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3:14PM
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3:14PM
Putin invites Biden ‘for tea’
Vladimir Putin has invited Joe Biden for tea, suggesting that he rob assist the long-differ Military Tactical Missile System (Atacms) the US despatched to Ukraine.
The Russian president entreated Mr Biden to focus on about with Moscow “for blinis and tea” a day after Ukrainian forces inclined American-supplied ATACMS for the foremost time in one of the principal most most detrimental attacks to had been conducted on Russian air property for the explanation that beginning attach of the war.
His comments would be viewed as a veiled likelihood, given the Kremlin’s previous rating for allegedly poisoning the tea of its enemies.
Putin said: “They’ll rob the ATACMS assist and the opposite weapons. He will focus on about with us within the capital for blinis and tea.
“If we are losing the war, like you are pronouncing, why ATACAMS?”
Putin said he spent an hour and a half discussing “confidential problems” with Chinese language president Xi Jinping over a cup of tea in Beijing where he is attending China’s Belt and Toll road Forum.
3:01PM
Putin: Ukraine’s long-differ missiles will most productive prolong its ‘agony’
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday it used to be a “mistake” for Washington to present Ukraine long-differ ATACMS missiles, warning they’d now not beget an impact on the frontline and would prolong Ukraine’s “agony”.
Ukraine asked its Western allies for longer-differ weapons to strike deep inside Russian-held territory, as its counteroffensive to recapture occupied land improved slower than expected.
“War is war, and, with out a doubt … they pose a likelihood, that goes without pronouncing,” said Putin, when asked in regards to the weapons at a Beijing news convention.
“Nonetheless most seriously, this could occasionally maybe well presumably furthermore now not trade the discipline on the road of contact dramatically the least bit,” he added.
The resolution to rating the missiles had been “one more mistake on the fragment of the United States,” he said. “It appropriate prolongs the agony.”
1:29PM
Pictured: An Orthodox priest collects religous objects as others positive up glass and debris inside a Cathedral
An Orthodox priest collects religous objects as others positive up glass and debris in some unspecified time in the future of the Holy Intercession Cathedral damaged after missile strikes, in Zaporizhzhia
Credit rating: ANDRIY ANDRIYENKO/AFP
12:37PM
Putin and Xi hail ‘mutual belief’ at Beijing assembly
Chinese language President Xi Jinping hailed “mutual belief” between Russia and China as he met with Vladimir Putin for talks in Beijing.
Putin met his “faded buddy” Mr Xi at Beijing’s Ample Hall of the Of us on the sidelines of a foremost discussion board.
“The political mutual belief between the two countries is continually deepening,” Mr Xi said, in step with Xinhua news company, hailing their “conclude and efficient strategic coordination”.
The Chinese language leader nicely-known that he had met with Putin “42 times within the past 10 years and (had) developed a unbiased working relationship and a deep friendship”.
It’s miles Putin’s first time out to a foremost global vitality since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
12:31PM
Putin: World conflicts ‘enhance’ ties with China
Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that world conflicts “enhance” his nation’s family with China, after talks with Xi Jinping that illustrious their countries’ deepening political and economic ties.
Putin, on his first time out to a foremost global vitality since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, met his “faded buddy” Xi in Beijing on the sidelines of a foremost discussion board in an tournament overshadowed by warfare within the Middle East.
At a press convention following the talks, Putin said that global turmoil served to notify China and Russia even closer collectively.
“All these open air components are total threats and they enhance Russian-Chinese language cooperation,” he said.
The Russian leader furthermore said he had “optimism” for the vogue forward for the connection.
12:20PM
Stare: 2nd Putin is viewed in China accompanied by officers with Russian nuclear briefcase
Uncommon photos used to be confirmed on Wednesday of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing accompanied by officers carrying the so-known as nuclear briefcase which will be inclined to issue a nuclear strike.
Putin, after a assembly with Chinese language President Xi Jinping in Beijing, used to be filmed strolling to one more assembly surrounded by security and adopted by two Russian naval officers in uniform each carrying a briefcase.
11:43AM
5 killed in Zaporizhzhia strike
Russian attacks overnight and on Wednesday killed as a minimum five civilians in Ukraine and damaged the vitality grid within the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officers said.
