The Russian state news agency TASS reported that Kremlin spokeswoman Dmitry Peskov has denied alleged discussions with Ukraine about mutually halting attacks on energy infrastructure.
The Financial Times reported on Monday that Ukraine and Russia were planning to resume talks about stopping the strikes against each other’s infrastructure for energy after the talks abruptly ceased in August after Ukraine’s Kursk invasion.
Peskov, in response to the Financial Times article, told the media that “there are a lot fake news stories now which have no connection with reality”.
According to a senior Ukrainian government official, Moscow has already reduced the frequency in recent weeks of attacks on energy infrastructure as part of a deal reached by their intelligence agencies, Ukrainian news outlet New Voice reported Oct. 30.
The agreement would be the most significant deescalation since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion in Ukraine early in 2022.
On Oct. 21, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists that Russia’s willingness to stop the strikes could signal a willingness for broader peace negotiations.
Ukraine is bracing itself for its harshest winter ever, with half its energy infrastructure in ruins. This is after Russia launched massive campaigns in the autumn and winter of 2023-2023 as well as again in the spring 2024.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, said that between March and August this year, Russia destroyed almost all hydroelectric and thermal power plants in Ukraine. He made these remarks on September 25 at the U.N. General Assembly, in New York.
The denial comes just a day after Financial Times reported that Ukraine, Russia and other countries are resuming talks about stopping the strikes on their energy infrastructures after the talks abruptly ceased in August after Ukraine’s Kursk invasion.
The prime minister of a NATO member and EU country discussed a number of topics with the propagandist sanctioned in the West, including the Nord Stream explosions and the alleged Western fatigue regarding the support for Ukraine.
It was a confidential information between Ukraine & the White House. How can we understand these messages? Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, said this during a press conference with journalists from Nordic nations.
Eric Schmidt, speaking at the Future Investment Initiative Conference in Saudi Arabia said that Russia’s conflict in Ukraine demonstrated how a “$5,000 Drone can destroy a tank worth $5 million.”
One source stated that only a few hundred of them are special forces and the rest are regular troops.
A source at the South Korean news agency said that Seoul had not received a similar request from the Ukrainians and that the matter was not being considered.
As part of the investigation, the office summoned Salome Zourabichvili on Oct. 31. The president refused acknowledge the results, calling it “a Russian special operation” and urging voters to protest.
According to the Air Force, Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 33 of the 62 Russian Shahed drones that were launched overnight. Twenty-three drones were reported “lost.”
Oleksandr Vikul, the head the city’s Military Administration, said on his Telegram channel, Oct. 30, “Unfortunately, 55-year-old male died at 8:50 am.”
Microsoft warned in a blogpost on October 29 that the Russian hacker group Midnight Blizzard was sending highly targeted phishing email to U.S. citizens working in government, academia and defense organizations as well as non-governmental organisations.
In a separate press briefing on October 28, Pentagon spokesperson Major-General Pat Ryder stated that a “relatively few” North Korean troops were already in Kursk Oblast.
On Oct. 29, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen dictator, appeared to boast about using Ukrainian prisoners in the form of human shields. He claimed that there were casualties after a drone attack on Chechnya.
This includes 1,560 casualties that Russian forces have suffered in the last day.
The city authorities reported that Russian drones attacked Kyiv overnight on October 30, 2010.
Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian foreign minister, will be speaking at the Minsk Conference on Eurasian Security on October 31, Belarus.
The Financial Times reported that Ukraine and Russia have begun preliminary discussions to stop attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure.
Mediazona, an independent Russian media outlet, and BBC Russia confirmed through open-source research the names of 75.382 Russian soldiers killed since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion.
Brekht warned that if Russia continues to attack critical energy infrastructure, as it did in the year 2023, Ukrainians could face power outages of up to eight hours on “critical” days.
CNN reported on October 29 that United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had urged China, which maintains relationships with North Korea to put pressure on Pyongyang, to withdraw North Korean soldiers from Ukraine’s first line.
G7 leaders announced that they would begin disbursing funds by the end the year. The loan will help Ukraine meet its economic, defense and reconstruction needs.
The fire started at 1:30 pm local time on a hydraulic press that was used to make steel shell casings in three-dimensional form.
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