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Russia's economy shrank by 5% connected an annualized ground successful September, the system ministry said, a sharper contraction than the 4% recorded a period earlier.

Western sanctions and the fallout from Russia sending tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February person pushed the state into recession, but Moscow says the West has failed to destruct the Russian economy.

Earlier this year, economists were predicting a double-digit recession for 2022. The system ministry said successful a connection connected Wednesday that the state was connected way to station a 2.9% contraction this year, and that September's slump was owed to a precocious basal effect successful examination with the aforesaid period past year.

— Reuters

Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for caller and expanded sanctions against Russian authorities media implicit its disinformation campaign, and people the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.

"We telephone connected the planetary assemblage to present and grow sanctions against Russian authorities media that dispersed mendacious information, including to warrant Russia's equipped aggression against Ukraine," the ministry said successful a statement.

"The penetration of Russian troops became a caller grounds of brutal repression against representatives of the determination media: hundreds of media successful the temporarily occupied territories were forced to halt their enactment owed to threats and impossibility of carrying retired journalistic activities nether the conditions of impermanent occupation," the ministry said.

According to information from the Institute of Mass Information, Russia has committed 457 crimes against journalists and media successful Ukraine successful the 8 months since the commencement of the full-scale invasion.

"We besides explicit our gratitude to thousands of Ukrainian and planetary journalists who, often risking their ain lives, archer the satellite the information astir the warfare successful Ukraine," the ministry said.

— Rocio Fabbro

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that contempt Russia's instrumentality to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, it "reserves the close to withdraw" from the woody if Ukrainian guarantees are not met.

Russia suspended its information successful the atom woody implicit the weekend, aft claiming a Ukrainian drone attacked its Black Sea fleet successful Crimea. Ukraine did not assertion work for the attack, which immoderate Ukrainian officials blamed connected Russian soldiers mishandling their ain weapons.

"We demanded assurances and guarantees from the Ukrainian broadside that thing similar this volition hap successful the future," Putin said successful a gathering with imperishable members of the Russian Security Council.

"I person fixed instructions to the Ministry of Defense to resume our afloat information successful this work," helium added. "At the aforesaid time, Russia reserves the close to retreat from these agreements if these guarantees are violated by Ukraine."

Early successful the war, Russia relied connected its Black Sea fleet to motorboat missiles heavy into Ukraine, but the fleet drew backmost into a antiaircraft presumption aft a bid of embarrassing attacks this outpouring by Ukrainian forces.

Before past weekend's drone attack, analysts noted that Russia already appeared to beryllium laying rhetorical groundwork for withdrawing from the deal, earlier reversing people this week.

The atom is captious to feeding populations successful immoderate of the world's poorest countries, and a instrumentality to a afloat blockade could person brought famine to millions successful Asia and the Middle East.

Putin besides committed to delivering the "entire volume" of atom that has been delivered from Ukraine to the poorest countries "free of charge," if Russia withdraws from the woody successful the future.

— Rocio Fabbro

The Kremlin's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a caller statement pushing backmost connected a New York Times report that Russian generals discussed however Moscow mightiness usage a tactical atomic limb successful Ukraine.

"Russia is strictly and consistently guided by the tenet that a atomic warfare cannot beryllium won and indispensable ne'er beryllium fought," said the statement, which was posted successful English to the ministry's website.

The Times cited unnamed U.S. quality officials, and reported that connection of the alarming conversations circulated wrong the quality assemblage successful mid-October.

The Kremlin said it remains afloat committed to a 5-nation pledge released successful January of this year, which said successful portion that "None of our atomic weapons are targeted at each different or at any different State."

Asked astir the caller statement, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said, "we are watching this the champion we can."

Growing concerns astir the imaginable deployment of a Russian atomic limb has been driven successful portion by provocative statements from Russian President Vladimir Putin, and besides by perceived desperation successful Moscow implicit Russia's inability to marque advancement connected the battlefield successful Ukraine.

-- Christina Wilkie

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. has indications that North Korea has agreed to proviso Russian President Vladimir Putin with weapons for his warfare successful Ukraine.

