On the ground, drone attacks and bombings continue. Ukraine said it suffered Russian strikes during the night and morning of Wednesday October 25, killing at least one person. At dawn, an airstrike hit a house in a residential area of Beryslav, in the Kherson region (south), killing a 42-year-old man, regional governor Oleksandr Produkin said.
The city of Kherson, liberated by Ukrainian forces in November 2022, was also bombed, but the official did not report any casualties.
Shoigu inspection
It is an inspection which comes at a time when intense attacks by Russian troops have targeted the industrial city of Avdiïvka, in eastern Ukraine, in recent weeks. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu traveled to the area of the military operation in Ukraine to visit a command post and meet with senior military officials, announced Wednesday, October 25, the Russian army in a press release.
“The current situation shows that the enemy has fewer and fewer opportunities. And they will continue to be reduced thanks to your exceptional combat efforts,” Sergei Shoigu assured soldiers in the Donetsk region, according to the Ministry of Defense. Defense, who did not indicate the date of this trip.
Upper house adopts withdrawal from nuclear testing treaty
The Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, on Wednesday approved the law on revoking the ratification of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The senators unanimously adopted the law by 156 votes, thus paving the way for its signature by Vladimir Putin, which is hardly in doubt, the Russian president being at the origin of this initiative.
This law “aims to restore parity in the field of nuclear weapons control,” underlined a press release published on the Federation Council website shortly before the vote.
Support from Scholz
The support given to Israel after the bloody attack launched by Hamas will not thwart the aid provided to Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz assured Tuesday, October 24. “We support Ukraine economically, financially, with humanitarian aid but also with weapons.
This support will in no way be affected by the fact that, since the horrific morning hours of October 7, we have turned to Israel and the Middle East with the greatest compassion and concern,” the German Chancellor said. during a German-Ukrainian economic forum in Berlin.
Collaboration between Rheinmetall and Ukroboronprom operational
During this economic forum, the German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall announced that its joint venture with the Ukrainian state-owned military company Ukroboronprom, announced in May, was now operational. Launched on October 18 and established in Ukraine, its activities are “upkeep, maintenance as well as assembly, production and development of military vehicles”, explained in a press release the German group, which is one manufacturers of Leopard tanks.
Opponent Navalny back in solitary confinement
Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny said on Tuesday that he had been placed again in solitary confinement in the prison where he is already incarcerated. “Here I am back in solitary confinement. For 12 days,” wrote Alexei Navalny on that he was to be transferred for a year to a cell with very strict conditions, where his interactions with the outside world would be even more limited.
Seven years in prison for an opponent of the invasion of Ukraine
A Russian opponent of Russia’s assault on Ukraine, Mikhail Kriger, saw his seven-year prison sentence confirmed on appeal on Tuesday, according to several NGOs, in the midst of repression of critical voices of the Kremlin. According to the NGO Memorial, Mikhail Kriger proclaimed shortly before the sentence that Russian President Vladimir Putin was the “No. 1 terrorist in the world” and launched into the room “Slava Ukraïni!”, or “Glory to Ukraine.” .