It’s a first. One person was injured in attacks by Iranian suicide bombers against the town of Bila Tserkva, about 100 kilometers south of kyiv, the regional governor announced on Wednesday (October 5th), a first of its kind in this area. “During the night, the enemy carried out strikes with kamikaze drones of the Shahed-136 type against Bila Tserkva”, he explained. One person was injured and infrastructure was damaged. Follow our live.
The Ukrainian counter-offensive continues. kyiv continues its counter-offensive in the east and south ofUkraine. According to a military map released Tuesday, October 4 by the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian forces had retreated about 30 kilometers in the region of Kherson, in the south of the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about advances “powerful” of his army in southern Ukraine, where “tens” localities were taken over.
The United States will send $625 million in additional military aid. This shipment to the Ukrainian army includes in particular four new Himars, rocket launcher systems, but also 32 Howitzer guns, tens of thousands of light ammunition and artillery ammunition, mine systems as well as 200 armored vehicles . Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Joe Biden on Tuesday for the “continued military and financial support” of the United States against the Russian invasion.
200,000 people mobilized in the Russian army, according to the Kremlin. two weeks later the announcement of a partial mobilizationon September 21, by Russian leader Vladimir Putin, 200,000 people were mobilized into the army, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Tuesday.
The Director General of the IAEA in Ukraine and Russia. Rafael Grossi “will travel to Kyiv and then Moscow this week” to discuss setting up a protection zone around Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency has announced.