"We don't judge that this volition alteration the people of the war," Kirby told reporters connected a call, adding that the U.S. was nevertheless "concerned" astir these further weapons shipments.

"It's surely not going to alteration our calculus," Kirby said, adding that the U.S. and its allies volition proceed to proviso Kyiv with further information packages.

Kirby declined to item immoderate imaginable diplomatic oregon economical responses Washington mightiness prosecute successful the lawsuit that North Korea does proviso Russia with weapons.

On Tuesday, Kirby said that the U.S. besides had indications that Iran was preparing to nonstop Russia much drones arsenic good arsenic surface-to-surface missiles. Moscow has carried retired scores of devastating rocket and drone strikes against civilian targets and captious infrastructure, relying heavy connected Iranian-built drones.

Iran and Russia have sharply denied reports that Tehran supplied Moscow with a fleet of drones for usage successful Ukraine and the Kremlin has repeatedly denied that it uses Iranian-made drones to people residential and different civilian areas.

— Amanda Macias

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the announcement from Russia connected its resumed information successful the implementation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

Guterres "is grateful for the diplomatic efforts of Turkey, and acknowledgment the U.N. Coordinator, Amir Abdulla, and his squad for their enactment to support this captious nutrient proviso enactment open," wrote U.N. Secretary General spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.

Dujarric added that the Secretary-General "continues his engagement with each actors towards the renewal and afloat implementation" of the deal.

The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a woody brokered successful July among Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations, eased Russia's naval blockade and helped reopen 3 cardinal Ukrainian ports.

The archetypal vas near Ukraine's larboard of Odesa connected Aug. 1 carrying much than 26,000 metric tons of corn. Since then, much than 400 ships carrying foodstuffs person departed Ukraine's ports.

On Saturday, Moscow suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative successful what it said was retaliation for Kyiv's "act of terrorism" successful firing connected Russian warships.

— Amanda Macias

A documentary movie focused connected Russia's brutal onslaught connected the seaside municipality of Mariupol made its U.S. debut successful New York City.

The film, entitled "Mariupol, Unlost Hope," tells the stories of 5 Ukrainian residents of Mariupol who witnessed Russia's brutal seizure of the concern larboard city.

"Three women and 2 men, who had been surviving successful Mariupol during the archetypal period of the invasion, archer what they person seen and felt, however they person made decisions wrong of a war," the producers of the movie wrote.

Mariupol, which is inactive nether Russian occupation, has since been described arsenic a "city of graves" owed to aggravated warring and indiscriminate attacks connected civilian infrastructure.

The proceeds from the lawsuit volition beryllium utilized to signifier further screenings of documentaries astir the concern successful Ukraine.

— Amanda Macias

More than 7.7 cardinal Ukrainians have go refugees and moved to neighboring countries since Russia invaded Ukraine successful precocious February, the UN Refugee Agency estimates.

Of those, much than 4.4 cardinal person applied for impermanent presumption successful European countries, according to information collected by the UN Refugee Agency.

"The planetary equipped struggle successful Ukraine has led to the largest quality displacement situation successful the satellite today," the UN Refugee Agency wrote successful a report.

— Amanda Macias

Visitors airy candles adjacent the graves of Ukrainians buried astatine the Lychakiv cemetery to people the solemnisation of All Saints' Day.

Also known arsenic All Hallows' Day oregon the Feast of All Saints, the solemn beatified time successful the Christian church commemorates all the saints of the church.

Below are photos of Ukrainians visiting the graves of relatives, friends and soldiers who person died during Russia's subject penetration of Ukraine.

Russia is resuming information successful a woody to escaped up atom exports from Ukraine due to the fact that it realised the inaugural would inactive enactment without the Kremlin's involvement, a elder Ukrainian authoritative said connected Wednesday.

Presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said successful a written connection to Reuters that Moscow's determination showed that Russian "blackmail" and "escalation and threats" neglect erstwhile they conscionable a resolute response.

"One mode oregon another, Russia, embarrassed, returned to the 'grain initiative' due to the fact that it abruptly turned retired that the atom corridor would enactment adjacent without the Kremlin's participation," Podolyak said.

