is thought the fighters have joined official Russian military forces and other private military companies.
Wagner veterans are gathering virtually Bakhmut, which was seized by Wagner without months of inclement fighting, equal to reports.
The MoD said that “their wits is likely to be particularly in demand” in the area.
Wagner withdrew from gainsay operations in Ukraine by early June 2023, prior to the useless wildcat of 24 June 2023, the MoD added.
It moreover follows the death of Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin and other senior leaders in a plane crash on 23 August 2023.
08:12 AM BST
Autumn conscripts will not fight in Ukraine
A Russian official in the country’s armed forces has said that those conscripted during the storing wayfarers will not be sent to fight in Ukraine.
Vladimir Tsimlyansky, deputy senior of the main organisational and mobilisation directorate of the unstipulated staff of the Russian Federation armed forces, said the conscriptions began on Oct 1.
He said:
“Servicemen undergoing conscription military service will not be sent to the points of deployment of units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation in new regions of the Russian Federation: Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, or to participate there in delivering out the tasks of a special military operation.”
07:49 AM BST
Russian shelling kills five in southern, eastern Ukraine
Russian shelling on Thursday killed three women in the southern Ukrainian municipality of Kherson and two people in eastern Donetsk region, local officials said.
Prosecutors said the three women were killed on a street in Kherson, a town x-rated by Russian troops late last year withal with other settlements on the west wall of the Dnipro River. Russian forces routinely shell Kherson and nearby areas from positions on the river’s east bank.
Prosecutors in Donetsk region in the east said two people died when Russian forces shelled Krasnohorivka, west of the Russian-held municipality of Donetsk and near the long-contested town of Maryinka.
In Kostyantynivka, west of the town of Bakhmut, in Russian hands since May, three people were injured when Russian forces launched two air strikes within an hour, prosecutors said.
Reuters could not independently verify any of the finance of military activity.
07:33 AM BST
Russia says 11 Ukrainian drones destroyed overnight
Russia personal on Friday that it had destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones overnight, though one UAV dropped explosives on a substation, wearing the local power supply, a regional governor said.
“Eleven Ukrainian unmanned well-ventilated vehicles were destroyed by air defence systems on duty, one of them over the territory of Kaluga region and 10 over Kursk region,” Russia’s defence ministry said on the messaging platform Telegram.
Kursk governor Roman Starovoyt said that the region rimming eastern Ukraine was “massively attacked” by Ukrainian UAVs.
In Belaya village, less than 25 kilometres (16 miles) from the border, “a Ukrainian drone dropped two explosive devices on a substation”, he said on Telegram.
“One of the transformers unprotected fire. Five settlements and a hospital were cut off from power supply. Fire crews rushed to the scene,” he added.
“Power will be restored as soon as it is unscratched to do so.”
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