Ukraine says its forces have advanced north from Kharkiv close to the Russian border and are also pressing to the south and east in the same region as the battle enters the 201st day.
Monday, September 12, 2022
Ukraine claims recaptured over 20 settlements in 24 hours
Ukrainian armed forces have said they recaptured more than 20 settlements in the past 24 hours amid a large counter-offensive.
“In their retreat, Russian troops are hastily abandoning their positions and fleeing,” the Ukrainian army said in its daily briefing on Monday.
Moscow conceded having lost territory, and experts have said the confirmed recapture by Ukraine of the city would represent a serious blow to Moscow’s military ambitions in east Ukraine.
Russian official: Ukraine’s troops outnumber Russia’s in battle
A Russian-backed official in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region has said that Ukrainian forces outnumbered Russian and pro-Russian forces by eight times during a lightning Ukrainian counteroffensive in the region.
Speaking to the state-owned Rossiya-24 television channel on Monday, Vitaly Ganchev said that Ukrainian forces had captured previously Russian-held settlements in the region’s north, breaking through to the border with Russia, and that “about 5000” civilians had been evacuated to Russia.
Ganchev said “the situation is becoming more difficult by the hour”, adding that the border with Russia’s Belgorod region was now closed.
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Türkiye: 9 more grain ships leave Ukraine under Istanbul deal
Nine more ships have left Ukrainian ports under the landmark Ankara-brokered grain export deal, the Turkish National Defence Ministry said.
A ministry statement, which did not disclose the ships’ points of departure or destinations, said shipments from Ukrainian ports are continuing as planned.
Türkiye, the UN, Russia, and Ukraine signed an agreement in Istanbul on July 22 to resume grain exports from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports, which were paused after the Russia-Ukraine war began in February.
UN decries Russia’s ‘intimidation’ of opponents to Ukraine war
The UN’s acting human rights chief has decried the “intimidation” of people in Russia voicing opposition to the Ukraine war, warning it was undermining fundamental freedoms.
Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, deputy UN rights chief Nada Al Nashif decried the “intimidation, restrictive measures and sanctions against people voicing opposition to the war in Ukraine.”
Earlier this year, the council ordered a high-level probe of violations by Russian troops in Ukraine since its full-scale operation on February 24.
Moldova axes plan to resume Russia-bound flights
The national air carrier of Ukraine’s neighbour Moldova has cancelled plans to resume Russia-bound flights, it said.
In a statement late on Sunday it said that “Moldova’s civil aviation authority published an operational directive… prohibiting national companies to carry out flights in Russia’s air space.”
Air Moldova had announced on Friday that it would resume flights to Russia.
Authorities in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region say Russian attacks on infrastructure is causing widespread power blackouts and water outages pic.twitter.com/yYLwpYUQvr
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Ukraine denounces ‘cynical strikes’ on civilian infrastructure
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the “deliberate and cynical missile strikes” against civilian targets as acts of terrorism.
The bombardment ignited a massive fire at a power station on Kharkiv’s western outskirts and killed at least one person.
Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv appeared to be without power on Sunday night.
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