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The new commander of Ukraine’s Moscow military announced that civilians were being “resettled” from the Russian-occupied southern city of Kherson, calling the military situation “tense”.“The enemy is constantly trying to attack Russian military positions,” Sergei Slovikin said in his first television interview since being appointed earlier this month, adding that the situation was particularly difficult around the occupied southern city of Kherson. added.

Kyiv recently introduced a news blackout in the south of the country, leading to speculation that it was preparing a new major offensive against Kherson. “When Ukrainians cut off the news, it means something is happening.

People from four towns in the Kherson region had been displaced in anticipation of a “massive attack”. Vladimir Sard, the Russian-installed head of Kherson, said in a video address. Kirill Stremsov, deputy administrator of the Russian-installed Kherson region, repeated the message on Telegram late Tuesday. Civilians are advised to leave areas of upcoming intense hostilities if possible. ”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia no longer sees the need to maintain a diplomatic presence in the West., reports The Daily Beast. “There is no sense or desire to maintain our former presence in Western countries. Our people work there in conditions that are hardly human,” said Lavrov, according to the Russian news agency TASS.

A military adviser to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was on Ukrainian soil at a Russian military base in occupied Crimea. The New York Times reports. The Iranians were reported to have been deployed to help the Russian military deal with a fleet of Shahed-136 drones supplied from Tehran.

Iran has deepened its commitment to arming Russia’s offensive against Ukraine by agreeing to provide a batch of intermediate-range missilesand a number of cheap but effective drones, according to US and Iranian security officials.

Russian airstrikes have destroyed 30% of Ukraine’s power plants since October 10. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it was causing massive blackouts across the country.

A Russian strike hit a power plant in Kyiv, killing three people, and hitting energy infrastructure in Kharkov to the east and Dnipro to the south. A man who took refuge in an apartment in the port city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine also died, while water and electricity were cut off in Zhytomyr, a city in northern Ukraine.

Ukraine’s foreign minister said he was proposing to formally sever diplomatic ties with Tehran After a wave of Russian attacks using what Kyiv says are Iranian-made drones. Iran denies supplying drones and Russia denies using them. According to Ukrainian intelligence, 1,750 drones have been delivered, each costing just £20,000 to build. They can be fired from mobile trucks and, despite their slow speed, are difficult to detect until the last minute.

NATO said Ukraine will receive an anti-drone defense system in the coming days. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said member states would “strengthen” and build up their air defenses to stabilize the situation.

Russia’s Duma has suspended live broadcasts of its plenary session indefinitely to protect information from “our enemies”. said a senior member of parliament.

Joe Biden plans to announce on Wednesday that he will release more oil from the US Strategic Stockpile As part of a response to recent production cuts announced by countries at OPEC+.

Zelensky urged his army to take more prisoners. He said this would facilitate the release of soldiers held in Russian custody.

When President Vladimir Putin talks about the use of nuclear weapons, the West should listen carefully, but remember that threatening the use of nuclear weapons is more beneficial to him than moving forward. A Norwegian military chief told Reuters.

Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear company has accused Russia of “kidnapping” two senior officials at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. in southern Ukraine. Energoatom said Russian forces “kidnapped” information technology chief Oleg Kostyukov and plant deputy general manager Oleg Osheka on Monday and “taken them to an unknown destination.”

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy warned on Tuesday that Congress would not “write a blank check to Ukraine.” If his party wins next month’s midterm elections. But hours later, another senior Republican, Michael McCaul, said Ukrainians were “getting what they needed,” including longer-range missiles than anything the Biden administration was ever ready to supply. He said he thought it should be included.