The explosions followed massive explosions last week at a Russian air base in Crimea. In a new assessment, a Western official said Friday that the incident wiped out half of Russia’s Black Sea naval force in one stroke. Ukraine also issued a new warning about a frontline nuclear plant where it said it believed Moscow was planning a “large-scale provocation” as a justification for disconnecting the plant from the Ukrainian power grid and connecting it to the Russian grid. Continuing the mutual blame game, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of bombing the Zaporizhia complex, risking a nuclear disaster. In Crimea – which Moscow seized and annexed in 2014 – explosions were reported near an air base in Belbek, on the southwest coast near Sevastopol, home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. At the opposite end of the peninsula, the sky also lit up in Kerch near a huge bridge to Russia, with what Moscow said was fire from its air defences. Russia’s RIA and Tass news agencies, citing a local official in Crimea, reported that Russian anti-aircraft forces appeared to be in action near the western Crimean port of Yevpatoriya on Friday night. Video posted by a Russian website showed what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile hitting a target in mid-air. Reuters could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the video. Inside Russia, two villages were evacuated after explosions at an ammunition dump in Belgorod province, close to the Ukrainian border but more than 100 kilometers from territory controlled by Ukrainian forces. At least five people have been killed and 10 others injured in Russian shelling of towns and villages in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, regional authorities said. Russian shelling of the city of Kharkiv also killed at least one civilian early Friday. Russian missiles again hit port facilities and a university building in the southern port city of Mykolaiv.
Kyiv trumpets more strikes behind Russian lines
Closer to the front, Kyiv also announced overnight strikes behind Russian lines in the southern province of Kherson, including a bridge used by Russia to supply thousands of troops on the west bank of the Dnipro River. A Ukrainian man looks at the damage caused by a rocket strike on an engineering school building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Friday. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) “Ukrainian armed forces treated Russians to a magical evening,” Seriy Khlan, a member of the Kherson regional council that was dissolved by Russian occupation forces, wrote on Facebook. Kyiv has seen its role, withholding official commentary on incidents in Crimea or Russia, while hinting that it is behind them using long-range weapons or sabotage. Russian officials said they shot down drones in Belbek and Kerch and confirmed the evacuation of Belgorod. A Western official said on Friday that at least some of the incidents were Ukrainian attacks, saying Kyiv was now achieving consistent “kinetic results” deep behind Russian lines. The attacks hit Russia’s forces and had a “significant psychological effect on the Russian leadership,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Russian casualties at Crimea air base
The massive explosions on Aug. 9 at Russia’s Saky air base on the Crimean coast “knocked out more than half of the warplanes in the Black Sea Fleet,” the official said, offering a new damage estimate for what would be one of the costliest attacks of the war. Ukrainian soldiers are seen riding in vehicles along a road in the Donetsk region on Thursday. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images) Russia has denied any aircraft were damaged in what it called an accident at the base, although commercial satellite images showed at least eight warplanes burned to the ground and several huge impact craters. Moscow fired the head of its Black Sea fleet this week. Ukraine hopes its apparent new ability to strike Russian targets behind the front lines can turn the tide in the conflict by disrupting the supply lines Moscow needs to support its occupation. Since last month, Ukraine has been using advanced missiles supplied by the West to strike behind Russian lines. The overnight explosions in Crimea and Belgorod exceed the range of munitions Western countries have so far admitted to sending. In recent days, Kyiv has been warning Russians, for whom Crimea has become a popular summer holiday destination, that nowhere on the peninsula is safe while it is occupied. When the coastal air base was hit last week, Russian tourists were photographed on nearby beaches, looking out of bells at huge mushroom clouds in the sky. A senior Ukrainian official said about half of the incidents in Crimea were Ukrainian attacks of some kind and half were accidents caused by Russia’s botched operations. He stressed that the attacks were carried out by saboteurs and not long-range weapons, although he would not say whether Kyiv now has ATACMS, a longer-range version of the US HIMARS missiles it began using in June.
