26.10.2022
Ukraine war in live ticker
+++ 05:23 Biden talks support for Ukraine with Sunak and Meloni +++
US President Joe Biden and Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak agreed in a phone call about the importance of supporting Ukraine, the White House said in a statement. The US president spoke to new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni about continued support for Ukraine. Meloni’s government was Italy’s most right-wing government since World War II. Previously close ties between Moscow and its two alliance partners have raised concerns among NATO allies. Meloni himself supports EU sanctions against Russia.
+++ 04:40 Selenskyj Thanks Germany +++
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Germany for the help. “We will intensify cooperation with Germany,” he says in his daily video address. In it, Selenskij goes into great detail about Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s visit to Ukraine. During his visit, the federal president had to take shelter in an air raid shelter and experienced firsthand the importance of a functioning air defense system. The German Iris-de-Van security system is highly efficient, praises Selensky. “We’re waiting for systems like this.” He thanked Steinmeier for his support of town twinnings between Germany and Ukraine.
+++ 03:37 Ukraine: “Fierce fighting will take place around Cherson +++
A senior Ukrainian official predicted “tough fighting” in the partially Russian-occupied southern province of Kherson. “The situation around Cherson is clear. The Russians are expanding and strengthening their group there,” Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, says in an online video. “This means that no one is ready to retreat. Instead, there will be fierce battles around Gerson.”
+++ 02:47 Security conference boss: Putin targets Germany’s mood with nuclear threats +++
According to the head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusken, Russian President Vladimir Putin primarily wants to influence Germany with his nuclear threats over the war in Ukraine. With this threat, Putin is trying to stoke fear and weaken support for Ukraine, Heusgen tells Mediengruppe Bayern’s newspapers. “We are back to the logic of the Cold War.” According to Heusgen, the Americans have made it clear to Moscow that the use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic consequences for Russia. “I can’t imagine there are suicidal Russian generals who would carry out such an order.”
+++ 01:35 Israel provides US with proof of use of Iranian drones in Ukraine +++
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has said that he provided intelligence to the United States to prove the use of Russian-controlled Iranian drones in the war in Ukraine. Herzog said during a visit to the United States that Iran’s weapons play an important role in destabilizing our world. According to Herzog, the images show similarities between the drones shot down in Ukraine and the one tested in Iran in December 2021, and parts presented at an exhibition in 2014.
+++ 00:14 Chunak continues to offer “unwavering support” to Selensky +++
In a phone conversation, new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged his country’s “unwavering support” to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in defending against a Russian war of aggression. Sunak’s spokesman explained that Sunak had assured Selenskyj that he could be assured of the British government’s “continued solidarity”. After the phone call, Zelensky expressed hope for “even stronger” ties with Great Britain in his evening video message. The President of Ukraine has also invited the British Prime Minister to visit Ukraine.
+++ 23:21 Zara’s parent company separates from Russia business +++
Zara parent company Inditex is selling its entire Russian business. Spanish textile company Inditex has announced that it has reached a “preliminary agreement” with Vom Group. Vom Group is based in the United Arab Emirates and primarily operates in the retail and real estate sectors. Inditex had already closed all 502 Inditex stores in Russia in March after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For the company, Russia is one of the biggest markets after Spain.
+++ 22:33 Stoltenberg warns Russia from US aircraft carrier +++
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reiterated his warning to Putin. “Russia must not use false pretenses,” he told HW Bush during a visit to the USS George HW Bush, an American aircraft carrier currently stationed in the Mediterranean. Claims that Ukraine plans to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” on its own territory are clear. Stoltenberg added that Russia often blames others for things it wants to do to itself.
+++ 22.20 Hofreiter calls for more anti-aircraft systems +++
Green Party politician Anton Hofreiter is demanding that Germany supply Ukraine with more anti-aircraft systems. “And three Iris-T systems are not enough,” says Hofreiter of “Welt”. “If the production capabilities are no longer there, we need to look more closely at whether the Bundeswehr can provide patriotic formations from stocks and more Panthers.” In addition, Germany must provide armored vehicles, battle tanks and armored personnel carriers so that Ukraine can liberate Russian-occupied territories.
+++ 21:55 Dozens of Kadyrov soldiers reportedly killed +++
According to Ukrainian sources, more than 100 soldiers from the Russian Republic of Chechnya were hit by artillery fire in the Russian-occupied Cherson region. “Precise artillery strikes by security forces killed 30 invaders and left more than 100 enemy soldiers in ruins in the village of Khajiri in Kherson region,” the Ukrainian General Staff said in its evening situation report. According to several standard reports, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s soldiers were attacked. The information could not be independently verified.
+++ 21:18 Russia wants to “demonize” Ukraine +++
Alexey Pavlov, assistant to the secretary of the Russian Security Council, believes that Ukraine should be “demonized”. This was reported by the Russian state news agency TASS. Such “de-equipment” is becoming “more and more urgent,” Pavlov said, as there are reportedly hundreds of factions in Ukraine. According to Dass, Pavlov was speaking as a representative of the Security Council; The article is titled “The apparatus of the Security Council of the Russian Federation finds it increasingly urgent to ‘de-satanize’ Ukraine”. One of the main arguments in Putin’s campaign for a Russian invasion of the neighboring country was the “denazification” of Ukraine.
You can read about previous developments surrounding the war in Ukraine Here.
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