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'Employees work at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in this picture released Sept. 2 by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom says Russia has seized the head of the power plant. (IAEA/Reuters)'

''Ukraine's nuclear power provider accused Russia on Saturday of "kidnapping" the head of Europe's largest nuclear power plant, a facility now occupied by Russian troops and located in a region of Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved to annex illegally.

Russian forces seized the director general of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ihor Murashov, at about 4 p.m. local time on Friday, Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom said. That was just hours after Putin, in a sharp escalation of his war, signed treaties to absorb Moscow-controlled Ukrainian territory into Russia.

Energoatom said Russian troops stopped Murashov's car, blindfolded him and then took him to an undisclosed location.

"His detention by [Russia] jeopardizes the safety of Ukraine and Europe's largest nuclear power plant," Energoatom president Petro Kotin said.''
 
apnews.com

U.S. captives 'prayed for death' on brutal ride from Ukraine​

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Even after three months of captivity that included execution threats, physical torture, solitary confinement and food deprivation, it was the ride to freedom that nearly broke Alex Drueke, a U.S.

His hands were bound. His head was covered by a plastic bag, and the packing tape holding it in place was secured so tightly it it caused welts on his forehead. Drueke said he and fellow American prisoner Andy Huynh reached their limit in this state during the transit, which occurred in a series of vehicles from eastern Ukraine to an airport in Russia that was surrounded by armed guards.

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Drueke, 40, is healing: The swelling is going down on his head and he’s trying to regain some of the 30 pounds (13.6 kilograms) he figures he lost eating a poor diet. But awful memories remain, and he’s unsure what comes next aside from trying to focus attention on fellow prisoners who remain in Russian hands.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-u...stern-europe-56ed453abe58cfccb7c6d25fac8301cb
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Drueke and Huynh, a 27-year-old fellow military veteran from Alabama, were among hundreds of Americans who went to Ukraine early on to help in the fight against Russia.

[...]

Russian soldiers took the two men to their camp, and then into Russia for “intensive interrogation.” While declining to go into specifics, Drueke said the treatment was brutal.

“Every one of our human rights were violated,” he said. “We were tortured.”

[...]

“On the positive side, there were times they would put us in a closet, bound and blindfolded, ... while they were waiting for whatever reporter to show up, and it gave Andy and I just a few seconds to whisper things back and forth to check in on each other,” he said. “It was the first time we had talked in weeks at that point.”

[...]

But even then, the mental torture continued, he said. “One of the guards said a couple of times, ‘I’m pretty sure you guys are getting executed,’” he said.

Instead, they were part of a group of 10 men who were released Sept. 21 in a deal brokered by Saudi Arabia. The others who were released with them were from Croatia, Morocco, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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War Crimes Watch Ukraine - FRONTLINE / AP collaboration

The Associated Press and FRONTLINE (PBS) are gathering, verifying and documenting evidence of potential war crimes in Russia's war in Ukraine.
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Documented incidents involving potential war crimes in Ukraine​

EXAMINE THE ATTACKS

The Associated Press and FRONTLINE are gathering, verifying and documenting evidence of potential war crimes in Ukraine, including direct attacks on civilians, and attacks on civilian infrastructure including hospitals, schools, residential areas and sites protected under international humanitarian law. War Crimes Watch Ukraine tracks evidence by incident or attack. Individual incidents could eventually spawn multiple criminal charges. We will be regularly updating War Crimes Watch Ukraine and publishing related stories.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, AP and FRONTLINE have verified 450 incidents involving potential war crimes.
 
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Fleeing Russians follow path of 1917 refugees to Istanbul

ISTANBUL (AP) — Vladimir Putin’s military draft “changed everything” for the tens of thousands of Russians who have fled their country since the Russian leader's mobilization was announced last month, according to recent arrivals in Istanbul.
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Eva Rapoport, the Istanbul coordinator for The Ark, a group helping Russians fleeing their country, said there had been a significant increase in the numbers arriving in Turkey since Putin’s mobilization declaration.

While those who left Russia in the immediate aftermath of its February invasion of Ukraine were a “well-educated, Western-oriented, cosmopolitan crowd,” now her organization was seeing “just about everyone who can escape the country.”

“Many of these people used to support Putin, they used to cheer for the war,” she said. “When it was from the safety of their homes and there was nothing at stake for them it was fine. But now they don’t want to support this by their actions.

apnews.com

Russia smuggling Ukrainian grain to help pay for Putin's war

BEIRUT (AP) — When the bulk cargo ship Laodicea docked in Lebanon last summer, Ukrainian diplomats said the vessel was carrying grain stolen by Russia and urged Lebanese officials to impound the ship.
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Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov told AP the occupiers are moving vast quantities of grain from the region by train and truck to ports in Russia and Crimea, a strategic Ukrainian peninsula that Russia has occupied since 2014. Despite Russian claims to have annexed Crimea, the United Nations ruled that land grab was also illegal.