Of us trim the debris from the Cathedral of the Veil of the Holy Virgin conclude to the residential building hit by a missile strike in Zaporizhia
Credit rating: Kateryna Klochko/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock/Shutterstock
Of us trim the debris from the Cathedral of the Veil of the Holy Virgin conclude to the residential building hit by a missile strike in Zaporizhia
Credit rating: Kateryna Klochko/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock/Shutterstock
Two civilians had been killed in a morning missile strike on a residential building within the southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, and a 31-year-faded woman used to be killed in an attack on the village of Obukhivka within the central attach of Dnipropetrovsk, they said.
A man and a girl had been furthermore killed in an overnight attack on the southern attach of Kherson, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on the Telegram messaging app.
11:36AM
Ukrainian marines reportedly ugly Dnipro river conclude to Kherson
Ukrainian marines beget crossed the Dnipro river conclude to Kherson and established a beachhead on the Russian-controlled bank, Russian war bloggers beget reported, Roland Oliphant reports.
The Ukrainian armed forces did now not valid now enlighten on the reports.
Ingredients of the thirty fifth and Thirty sixth marine brigades crossed the river conclude to the ruined Kherson rail bridge and seized administration of the village of Poima, Rybar, a Telegram channel linked to the Russian security companies, reported.
Ukrainian particular forces beget beforehand crossed the Dnipro conclude to Kherson and are known to beget established a presence within the attach of the Anonovksy bridge.
The Russian reports suggested this landing will be in higher forces and beget achieved a deeper beachhead.
11:17AM
ATACMS offers to Ukraine a ‘mistake’, says Putin
US deliveries of long-differ ATACMS missiles to Ukraine had been a “mistake,” Vladimir Putin has said.
The Russian president said the offers would rating extra threats to Russian forces, but that they’d now not very much trade the discipline on the front.
Talking at a televised news convention in Beijing, Putin said he welcomed what he saw as a less hawkish Western plan on Ukraine and agreed with statements in regards to the beget to resolve the warfare by capacity of talks.
11:05AM
Lavrov arrives in North Korea
Sergei Lavrov has arrived in Pyongyang for conferences viewed as atmosphere the stage for a focus on about with by President Vladimir Putin, who has stepped up cooperation with politically remoted North Korea.
The Russian foreign minister’s two-day focus on about with comes a month after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made a rare time out to Russia, in some unspecified time in the future of which he invited Putin to Pyongyang and talked about armed forces cooperation, including over North Korea’s satellite tv for computer program and the war in Ukraine.
Putin’s foreign minister, who closing visited North Korea in 2018, will preserve talks with his North Korean counterpart, in step with the Interfax news company.
Russia’s TASS news company reported that Mr Lavrov could well furthermore quick the North Koreans on the implications of Putin’s focus on about with to China, to boot to discussing Putin’s doable focus on about with.
10:46AM
Russian Duma passes law to scrap ratification of nuclear take a look at ban treaty
A law to revoke Russia’s ratification of the worldwide nuclear take a look at ban treaty performed its passage by the lower residence of parliament on Wednesday.
Deputies handed the second and third readings of the bill with unanimous votes in quick succession. The votes had been 415 in favour, with out a abstentions or votes against.
President Vladimir Putin entreated parliament on Oct. 5 to rating the trade in focus on in self belief to “think” the plan of the United States, which has signed but below no circumstances ratified the 1996 Total Test Ban Treaty.
The treaty, which prohibits assessments intelligent nuclear explosions, has made such assessments taboo. Absolute best North Korea has conducted a take a look at this century.
Russia says this could occasionally maybe well presumably furthermore now not resume attempting out unless Washington does, but palms administration consultants are enthusiastic it’ll be inching towards a take a look at that the West would gape as a Russian nuclear escalation amid the Ukraine war.
