Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian occupiers in Ukraine were in a state of panic as he announced that his troops had marched further east into territory recently vacated by Russia. “The occupiers are clearly in a panic,” Mr Zelenskiy said in his nightly speech last night, adding that Ukrainian forces would move with a strong focus on “speed” into the liberated areas. Ukraine’s troop advance could likely lead to a possible attack on Moscow’s forces deployed in the Donbass region, with Kyiv receiving more Western weapons, including tanks, from Washington. “The speed with which our troops are moving. The speed in restoring normal life,” the wartime president said. However, Ukrainian officials dug up 146 bodies buried without coffins in Izium – the recaptured city of Kharkiv – in a makeshift cemetery in the forest. Satellite images of the vast forest showed the cemetery built within the forest. Meanwhile, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said the war in Ukraine will be the most important issue at the UN General Assembly this week.
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In first international trip, British Truss pledges support to Ukraine
British Prime Minister Liz Truss will pledge at a UN summit to match or exceed the 2.3 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) of military aid spent on Ukraine in 2022 next year, doubling her support to Kyiv after the Russian invasion. Truss, on her first international visit as prime minister, will call on other leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York to help end Russia’s energy stranglehold on Europe, saying it has allowed too many lives to be “manipulated”. “My message to the people of Ukraine is this: the UK will continue to be right behind you every step of the way. Your security is our security,” she said in a statement ahead of her address at the summit, which begins on Thursday. “Too many lives in Ukraine, in Europe and around the world are being manipulated by dependence on Russian energy,” he added. “We need to work together to end this once and for all.” (PA wire) Britain said it was the second-biggest military donor to Ukraine, pledging £2.3 billion in 2022, and that next year’s support would be determined by the needs of the Ukrainian military, although it is expected to include equipment such as rocket artillery systems. Maryam Zakir-Hussain20 September 2022 09:13 1663660066
Seven dead in Ukrainian attack in Luhansk region – more details
A Ukrainian attack on a Russian-held village in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region killed seven civilians, including three children, on Monday night, Russian-based officials said on Tuesday. The strike hit Krasnoritchenske, a part of the Luhansk region held by Russian forces, Luhansk’s spokesman at the Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC) said on Tuesday. As a result of artillery shelling by the armed forces of Ukraine in the village of Krasnorichenske, seven civilians were killed, including three children (twins, a girl and a boy born in 2021 and a girl born in 2015), the spokesman said in statement.. Reuters was unable to verify reports on the battlefield. The JCCC was created as part of the failed Minsk Agreement – a deal between Russia and Ukraine meant to mediate and de-escalate the conflict between Russian-backed separatists and Ukraine that began after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. Maryam Zakir-Hussain20 September 2022 08:47 1663658986
Medvedev says Moscow-backed separatists should hold referendums to join Russia
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday it was “essential” that Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine hold referendums that would see their regions join Russia. In a post on social media, Medvedev said making the Moscow-backed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk officially part of Russia was a vital step to protect their interests and could further justify the use of military force from Russia to protect them. (AP) Maryam Zakir-Hussain20 September 2022 08:29 1663658017
Seven dead in a Ukrainian attack in the Luhansk region
Seven people were killed Tuesday in a Ukrainian strike on a village in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region, the TASS news agency reported, citing authorities installed by Russia in the region. The agency said the strike hit the village of Krasnorichenske in a part of the Luhansk region controlled by Russian forces. Maryam Zakir-Hussain20 September 2022 08:13 1663656905
Ukraine is using captured Russian tanks to reinforce its lines
Ukraine is now deploying captured Russian tanks to consolidate its gains in the northeast amid an ongoing counteroffensive, a Washington-based think tank said on Tuesday, as Kyiv vowed to push further into territory held by Moscow. The Institute for the Study of War, citing a Russian claim, said Ukraine was using Russian T-72 tanks as it tries to push into the Russian-held region of Luhansk. Ukrainian soldiers standing over a Russian tank (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) “The initial panic of the counterattack led Russian troops to abandon higher-quality equipment in working order, rather than the more damaged equipment left behind by Russian forces retreating from Kyiv in April, further indicating the severity of the Russian debacle,” it said. The institute. . Maryam Zakir-Hussain20 September 2022 07:55 1663656025
ICYMI- Russia says claims it committed war crimes at Izyum are ‘lies’
Russia has dismissed claims that its forces committed war crimes in the Ukrainian city of Izyum as “lies”. It was the Kremlin’s first public statement about the allegations. About 450 bodies – most of which Ukraine says are civilians – were found in mass graves near Izyum after Russian troops were this month forced out of the Kharkiv region, much of which they had controlled since its first weeks. of their military campaign in Ukraine. International editor David Harding has more:
Russia says claims it committed war crimes at Izyum ‘lie’
Ukraine’s leaders accuse Moscow of ‘genocide’ Maryam Zakir-Hussain20 September 2022 07:40 1663654966
Hungary says the EU should not consider new sanctions against Russia
Hungary’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that the European Union should not consider new sanctions against Russia, as doing so would only deepen the energy supply crisis and harm Europe. “The EU should…stop mentioning an 8th package of sanctions, it should stop pointing to measures that would only further deepen the energy supply crisis,” Peter Szijjarto said in his statement. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Maryam Zakir-Hussain20 September 2022 07:22 1663653910
UK to match or exceed military aid spent on Ukraine in 2022 next year
British Prime Minister Liz Truss said the UK will match record monetary aid to Ukraine in 2023 in a statement released today. The UK will match or exceed the amount of military aid spent on Ukraine, which was 2.3 billion pounds this year in 2023, Ms Truss said. UK military support to Ukraine is likely to include equipment such as the multiple launch missile system, Truss’ office said in a statement. Arpan Rai20 September 2022 07:05 1663652636
In pictures: Ukraine exhumes over a hundred bodies with signs of torture in Kharkiv
Rescue workers and forensic police exhume bodies from unidentified makeshift graves at the Pishanske cemetery in Izium, Ukraine (Getty Images) The bodies will be examined by medical examiners for possible war crimes (Getty Images) A Ukrainian rescue worker seen exhuming bodies from unidentified makeshift graves at Pisansk cemetery (Getty Images) Workers are seen digging up earth to exhume bodies that were buried at Izium. The city was recently liberated from Russian occupation after six months. (Getty Images) Rescuers from Kharkiv take a break from exhuming bodies from makeshift graves at the Pishanske cemetery in Izium, Ukraine (Getty Images) Arpan Rai20 September 2022 06:43 1663651654
Putin’s forces move Black Sea fleet from Crimea to Krasnodar amid security threat – British Foreign Office
Russian forces have “almost certainly” moved their submarines from Crimea to Krasnodar in southern Russia amid a local security threat, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said today. “The command of the Russian Black Sea Fleet has almost certainly relocated the KILO-class submarines from the port of Sevastopol in Crimea to Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai, southern Russia,” the ministry said in its latest intelligence update. “This is most likely due to the recent change in the local security threat level in the face of increased Ukrainian long-range strike capability. In the last two months, the fleet headquarters and the main naval airfield have been attacked,” he added. The Foreign Ministry noted that “securing the Black Sea Fleet base in Crimea was likely one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivations for annexing the peninsula in 2014.” The base’s security has now been directly undermined by Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine, he added. Arpan Rai20 September 2022 06:27
