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Monday, 16 October 2023 04:44
What to know after Day 599 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine’s offensive failed, even as it prepares to attack in some areas – Putin The Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed, although Kiev is preparing new attacks in certain areas, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview to the television program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin." "As for the counteroffensive, which has allegedly been stalled, it has failed completely. We know that in certain areas of combat operations the opposing side is nevertheless preparing new active offensive operations. We see this, and we know about it. And we are also reacting accordingly," he said in the interview, according to a fragment…
Sunday, 15 October 2023 04:52
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 9
Gaza's desperate civilians flee or huddle in hopes of safety, as warnings of Israeli offensive mount Desperate Palestinians scrambled for escape from northern Gaza on Saturday or huddled by the thousands at a hospital in the target zone in hopes it would be spared, as Israel intensified warnings of an imminent offensive by air, ground and sea following Hamas militants’ deadly rampage in Israel a week ago. While workers at an Israeli military base continued efforts through the Jewish Sabbath to identify the more than 1,300 people killed in the Oct. 7 assault, Israel dropped leaflets from the air and…
Sunday, 15 October 2023 04:51
What to know after Day 598 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE No letup in Russian strikes on Ukrainian town of Avdiivka Russia's military pressed on with fierce assaults on the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka on Saturday, with shelling so fierce that emergency crews were unable to recover the dead from wrecked buildings, the town's top administrative official said. It was the fifth straight day of assaults on the town in Ukraine's industrial heartland of Donbas, focal point of Moscow's 19-month-old invasion of its neighbour. Both Russia and the United States have described the upsurge in violence around Avdiivka as a new Russian offensive. Fighting intensified in other sectors…
Saturday, 14 October 2023 04:50
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 8
Palestinians scrambled to flee northern Gaza after Israel’s military urged about 1 million people to leave for the territory’s south ahead of an expected ground invasion following the surprise attack a week ago by the ruling Hamas militant group — despite warnings from the U.N. that evacuating nearly half of Gaza’s population would be calamitous. Families in cars, trucks and donkey carts packed with their possessions crowded a main road southward from Gaza City as Israeli airstrikes hammered the territory Friday. Hamas’ media office said warplanes struck cars fleeing south, killing more than 70 people. The Israeli military said its…
Saturday, 14 October 2023 04:50
What to know after Day 597 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian forces pound Avdiivka for fourth straight day Russian forces pounded the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka for the fourth day in a row on Friday, with both Moscow and Washington deeming the intensified fighting a new offensive in Russia's 19-month-old invasion of its neighbour. In attacks elsewhere in Ukraine, a Russian missile strike killed one person in the city of Pokrovsk, also in the east, while a drone attack in the south killed a women and seriously injured her husband. In Avdiivka, known for its large coking plant in Ukraine's Donbas industrial heartland, officials said the Russian…
Friday, 13 October 2023 04:43
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 7
Israel’s military directed the evacuation of northern Gaza, a region that is home to 1.1 million people, within 24 hours Friday, a U.N. spokesman said, as Israel presses its war to eradicate the Hamas militant group after its deadly attack. The order could signal an impending ground offensive, though the Israeli military has not yet confirmed such an appeal. On Thursday it said that while it was preparing, no decision has been made. The order, delivered to the U.N., comes as Israel presses an offensive against Hamas militants. U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric called the order “impossible” without “devastating humanitarian consequences.”…
Friday, 13 October 2023 04:41
What to know after Day 596 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Fierce fighting rages around Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine Russian and Ukrainian forces fought fierce battles around the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka on Thursday after Moscow launched one of its biggest military offensives in months. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces were holding their ground on the third day of battle, but municipal officials said the Russian attacks were relentless. Kyiv says Moscow has redirected many soldiers and large amounts of equipment to the Avdiivka area, showing it can hit back over four months into a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the east and south that has encountered stiff Russian…
Thursday, 12 October 2023 04:44
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 6
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined with a top political rival Wednesday to create a wartime Cabinet to oversee the fight to avenge the gruesome weekend attack by Hamas militants. In the sealed-off Gaza Strip, Palestinian suffering mounted as Israeli bombardment demolished neighborhoods and the only power plant ran out of fuel. Netanyahu vowed to “crush and destroy” Hamas. “Every Hamas member is a dead man,” he said in a televised address. The new Cabinet establishes a degree of unity after years of bitterly divisive politics and at a time when the Israeli military appears increasingly likely to launch a…
Thursday, 12 October 2023 04:43
What to know after Day 595 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian forces launch big push on key eastern Ukraine city Russian forces were pressing on with a major push on the key eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka on Wednesday after many months of besieging it, Ukrainian military officials said. The Ukrainian officials said Russian forces had redirected large numbers of troops and equipment to Avdiivka in their largest attack on the town since launching the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Major assaults have been under way since Tuesday. Russian accounts also indicated the fighting had intensified, saying Moscow's forces had "improved their position in the immediate outskirts…
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 04:50
Israel-Gaza war: Which international actors can play peacemaker?
With the outbreak of an intensified war between Israel and Palestine, can mediation efforts help? The United Nations secretary-general says he is “deeply distressed” by Israel’s complete siege of the Gaza Strip on day four of the deadly assault. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said bombardment has “just started” after at least 900 Israelis were killed in the unprecedented Hamas attack on Saturday. Most Western nations have shied away from calling on Israel to slow its brutal military response. More than 700 Palestinians have been killed in three days of intense bombing, with 2.4 million Palestinians living there…
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Wednesday, 11 October 2023 04:49
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 5
Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants. Humanitarian groups pleaded for the creation of corridors to get aid into Gaza and warned that hospitals overwhelmed with wounded people were running out of supplies. Israel has stopped entry of food, fuel and medicines into Gaza, and the sole remaining access from Egypt shut down Tuesday after airstrikes hit near the border crossing. The war, which has claimed at least 1,900…
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 04:48
What to know after Day 594 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Will US military aid to Israel jeopardize Biden's help to Ukraine? U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to bolster military support for Israel following an unprecedented attack by Hamas militants that has killed more than 1,000 Israelis and prompted an intense retaliation against the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip. His promise raised questions about whether Washington can ramp up defense aid to Israel without jeopardizing aid for Ukraine, especially given Republican lawmakers' ouster of House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy and failure so far to name a replacement. Biden administration officials insist Washington can absolutely do both, but acknowledge there will…
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 04:41
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 4
Gazans say nowhere to go as they prepare for Israeli assault after Hamas raid Palestinians in Gaza are preparing for an Israeli offensive of unprecedented scale after Saturday's deadly Hamas raid, with more than 130,000 fleeing their homes and stockpiling supplies as air strikes pound the crowded enclave with 560 already dead. Amid an intensified Israeli siege cutting off water, food and power, and a sudden new assault, conditions look worse than at any point since Palestinian refugees flocked there during the 1948 fighting when Israel was founded. Israeli military phone messages have warned people to leave some areas, indicating…
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 04:36
What to know after Day 593 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukrainian forces make headway in east, south -officials Ukrainian forces are making some headway in both the eastern and southern theatres of their four-month-old counteroffensive, military officials said on Monday. Russian accounts of the fighting said Moscow's forces had repelled Ukrainian attacks near the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut and inflicted heavy casualties in strikes on Ukrainian positions outside the city. Ukraine's counteroffensive aims to secure control of areas around Bakhmut in order to recapture the town, which was seized by Russian forces in May after months of heavy battles. In the south, Kyiv wants to advance to…