Russia-Ukraine War Live: Heavy Fighting As Russia Seeks To Establish New Front Line, Says UK; Kyiv Region Hit By Drone Strikes

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After retreating around 20 km in the north of the Kherson sector in early October, Russian forces are likely trying to consolidate a new frontal line west from the vill of Mylove, according to British intelligence.Heavy fighting continues along this line, especially at the western end where Ukrainian advances mean Russia’s hand is no longer defended by the Inhulets River, the rearmost UK Ministry of Defence report reads.

In recent days, the Russian occupation authorities have likely ordered medication for the evacuation of some civilians from Kherson, ” the report adds. “ It’s likely that they anticipate combat extending to the megacity of Kherson itself. ”

In the UK, the foreign clerk James Cleverly has been doing the morning media round. So far his interviews have entirely been dominated by domestic issues. still, on Sky News he did mention the vote in the UN, telling observers that domestic problems were being “ amplified by Putin’s brutal irruption of Ukraine. ”

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 13 October 2022

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The Russian state- possessed Tass news agency is reporting that officers at Russia’s nuclear power station driver Rosenergoatom have begun the process of transitioning the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power factory( ZNPP) to Russian processes, in particular “ the storehouse system for spent energy of the Russian Federation ”.It quotes Renat Karchaa, counsel to the general director of Rosenergoatom, saying “ The process of switching to the Russian system has formerly been launched. ”

He added “ This implies a number of points, starting with documents, regulations and so on. It’s clear that there will be a transitional period for each elementWhile we’re immersing ourselves in the process, we’re contemporaneously analysing all the processes and developing specific results, including those related to the storehouse of all nuclear accoutrements . ”

history, Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, described the situation at the ZNPP as “ deeply fussing ” after the factory again lost external power due to Russian military action cutting inventories. Energoatom, the Ukrainian driver of the factory, also indicted the Russian forces enwrapping it of blocking attempts to refuel the point’s diesel creators.

Where will it all end? The conflict in Ukraine appears further than ever from resolution. Nuclear pitfalls, mass graves, the sense that both sides are “ all in ”. With reporters on the ground on both sides of the Ukraine- Russia border, in Kyiv, Moscow, Brussels and other European centrals, the Guardian is well placed to give the honest,

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