"This says lone 1 thing: Russia is ever inferior to those who are stronger, those who cognize however to instrumentality a blow, those who reason their presumption strongly."

— Reuters

The British authorities said Wednesday that it had sanctioned 4 Russian alloy and petrochemical oligarchs who had enabled Putin to mobilize Russian industries to enactment his military effort.

Alexander Abramov and Alexander Frolov were among those sanctioned for their involvement successful the extractive, transport, and operation sectors, the U.K. said Wednesday.

The brace are known to beryllium concern associates of oligarch Roman Abramovich and antecedently owned large stakes successful Russian alloy shaper Evraz.

Abramov and Frolov are thought to person an estimated planetary nett worthy of £4.1 cardinal ($4.7 billion) and £1.7 cardinal respectively, and are reported to person U.K. spot investments worthy an estimated £100 million.

The U.K.'s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly commented successful a connection that "Putin continues to trust connected his cabal of selected elite to support control of his concern analyzable and substance his illegal invasion of Ukraine. Today we are sanctioning an further 4 oligarchs who trust connected Putin for their positions of authorization and successful turn fund his military machine," helium said.

"By targeting these individuals, we are ramping up the economical unit connected Putin and volition proceed to bash truthful until Ukraine prevails."

The different 2 oligarchs that were sanctioned were Airat Shaimiev, who has an estimated planetary nett worthy of £902 million, and Albert Shigabutdinov, who has an estimated planetary nett worthy of £977 million. 

All 4 men are present taxable to question bans, plus freezes and transport sanctions.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russia said that it volition resume its information successful the Black Sea atom initiative, a woody with Ukraine to alteration captious cultivation exports from the country, saying it had received assurances from Ukraine that it would not usage the humanitarian maritime corridor for subject purposes.

Russia had withdrawn from the deal, which was brokered by the U.N. and Turkey successful July and seen arsenic helping to easiness planetary nutrient shortages and terms rises, aft it accused Ukraine of attacking its Black Sea Fleet successful Sevastopol successful Crimea past Saturday.

In a statement, Russia's Defense Ministry said Wednesday that "thanks to the information of an planetary organization, arsenic good arsenic the assistance of Turkey, it was imaginable to get the indispensable written guarantees from Ukraine connected the non-use of the humanitarian corridor and Ukrainian ports designated for the export of cultivation products for conducting subject operations against the Russian Federation."

Russia said that "the Ukrainian broadside officially assured that the maritime humanitarian corridor volition beryllium utilized lone successful accordance with the provisions of the Black Sea Initiative."

"The Russian Federation considers that the guarantees received astatine the infinitesimal look capable and resumes the implementation of the statement - the Initiative for the harmless proscription of atom and nutrient from the ports of Ukraine (the "Black Sea Initiative"), suspended aft the violent onslaught successful Sevastopol," it said.

— Holly Ellyatt

The proprietor of the Russian Wagner Group backstage subject company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has go little secretive astir his nexus to the state-linked paramilitary group, according to Britain's Defense Ministry, arsenic helium tries to "burnish" his credibility wrong the Russian nationalist information system.

"In the past 2 months, Prigozhin has abandoned immoderate pretence that helium is not associated with Wagner and has been much explicit successful his nationalist statements. He is apt trying to burnish his credibility wrong the stressed Russian nationalist information system," the ministry said successful an quality update connected Twitter.

The ministry noted, however, that Wagner forces were advancing much dilatory than Russian subject doctrine expected, noting that connected Oct. 23, Prigozhin said that Wagner forces were making advances of 100-200m per day, which helium claimed was "normal successful modern warfare."

"According to their subject doctrine, Russian forces program to beforehand 30km oregon much per time successful astir conditions," the ministry said.

Ukraine's equipped forces said Wednesday that they person eliminated 800 Russian troops successful Ukraine implicit the past 24 hours, bringing Russia's full unit losses, arsenic per Ukraine's count, to 73,270.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported connected Facebook Wednesday that they had destroyed 16 much Russian tanks implicit the past time (bringing the full destroyed to 2,714), 24 much armored combat vehicles arsenic good arsenic a chopper and a warplane among different weapons systems.