Fears Moscow has plans for a nuclear plant
Ukraine’s nuclear power agency said on Friday it suspected Moscow was planning to disconnect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from Ukraine’s grid and connect it to Russia’s, a complex operation that Kyiv says could spell disaster. A Ukrainian soldier smokes a cigarette while standing along the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region on Thursday. (Dmytro Smolienko/Reuters) The power station is held by Russian troops on the bank of a reservoir. Ukrainian forces control the opposite bank. Moscow rejected international calls to demilitarize the plant and Putin repeated accusations that Kyiv was bombing it in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, the Kremlin said in the call. It said Putin warned of “the risk of a large-scale disaster that could lead to the contamination of vast areas by radiation.” Kyiv denies this and says Russia is using the plant as a shield for forces to fire on Ukrainian-controlled cities. Reuters cannot independently verify the military situation at the plant. WATCHES | UN calls for demilitarized zone around nuclear plant:
The UN and Ukraine are pushing for a demilitarized zone around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
The United Nations and Ukraine want to reach an agreement to end fighting around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, but Russia has dismissed the idea of a demilitarized zone as unacceptable. Macron’s office said Putin agreed to send the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Zaporizhia. An IAEA spokesman said it was in active consultation with all parties to send its mission “as soon as possible”.
title: “Overnight Explosions Suggest Kiev S Reach May Be Expanding Into Russian Controlled Areas Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-11” author: “Cyrus Flanagan”
The explosions followed massive explosions last week at a Russian air base in Crimea. In a new assessment, a Western official said Friday that the incident wiped out half of Russia’s Black Sea naval force in one stroke. Ukraine also issued a new warning about a frontline nuclear plant where it said it believed Moscow was planning a “large-scale provocation” as a justification for disconnecting the plant from the Ukrainian power grid and connecting it to the Russian grid. Continuing the mutual blame game, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of bombing the Zaporizhia complex, risking a nuclear disaster. In Crimea – which Moscow seized and annexed in 2014 – explosions were reported near an air base in Belbek, on the southwest coast near Sevastopol, home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. At the opposite end of the peninsula, the sky also lit up in Kerch near a huge bridge to Russia, with what Moscow said was fire from its air defences. Russia’s RIA and Tass news agencies, citing a local official in Crimea, reported that Russian anti-aircraft forces appeared to be in action near the western Crimean port of Yevpatoriya on Friday night. Video posted by a Russian website showed what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile hitting a target in mid-air. Reuters could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the video. Inside Russia, two villages were evacuated after explosions at an ammunition dump in Belgorod province, close to the Ukrainian border but more than 100 kilometers from territory controlled by Ukrainian forces. At least five people have been killed and 10 others injured in Russian shelling of towns and villages in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, regional authorities said. Russian shelling of the city of Kharkiv also killed at least one civilian early Friday. Russian missiles again hit port facilities and a university building in the southern port city of Mykolaiv.
Kyiv trumpets more strikes behind Russian lines
Closer to the front, Kyiv also announced overnight strikes behind Russian lines in the southern province of Kherson, including a bridge used by Russia to supply thousands of troops on the west bank of the Dnipro River. A Ukrainian man looks at the damage caused by a rocket strike on an engineering school building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Friday. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) “Ukrainian armed forces treated Russians to a magical evening,” Seriy Khlan, a member of the Kherson regional council that was dissolved by Russian occupation forces, wrote on Facebook. Kyiv has seen its role, withholding official commentary on incidents in Crimea or Russia, while hinting that it is behind them using long-range weapons or sabotage. Russian officials said they shot down drones in Belbek and Kerch and confirmed the evacuation of Belgorod. A Western official said on Friday that at least some of the incidents were Ukrainian attacks, saying Kyiv was now achieving consistent “kinetic results” deep behind Russian lines. The attacks hit Russia’s forces and had a “significant psychological effect on the Russian leadership,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Russian casualties at Crimea air base
The massive explosions on Aug. 9 at Russia’s Saky air base on the Crimean coast “knocked out more than half of the warplanes in the Black Sea Fleet,” the official said, offering a new damage estimate for what would be one of the costliest attacks of the war. Ukrainian soldiers are seen riding in vehicles along a road in the Donetsk region on Thursday. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images) Russia has denied any aircraft were damaged in what it called an accident at the base, although commercial satellite images showed at least eight warplanes burned to the ground and several huge impact craters. Moscow fired the head of its Black Sea fleet this week. Ukraine hopes its apparent new ability to strike Russian targets behind the front lines can turn the tide in the conflict by disrupting the supply lines Moscow needs to support its occupation. Since last month, Ukraine has been using advanced missiles supplied by the West to strike behind Russian lines. The overnight explosions in Crimea and Belgorod exceed the range of munitions Western countries have so far admitted to sending. In recent days, Kyiv has been warning Russians, for whom Crimea has become a popular summer holiday destination, that nowhere on the peninsula is safe while it is occupied. When the coastal air base was hit last week, Russian tourists were photographed on nearby beaches, looking out of bells at huge mushroom clouds in the sky. A senior Ukrainian official said about half of the incidents in Crimea were Ukrainian attacks of some kind and half were accidents caused by Russia’s botched operations. He stressed that the attacks were carried out by saboteurs and not long-range weapons, although he would not say whether Kyiv now has ATACMS, a longer-range version of the US HIMARS missiles it began using in June.
