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‘Time For Decisive Action’: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Calls On UK To Help Stop Russian ‘Terror’

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Volodymr Zelenskyy has made a fresh plea for help from western nations – including the UK – after a wave of Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine.

The Ukrainian president said “the time for decisive action is now” as he urged his country’s allies to “help us stop this terror”.

Moscow launched around 200 missile and drone attacks on targets across Ukraine, including a reservoir, amid warnings that “millions” could die as a result.

In a video posted on X, Zelenskyy said: “Like most Russian strikes before, this one was equally insidious, targeting critical civilian infrastructure.”

Keir Starmer has insisted that the UK will continue to provide weapons to Ukraine, and British tanks were used earlier this month during Kyiv’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.

However, the government has so far rebuffed Ukrainian pleas to use British-made Storm Shadow missiles to launch attacks against Russian targets.

But Zelenskyy said it was now time to allow Ukraine to use western arms in any way they see fit to defeat Russian president Vladimir Putin.

He said: “Putin can only act within the limits the world sets for him. Weakness and inadequate responses fuel terror.

“Every leader, every one of our partners, knows the decisive actions required to end this war justly. Ukraine cannot be constrained in its long-range capabilities when the terrorists face no such limitations.

“Our defenders cannot be restricted in their weapons when Russia deploys its entire arsenal, including “Shaheds” and ballistic missiles from North Korea.

“America, Britain, France, and our other partners have the power to help us stop this terror. The time for decisive action is now.”

Among the Ukrainian infrastructure targeted by Russia was a dam north of Kyiv.

Yaroslav Trofimov of the Wall Street Journal said: “If the dam breaks, millions of people downstream can die.”

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North Korea Is Blaming 1 Country For The ‘Nuclear Threat’ – And It’s Not Russia

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North Korea has claimed the US is to blame for the concept of the “nuclear threat” in a bizarre statement.

It comes after reports US president Joe Biden approved a classified strategic plan back in March, calling for a focus on China instead of Russia, as a strong nuclear opponent.

Supposedly US forces were urged to prepare for a possible coordinated attack between Russia, China and North Korea.

In a statement reported by the Russian state news agency TASS, North Korea’s foreign ministry appeared to respond by saying it “keeps a close eye on the behaviour” of the US.

It claimed Washington DC “continues to fabricate someone else’s ‘nuclear threat’” while being “obsessed with ensuring unilateral nuclear superiority”.

The ministry said: “We express concern about it as we strongly oppose and reject it.

“The move to update the nuclear policy of the US – a country that has the largest nuclear weapon arsenal in the world – will have a significant negative impact on the security situation and the nuclear disarmament system.”

According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Russia actually has the most confirmed nuclear weapons with over 5,889 nuclear war heads.

The US comes in second, with 5,224 nuclear weapons.

All other countries known to have nuclear weapons – including the UK and North Korea – have under 500 in comparison.

China comes in third place, with 410 nuclear warheads.

Still, the North Korean foreign ministry claimed: “The US likes to speak about ‘nuclear threats’ from others without any context, while it is the US that is the most irresponsible player and the rogue state provoking a nuclear arms race and increasing the likelihood of a global nuclear conflict.

“Had the US refrained from creating and using nuclear weapons, the concept of nuclear threat would never have emerged.”

Moscow has repeatedly threatened to deploy nuclear weapons against the West ever since invading Ukraine in 2022 – the US and Europe have offered financial and military backing to Kyiv over the last two years.

At the end of July, Vladimir Putin said it would take just 10 minutes for Russian missiles to hit their intended target.

As Reuters reported, the president claimed: “We will take mirror measures to deploy, taking into account the actions of the United States, its satellites in Europe and in other regions of the world.”

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Putin Ally Claims Any Truce With Ukraine ‘Is Certain Death For Our Children’

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One of Vladimir Putin’s top allies has claimed agreeing to any kind of truce with Ukraine “is certain death for our children”.

According to the UK’s ministry of defence, Dmitry Rogozhin – Russia’s installed “senator” in the occupied Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia – warned against any kind of settlement to end the Russia-Ukraine war in a social media post.

He also “boasted of having burnt Ukrainian books and called for all Ukrainianess’ to be ‘burnt out at the root’,” according to the MoD.

The British intelligence added: “These comments are the latest in a long line of Ukrainophobic sentiments by senior Russian officials that undermine and threaten Ukrainian identity and culture.

“There are likely many individuals within the Russian state who retain maximalist objectives for the war, including the destruction of Ukrainian culture, identity and statehood.”

The MoD noted that such a sentiment is at odds with the “alleged Russian willingness to negotiate” expressed by presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov only last month.

However, since Peskov’s remarks, Ukraine launched its surprise incursion into southern Russia, breaching the country’s borders for the first time since World War 2.

It now occupies 1,000 sq km of Russian land – that’s just a fraction of the Ukrainian territory Russia currently holds, around 109,000 sq km.

Still, Kyiv’s bold move has enraged the Kremlin and so far does not appear to have pushed it towards negotiating an end to the war.

According to the state news agency TASS, Russia’s ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov released a threatening statement on Thursday.

He said: “I tell you sincerely that the president has made a decision.

“I am firmly convinced that everyone will be severely punished for what has happened in the Kursk region.”

And, as the MoD noted, the Kremlin has been questioning Ukraine’s sovereignty for years.

The UK intelligence also noted that in 2017 Putins said Russia is committed to the “extirpation” of Ukraine’s sovereignty.

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Putin Accuses Ukraine Of Using The Same Worrying Tactic Russia Deployed Against Kyiv

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Russian president Vladimir Putin has accused Ukrainian troops of launching the same kind of attack Moscow initiated years ago.

