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Ukraine and Russia Accuse Each Other of Plotting Attack on Nuclear Plant
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, has already been hit by shelling, and the United Nations chief, warning of disaster, called for a demilitarized zone around it.
Tensions around the nuclear power plant on the front lines of the war in Ukraine escalated sharply on Thursday, as the Russian and Ukrainian militaries traded charges that each was preparing to stage an attack on the plant in coming days, risking a catastrophic release of radiation. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that the Ukrainian military was preparing a “terrorist attack” on the sprawling Zaporizhzhia power plant complex on the Dnipro river, prompting the Ukrainian military intelligence agency to respond that the Russian warning was in fact a pretext for Moscow to stage a “provocation” of some kind there on Friday. The fears of a possible attack came even as the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, held talks in the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine, with the Ukrainian and Turkish presidents in an effort to ease military tensions around the site and restart diplomatic engagement to end the nearly six-month-old war. U.N. nuclear regulators have been pleading for access to the plant to ensure its safety.
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[size=6[War in Ukraine Is Pushing the Last U.S.-Russia Nuclear Treaty Off the Rails[/size]
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has strained relations between the United States and Russia to their lowest point since the Cold War. With this dangerous downturn in ties has come a new challenge to the already tenuous nuclear cooperation between the two nations with the world's largest weapons of mass destruction stockpiles.The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is the last remaining bilateral agreement restricting the nuclear arsenals of Washington and Moscow. Mutual mistrust and the introduction of new, more modern weapon systems have for years raised questions about the deal's fate and the Russian Foreign Ministry's announcement last week that on-site inspections in line with the treaty's verification regime would be temporarily suspended marked an ominous blow to the future of the pact. Inspections had already been on pause since the spring of 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that began to sweep the globe at the time. Recently, however, President Joe Biden's administration pushed for renewing this practice, a request that the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. described as "perplexing" because of ongoing disputes—most consequentially, the U.S. decision to ban direct flights from Russia as part of sweeping sanctions put in place in response to the Kremlin's decision to pursue military action against neighboring Ukraine in February.
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Drone strike hits Russia's Black Sea fleet in Ukraine's occupied Crimea
Russia’s naval headquarters for its Black Sea fleet in Ukraine’s occupied Crimea was hit by a drone Saturday, a Russian official said.The Moscow installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, took to Telegram to confirm the hit and said a drone crashed into the roof of the building.There were no reported casualities. Razvozhayev first said the drone "flew into the roof" of the building and noted that Russian forces had not been able to down the strike.
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Russia steps up campaign to seize key Ukraine city as war nears six-month mark
Russian forces stepped up their battle to seize one of the dwindling number of cities in embattled eastern Ukraine not already under their control while continuing to fire on towns and villages in the country's north and south, Ukrainian officials said Saturday. Russian shelling collapsed balconies and blew out windows in the southern region of Mykolayiv, injuring at least nine civilians, authorities said. A five-story apartment building and private homes in the town of Voznesensk were badly damaged, the Black Sea region's governor said.
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Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine denies involvement in death of Putin ally’s daughter; don’t allow Moscow to sow fear, says Zelenskiy – live
Zelenskiy adviser says Ukraine had nothing to do with Darya Dugina’s death as Russia orders investigation into car bombing.
- The daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue and ally of Vladimir Putin has been killed in a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow. Darya Dugina, whose father is the Russian political commentator Alexander Dugin, died when the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving was ripped apart by a powerful explosion about 12 miles (20km) west of the capital near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy at about 9.30pm local time (7.30pm BST), according to investigators.
- Ex-Russian MP IIya Ponomarev claims Russia partisan group the National Republican Army is responsible for the Moscow car bomb.
- Ukraine has denied involvement in the death of Darya Dugina amid fears the car bombing raises the stakes in the Russia-Ukraine war. Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s top adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, told Ukrainian TV: “I confirm that Ukraine, of course, had nothing to do with this because we are not a criminal state, like the Russian Federation, and moreover we are not a terrorist state.”
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Ex-Russian MP claims Russian partisans responsible for Moscow car bomb
Speaking in Kyiv, Ilya Ponomarev alleges bomb that killed daughter of Putin ally was work of underground group
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Ukraine war: Allies seek more security at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Britain, France, Germany and the US have stressed the need to ensure the safety of nuclear installations threatened by the conflict in Ukraine.In a phone call on Sunday, the four leaders also reiterated their support for Ukraine against Russia's invasion. Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of shelling a Russian-held nuclear plant, raising fears of a catastrophe. Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Ukrainians to be vigilant ahead of Independence Day celebrations.."Russia could try to do something particularly disgusting, particularly cruel," he said in a weekend address. Ukraine's Independence Day on Wednesday, 24 August, will also mark six months since Russia invaded Ukraine. The conflict was the subject of a conference call on Sunday bringing together the UK's Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Following its conclusion, they urged military restraint around the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, where renewed fighting has led to fears of disaster worse than that in Chernobyl in 1986.
