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President Zelensky is travelling to the USA subsequent week to satisfy with President Biden and the candidates for his successor. Russia has apparently captured one other village within the Donetsk area. Read the reside weblog.

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The German authorities has introduced new particulars about arms deliveries to Ukraine. According to an up to date checklist of navy support for Ukraine, 22 further “Leopard 1” battle tanks had been delivered. This is a undertaking financed collectively with Denmark. The authorities states that it has to date delivered a complete of 80 of those tanks to Ukraine.

Ukraine additionally acquired 22 mine-resistant armored automobiles and three “Gepard” anti-aircraft tanks. Various sorts of reconnaissance drones had been additionally delivered. Germany is the second largest supporter of navy support to Ukraine after the USA.

US President Joe Biden will obtain Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington subsequent week. The assembly is scheduled for subsequent Thursday, the White House stated. Zelensky may also meet individually with US Vice President Kamala Harris, who’s working because the Democratic candidate within the November election.

Just a few days in the past, Zelensky had already promised a gathering with Biden in Washington and introduced that he wished to current the US president with a “plan for victory” towards Russia. The Ukrainian president's workplace has now formally introduced the journey to the USA. According to the report, Zelensky will first converse on the UN General Assembly in New York and maintain talks there on the sidelines. In addition to the assembly with Biden and Harris in Washington, conferences with members of the US Congress and with former US President and Republican candidate Donald Trump are additionally deliberate.

A Russian bombing raid on the north-eastern Ukrainian metropolis of Sumy has left a nursing dwelling useless. “Unfortunately, at this point in time one person has died and nine have been injured,” the area's governor stated on Ukrainian information tv.

Television photographs confirmed helpers with aged individuals in wheelchairs and on stretchers. According to the authorities, there have been greater than 200 individuals within the nursing dwelling, a few of whom had been in want of care. In current days, the Russian navy has repeatedly attacked crucial infrastructure objects within the Sumy area, notably within the regional capital, utilizing rockets, glide bombs and drones.

A high-ranking Russian MP has warned the West of a nuclear conflict. Ukrainian assaults on Russia with Western missiles would result in a world conflict with using nuclear weapons, stated the chairman of the Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin. Moscow would then reply with extra highly effective weapons.

Volodin is taken into account an in depth ally of President Vladimir Putin and is alleged to be conversant in the considering on the high of the Kremlin. The European Parliament had beforehand known as on EU member states to permit Ukraine to make use of Western weapons towards navy targets on Russian soil.

According to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, the Russian arms trade has multiplied its manufacturing this 12 months. “These days, the arms industry companies are working rhythmically and precisely, doing everything necessary to provide the armed forces with modern weapons, technology, ammunition and equipment for special military operations,” Putin praised at a gathering of the Military and Armaments Commission in St. Petersburg.

If the Russian troops acquired 140,000 drones final 12 months, this 12 months they’d obtain 1.4 million, Putin stated. At the identical time, he known as for an extra improve. Putin stated that 48 extra drone manufacturing amenities needs to be constructed within the nation by 2030. Russia should develop into impartial of overseas international locations on this space, he stated.

The European Parliament is asking on EU member states to permit Ukraine to make use of Western weapons towards navy targets on Russian soil. Ukraine will need to have the chance to completely defend itself, the Parliament stated. Without the lifting of restrictions, this won’t be totally doable.

The parliamentarians in Strasbourg adopted a corresponding – legally non-binding – decision with 425 votes in favor, 131 towards and 63 abstentions.

The Russian military says it has captured one other village within the jap Ukrainian area of Donetsk. The village of Georgiyivka has been taken, the Defense Ministry in Moscow introduced. In current weeks, the Ministry has repeatedly reported navy successes on the entrance, the place Ukrainian troops are clearly beneath huge stress.

The goal of the Russian troops is at present apparently to seize town of Pokrovsk, which is logistically necessary for Ukraine, and whose loss can be a tough blow for Kiev. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke on Friday of a “very difficult” state of affairs on the entrance in jap Ukraine.