On Thursday, he claimed Ukraine was trying to target Russia’s nuclear power station in Kursk as part of its ongoing incursion in the region.

In a statement shared with the Russian state news agency TASS, Putin said: “Tonight, the enemy attempted to carry out strikes at the nuclear power plant.

“The International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] has been notified, they promise to come over themselves and send specialists to assess the situation.

“I hope that they will follow through eventually.”

He offered no clear evidence to back up the allegation and there was no immediate comment from Ukraine, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/” target=”_blank” class=” js-entry-link cet-internal-link” data-vars-item-name=”Reuters” data-vars-item-type=”text” data-vars-unit-name=”66c73b42e4b0b9c7b3608d11″ data-vars-unit-type=”buzz_body” data-vars-target-content-id=”/%3Casset-code%20id=%2266c74acf24000032008101ee%22%20type=%22image%22%3E%3C/asset-code%3E” data-vars-target-content-type=”feed” data-vars-type=”web_internal_link” data-vars-subunit-name=”article_body” data-vars-subunit-type=”component” data-vars-position-in-subunit=”7″>Reuters reported.

Kursk contains one of the country’s top nuclear power stations.

And on August 6, Ukraine launched an incursion into the country, breaching Russia’s borders for the first time since World War 2.

It now occupies around 1,000 sq km of Russian land.

Russia has reacted furiously, despite occupying 18% of Ukrainian land (109,000 sq km) since invading the country in 2022.

While it’s not yet clear if Ukraine has been targeting the Russian nuclear plant, Moscow actually seized Ukraine’s own nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia more than two years ago.

It has since been caught in the crossfire on multiple occasions throughout the war, sparking international concern of a nuclear disaster.

The IAEA chief, Rafael Grossi, is set to visit Kursk soon amid concerns the same fate could hit the Russian nuclear plant, too.

He has acknowledged that the power station is “technically” in the artillery range of Ukraine’s current positions, and said he is taking the possible threat “very seriously”.

He told the Financial Times: “Since there is combat, I’m very concerned.”

The Russian Foreign Ministry warned last week that they believed an attack on Kursk’s nuclear power plant was coming.

According to TASS, spokesperson Maria Zakharova said: “We call on the international organisations – in particular, the United Nations and the IAEA – to immediately state their condemnation of the provocative actions begin prepared by the Kyiv.

“The entire international community must realise the danger, posed by the neo-Nazi Kiev regime for the entire European continent, regime, and to prevent a violation of nuclear and physical security of the Kursk NPP, which may result in a large-scale man-made disaster in Europe.

“Attempts at intimidation and terror against entire regions and the international community in general must be decisively thwarted by joint efforts.”

Russia seized the Zaporizhzhia station despite agreeing to the UN principles that nuclear plants should not be attacked or occupied.

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Russia Facing ‘Costliest’ Period Of War Yet With More Than 1,000 Casualties Per Day, UK Says

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There have been more than 1,000 Russian casualties per day among the troops fighting against Ukraine over the last three months, according to UK intelligence.

The ministry of defence reported over the weekend that “poorly trained Russian soldiers are being used as cannon fodder in an attempt to overwhelm strong Ukrainian forces”.

More than 1,000 soldiers have been killed or wounded soldiers each day on average throughout the summer, the British department claimed, meaning the last three months has become “the costliest” period for Russian forces since the war began.

The MoD tracked the losses going back to March 2022, shortly after Russia first invaded Ukraine in a land grab.

Throughout the first year of war, Russian losses averaged at under 550 per day.

In 2023, the average increased to just under 800 per day.

The MoD speculated that more than 56,250 Russian personnel are likely to have been wounded or killed over the past three months.

Moscow rarely reveals how many casualties have been caused by the war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in June that the ratio of “irretrievable losses” between the warring countries was one to five in favour of Moscow, but did not offer exact figures.

In April, the BBC reported 50,000 Russian soldiers have died since the invasion in 2022.

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For the past three months Russian military casualties have been averaging more than 1,000 killed or wounded soldiers a day.

Poorly trained Russian soldiers are being used as cannon fodder in an attempt to overwhelm strong Ukrainian defences.#StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini pic.twitter.com/mxH36XNQgd

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) August 16, 2024

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For the past three months Russian military casualties have been averaging more than 1,000 killed or wounded soldiers a day.

Poorly trained Russian soldiers are being used as cannon fodder in an attempt to overwhelm strong Ukrainian defences.#StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini pic.twitter.com/mxH36XNQgd

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) August 16, 2024

The MoD update comes shortly after Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia earlier this month, which has infuriated the Kremlin.

Kyiv has now taken 445 square miles (1,150 sq kilometres) of Russian land – a fraction of the whopping 42,000 sq miles (109,000 sq kilometres) of Ukrainian land Moscow has illegally annexed.

According to the UK’s MoD though, Russia has been cracking down on access to information for its own population to limit criticism over its invasion.

Moscow has limited WhatsApp and YouTube use by “deliberately slowing traffic” and increasing state control of communications and media.

YouTube may be blocked completely by autumn, the MoD predicted.

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Russia is restricting access to information to limit criticism of its destructive invasion of Ukraine.

Communications channels are being pulled away as the Kremlin tightens its grip on free expression.
#StandWithUkraine🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/GvRZTasHpF

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) August 17, 2024

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Russia is restricting access to information to limit criticism of its destructive invasion of Ukraine.

Communications channels are being pulled away as the Kremlin tightens its grip on free expression.
#StandWithUkraine🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/GvRZTasHpF

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) August 17, 2024