Fears Moscow has plans for a nuclear plant
Ukraine’s nuclear power agency said on Friday it suspected Moscow was planning to disconnect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from Ukraine’s grid and connect it to Russia’s, a complex operation that Kyiv says could spell disaster. A Ukrainian soldier smokes a cigarette while standing along the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region on Thursday. (Dmytro Smolienko/Reuters) The power station is held by Russian troops on the bank of a reservoir. Ukrainian forces control the opposite bank. Moscow rejected international calls to demilitarize the plant and Putin repeated accusations that Kyiv was bombing it in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, the Kremlin said in the call. It said Putin warned of “the risk of a large-scale disaster that could lead to the contamination of vast areas by radiation.” Kyiv denies this and says Russia is using the plant as a shield for forces to fire on Ukrainian-controlled cities. Reuters cannot independently verify the military situation at the plant. WATCHES | UN calls for demilitarized zone around nuclear plant:
The UN and Ukraine are pushing for a demilitarized zone around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
The United Nations and Ukraine want to reach an agreement to end fighting around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, but Russia has dismissed the idea of a demilitarized zone as unacceptable. Macron’s office said Putin agreed to send the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Zaporizhia. An IAEA spokesman said it was in active consultation with all parties to send its mission “as soon as possible”.
title: “Overnight Explosions Suggest Kiev S Reach May Be Expanding Into Russian Controlled Areas Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-29” author: “Tony Edwards”
The explosions followed massive explosions last week at a Russian air base in Crimea. In a new assessment, a Western official said Friday that the incident wiped out half of Russia’s Black Sea naval force in one stroke. Ukraine also issued a new warning about a frontline nuclear plant where it said it believed Moscow was planning a “large-scale provocation” as a justification for disconnecting the plant from the Ukrainian power grid and connecting it to the Russian grid. Continuing the mutual blame game, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of bombing the Zaporizhia complex, risking a nuclear disaster. In Crimea – which Moscow seized and annexed in 2014 – explosions were reported near an air base in Belbek, on the southwest coast near Sevastopol, home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. At the opposite end of the peninsula, the sky also lit up in Kerch near a huge bridge to Russia, with what Moscow said was fire from its air defences. Russia’s RIA and Tass news agencies, citing a local official in Crimea, reported that Russian anti-aircraft forces appeared to be in action near the western Crimean port of Yevpatoriya on Friday night. Video posted by a Russian website showed what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile hitting a target in mid-air. Reuters could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the video. Inside Russia, two villages were evacuated after explosions at an ammunition dump in Belgorod province, close to the Ukrainian border but more than 100 kilometers from territory controlled by Ukrainian forces. At least five people have been killed and 10 others injured in Russian shelling of towns and villages in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, regional authorities said. Russian shelling of the city of Kharkiv also killed at least one civilian early Friday. Russian missiles again hit port facilities and a university building in the southern port city of Mykolaiv.
