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Ukrainian drones target Russian military airfield, oil refinery

Ukrainian drones targeted a military airfield, an oil refinery and substation in southern Russia, a defence source in Kyiv said yesterday, after Moscow reported an overnight aerial barrage.

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Ukrainian drones target Russian military airfield, oil refinery

Rescuers carry the body of a person found under debris at the site where an apartment building was hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine yesterday. Targeting hospitals in Ukraine is a "war crime," a senior UN official told an emergency meeting of the Security Council yesterday, called in the wake of deadly strikes that Kyiv blamed on Russia. Photo: REUTERS

Ukrainian drones targeted a military airfield, an oil refinery and substation in southern Russia, a defence source in Kyiv said yesterday, after Moscow reported an overnight aerial barrage.

Kyiv has stepped up cross border aerial attacks on Russia in recent months, attempting to damage energy infrastructure and the Kremlin's war chest by hurting oil revenues.

Russia has launched drone and missiles attacks that have crippled Ukrainian power plants and halved the country's generation capacity.

In an operation coordinated by Security Services of Ukraine and the country's military intelligence, drone spurred explosions at the Akhtyubinsk military airfield in Russia's Astrakhan region.

It also said there had been blasts at an electrical substation in the Rostov region and an oil depot in the southern Volgograd region.

The source added that Ukrainian forces would pursue more strikes on "Russian military facilities working for the war against Ukraine."

There was no response in Moscow to the specific claims.

The Russian defence ministry however had earlier said that its air defence systems had destroyed 38 Ukrainian drones in regions near the border between the two countries, including Rostov and Astrakhan.

Rostov's governor Vasily Golubev in comments to state-run agency TASS acknowledged an electric substation had been damaged in a drone attack, saying repairs would take three days.

And Astrakhan's governor Igor Babushkin said Ukraine had launched a "massive attempt to attack targets with drones" in the north of the region, adding that the attack had been "successfully repelled".

Both sides have used drones, including larger self-detonating craft with ranges stretching hundreds of kilometres extensively throughout the conflict, which began in February 2022.​

 

[Saif]

Russia under fire at UN over Ukraine strikes

Russia came under fire at the UN Security Council on Tuesday for conducting ‘systemic attacks’ on Ukraine’s medical facilities after a wave of deadly strikes across the country...

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Russia under fire at UN over Ukraine strikes
Agence France-Presse . United Nations 09 July, 2024, 23:36

Russia came under fire at the UN Security Council on Tuesday for conducting 'systemic attacks' on Ukraine's medical facilities after a wave of deadly strikes across the country.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said 38 people across Ukraine were killed—including four children—and 190 wounded in the wave of nearly 40 missiles that targeted several towns and cities on Monday, damaging medical facilities.

'Intentionally directing attacks against a protected hospital is a war crime and perpetrators must be held to account,' Joyce Msuya, acting under-secretary for humanitarian affairs, told the emergency meeting.

'These incidents are part of a deeply concerning pattern of systemic attacks harming healthcare and other civilian infrastructure across Ukraine,' Msuya added.

Kyiv said a children's hospital was struck by a Russian cruise missile with components produced in NATO member countries, and announced a day of mourning in the capital.

'First Responders attending the scene immediately after the attack found children receiving treatment for cancer in hospital beds, set up in parks and on the street, where medical workers had quickly established triage areas,' Msuya said.

Ukrainian ally France's envoy Nicolas de Riviere said 'Russia has deliberately targeted residential neighborhoods and healthcare infrastructure.'

'France condemns these flagrant violations of international law, which are yet another entry and note list of war crimes for which Russia will be held accountable,' he said.

China, which has long called for a negotiated settlement between Russia and Ukraine, said that both sides should 'show political will, meet each other halfway and start peace talks at an early date.'

'China will continue to actively promote peace talks,' said Beijing's envoy Fu Cong.

Russia previously claimed the extensive missile damage in Kyiv was caused by Ukrainian air defense systems.

'We continue to insist that we do not strike civilian targets,' spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a daily briefing Tuesday.

However, the United Nations said there was a 'high likelihood' that the children's hospital in Kyiv suffered 'a direct hit' from a missile 'launched by the Russian Federation.'

Russia currently holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council and its envoy to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, indicated earlier this month he will take a firm line with Ukraine and its Western allies.