Videos posted on social media in recent months show a steady stream of grain transport trucks moving south through occupied areas of Ukraine with the letter “Z” painted on their sides, a wartime symbol for Russia and its military forces. Agro-Fregat train cars have been recorded rolling through the Crimean port town of Feodosia, where satellite imagery shows trucks and trains lined up as grain was being loaded onto ships.

apnews.com

Ukraine claws back more territory Russia is trying to absorb

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces scored more gains in their counteroffensive across at least two fronts Monday, advancing in the very areas that Russia is trying to absorb and challenging Moscow's effort to engage fresh troops and its threats to defend incorporated areas by all means.
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Ukrainian forces have broken through Moscow’s defenses in the strategic southern Kherson region, the Russian military acknowledged Monday, an achievement that delivers a sharp blow to one of the four areas in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed last week.

Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in his daily briefing that “with superior tank units in the direction of Zolotaya Balka, Aleksandrovka, the enemy managed to penetrate into the depths of our defense.” Konashenkov added that “Russian troops have occupied a preprepared defensive line and continue to inflict massive fire damage” on Kyiv’s forces.

Kherson is one of the four regions illegally annexed by Moscow last week after a hasty “referendum” orchestrated by the Kremlin that Western nations have derided as a sham vote at gunpoint. Kherson has been one of the toughest battlefields for the Ukrainians, with slower progress when compared with Ukraine’s breakout offensive in the northeast around the country’s second-largest city of Kharkiv that began last month.
 
apnews.com

Ukraine claws back more territory Russia is trying to absorb

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces scored more gains in their counteroffensive across at least two fronts Monday, advancing in the very areas that Russia is trying to absorb and challenging Moscow's effort to engage fresh troops and its threats to defend incorporated areas by all means.
apnews.com apnews.com
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In their latest breakthrough, Ukrainian forces penetrated Moscow’s defenses in the strategic southern Kherson region, one of the four areas in Ukraine that Russia is in the process of annexing.

Kyiv’s troops also consolidated gains in the east and other major battlefields, re-establishing Ukrainian control just as Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to overcome problems with manpower, weapons, troop morale and logistics, along with intensifying domestic and international criticism. Putin faces disarray and anger domestically about his partial troop mobilization and confusion about the establishment of new Russian borders.

Ukraine’s advances have become so apparent that even Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, who usually focuses on his military’s successes and the enemy’s losses, was forced to acknowledge it.

“With numerically superior tank units in the direction of Zolota Balka and Oleksandrivka, the enemy managed to forge deep into our defenses,” Konashenkov said Monday, referring to two towns in the Kherson region. He coupled that with claims that Russian forces inflicted heavy losses on Ukraine’s military.

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OCT 3, 2022
www.thetimes.co.uk

Putin ‘orders nuclear military train to Ukraine’

President Putin is set to demonstrate his willingness to use weapons of mass destruction with a nuclear test on Ukraine’s borders, Nato is believed to have warn
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Konrad Muzyka, a Poland-based defence analyst, said the train, spotted in central Russia, was linked to the 12th main directorate of the Russian ministry of defence and that it was “responsible for nuclear munitions, their storage, maintenance, transport, and issuance to units”.

The sight of the military supply train on the move is seen as a signal to the West of the Kremlin’s willingness to consider all options

The sight of the military supply train on the move is seen as a signal to the West of the Kremlin’s willingness to consider all options

OCT 4, 2022
www.reuters.com

Kremlin dismisses UK media report on Russian nuclear test

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it did not want to take part in "nuclear rhetoric" spread by the West after a media report that Russia was preparing to demonstrate its willingness to use nuclear weapons in its conflict with Ukraine.
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The Times newspaper reported on Monday that the NATO military alliance had warned members that President Vladimir Putin was set to demonstrate his willingness to use nuclear weapons by carrying out a nuclear test on Ukraine's border.

The London-based newspaper also said Russia had moved a train thought to be linked to a unit of the defence ministry that was responsible for nuclear munitions.

When asked about the Times report, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia did not want to take part in what he cast as Western exercises in "nuclear rhetoric".

kyivindependent.com

The Times: Putin prepares to test nuclear weapons on Ukraine’s borders

A train operated by the Russian secretive nuclear division was spotted in central Russia moving towards Ukraine, The Times reports, citing a Poland-based defense analyst Konrad Muzyka. This move "could be a form of signaling to the West that Moscow
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On Oct. 3, U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said that although Russia had the use of nuclear weapons in its doctrine, Vladimir Putin is "highly unlikely" to use them in its war with Ukraine, because it would be unacceptable for Moscow’s allies India and China.
 