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Ukraine war: Alarm over reports Ukrainian POWs face trial in cages
A UN spokeswoman said there was evidence that metal cages were being built in the Ukrainian city's concert hall, "apparently to restrain prisoners of war during proceedings." The UN said prosecuting POWs for taking part in hostilities is a war crime. Russia has previously denied unfairly treating prisoners of war. Photos posted on social media in recent days, including by Ukrainian authorities - appear to show metal cages being built on the stage of the city's philharmonic hall. The BBC has verified that the photos match the interior of the venue and were taken within the last four to five days.
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Sanctions and boycotts have crippled Russia’s economy–but loopholes persist. Here’s how Asian airlines, European aviation giants, and sanctions evaders are gaming the system
For the past six months, our team of 42 researchers has worked 24/7 to identify and describe, celebrate, and shame multinational companies based on their varying degrees of engagement with Russian business as President Putin’s unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation led to the slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians. However, while implementing some bold business exits, some firms have encountered competitive disadvantages arising from unintended consequences of both sanctions policies and voluntary exits.
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Russia Is at War With NATO, State TV Declares, Has No Plans of Stopping
A Russian state TV host has shifted the narrative of the conflict with Ukraine to invoke the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as a whole, saying that his country is at war with the 30 member states for its own survival and will continue to defend itself indefinitely. Known Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has attacked NATO and its member countries in recent days, most recently making comments in a video posted to Twitter on Thursday by BBC journalist Francis Scarr, alleging that Russia has "liberated over 20 percent of Ukraine's territory" and "around 10 million Ukrainian citizens from Nazi authorities." "It's a war against NATO, a war for our country's survival," Solovyov said, adding that Russia "decided finally to finish the eight-year war," referencing Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the war in Donbas. "Over the first six months of the special military operation, with minimal human losses, we're fighting with less than 15 percent of our peacetime army," he said.
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What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis
War’s six months of horror; shelling cuts Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant from Ukraine grid; five predictions for conflict’s next six months.
The war will probably run on for a year at least but is essentially deadlocked and its intensity is lessening. Six months of war may have gone by, but neither Ukraine nor Russia are ready to stop fighting. There have been no recent negotiations and movement in the frontlines has been minimal since June. Both sides are struggling for momentum and increasingly appear combat-exhausted.
Ukraine has no means of effective conventional counterattack, while guerrilla raids are an optimistic way to precipitate a Russian collapse. Ukraine would like to retake Kherson in the south but has so far failed to do so, shifting its strategy to mounting long-range missile attacks and daring special forces raids on Russian bases deep behind the frontlines.
Russia is likely to be shifting to holding on its gains and annexing Ukraine territory. Russia has no new offensive plan but by holding large swathes of Ukrainian territory in the east and south, it is actively talking about holding annexation referendums. With cooler weather fast approaching, it is likely to focus on consolidating what it has.
The west needs to decide if it wants Ukraine to win or just hold on. Ukraine would have been defeated without western military aid. But at no point so far has the west supplied enough artillery or other weapons, such as fighter jets, that would allow Kyiv to drive the invaders back. At the same time, the west needs to match humanitarian help to the huge and growing need.
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How Ukraine is using resistance warfare developed by the US to fight back against Russia
As the war in Ukraine has passed the six-month mark, US and European officials say Ukraine has successfully used a method of resistance warfare developed by US special operations forces to fight back against Russia and bog down its vastly superior military.The Resistance Operating Concept was developed in 2013 following Russia's war with Georgia a few years earlier but its value was only realized after Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014. It provides a blueprint for smaller nations to effectively resist and confront a larger neighbor that has invaded. Russia's nearly bloodless takeover and annexation of the occupied territory stunned Ukraine and the west, intensifying a study of how to build a plan for total defense that included not only the military, but also the civilian population.
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Ukraine says it has launched a long-awaited offensive to retake the Russian-held south
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- An apparent start of a major counteroffensive comes after weeks of buildup and nearly six months since Russian forces seized swaths of territory in southern Ukraine in the early days of the war.
- Kyiv has long vowed to retake that land and has displayed growing confidence in recent weeks.
- The extent of the Ukrainian offensive and any gains made were unclear as social media buzzed with unconfirmed reports.
Ukraine announced a military offensive Monday in areas across its south, signaling the launch of a long-awaited push to retake Russian-held territory. “Today, we started offensive actions in different directions,” Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for the southern military command, told Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne.
The apparent start of the major counteroffensive comes after weeks of buildup and nearly six months since Russian forces seized swaths of territory in southern Ukraine in the early days of the war. Kyiv has long vowed to retake that land and has displayed growing confidence in recent weeks, increasingly taking the initiative in a conflict that the Kremlin itself has admitted was stalled.
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