Cover image: Ukrainian soldiers on an armored vehicle on a road near Lyman, Donetsk region, October 4, 2022. ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP
- Russian forces are struggling in the northern Kherson regionin southern Ukraine, where the Ukrainian army has been carrying out a counter-offensive for several weeks, according to representatives of the Russian occupation and specialist bloggers who follow military movements. The Russian Ministry of Defense even showed military maps showing the withdrawal of its army. At this stage, the Ukrainian authorities have not given precise information on the operations underway in the Kherson region.
- The Russian army has not announced a withdrawal, however, and the Russian occupation authorities in southern Ukraine have called for “don’t panic”despite this series of bitter setbacks, while more than 200,000 people were mobilized into the Russian army since the announcement of a mobilization ” partial “ September 21.
- Ukrainian army makes progress “quite fast and powerful in the south of our country”said Volodymyr Zelensky in his daily address posted on social media on Tuesday. “Dozens of localities have been liberated this week alone” in the four regions annexed late last week by Russia, he said.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Wednesday the law of annexation of four Ukrainian regions and the decrees formally appointing at their head the leaders that Moscow had already installed there. The texts signed by the Russian leader state that the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia are accepted “within the Russian Federation in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation”.
- The European Council should reach an agreement on Wednesday on proposals for additional sanctions against Russiasaid the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for External Affairs, Josep Borrell.
- US to send $625 million in additional military aid. They pledged to continue their support by providing additional military aid, which includes additional weapons and equipment, especially Himars. The new component of US military aid also includes 32 Howitzer guns, tens of thousands of light munitions and artillery ammunition, mine systems, and 200 armored vehicles.
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