Institute for the Study of War​

Ukrainian forces continued to make substantial gains around Lyman and in Kherson Oblast in the last 48 hours. Ukrainian and Russian sources reported that Ukrainian troops made significant breakthroughs in northern Kherson Oblast between October 2 and 3.
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  • Ukrainian forces continued to make gains around Lyman and Kherson Oblast in the last 48 hours
  • Lieutenant-General Roman Berdnikov has replaced Colonel-General Alexander Zhuravlev as commander of the Western Military District (WMD); Putin has cycled through two commanders of the “western grouping of forces" in two weeks
  • Russian officials released Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) director Ihor Murashov and will likely use his physical removal to assert further control over the nuclear power plant
  • Ukrainian forces made advances on the Oskil River-Kreminna line towards the Luhansk oblast border
  • Ukrainian forces additionally made gains near the Kharkiv-Luhansk Oblast border west of Svatove
  • Russian troops struck Ukrainian positions in Yampolivka, confirming Ukrainian troops control territory about 15km northeast of Lyman and within 10km west of the Luhansk Oblast border
  • Ukrainian troops took control of Terny and Torske
  • Ukrainian troops have crossed the Luhansk Oblast border in an unspecified area and gained a foothold somewhere in the direction of Lysychansk
  • Russian sources are increasingly concerned that Ukrainian troops will continue pushing eastward to attack vulnerable settlements in Luhansk Oblast
  • Ukrainian forces continued to advance in northeastern Kherson Oblast
  • Ukrainian forces liberated Myrolyubivka and Arkhanhelske on the Inhulets River south of the Kherson-Dnipropetrovsk Oblast border
  • Ukrainian forces have penetrated Russian defenses in the direction of Zolota Balka, and Russian troops withdrew to prepared defensive positions
  • Ukrainian forces continued to advance south in the direction of Nova Kakhovka and liberated Mykhailivka, Havrylivka, and Novooleksandrivka along the T0403
  • Ukrainian military forces destroyed a Russian ammunition depot in Tavriiske
  • Ukrainian forces targeted Russian ammunition depots in Kherson Raion and shot down a Russian Su-25 jet in Beryslav Raion
  • Russian occupation officials are increasingly blaming NATO intelligence for exposing weaknesses in Russian defenses in Kherson Oblast and are calling for Russian forces to prepare for urban battles and develop new defensive positions
  • Russian forces continued to use Iranian-made drones to attack Ukrainian positions and settlements in southern Ukraine
  • Russian forces conducted more than 70 UAV sorties on October 2
  • Russian forces conducted kamikaze drone attacks in Mykolaiv Oblast and Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
  • Ukrainian forces destroyed five Russian drones involved in attack operations in Mykolaiv Oblast
  • Russian federal subjects have already begun to target head of military recruitment centers, with Khabarovsk Krai Governor Mikhail Degtyarev firing the region’s head military enlistment official (commissar) for wrongfully mobilizing several thousand residents
  • The Russian mobilization system is suffering from severe bureaucratic challenges and limitations that could undermine Putin’s efforts to generate the number of troops he needs to continue fighting
  • The GUR cited one Russian military commissar’s complaints about the challenges he and his colleagues are encountering in trying to administer draft notices to men who are hiding in their apartments; the commissar noted he could only deliver 16 of the required 170 mobilization notices on September 28
  • Former Russian SMD Deputy Commander Andrey Gurulev stated on a state-media broadcast that Russian forces are unlikely to generate 300,000 combat-ready reservists, which he claimed is why Russian military recruitment centers are expanding their criteria
  • Ukrainian-intercepted calls between Russian servicemen and loved ones show a growing distrust in the correct execution of the mobilization processes
  • 11th grade Russian schoolgirl set a military recruitment center on fire in Kazan in opposition to partial mobilization and war in Ukraine
  • an unidentified suspect tried to commit arson at a military recruitment center in Krasnoyarsk Krai
  • mobilized men in Alabino, Moscow Oblast prevented mobilization officials from taking their personal belongings, resulting in a brawl
  • there are also reported cases of deaths among newly mobilized men, with some men committing suicide
 
Kiev bans negotiations with Vladimir Putin in new law text

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree formally declaring negotiations between Ukrainians and Russian President Vladimir Putin impossible. Zelensky announced at the end of last week that such a decree was imminent, and it was published on his website on Tuesday.

Kiev verbiedt onderhandelingen met Vladimir Poetin in nieuwe wettekst
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/1577732827470348291
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www.theguardian.com

Putin appears to admit severe Russian losses in Ukraine

Ukrainian army making ‘fast and powerful progress’ in south, says Volodymyr Zelenskiy
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Russia has suffered significant losses in two of the four regions since Friday, when Putin signed treaties to incorporate them into Russia by force, with Russian officials saying their forces were “regrouping”.

“We are working on the assumption that the situation in the new territories will stabilise,” Putin told Russian teachers during a televised video call.

With Ukraine pushing its advance in the east and south, Russian troops have been retreating under pressure on both fronts, confronted by fast moving and agile Ukrainian forces supplied with advanced western-supplied artillery systems.
 
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