Kyiv trumpets more strikes behind Russian lines
Closer to the front, Kyiv also announced overnight strikes behind Russian lines in the southern province of Kherson, including a bridge used by Russia to supply thousands of troops on the west bank of the Dnipro River. A Ukrainian man looks at the damage caused by a rocket strike on an engineering school building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Friday. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) “Ukrainian armed forces treated Russians to a magical evening,” Seriy Khlan, a member of the Kherson regional council that was dissolved by Russian occupation forces, wrote on Facebook. Kyiv has seen its role, withholding official commentary on incidents in Crimea or Russia, while hinting that it is behind them using long-range weapons or sabotage. Russian officials said they shot down drones in Belbek and Kerch and confirmed the evacuation of Belgorod. A Western official said on Friday that at least some of the incidents were Ukrainian attacks, saying Kyiv was now achieving consistent “kinetic results” deep behind Russian lines. The attacks hit Russia’s forces and had a “significant psychological effect on the Russian leadership,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Russian casualties at Crimea air base
The massive explosions on Aug. 9 at Russia’s Saky air base on the Crimean coast “knocked out more than half of the warplanes in the Black Sea Fleet,” the official said, offering a new damage estimate for what would be one of the costliest attacks of the war. Ukrainian soldiers are seen riding in vehicles along a road in the Donetsk region on Thursday. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images) Russia has denied any aircraft were damaged in what it called an accident at the base, although commercial satellite images showed at least eight warplanes burned to the ground and several huge impact craters. Moscow fired the head of its Black Sea fleet this week. Ukraine hopes its apparent new ability to strike Russian targets behind the front lines can turn the tide in the conflict by disrupting the supply lines Moscow needs to support its occupation. Since last month, Ukraine has been using advanced missiles supplied by the West to strike behind Russian lines. The overnight explosions in Crimea and Belgorod exceed the range of munitions Western countries have so far admitted to sending. In recent days, Kyiv has been warning Russians, for whom Crimea has become a popular summer holiday destination, that nowhere on the peninsula is safe while it is occupied. When the coastal air base was hit last week, Russian tourists were photographed on nearby beaches, looking out of bells at huge mushroom clouds in the sky. A senior Ukrainian official said about half of the incidents in Crimea were Ukrainian attacks of some kind and half were accidents caused by Russia’s botched operations. He stressed that the attacks were carried out by saboteurs and not long-range weapons, although he would not say whether Kyiv now has ATACMS, a longer-range version of the US HIMARS missiles it began using in June.
Fears Moscow has plans for a nuclear plant
Ukraine’s nuclear power agency said on Friday it suspected Moscow was planning to disconnect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from Ukraine’s grid and connect it to Russia’s, a complex operation that Kyiv says could spell disaster. A Ukrainian soldier smokes a cigarette while standing along the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region on Thursday. (Dmytro Smolienko/Reuters) The power station is held by Russian troops on the bank of a reservoir. Ukrainian forces control the opposite bank. Moscow rejected international calls to demilitarize the plant and Putin repeated accusations that Kyiv was bombing it in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, the Kremlin said in the call. It said Putin warned of “the risk of a large-scale disaster that could lead to the contamination of vast areas by radiation.” Kyiv denies this and says Russia is using the plant as a shield for forces to fire on Ukrainian-controlled cities. Reuters cannot independently verify the military situation at the plant. WATCHES | UN calls for demilitarized zone around nuclear plant:
The UN and Ukraine are pushing for a demilitarized zone around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
The United Nations and Ukraine want to reach an agreement to end fighting around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, but Russia has dismissed the idea of a demilitarized zone as unacceptable. Macron’s office said Putin agreed to send the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Zaporizhia. An IAEA spokesman said it was in active consultation with all parties to send its mission “as soon as possible”.
title: “Overnight Explosions Suggest Kiev S Reach May Be Expanding Into Russian Controlled Areas Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-07” author: “Maryann Powell”
The explosions followed massive explosions last week at a Russian air base in Crimea. In a new assessment, a Western official said Friday that the incident wiped out half of Russia’s Black Sea naval force in one stroke. Ukraine also issued a new warning about a frontline nuclear plant where it said it believed Moscow was planning a “large-scale provocation” as a justification for disconnecting the plant from the Ukrainian power grid and connecting it to the Russian grid. Continuing the mutual blame game, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of bombing the Zaporizhia complex, risking a nuclear disaster. In Crimea – which Moscow seized and annexed in 2014 – explosions were reported near an air base in Belbek, on the southwest coast near Sevastopol, home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. At the opposite end of the peninsula, the sky also lit up in Kerch near a huge bridge to Russia, with what Moscow said was fire from its air defences. Russia’s RIA and Tass news agencies, citing a local official in Crimea, reported that Russian anti-aircraft forces appeared to be in action near the western Crimean port of Yevpatoriya on Friday night. Video posted by a Russian website showed what appeared to be a surface-to-air missile hitting a target in mid-air. Reuters could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the video. Inside Russia, two villages were evacuated after explosions at an ammunition dump in Belgorod province, close to the Ukrainian border but more than 100 kilometers from territory controlled by Ukrainian forces. At least five people have been killed and 10 others injured in Russian shelling of towns and villages in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, regional authorities said. Russian shelling of the city of Kharkiv also killed at least one civilian early Friday. Russian missiles again hit port facilities and a university building in the southern port city of Mykolaiv.