Germany desires to extend its navy support for Ukraine by virtually 400 million euros this 12 months. This is in line with a letter from the FDP-led Federal Ministry of Finance to the Bundestag's Budget Committee, which was made accessible to the Reuters information company. In it, State Secretary of Finance Florian Toncar asks for approval for the particular expenditure of as much as 397 million euros. The Ministry of Finance additionally plans to offer the inexperienced gentle for the extra requirement.

In the three-page letter dated at the moment, Ukraine's navy state of affairs within the defensive wrestle towards Russia is described as dramatic. The state of affairs is regularly deteriorating. There is a critical danger that Ukraine will lose the conflict that has been occurring for 2 and a half years “without significantly increased material support”.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is travelling to Ukraine on Friday. During a go to to Kyiv, she is going to talk about European help for the nation's vitality provide in winter with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, von der Leyen stated.

The EU will present an extra 160 million euros for repairs to broken energy vegetation. 60 million euros are earmarked for heating and different tools for lodging for displaced individuals. 100 million euros will go in direction of repairs to thermal energy vegetation and new photo voltaic programs in Ukraine.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has known as on Ukraine's companions to offer vitality help earlier than winter with the intention to guarantee the provision of electrical energy and warmth to the inhabitants.

With rising Russian assaults on Ukrainian energy vegetation, heating vegetation and transmission networks, the nation's vitality infrastructure is beneath nice stress, the IEA stated. Power outages and water provide issues are a daily incidence and the state of affairs may worsen as the times develop into shorter and colder. The electrical energy provide to hospitals, colleges and different necessary amenities could possibly be much more severely affected in winter and the warmth provide to Ukraine's main cities is in danger, the IEA stated.

Ukraine's companions should strengthen the safety of vitality infrastructure towards assaults and cyberattacks, speed up the supply of spare elements for repairs, decentralize the electrical energy provide and improve the capability for electrical energy and fuel imports from the European Union, the vitality company burdened.

Russia attacked the vitality infrastructure within the north-eastern Ukrainian area of Sumy in a single day, the nationwide Ukrainian grid operator Ukrenergo stated. The assault led to a brief energy outage within the area.

The Ukrainian Air Force says it shot down all 42 drones utilized by Russia to assault the nation throughout the evening. It additionally intercepted one in all 4 missiles. In whole, the air protection system was deployed in 9 Ukrainian areas.

The governor of the Kharkiv area, which borders Russia, Oleh Synjehubov, introduced that six individuals had been injured in a Russian assault within the city of Kupiansk, eight kilometers from the entrance. In town of Kharkiv, civil infrastructure, a faculty, a kindergarten and ten residential buildings had been broken. Damage to an academic establishment was reported within the Cherkasy area.

According to Ukrainian sources, Russian assaults within the Ukrainian area of Zaporizhia have resulted in deaths and accidents. An aged girl was killed and two different girls had been wounded, stated Governor Ivan Fedorov. Russian forces have shelled the area 161 occasions prior to now 24 hours, damaging infrastructure and residential buildings, he stated on the Telegram information platform.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pronounces the completion of a complete “victory plan” for his nation. The plan is meant to create peace in Ukraine and strengthen the nation with out abandoning “frozen conflicts”, as Zelensky explains in his night video deal with.

He identified the necessity for a ultimate answer to the battle: “There is no alternative to peace, no freezing of the war or other manipulations that would only postpone Russian aggression to another phase.” The particular content material of the plan shouldn’t be but recognized. It is predicated on a peace plan offered on the finish of 2022, which requires the withdrawal of all Russian troops and the restoration of Ukraine's 1991 borders.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has known as on his Western companions to hurry up the promised deliveries to strengthen air protection. “Not all of the promises made at the summit in Washington regarding air defense have yet been implemented,” he warned in his night video deal with. However, it’s notably necessary to have an environment friendly air protection system firstly of autumn, he stated, with a view to the systematic Russian assaults on vitality and warmth provides.

According to Interior Minister Faeser, Ukrainians injured within the conflict will proceed to obtain medical therapy in Germany. One particular person was killed in Russian assaults in central Ukraine. Read the reside weblog.