9:48AM
Pictured: World leaders on the third Belt and Toll road Forum for Global Cooperation
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese language President Xi Jinping shake palms before their assembly as fragment of the third Belt and Toll road Forum for Global Cooperation
Credit rating: SERGEY GUNEEV/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock/Shutterstock
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, China’s President Xi Jinping, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev with other leaders wave in some unspecified time in the future of a community photo on the third Belt and Toll road Forum for Global Cooperation on the Ample Hall of the Of us in Beijing
Credit rating: SUO TAKEKUMA/AFP
9:30AM
Putin accepts invitation to rapidly focus on about with Hanoi
Russian President Vladimir Putin authorised an invite from his Vietnamese counterpart to rapidly focus on about with Vietnam because the two met on the sidelines of China’s Belt and Toll road Forum in Beijing, Vietnamese whisper media reported.
Vietnam stays certainly one of Russia’s closest companions in Asia, ties that had been developed in some unspecified time in the future of the Soviet generation, and Hanoi is a foremost buyer of Russian weapons.
Vietnam’s President Vo Van Thuong invited Putin to “rapidly” focus on about with the nation and “Putin happily authorised the invitation,” Vietnam Recordsdata Agency, the whisper’s reliable newswire, reported slow on Tuesday.
No excellent preparation used to be below arrangement “but” as there used to be no date attach for the imaginable focus on about with, one Russian diplomat said, adding that Putin furthermore invited Thuong to Moscow.
9:02AM
‘Fundamental lengthen’ in Russian offensive project, says MoD
8:34AM
Ukrainian farm employee killed after his tractor hit mine
A farm employee has died in Ukraine’s jap Kharkiv attach after his tractor hit a mine while ploughing a discipline, the Ukrainian emergency carrier said.
Liberated after the Russian occupation, the attach is intently mined and farmers likelihood their lives looking for to work in fields which beget now not but been cleared of the explosive gadgets.
“We place a query to all and sundry to be as careful as imaginable and continually be aware the high mine likelihood within the de-occupied territories,” the emergency carrier said on the Telegram messaging app.
It printed a photo of a burnt tractor with a torn-off wheel and damaged plough standing in a discipline conclude to the explosion attach of living.
8:25AM
Pictured: Military medical doctors treat injured men at a stabilisation point conclude to the frontline in Donetsk attach, jap Ukraine
Military medical doctors treat injured men at a stabilisation point conclude to the frontline in Donetsk attach
Credit rating: YAKIV LIASHENKO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock/Shutterstock
8:18AM
All 31 US Abrams tanks beget arrived in Ukraine, says US
All 31 US Abrams tanks beget now arrived in Ukraine, the US has confirmed.
US armed forces officers nicely-known that this could occasionally maybe well presumably furthermore doubtless rob some time for Ukraine to deploy the Abrams to the frontline.
US Military Europe and Africa Spokesperson Colonel Martin O’Donnell reported that all of the Ukrainian servicemembers who professional on the tanks alongside US forces in Germany beget furthermore returned to Ukraine.
In January, the US pledged to rating Ukraine with 31 improved M1A2 Abrams tanks after months of shunning the muse of deploying the advanced-to-preserve tanks to Ukraine.
7:49AM
Two killed in Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia
Russian missile strikes on the metropolis of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine killed two folk within the early hours of Wednesday, local authorities said.
“Two folk had been killed and three had been injured on account of the impact,” police said, adding that certainly one of many missiles had hit a building.
In a single day, Russian terrorists attacked Zaporizhzhia with missiles, placing a same old five-legend residential building.
Eight residences had been destroyed. There are wounded and ineffective. There’ll be folk below the rubble. Emergency rescue efforts are ongoing. My condolences scoot… pic.twitter.com/1O04A8Gt1Q
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 18, 2023
In step with emergency companies, it used to be a residential building, and the attack destroyed storeys three to 5.
7:47AM
US long-differ ATACMS missiles ‘fired for first time’ at Russian helicopters
Ukrainian forces inclined American-supplied ATACMS missiles for the foremost time on Tuesday in attacks against two air bases in Russian-occupied territory.
The strikes on targets in Berdyansk, within the south, and Luhansk, within the east, had been one of the principal most most detrimental to had been conducted on Russian air property for the explanation that beginning attach of the war.
Nine helicopters, ammunition depots, a surface-to-air missile launcher and runways had been destroyed or damaged, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said.
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7:47AM
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