![]() ![]() “Weapons, weapons, weapons have been on our agenda since spring. Kyiv has nonetheless ramped up its calls for Western allies to rush more sophisticated weapons to help in its fight. Ukraine Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov told French daily Le Monde in a Monday interview that the war has entered a new phase with the help of Western weapons. “What you’re seeing is certainly a shift in momentum by the Ukrainian armed forces,” he said, but Zelensky should be the one to “determine and decide whether he feels militarily they’ve reached a turning point.”ĭespite the “dramatic events… it’s war and war is unpredictable,” Kirby added. Kirby said it is too early to say whether gains by Ukraine signal a turning point in the overall war. US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday that Washington would soon provide another tranche in its multi-billion-dollar effort to supply arms to Ukraine. Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region have since September 6 reclaimed more than 300 settlements and areas home to around 150,000 people, said deputy foreign affairs minister Ganna Maliar. In the northeast, dozens of areas including the cities of Izyum, Kupiansk and Balakliya have been retaken, Ukraine said. “The remnants of occupiers and sabotage groups are being discovered, collaborators are being detained, the entire security is being restored,” he said in his evening address. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Ukraine had completed “stabilization measures” in more than 4,000 square kilometres (1,500 square miles) of recaptured territory, and was working to do the same in a similarly sized area. Images posted by the Ukrainian military showed crates of munitions and military hardware scattered across territory abandoned by Russian forces.Īround the northeastern town of Balakliya, AFP journalists saw evidence of fierce battles, with buildings destroyed or damaged and streets mostly deserted. Ukrainian forces launched their counter-offensive in early September, seemingly catching Russia’s military off guard. Moscow also pushed back on Tuesday against what it called growing “bias” at United Nations’ human rights bodies, a day after a top UN official condemned Moscow’s “intimidation” of people in Russia opposed to its war in Ukraine. Russia’s allegations came after Ukrainian authorities claimed to have found four bodies of civilians with “signs of torture” in the recaptured eastern village of Zaliznychne. “There are a lot of punitive measures… people are being tortured, people are being mistreated and so on,” Dmitry Peskov told journalists. ![]() President Vladimir Putin‘s spokesman said that in the Kharkiv region, reports were emerging of “outrageous” treatment of civilians. “High-precision” strikes have also been launched on Ukrainian positions around Sloviansk and Konstantinovka in the eastern Donetsk region, it added. “Air, rocket and artillery forces are carrying out massive strikes on units of the Ukrainian armed forces in all operational directions,” the Russian defence ministry said in its daily briefing on the conflict. The territorial shifts marked one of Russia’s biggest setbacks since its troops were repelled from Kyiv in the earliest days of the nearly seven-month-long war, yet Moscow signalled it was no closer to agreeing to a negotiated peace. Moscow’s retaliation came after it was forced to pull back troops from swathes of the northeast, particularly in the Kharkiv region, following Kyiv’s lightning assault to wrest back terrain. KRAMATORSK: Russia said Tuesday it was carrying out “massive strikes” across the Ukrainian frontline and accused Kyiv‘s soldiers of abusing civilians in territories recaptured in a dramatic counter-offensive. ![]()
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