There is overmuch quality implicit the fig of Russian troops that person died during the warfare that began successful February. Russia has released precise fewer updates connected the fig of fatalities among its forces. The U.K., for example, said successful September that it believed implicit 25,000 Russian troops had died (although the fig roseate to astir 80,000 erstwhile troops captured oregon wounded were included). Russia's defence curate said successful September that 5,937 soldiers had been killed.

Ukraine's equipped forces noted that Russian troops person suffered the highest losses successful the Avdiivka and Lyman areas. CNBC was not capable to verify the accuracy of the report.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine's atom exports are down twelvemonth connected twelvemonth successful the 2022/23 play truthful acold to astir 13.4 cardinal tonnes from 19.7 cardinal tonnes astatine the aforesaid day a play earlier, the agriculture ministry information showed connected Wednesday.

The country's atom exports person slumped since Russia invaded successful February, with the closing disconnected of its Black Sea ports driving up planetary nutrient prices and prompting fears of shortages successful Africa and the Middle East.

Three Black Sea ports were unblocked astatine the extremity of July nether a woody betwixt Moscow and Kyiv, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey. The shipments are continuing contempt Russia's determination to suspend its information successful the agreement.

Ministry information showed that exports truthful acold successful the July 2022 to June 2023 play included 5.1 cardinal tonnes of wheat, 7.1 cardinal tonnes of maize and 1.1 cardinal tonnes of barley.

The authorities has said that Ukraine could harvest betwixt 50 cardinal and 52 cardinal tonnes of atom this year, down from a grounds 86 cardinal tonnes successful 2021, due to the fact that of the nonaccomplishment of onshore to Russian forces and little yields.

— Reuters

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the "grain corridor" — a humanitarian maritime way acceptable up to let captious cultivation exports to permission Ukraine — needs to beryllium defended.

"The atom corridor needs reliable and semipermanent protection," the president said successful his nightly code Tuesday.

"Russia should intelligibly cognize that it volition person a pugnacious effect from the satellite to immoderate steps that disrupt our nutrient exports. This is virtually a substance of beingness for tens of millions of people," helium noted.

The atom corridor was established aft the U.N. and Turkey brokered a woody betwixt Russia and Ukraine successful July to let exports specified arsenic corn, wheat and rapeseed (of which Ukraine is simply a large producer) to permission the state via the Black Sea.

Russia withdrew from the woody past weekend, however, accusing Ukraine of utilizing the maritime corridor to transportation retired an onslaught against infrastructure and its Black Sea Fleet successful Sevastopol successful Crimea, which it annexed successful 2014.

Ukraine denies utilizing the corridor for specified activities and has not said whether it was liable for the attack. In turn, it has accused Russia of undermining the woody since September. Meanwhile, the U.N. has called connected Russia to instrumentality to the deal, informing it could thrust planetary nutrient prices adjacent higher and exacerbate nutrient shortages faced by susceptible countries successful Africa and Asia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Turkish counterpart Tuesday that Moscow could see returning to the deal, which was owed to beryllium renegotiated successful a mates of weeks' time, if an probe is carried retired into the drone attack.

Ukraine, Turkey and the U.N. person agreed not to program for immoderate movements of ships nether the atom inaugural from Wednesday.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska made an impassioned code connected Tuesday calling connected the planetary exertion assemblage to assistance her state and combat Russia's invasion.

Speaking astatine the Web Summit league successful Lisbon, Zelenska told attendees that exertion has go "battlefield" successful the Russian warfare against Ukraine. Russia "puts exertion astatine the work of terror," she said.

"Technology has successful galore ways brought america person unneurotic done societal media and messenger apps," Zelenska said Tuesday evening.

"But imagine, each of a abrupt a societal media relationship stops getting updated, the idiosyncratic moving it nary longer responds to messages. And past you spot their achromatic and achromatic photos and you cognize the unthinkable has happened. During this month, thousands of Ukrainian societal media accounts volition ne'er beryllium updated again. Those radical are gone."

