Zelensky announces the reconquest of some enclaves in Kharkov
The president of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, has announced tonight the reconquest of some Ukrainian settlements in Kharkov, although he has not detailed them. In his usual late-night speech, Zelensky said that “this week we have good news from the Kharkiv region.” “Now is not the time to name the settlements to which the Ukrainian flag returns,” he explained. “But it is time to thank the 25th Airborne Brigade, the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade and the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade for their bravery.” and heroism displayed during combat missions.
UN believes Russia forcibly transfers Ukrainian children
The Human Rights Office of the UN (OHCHR) today said it has “credible allegations” that Russia is “forcibly transferring” unaccompanied Ukrainian children to its territory and placing them at the disposal of Russian families for adoption.
The complaint was made today by the head of the office, Ilze Brandsbefore the UN Security Council, who said he suspected that Russia had implemented “an abbreviated procedure to give Russian citizenship to unaccompanied children.”
Those kids,” he added. “They would be suitable for adoption by Russian families,” he warned, before recalling that the Fourth Geneva Convention, signed by Russia, prohibits these “changes of child status, including nationality.”
Zelensky reports progress in Kharkov region
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyassured this Wednesday that the Ukrainian forces have recovered part of the land conquered by the Russian troops in the Kharkov region, the scene of a counteroffensive since the end of August.
“This week, we have good news from the Kharkov region,” The president said during his evening speech, in which he applauded the work of his military without exactly detailing the supposed advances to which he alluded. “Now is not the time to name the areas where the Ukrainian flag is waving again,” he argued.
Zelensky has stated that any “success” on one of the fronts “the general situation changes” along the entire battle line “in favor of Ukraine”. He believes that “the more difficult it is for the (Russian) occupiers, the more losses they have, the better the position of the defenders in Donbas.”
Russia accuses Ukraine of trying to reach the “most vulnerable nodes”
The Russian authorities have accused this Wednesday the Armed Forces of Ukraine of trying to attack the “most vulnerable nodes” of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, for which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has asked to implement a “security zone” after being the scene of clashes.
This is how he denounced Alexander Shevchenkorepresentative of the Russian delegation at the last meeting of the United Nations General Assembly dedicated to the Day of Action against Nuclear Tests, according to the Russian agency TASS.
“The main threat is the incessant bombardment by the Ukrainian armed forces. The attacks on the plant threaten its physical security and integrity,” said Shevchenko, who has stressed that the Ukrainian offensives are taking place “almost daily”.
Russia sends Alexei Navalni another fifteen days to a solitary confinement cell
The Russian authorities have renewed for the fourth time the solitary confinement of the opponent Alexei Navalny, that he will spend another fifteen days in a solitary cell in the Melejovo prison, located about 260 kilometers north of the capital, Moscow.
As reported by Nalvani himself on his profile on the social network Twitter, he has now been classified as “persistent offender”with which his stay in prison will be “under strict conditions within a strict regime penal colony”.
Navalni, who says he had been waiting four months to be able to receive a visit from his relatives, will have to wait another six months, as stipulated for prisoners in strict conditions. “bad luck for me” has lamented.
kyiv admits it attacked military targets in Crimea in August
The Ukrainian military high command has for the first time admitted to having recently attacked several military targets on the peninsula of crimeaannexed by Russia in 2014, in one of which he would have destroyed ten Russian fighter planes.
“There were a number of successful missile attacks on military bases in Crimea, especially in the saki airfield“, said the head of the Ukrainian military command, Valry Zaluzhny, in an article published on the Ukrinform portal.
The military high command does not detail the missiles used in these attacks but affirms that the objective was to demonstrate to Russia the “real possibilities of suffering losses and being defeated.”
Scholz and Zelenski discuss the possible strengthening of military aid to Ukraine
The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, They held a telephone conversation on Wednesday in which, among other issues, they discussed the possible strengthening of Ukraine’s defensive capabilities.
As confirmed by Zelensky through a publication on his social networks, both leaders have also discussed the need to agree on a financial aid program with the International Monetary Fund, at the same time that the Ukrainian head of state has thanked the confirmation of the 5,000 million euros of aid approved by the EU.
For his part, the spokesman for the German Government, Steffen Hebestreit, has reported that Scholz has highlighted not only the military support to Ukraine, if not, he has assured that Berlin will help kyiv in political, financial and humanitarian matters to face the Russian invasion.
They propose November 4 for a referendum in Donbas
The Russian ruling party United Russia He proposed this Wednesday to hold referendums on integration in Russia on November 4 in the separatist republics of eastern Ukraine and other territories under the control of Russian troops.
“do the referendums that day is correct and symbolic,” Secretary of the United Russia General Council Andrei Turchak said.
Turchak added that the November 4th, when Russia celebrates the Day of National Unity, it is a “historic date”.
The PP proposes Zelensky for the Sakharov prize
The People’s Party has proposed this Wednesday that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, be awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought that the European Parliament awards each year in recognition of the fight for Human Rights.
The spokeswoman for the PP in the European Parliament, Dolors Montserrat, has demanded that the award recognize the struggle of the Ukrainians in the face of the military invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24. In this sense, she has defended the award as a “important symbolic act” in support of kyiv.
“Ukraine today represents the values of the European Union and it is the EU that must be at their side. If our values, such as freedom and democracy, are threatened, we Europeans must respond,” stressed the ‘popular’ MEP.