As a permanent member of the UN's top security body, Moscow wields a veto which it has used on several occasions to thwart efforts to censure its war in Ukraine.

It initially appeared that Russia would seek to block Ukraine from participating in Tuesday's meeting after Nebenzya said Kyiv had not correctly formatted its letter requesting to participate.

Ukraine could participate 'only on condition it was requested by the United States... we regret that Ukraine cannot act independently... (and) it has to be led by its sponsor,' said Nebenzya.

'Mr President, we are appalled by the strikes on Ukraine by the country that you are representing,' Slovenia's representative to the UN Samuel Zbogar said to Nebenzya, calling the strikes 'brutal' and 'another low.'

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the deadly Russian strikes in Ukraine as 'particularly shocking,' his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.

UN rights chief Volker Turk echoed Guterres, calling the attacks 'abominable,' and saying that 'the strikes severely damaged the intensive care, surgical and oncology wards of Okhmatdyt, which is Ukraine's largest children's referral hospital.'

Zelensky has been urging allies to bolster Ukrainian air defense systems and was expected to renew those calls as a NATO summit kicked off later Tuesday in Washington.​

 

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Personally I want Russia to win in Ukraine. Because there needs to be alternatives to USA.

 

[Saif]

Nato begins sending F-16 jets to Ukraine

Nato allies have begun the promised transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to bolster defenses against Russia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday.

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Nato begins sending F-16 jets to Ukraine
Says US top diplomat

Nato allies have begun the promised transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to bolster defenses against Russia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday.

"As we speak, the transfer of F-16 jets is underway, coming form Denmark, coming from the Netherlands," Blinken said at a Nato 75th anniversary summit in Washington.

Meanwhile, Nato allies have reached agreement on the summit declaration that includes a pledge by the alliance to continue to support Ukraine "on its irreversible path to full Euro-atlantic integration, including Nato membership", a source told Reuters yesterday.

The declaration goes on to reaffirm that Nato will "be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the alliance when allies agree and conditions are met", according to the source in the alliance.

On the eve of the summit, Russia fired a barrage of missiles on Ukraine, killing dozens.​

 

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Erdogan warns against NATO-Russia conflict

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that any possibility of a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO was ‘worrying’, the official Anadolu news agency...

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Erdogan warns against NATO-Russia conflict
Agence France-Presse . Istanbul 11 July, 2024, 22:28

Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that any possibility of a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO was 'worrying', the official Anadolu news agency reported.

Erdogan's comments came as NATO leaders huddled in Washington and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was planning 'response measures' to contain the 'very serious threat' from the alliance.

'The possibility of a direct conflict between NATO and Russia is undoubtedly worrying,' said Erdogan, who is in Washington for the NATO summit. 'Any steps that could lead to this outcome should be consciously avoided.'

Erdogan spoke a day after NATO allies announced they had started transferring F-16 jets to Ukraine and stepped up promises to Kyiv on eventual membership of the alliance.

Peskov, in comments published by Russian news agencies, said the Western military alliance was now 'fully involved in the conflict over Ukraine'.

NATO member Turkey has sought to balance ties between its two Black Sea neighbours Russia and Ukraine since Moscow's full-scale invasion in 2022.

Ankara has sent drones to Ukraine but shied away from Western-led sanctions on Moscow.

On Thursday, Erdogan also played down the influence of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional bloc that Moscow and Beijing have promoted as a counterweight to US domination.

'We do not think that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is an alternative to NATO,' Erdogan said.

Turkey has been an SCO dialogue partner since 2012 and Erdogan, who attended the July summit, has suggested in the past he wanted full membership.

Namik Tan, a lawmaker for the opposition CHP party who served as Turkey's ambassador to Washington, called out the government for its friendly relations with Russia.

'We were the only NATO country that attended the 24th SCO Summit last week,' he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

'Isn't it a contradiction?'

Before flying to Washington on Tuesday, Erdogan called for more NATO involvement in the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Erdogan has already voiced concerns over what he said were Israeli plans to attack Lebanon and on Thursday renewed his warnings about the war spreading.

'Israel's threats and attempts to spread the conflict must come to an end,' he said.

'Otherwise, our region will face the risk of deeper conflicts and even a war.'​