In Ukraine, thethe power has been cut “to stabilize” the situation, weakened by the cascading Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday, October 28 during his daily speech. The city of “kyiv and its region” as well as the provinces of Zhitomyr (center-west), Poltava, Cherkassy and Kirovograd in the center, Rivne (west), Kharkiv (east), Cherniguiv and Sumy in the north, specified the Ukrainian president. Franceinfo takes stock of the day’s news on the war front in Ukraine.
Russia has completed the partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists
This was confirmed by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a meeting with Vladimir Putin. In total, 218,000 mobilized people are in training or in combat zones, 82,000 have already been sent to the “special operation” zone, and 41,000 operate in combat units. The average age of those called up as part of the partial mobilization was 35, the minister said. The Russian President thanked the reservists mobilized for their “patriotism”.
kyiv asks Tehran to stop supplying arms to Russia
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kouleba, asked his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian to stop “immediately” to supply weapons to Moscow, during a telephone call. It was the first since kyiv accused Russia of hitting Ukrainian cities using Iranian drones. Ukraine claimed on October 19 to have destroyed 223 since mid-September, while Tehran has repeatedly denied supply weapons and drones to Russia for his invasion.
Moscow has finished evacuating civilians from the Kherson region
“The work organizing the departure of the inhabitants of the right bank of the (river) Dnipro to safe regions in Russia has been completed”said Sergei Aksionov, the leader of Crimea, on Thursday. This evacuation had begun on October 19. Ukraine, which is leading an offensive in the region after having inflicted serious setbacks on Russian forces on other fronts, describes these population transfers as “deportations”.
On the “dirty bomb”, the United States denounces to the UN a “pure invention” of Russia
Russia’s accusations of Washington’s involvement in the alleged development of biological weapons in Ukraine are false, the US ambassador to the UN told the Security Council. “We all know that these claims are pure invention, put forward without a shadow of proof”, said Linda Thomas-Greenfield. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will conduct “an independent verification” on the charges of “dirty bomb”.
Washington warns Russia against withdrawing from Ukrainian grain deal
Russia faces “great anger” from many countries if it withdraws from the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports which expires in mid-November, warned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The so-called Black Sea agreement, signed on July 22 under the aegis of the UN, set up procedures for 120 days to allow the export of Ukrainian cereals blocked by the war.