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Czech Republic supports creation of special tribunal over top leadership of Russian Federation for war crimes in Ukraine, - head of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Lipavsky

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavsky, spoke in favor of the creation of a special tribunal against the top leadership of Russia for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

"The Czech Republic is among the countries advocating the creation of a special tribunal to try Russia's top political leadership for crimes in Ukraine. Any political leaders of the state must bear responsibility for the resolution of the war. Now is not the time to talk about peace. Russia only understands force ... If we want security, rules must apply, and we must ensure their implementation at the international level," Yan Lipavskyi said, Censor.NET reports with reference to "European Truth".

He added that he could not imagine himself in a government that would not support Ukraine. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3378678

Ukraine should make its own decisions regarding possible negotiations, - Steinmeier

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that Ukraine should have the freedom to decide on ceasefire negotiations.

Spiegel writes about this, Censor.NET reports with reference to "European Truth".

"Decisions cannot be made instead of Ukraine. Ukraine must say when it wants such negotiations and considers them promising," Steinmeier said in an interview that will air on Sunday evening on ARD. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3378696

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West is trying to determine terms of Ukraine’s peace with Russian Federation, - WSJ

Western leaders currently do not have a clear idea of what a peaceful settlement of Russia’s war against Ukraine might look like. However, partners do not push our country to decisions that would be contrary to its interests.

The Wall Street Journal writes about it, Censor.NET reports with reference to RBC-Ukraine.

The head of the office of the European Council on International Relations in Warsaw, Piotr Buras, noted that the West currently does not have a very clear vision of what a final peaceful settlement of Russian aggression against Ukraine might look like.

"I don't think that neither Berlin, nor Paris, nor Washington will now push Kyiv to accept what, in Zelensky's opinion, is not in the interests of Ukraine," he said.

So, officials say there is potential for disagreements between Western governments if, for example, Ukrainian forces continue to defy Russian dictator Vladimir Putin by seeking to de-occupy Crimea, which the Russian Federation annexed in 2014. At the same time, the leaders are still postponing this issue.

Although diplomats say there is a private exchange of views between Western capitals about possible peace terms, publicly almost all leaders and senior officials avoid remarks that could threaten Ukraine.

Diplomats also note that European capitals are concerned about any form of freelance diplomacy with Russia, after France and Germany put forward proposals for possible peace agreements before full-scale Russian aggression and regularly contacted the Kremlin in the first weeks of the war.

Olivier Schmitt, a former French official who is now a professor at the Center for the Study of War in Denmark, noted that the most pressing issue will be whether Ukraine should boycott peace talks with the Russian Federation until it regains all its lost territory, including Crimea. If negotiations continue while Russia continues to occupy part of Ukraine, how much effort will Kyiv have to make to regain all of its territory.

"At some point, some countries will try to curb Ukraine, while others will say that they have every right to try to maximize their demands," he said.

The head of the Warsaw office of the European Council on International Relations, Piotr Buras, noted that another split in Western capitals is related to whether any lasting peace is possible without removing Putin.

It is also reported that even politicians who were once the main proponents of closer ties with Russia are now saying that the West should continue on its current course. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3378699

Russia is trying to interfere in midterm elections in US Congress, - NYT

The Russians are again trying to interfere in the US elections. Currently, using bot farms, they are trying to put Republicans ahead in the 2022 US midterm elections.

This is stated in the article of The New York Times, Censor.NET reports with reference to RBC-Ukraine.

A group of American experts from Recorded Future writes that since September of this year, accounts that are probably fake have been activated in small social networks. They do not have or provide false information about users, they do not respond to messages, and their content is aimed exclusively at discrediting US President Joe Biden and Democrats in various regions.

"For example, an account with more than 8,000 followers posts exclusively about political topics - not just in one state, but across the country - and often spreads false and misleading posts. Most of them receive little engagement from users, but a recent post about the FBI received 43 responses and was reposted 64 times," the post said.

According to experts, this and other similar accounts are linked to the same Russian agency that interfered in the 2016 presidential election - the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg.

The main goal of such interventions, according to the publication, are attempts to lead the Republicans to victory during the elections to the US Congress and thus reduce military support for Ukraine. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3378700

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If they really get Stormshadows from the Polish, then the bridge at Kerch is history. They can wait until the Russians repaired the latest destruction site on it, and on the same day traffic was planned to roll again they make it broken again. Would be very annoying for the Russians.

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Originally Posted by Skybird

If they really get Stormshadows from the Polish, then the bridge at Kerch is history. They can wait until the Russians repaired the latest destruction site on it, and on the same day traffic was planned to roll again they make it broken again. Would be very annoying for the Russians.

Not only the bridge-There are hundreds of military and infrastructural targets in Crimea they could hit with the long range missiles.

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That bridge has fetish value.

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Vladimir Putin close to losing port city Kherson as Ukraine fights back

Vladimir Putin has publicly backed evacuating civilians amid hopes that his forces will soon be forced to retreat from Ukrainian port city Kherson.

As Ukraine’s troops steadily regain territory on the outskirts, the Russian president said: ‘Those who live in Kherson should be removed from the zone of the most dangerous actions, because the civilian population should not suffer.’