She called connected tech entrepreneurs and investors to put successful Ukraine's tech and subject sectors and marque donations to her Olena Zelenska Foundation. Launched successful September, the instauration aims to reconstruct Ukrainian hospitals and schools that person been destroyed successful the war. Children "should beryllium flying to Mars, not moving to their basements" to fly Russian shelling successful warfare shelters, Zelenska said.

"You are the unit that moves the world," she said. "You person the imaginable and technologies that tin help, not destroy; by helping Ukraine, you tin determination the satellite successful the close direction."

Before Zelenska was owed to speak, Paddy Cosgrave, Web Summit's founder, launched an onslaught connected Ireland's authorities implicit Russia. He said it has allowed definite Russian actors to debar facing sanctions.

"The Irish authorities has for years lobbied some Brussels and the White House truthful that definite Russian oligarchs mightiness beryllium exempted from some U.S. and EU sanctions," Cosgrave, who has agelong been captious of the Irish government, said onstage astatine Web Summit.

"My connection is simple, however tin Ireland assistance Ukraine halt bankrolling Russian oligarchs?" helium added.

For its part, Ireland says it is opposed to Russia's warfare against Ukraine and has joined its European Union alies successful imposing strict sanctions connected Moscow.

— Ryan Browne

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and "denounced a unilateral determination by Russia" to suspend its information successful the  Black Sea Grain Initiative.

Macron accused Russia of weaponizing planetary nutrient supplies by ending its practice with the U.N.-backed woody that led to the reopening of 3 cardinal Ukrainian ports.

Macron besides said helium confirmed to Zelenskyy that France is afloat mobilized "to summation our subject enactment for Ukraine arsenic soon arsenic possible, successful peculiar anti-aircraft defense."

Macron besides said that France was prepared to assistance Ukraine with its electrical infrastructure, which has been importantly damaged successful Russian attacks.

"Action is needed earlier winter. We shall swiftly mobilize some the planetary assemblage and the backstage sector," Macron added connected Twitter.

— Amanda Macias

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that astir 40% of his country's full vigor infrastructure has been earnestly damaged by Russian rocket and drone strikes.

Moscow has carried retired respective devastating rocket and drone strikes against what Ukraine said were civilian targets and captious infrastructure specified arsenic vigor facilities.

Iran and Russia have sharply denied reports that Tehran supplied Moscow with a fleet of drones for the Kremlin's warfare successful Ukraine. The Kremlin has besides repeatedly denied that it uses Iranian-made drones to people residential and different precocious civilian areas.

— Amanda Macias

The White House is acrophobic that Iran is preparing to nonstop Russia much drones arsenic good arsenic surface-to-surface missiles for its warfare successful Ukraine.

"We are looking astatine a scope of options here, arsenic we person said intelligibly we said it past week, this is evidently a usurpation of U.N. solution 2231," National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters connected a league call. The U.N. solution endorsed the Iran atomic deal.

"Let's not hide astatine its core, this is simply a authorities successful Tehran that is openly and willingly making themselves an accomplice to the execution of Ukrainians," Kirby added.

The solution prohibits the transportation "of each items, materials, equipments and goods and technology" from Iran to different federation unless it is approved successful beforehand by the U.N. Security Council connected a case-by-case basis.

Kirby declined to item imaginable diplomatic oregon economical actions Washington would take.

Moscow has carried retired respective devastating rocket and drone strikes against what Ukraine said were civilian targets and captious infrastructure specified arsenic vigor facilities.

Iran and Russia's representatives astatine the United Nations have sharply denied reports that Tehran supplied Moscow with a fleet of drones for usage successful Ukraine. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied that it uses Iranian-made drones to people residential and different precocious civilian areas.

— Amanda Macias

The enactment overseeing the export of Ukrainian agriculture said that nary vessels volition sail by mode of the Black Sea Grain Initiative connected Wednesday.

The Ukrainian, Turkish and United Nations delegations "agreed not to program immoderate question of vessels" owed to Russia's determination to suspend its information successful the program.

The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a woody brokered successful July among Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations, eased Russia's naval blockade and saw the reopening of 3 cardinal Ukrainian ports.

Amir Abdulla, the U.N. Coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative, said helium is successful adjacent practice and consultation with each signatories of the woody to resume afloat participation.

— Amanda Macias