Kyiv trumpets more strikes behind Russian lines
Closer to the front, Kyiv also announced overnight strikes behind Russian lines in the southern province of Kherson, including a bridge used by Russia to supply thousands of troops on the west bank of the Dnipro River. A Ukrainian man looks at the damage caused by a rocket strike on an engineering school building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Friday. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) “Ukrainian armed forces treated Russians to a magical evening,” Seriy Khlan, a member of the Kherson regional council that was dissolved by Russian occupation forces, wrote on Facebook. Kyiv has seen its role, withholding official commentary on incidents in Crimea or Russia, while hinting that it is behind them using long-range weapons or sabotage. Russian officials said they shot down drones in Belbek and Kerch and confirmed the evacuation of Belgorod. A Western official said on Friday that at least some of the incidents were Ukrainian attacks, saying Kyiv was now achieving consistent “kinetic results” deep behind Russian lines. The attacks hit Russia’s forces and had a “significant psychological effect on the Russian leadership,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Russian casualties at Crimea air base
The massive explosions on Aug. 9 at Russia’s Saky air base on the Crimean coast “knocked out more than half of the warplanes in the Black Sea Fleet,” the official said, offering a new damage estimate for what would be one of the costliest attacks of the war. Ukrainian soldiers are seen riding in vehicles along a road in the Donetsk region on Thursday. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images) Russia has denied any aircraft were damaged in what it called an accident at the base, although commercial satellite images showed at least eight warplanes burned to the ground and several huge impact craters. Moscow fired the head of its Black Sea fleet this week. Ukraine hopes its apparent new ability to strike Russian targets behind the front lines can turn the tide in the conflict by disrupting the supply lines Moscow needs to support its occupation. Since last month, Ukraine has been using advanced missiles supplied by the West to strike behind Russian lines. The overnight explosions in Crimea and Belgorod exceed the range of munitions Western countries have so far admitted to sending. In recent days, Kyiv has been warning Russians, for whom Crimea has become a popular summer holiday destination, that nowhere on the peninsula is safe while it is occupied. When the coastal air base was hit last week, Russian tourists were photographed on nearby beaches, looking out of bells at huge mushroom clouds in the sky. A senior Ukrainian official said about half of the incidents in Crimea were Ukrainian attacks of some kind and half were accidents caused by Russia’s botched operations. He stressed that the attacks were carried out by saboteurs and not long-range weapons, although he would not say whether Kyiv now has ATACMS, a longer-range version of the US HIMARS missiles it began using in June.
Fears Moscow has plans for a nuclear plant
Ukraine’s nuclear power agency said on Friday it suspected Moscow was planning to disconnect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from Ukraine’s grid and connect it to Russia’s, a complex operation that Kyiv says could spell disaster. A Ukrainian soldier smokes a cigarette while standing along the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region on Thursday. (Dmytro Smolienko/Reuters) The power station is held by Russian troops on the bank of a reservoir. Ukrainian forces control the opposite bank. Moscow rejected international calls to demilitarize the plant and Putin repeated accusations that Kyiv was bombing it in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, the Kremlin said in the call. It said Putin warned of “the risk of a large-scale disaster that could lead to the contamination of vast areas by radiation.” Kyiv denies this and says Russia is using the plant as a shield for forces to fire on Ukrainian-controlled cities. Reuters cannot independently verify the military situation at the plant. WATCHES | UN calls for demilitarized zone around nuclear plant:
The UN and Ukraine are pushing for a demilitarized zone around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
The United Nations and Ukraine want to reach an agreement to end fighting around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, but Russia has dismissed the idea of a demilitarized zone as unacceptable. Macron’s office said Putin agreed to send the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Zaporizhia. An IAEA spokesman said it was in active consultation with all parties to send its mission “as soon as possible”.
