Kyiv has referred to as on Moscow to supply a listing of Ukrainian prisoners of struggle prepared for a swap after Russia accused Ukraine of sabotaging the change course of. In requesting the listing of Ukrainians from his Russian counterpart on Sunday, the Ukrainian human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, wrote on-line: “We’re at all times able to change prisoners of struggle!” On Saturday, Russian international ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated Ukraine was primarily sabotaging the method and had refused to take again its personal residents. She stated Russia’s defence ministry had provided handy over 935 Ukrainian PoWs however that Ukraine had taken solely 279. Lubinets, in flip, stated Ukraine was at all times prepared to just accept its residents and accused Russia of slowing down the change course of. Kyiv and Moscow’s final PoW change passed off in mid-October, with both sides bringing house 95 prisoners.
Ukraine’s air defence models have been making an attempt to repel a Russian air assault on Kyiv late on Saturday, the mayor stated. “There was an explosion within the suburbs of Kyiv,” Vitali Klitschko stated. “Air defence forces working within the capital and its area. Keep in shelters!” Russia earlier focused the capital with a drone assault that lasted to noon and wounded not less than one individual, metropolis officers stated. Particles from downed drones struck six metropolis districts, wounding a police officer, damaging residential buildings and beginning fires, in keeping with metropolis navy administrator Serhiy Popko. A high-voltage line powering the capital and two distribution networks within the Kyiv area had been broken, Ukrainian power supplier DTEK stated. Electrical energy had largely been restored and repairs have been beneath manner, it stated.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated strikes have been reported within the central Poltava and north-eastern Sumy and Kharkiv areas. “This 12 months, now we have confronted the specter of ‘Shahed’ drones virtually each evening – typically within the morning, and even through the day,” he stated on social media, referring to the Iranian-made assault drones utilized by Russia. The Ukrainian air power stated air defences destroyed 39 of 71 Russian drones launched throughout Moscow’s air assaults on Ukraine in a single day to Saturday, with 21 drones “locationally misplaced” and 5 turned again to Russia.
A court docket in Russia’s far east has stated it convicted Robert Shonov, a former US consular worker, of illegally and covertly cooperating with the US authorities to hurt Russia’s nationwide safety and had jailed him for almost 5 years. Russia’s FSB safety service detained Shonov, a Russian, in Vladivostok in Could final 12 months and accused him of taking cash to covertly provide US diplomats with data that was probably dangerous to Russia, together with on Moscow’s struggle effort in Ukraine. The US on Saturday condemned the conviction as “an egregious injustice”.
A US citizen who Russia stated was spirited out of jap Ukraine by its particular forces after reportedly serving to the Kremlin goal Ukrainian troops stated in Moscow on Saturday that he had requested for Russian citizenship. “My identify is Daniel Martindale,” he informed a press convention reported by state media. “Right here is my passport. It went via the struggle with me, you may see in what situation it’s,” he stated in English, holding up what gave the impression to be a well-used US passport and start certificates. He stated he was beneath no duress and needed to obtain Russian citizenship. The US embassy in Moscow didn’t instantly remark.
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