As Moscow toughened penalties for deserters and arrested hundreds of protesters on Saturday, thehe Russian authorities have promised to repair the “errors” committed as part of the mobilization decreed by President Vladimir Putin, after the summons of people supposed to be exempted. On the war front in Ukraine, the fighting continues. Here’s what to remember from Sunday, September 25.
Russia admits ‘mistakes’ during mobilization
Announcing on Wednesday a “partial” mobilization of reservists to go to Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that only people with military experience or skills “relevant” would be called. But several cases of people over combat age, ill or otherwise exempt, have sparked outrage on social media, sparking embarrassment and concern from authorities. The Russian authorities promised on Sunday to repair these “errors”.
Pro-Russian authorities accuse Ukraine of hitting a hotel in the south
Pro-Russian authorities have accused kyiv forces of firing a missile on Sunday at a hotel in Kherson, a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine, killing two people, including a former MP, Oleksiy Jouravko. These claims could not immediately be independently verified.
According to pro-Russian authorities, this hotel also housed journalists from Russian media at the time of the strike. The Russian state channel RT published images showing, according to it, one of its cameramen being extricated from a pile of rubble.
Ukraine denounces new attack with Iranian drones on Odessa
The port city of Odessa (southern Ukraine) was again attacked with Iranian-made drones used by Russian forces, Ukrainian military authorities said on Sunday, without reporting casualties.
This is the second Russian attack using Iranian drones in two days against this strategic city on the Black Sea, after the one which killed two civilians on Friday, according to Ukraine, and caused tensions between kyiv and Tehran.
A Briton captured in Ukraine recounts his ordeal
One of five Britons captured in Ukraine and returned to the UK after a prisoner swap between Moscow and Kyiv recounts in an interview with the British tabloid The Sun (in English) being beaten and forced to sing the Russian anthem in detention. Aged 28, Aiden Aslin was taken prisoner in Ukraine, where he was fighting for kyiv, and was sentenced to death for mercenary.
He tells the newspaper that he spent five months in a cell 1.20m by 1.80m infested with cockroaches and lice, deprived of daylight except when he was taken out to shoot propaganda videos or able to communicate with the UK Foreign Office. Aiden Aslin thanks “from the bottom of the heart” Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich – under UK and EU sanctions – for his role in freeing the British Five.
Israel to receive and treat wounded Ukrainian soldiers
The Israeli ambassador to kyiv announced on Sunday that the Jewish state would take in 20 Ukrainian soldiers injured during the seven-month conflict with Russian forces in order to treat them. “The first two will arrive in Israel today and will be taken care of at Tel Hashomer Hospital” near Tel Aviv, said Michael Brodsky, who has been in post in kyiv since July 2021, on Twitter. “Treatment includes prostheses and rehabilitation”he adds.
After the invasion in Ukraine, Israel, which took a cautious position, asserting privileged ties with the two countries, refrained from supplying arms to Ukraine but sent defensive equipment, including helmets and vests. bulletproof.