Ukraine said Thursday that at least 49 people were killed in a Russian strike on a grocery store in the Kharkiv region.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives at European Political Community Summit in Granada, Spain October 5, 2023.
The WSJ said the move had been a response to Ukrainian attacks but the Kremlin's press secretary directed questions on the matter to the defense ministry.Ukraine said that at least 49 people were killed in a Russian strike on a grocery store in the Kharkiv region in the east of the country. The attack wasPresident Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack as"demonstrably brutal" and said"Russian terror must be stopped."via Telegram, according to an NBC translation.
"We cannot accept one country in 2022, 2023 invading another nation so I am absolutely convinced that they will solve this issue," he added. Asked about concerns over the long-term support to Ukraine from the U.S., the EU's von der Leyen said,"It was very important that President Biden informed us at the beginning of this week what the support for Ukraine is concerned from the side of the United States."
"Well, I was in Kyiv some days ago just at the moment when we knew that the U.S. Congress had not included support to Ukraine on the big deal about the budget in order to avoid the shutdown," Josep Borrell told reporters Thursday in Granada, Spain, for a summit of the European Political Community. "Until there is a fully effective air defense system, children cannot attend school," he told the European Political Community summit hosted in Granada, in comments reported by Reuters.
He spoke at the start of a meeting of the European Political Community Summit, a forum to foster cooperation among more than 40 countries established after Russia's invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin is known to keep a tight-knit group of officials and aides close to him, with the majority of his inner circle having served him for many years.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on the story, or on reports that Russia had signed a deal for a permanent naval base on the Black Sea coast of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a joint meeting with the press with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg following their negotiations, in Kyiv.
An infrastructure object was hit in the Kirovohrad region but no casualties or heavy impact reported in the other regions, Ukraine's air force said.Russia has signed a deal for a permanent naval base on the Black Sea coast of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, its leader was quoted on Thursday as saying by the Izvestiya newspaper, a day after he met President Vladimir Putin.
"This is all aimed at increasing the level of defence capability of both Russia and Abkhazia, and this kind of interaction will continue," he said."There are also things I can't talk about."Russia recognized Abkhazia and another breakaway region, South Ossetia, as independent states in 2008 after Russian troops repelled a Georgian attempt to retake South Ossetia in a five-day war which ended on August 12, 2008.
At his meeting with Bzhania on Wednesday, Putin did not say anything about a naval base. But Bzhania did say that he wanted to participate in"the integration processes initiated by the Russian side."Russia has been conducting civil defense exercises across much of the country as it looks to prepare the public, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Thursday.
The U.K. said newly declassified intelligence shows Russia may continue to target civilian shipping in the Black Sea, including by laying sea mines in the approach to Ukrainian ports.that the Russian military had attempted a missile strike against a cargo ship in the Black Sea."The U.K. assesses that Russia would lay blame on Ukraine for any attacks," the FCDO said in a press statement.An aerial view of a dry cargo ship transporting grain from Ukraine under the U.N.
It added that it had put in place intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to monitor Russian activity in the Black Sea. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on international allies to continue to support Ukraine during a major campaign speech.
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Dozens killed in Russian attack on Kharkiv grocery storeMike Brest is a defense reporter at the Washington Examiner. Prior to joining the defense beat, he spent two years covering breaking news for the Examiner, and he worked at the Daily Caller in a similar capacity before that. Mike graduated from American University and is originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia.
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