The city's mayor says the house, school and hospital were damaged in the Dnipro raid
16 high-rise buildings, 31 homes, a school and a hospital were among the buildings damaged in a Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Tuesday morning, according to the city's mayor.
“As of 09.00, more than 10 houses belonging to the housing and utility sector were damaged. Almost 300 windows. Six buildings of the homeowners' association. About 100 windows. Hospital and clinic. About 70 windows. School. 31 private houses,” said Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov. In a post on Telegram.
Local officials said earlier that the missile attack injured seven people, including two children. CNBC could not immediately verify the reports.
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Russia criticizes Kyiv for inviting its neighbors to attend the peace summit
From left to right: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Turkmen President Sardar Berdimuhamedov, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko enter the hall during the CIS heads of state meeting at the Ala-Archa State Residence in October. October 13, 2023, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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Russia has criticized Ukraine's attempts to invite its former Soviet allies to an upcoming peace summit in Switzerland, saying the invitation was rejected by its neighbours.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin told the Russian TASS news agency that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Western allies “begged” leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), an intergovernmental organization that includes Russia and the former Soviet republics, to attend the conference in Switzerland, but claimed that the invitation I refused.
“Heavy artillery was used: Zelensky and his Western 'friends' began to personally call and beg the leaders of the Commonwealth countries to participate in this 'gathering'. We know that none of them succumbed to such persuasion,” the deputy minister said. In excerpts from the interview scheduled to be published in full on Wednesday.
“Kiev and its Western handlers actively sought to attract representatives from the countries of the Global South and East. Naturally, they did not ignore our partners in the CIS. We know for sure that they regularly received invitations that remained unanswered,” Galuzin said. He said. CNBC was unable to verify this claim.
Russia is jealously protecting its influence over the CIS, which includes Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. On the other hand, Western countries tried to strengthen their relations with many CIS member states, which aroused disdain from Russia.
Galuzin claimed that the summit, which Russia refused to attend (and was not invited as a result), was “an attempt to hastily form an anti-Russian coalition and present an ultimatum to Russia, to create the appearance of global support for Russia.” “Zelensky’s (peace) formula is impractical,” he said, repeating Moscow’s statement that the peace summit is doomed to failure without Russia’s participation.
Russia is sensitive to what it sees as Western encroachment into its backyard, especially since membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States has dwindled in recent years. The Baltic states chose not to participate in the organization when it was established after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Georgia withdrew its participation after a short-lived war with Russia in 2008, and Moldova suspended its participation after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Kiev officially ended its participation in the CIS in 2018.
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Russia signals a complete end to foreigners adopting Russian children
Russia indicated on Tuesday that it may completely end foreign adoptions of Russian children, amid deeply troubled relations with Western countries.
“It seems that the emerging international situation and the resulting major changes in bilateral relations with Western countries will ultimately lead to a complete cessation of adoptions of Russian children abroad in the near future,” said Maria Lvova Belova, Russian Commissioner for the Rights of the Child. This was stated in an annual report published by the Russian TASS media agency.
The report showed that the percentage of children adopted by foreigners continues to decline. In 2023, foreign nationals adopted only six of the total 2,243 children placed for adoption. In 2022, the year Russia invaded Ukraine, 57 children were adopted by foreigners.
TASS reported that in 2023, citizens of only two countries adopted children from the Russian Federation: Italy (five children) and France (one child).
This is not the first time that adoption has been a battleground between Russia and the West, as Moscow previously restricted or suspended the adoption of Russian children by foreigners. Russia banned US citizens from adopting Russian children in 2013.
The governor says 20 Ukrainian drones were intercepted over Russia's Kursk region
A woman walks past a sign reading “Kursk, City of Military Glory” in the Russian city of Kursk, about 150 kilometers from the Ukraine border on May 28, 2023.
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The acting governor of the region said that Russian air defenses intercepted 20 Ukrainian drones in the Russian border region of Kursk on Monday.
Alexei Smirnov accused Ukrainian forces of attacking nine villages in the southern border region but said no one was injured in what he described as an attack using drones and explosives dropped by helicopters.
Smirnov said on the Telegram application: “20 Ukrainian drones in the border areas were eliminated and neutralized using electronic warfare.” CNBC was unable to independently verify the reports and Ukraine has not commented on the attack, one of the latest in a long series of strikes on Russian border regions.
Such attacks prompted Russian forces to launch a new offensive in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region last month, as they look to create what Russian President Vladimir Putin has described as a “buffer zone” to protect Russia's border regions from attack.
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The Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro injured seven people, including two children
A Russian missile attack on the central city of Dnipro injured seven people, including two children, and damaged civilian infrastructure in the early hours of Tuesday, local authorities said.
The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down two Iskander-K cruise missiles over the area. The missile debris damaged civilian infrastructure, causing a fire and injuring residents, according to Serhiy Lysak, the regional governor.
Among the injured were two boys, in addition to five adults, based on preliminary information from the governor.
The 37th Separate Brigade of the Marine Corps carries out a combat mission in support of the infantry on the left bank of the Dnipro River. Ukrainian soldiers operate a 2S1 Gvozdika (“Carnation”) self-propelled howitzer on April 27, 2024 in the Kherson region, Ukraine.
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Lisak wrote on the messaging app Telegram that the attack damaged cars and smashed windows in residential buildings and a hospital.
Russian forces also launched four drones in the overnight attack, and the Ukrainian air force said it shot down two of them over the northern Chernihiv region.
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The Kremlin warns Washington of a “gross” miscalculation in allowing Kiev to use US-supplied weapons inside Russia
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Monday warned the United States of the potential “deadly consequences” of allowing Kiev to deploy US-supplied weapons against targets inside Russia.
“I would like to warn American leaders against miscalculations that could have serious consequences. For some unknown reason, they are underestimating the seriousness of the rejection they might receive,” Ryabkov said, according to Google-translated comments reported by Russian news agency TASS.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov attends a meeting chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin on operational issues, including the course of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at the Novo Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, October 16. 2023.
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He pointed out that Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the issue repeatedly, issuing “a very important warning, which must be taken seriously, with the utmost seriousness.”
Last week, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that the White House had approved a Ukrainian request to deploy weapons provided by the United States against targets on Russian territory, on the border near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. This use was permitted for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv.
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