The remarks to pro-Kremlin activists came as he marked Russia’s Day of National Unity.

Moscow has been ferrying people out of the area on the west bank of the Dnipro river and last week expanded the evacuation zone to include a nine-mile buffer area on the east bank.

Kyiv says the process has included forced deportations of civilians, which is a war crime.

A 24-hour curfew was imposed on Kherson on Friday, while pictures online show the Russian flag no long flies on its main administration building.

Kyiv has been wary, saying such signs could be Russian deception to lure Ukrainian troops into a trap.

Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian-installed administration in Kherson, said he hoped there would be no retreat but ‘we have to take some very difficult decisions’.

Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelensky said the fiercest fighting last week was around Bakhmut and Soledar, in the eastern Donetsk region about 310 miles north-east of Kherson.

‘We are holding our positions,’ the Ukrainian president added.

He accused Russia of stubbornness for sending ‘tens or hundreds of thousands more people to the meat grinder’.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...cb92d615b35a2a

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'Putin's task is for us to die': Kyiv mayor warns of evacuations in event of total loss of power

Urging residents to "consider everything" including a worst-case scenario where the capital loses power and water, Vitali Klitschko said he could not rule out the prospect of a total loss of power.

"If you have extended family... or friends outside Kyiv, where there is autonomous water supply, an oven, heating," he said in a television interview, "please keep in mind the possibility of staying there for a certain amount of time".

"His task is for us to die, to freeze, or to make us flee our land so that he can have it. That's what the aggressor wants to achieve," he added, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...14766540a9da9a

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West warned against complacency on air defence support

By Frank Gardner
BBC security correspondent

Up to now, neither Russia nor Ukraine has been able to gain control of Ukraine's skies, largely because their pilots don't want to risk getting shot down by the other side's air defence systems.

While Russia's air force far outweighs Ukraine's, both in size and sophistication, Russia has resorted to firing long-range ballistic and cruise missiles, recently augmented by cheap, mass-produced Iranian Shahed-136 explosive-laden drones.

Ukraine has had some success in shooting many of these down, but those that do get through have severely damaged Ukraine's power and water infrastructure, just as winter is setting in.

And now a new report is warning that Ukraine is in danger of running out of the weapons it needs to stave off the massive Russian air attacks.

The report, from London-based think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), warns that unless Western nations maintain and step up their supply of air defences to Ukraine. then Russia is likely to use the same bombing techniques it used in Syria, to devastating effect.

Russia has put the hard-line Gen Sergei Surovikin in command of its Ukraine campaign, the same general who oversaw the intensive bombing of cities such as Aleppo.

Weapons experts from RUSI have spent months on the ground in Ukraine, interviewing military intelligence officers and air defence operators, as well as examining the remains of downed Russian missile systems.

Small, portable rocket launchers known as MANPADs have played a role here, alongside larger systems such as the Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft systems supplied by Germany.

The report's lead author, Justin Bronk, told the BBC that what Ukraine really lacks is modern, multi-role combat aircraft to keep the Russian airforce at bay. He suggests one possibility would be Nato's F16 fighter, of which thousands have been built.

But the drawback here is that it needs long, pristine runways which would be vulnerable to Russian targeting. Another candidate, he says, is Sweden's Grippen aircraft which would be able to operate from small, discreet forest bases.

But Western nations have been wary of providing Ukraine with such powerful weapons that they provoke President Vladimir Putin into taking even more drastic action.

So far, Nato-supplied weapons have nearly all been for clearly defined defensive purposes, such as pushing back Russian artillery, ambushing invading tank columns or shooting attack drones out of the sky. Sending advanced combat aircraft would be a major step up, risking escalation between Moscow and the West.

Still, the RUSI report calls on the West not to be complacent on the issue of Ukraine's air defence.

It concludes that it's only because Russia has been unable to destroy Ukraine's surface-to-air missile systems that its air force has not repeated its strategy in Syria of reducing large parts of the cities to rubble. Resupplying Ukraine's defences, it argues, is therefore a matter of urgency.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-63545820

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EU has already allocated more than 22 billion euros to Ukraine, keeping country’s economy afloat remains key task, - Borrell

Ukraine has already been allocated more than EUR 22 billion under the EU line, the European Union will continue to provide support to Ukraine in all possible ways.

This was stated by the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, following the meeting of foreign ministers of the G7 states, which took place last week on Tuesday, Censor.NET informs with reference to "Interfax-Ukraine".

"Together with our member states, the EU has mobilized over EUR19 billion for the economic, social, and financial stability of Ukraine and EUR3.1 billion for military support. Our assistance also includes technical support for the repair of energy infrastructure and the provision of additional electricity generation. We will also increase our humanitarian aid, which has become even more urgent in connection with the approach of winter," Borrell said.

According to him, "keeping Ukraine's economy afloat remains a key task." He recalled the previously announced promise of the European Commission to allocate a financial package of up to EUR1.5 billion per month for a total amount of up to EUR18 billion to significantly cover Ukraine's financing needs for 2023.

Borrell also emphasized the need to extend after November 19 the agreement on ensuring the export of agricultural products of Ukraine to the world. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3378821