US President Joe Biden has condemned the missile strikes on Ukrainian cities and promised to offer superior air protection programs to counter the Russian menace. President Biden stated the assaults demonstrated “brutality” of Vladimir Putin’s “illegal war”, the White House stated in a press release.
According to the Ukrainian army, Russia launched 84 cruise missiles at them on Monday, two days after a big explosion broken a key bridge connecting Russia to Crimea. Several necessary infrastructure services had been broken throughout eight areas within the greatest wave of strikes in months.
Responding to the strikes, India stated it isdeeply concerned at the escalation of the battle in Ukraine, together with concentrating on of infrastructure and deaths of civilians.
We reiterate that escalation of hostilities is in no ones curiosity. We urge rapid cessation of hostilities and the pressing return to the trail of diplomacy and dialogue. India stands able to help all such efforts aimed at de-escalation, the Ministry of External Affairs stated in a press release.
Here are the highest developments within the story.
1) The US pledged superior air protection programs and denounced “brutal” assaults that hit non-military targets, together with a college and a kids’s playground. At least 14 folks had been killed within the assaults that left many injured.
2) The United Nations voted to reject Russia’s name to carry a secret poll on whether or not to sentence Moscow’s transfer to annex 4 partially occupied areas in Ukraine, hours after the missile strikes. The UN General Assembly determined, with 107 votes in favor, that it would maintain a public vote – and never a secret poll – on a draft decision that will condemn Russia’s “illegal so-called referenda” and the “attempted illegal annexation.” The vote on the decision would probably be on Wednesday, October 12.
3) After missiles tore into Ukrainian cities, Kyiv denounced Russia as a “terrorist state” at an pressing UN General Assembly session because the West sought to underscore Moscow’s isolation. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed much more “severe” retaliation after the latest explosion that broken a key bridge.
4) For Ukrainians, the winter appears to be like grim after the latest strikes. Russian assaults on essential infrastructure have disrupted energy and water provide. Authorities in Kyiv requested civilians and companies to restrict vitality use, and the vitality ministry stated it was halting electrical energy exports to the European grid after the most important assault on the vitality system because the battle started in February.
5) The lethal strikes on the cities of Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, had been a few of the worst Ukraine has seen for months.
6) Ukraine stated the collection of strikes confirmed Vladimir Putin was “desperate because of battlefield defeats” after latest features by Ukrainian forces.
7) Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev warned the retaliatory mass strikes had been solely the “first episode”. Russia reportedly used Iran-made Shahed-136unmanned aerial automobiles (UAVs) in its “first episode” of mass strikes as indicated by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
8) The Indian embassy in Ukraine has issued an pressing advisory asking all its residents to keep away from all non-essential journey to and from the war-torn nation. The Indian nationals have additionally been requested to maintain the Indian embassy knowledgeable about their whereabouts. India additionally condemned the most recent escalation and known as for cessation of hostilities.
9) The European Union believes Russia’s missile assaults on civilians in Ukraine “amount to a war crime,” a spokesman for the bloc’s overseas coverage chief Josep Borrell stated on Monday.
10) Alexander Lukashenko, an ally of Vladimir Putin in Belarus, stated Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine had been coaching Belarusian “radicals” for terror assaults, after saying plans to deploy joint troops with Moscow.