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Ukraine’s navy says its defence forces shot down 12 Russian drones in a single day.

Russian forces fired 17 drones, seven S-300/400 anti-aircraft guided missiles from Crimea and two Kh-59 guided air missiles in opposition to Chernihiv area and Sumy area from Kursk, the Ukraine Air Force stated on Telegram this morning.

“As a result of anti-aircraft combat, 12 enemy UAVs were shot down in the Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Odesa, Poltava, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad and Cherkasy regions,” it stated.

Military recruiters in Ukraine hunted down males for conscription in focused raids at eating places, purchasing centres and a rock live performance over the weekend, movies present. Kyiv has stepped up efforts to conscript males into the navy forward of a winter battle with the Russian forces.

The recruiters have been seeing forcibly pulling a younger man in direction of a recruitment desk who stored shouting “get away from me!” exterior the Palace of Sports in Kyiv. He had gone to attend rock band Okean Elzy’s efficiency.

People current on the spot captured the incident on their telephones and shouted “Shame! Shame on you!” on the recruiters.

According to the eyewitnesses, police checked all the boys’s paperwork and those that refused to point out or whose paperwork weren’t eligible, have been dragged away.

Local reviews stated raids have been additionally performed in golf equipment and eating places throughout different Ukrainian cities, together with Kharkiv and Dnipro in jap and central Ukraine.

Ukraine has intensified its conscription drive this yr. A brand new regulation got here into impact this spring stipulating that these eligible for navy service should enter their info into an internet system or face penalties.

Russian president Vladimir Putin could attend the G20 summit in Brazil subsequent month, Ukraine’s prime prosecutor has stated.

Ukrainian prosecutor basic Andriy Kostin informed Reuters he had referred to as on Brazilian authorities to hold out Putin’s arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court if he landed on South American soil.

The arrest warrant was issued for Putin in March 2023, round a yr after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He is accused of the conflict crime of deporting youngsters.

Russia has dismissed the warrant as “null and void”, denying allegations of conflict crimes.

Kostin stated he had “information that Putin may attend the G20 summit in Brazil” and reminded Brazil “it’s an obligation for the Brazilian authorities as a state party of the Rome Statute to arrest him if he dares to visit”.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was requested on Monday whether or not a call had been made on whether or not Putin would attend the assembly of the world’s main 20 economies. He stated: “No. When a decision is made, we will let you know.”

The terminals, which give reside battlefield views by way of drones and safe communications, have proliferated on the black market, reaching Russian troops on the entrance strains and contributing to their current features.

The Ukrainian navy has closely relied on tens of 1000’s of Starlink dishes to help its operations, leveraging the satellite tv for pc web for digital warfare.

Ukraine has already procured and equipped a million drones to the entrance, Volodymyr Zelensky stated in his nightly tackle.

“And this is only from the state. There are also supplies from volunteers,” he stated yesterday.

A Russian first-person view (FPV) drone assault within the Kherson area has killed two girls of their automobile, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry stated.

The strike hit close to the city of Beryslav, 75 kilometres east of Kherson metropolis, in keeping with the regional prosecutor’s workplace.

Kherson was free of Russian occupation in November 2022, and has since been the topic of sustained and common assaults from Russian troops.

Residents of the southern metropolis have reported a rise in indiscriminate Rusian assaults with FPV drones on civilian targets within the metropolis. They refer th the brand new technique as “human safari”, The Kyiv Independent reported.

Ukrainian and Russian forces have clashed 189 occasions on the frontline prior to now 24 hours, navy officers stated.

The preventing is most intense on the Kurakhove, Pokrovsk and Lyman fronts, the General Staff of the Ukraine Armed Forces stated.

“Russian invaders launched a missile strike and 38 airstrikes on the territory of Ukraine, dropping 67 guided aerial bombs. In addition, they employed over 400 kamikaze drones and targeted the positions of our troops and populated areas over 2,250 times,” the navy assertion learn.

Nato won’t be cowed by Russian threats however sustain its sturdy help of Kyiv, secretary-general Mark Rutte stated on his first go to to the alliance’s Ukraine mission in Wiesbaden, set to take over the coordination of navy assist from the US

“The message (to Vladimir Putin) is that we will continue, that we will do what’s necessary to make sure that he will not get his way, that Ukraine will prevail,” he informed Reuters in a joint interview with German public radio Hessischer Rundfunk yesterday.

Mr Rutte spoke at Clay Barracks, the US base internet hosting the headquarters of the brand new mission, dubbed Nato Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU), which can steadily assume the coordination of Western navy assist to Kyiv.

The Nato chief, who was prime minister of the Netherlands from 2010 till 2024, stated it was essential for Nato to have the complete vary of capabilities wanted to discourage a Russian risk.

“We are Nato. We are a defensive alliance, we are not offensive. We are not interested in capturing any part of any other country outside Nato territory,” he stated.

Ukrainian troopers crossed into Russia’s Kursk area two days earlier than Kyiv launched a bigger operation throughout the border, a commander has stated.

The cross-border incursion into Kursk was launched on August 6, claiming to have seized 1,300 sq. kilometres (500 sq. miles).

But it has just lately come below rising stress as Russia has introduced in reinforcements.

Pavlo Rozlach, commander of Ukraine’s eightieth Air Assault Brigade, stated in an interview on Sunday that one firm of the brigade sneaked into Kursk in teams of six and hid within the forest.

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces helped them to cross the border, earlier than the corporate attacked a Russian stronghold close to the border and paved the way in which for the entry of Ukrainian automobiles.

Ukrainian troopers crossed into Russia’s Kursk area two days earlier than Kyiv launched a bigger operation throughout the border, a commander has stated.

The cross-border incursion into Kursk was launched on August 6, claiming to have seized 1,300 sq. kilometres (500 sq. miles).

But it has just lately come below rising stress as Russia has introduced in reinforcements.

Pavlo Rozlach, commander of Ukraine’s eightieth Air Assault Brigade, stated in an interview on Sunday that one firm of the brigade sneaked into Kursk in teams of six and hid within the forest.

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces helped them to cross the border, earlier than the corporate attacked a Russian stronghold close to the border and paved the way in which for the entry of Ukrainian automobiles.