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UNITED NATIONS -- A United Nations authoritative says the U.N. is “cautiously optimistic” a wartime woody that has enabled Ukraine to export implicit 11 cardinal metric tons of wheat and Russia to vessel its atom and fertilizer to satellite markets volition beryllium renewed.
The official, who was not authorized to talk publicly, said Wednesday that U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed an hold of the woody with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov astatine the Group of 20 acme successful Bali, Indonesia this week and considered the gathering “very positive.”
The deal, which established a Black Sea shipping corridor and an inspection process, was approved connected July 22 done abstracted agreements with Russia and Ukraine. It is acceptable to expire connected Saturday.
Guterres has said the woody was captious successful addressing a planetary nutrient situation pursuing Russia’s Feb. 24 penetration of Ukraine and warned of shortages and skyrocketing prices if it isn’t extended.
Russia’s U.N. ambassadors had complained past period that much needed to beryllium done to facilitate its exports of atom and fertilizers.
Under the abstracted agreements brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, the woody volition beryllium extended for different 120 days unless either Moscow oregon Kyiv objects.
— By Edith M. Lederer
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Poland, NATO accidental rocket onslaught wasn’t a Russian attack
— NATO sees nary Russia threat amid Poland blast investigation
— Biden: ‘Unlikely’ rocket that deed Poland fired from Russia
— Biden asks for implicit $37 cardinal successful exigency Ukraine aid
— ‘War not an excuse:’ Ukraine obstruction brag keeps trains running
— Follow AP’s sum of the warfare successful Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
KYIV, Ukraine — The politician of a state successful occidental Ukraine says it volition instrumentality up to a twelvemonth to afloat reconstruct the powerfulness grid aft Russia’s monolithic rocket barrage connected Tuesday.
The Governor of Lviv province, Maksym Kozytskyy, said Wednesday that though powerfulness is backmost up for astir 95% of the province, lone 30% of consumers tin usage energy astatine the aforesaid clip owed to capableness limits.
Kozytskyy said the state was amended prepared for the latest Russian onslaught connected the grid. Engineers were capable to enactment with the assistance of diesel generators, and substations successful the portion had been equipped with further protective shields.
Also, a ample fig of cars with loudspeakers were rapidly deployed to pass section radical astir what was happening, helium said.
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GENEVA — The planetary Red Cross says it has deployed a squad including aesculapian staff, h2o engineers and specialists successful demining and handling ordnance to Kherson aft Russian troops pulled retired of the confederate Ukrainian city.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has delivered to 2 hospitals successful Kherson capable aesculapian supplies to dainty 500 injured patients and 2,000 radical successful request of superior wellness care.
The ICRC said Wednesday that hygiene kits, a h2o motortruck and nutrient parcels were besides portion of the assistance ferried successful a time earlier.
The Geneva-based humanitarian assistance enactment said the city’s radical look galore needs, including improved telecommunications connectivity, entree to energy and heating, and drinking water.
When Ukraine recaptured Kherson past week the metropolis had astir nary power, nary h2o and hardly immoderate cellphone coverage. Food and medicines were besides successful abbreviated supply. Departing Russians destroyed cardinal infrastructure and near booby traps astir the city.
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LONDON — Britain says it won’t unreserved to judgement astir wherefore a rocket landed successful agrarian Poland, adjacent to the borderline with Ukraine.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Wednesday the British authorities is waiting for the facts to emerge.
He noted that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday’s incidental was apt caused by a Ukrainian aerial defence rocket fired against Russian aerial attacks connected Ukraine.
Cleverly told lawmakers that “Russia bears the eventual responsibility” for the 2 deaths successful the incidental due to the fact that “the lone crushed wherefore missiles are flying done European skies and exploding successful European villages is due to the fact that of Russia’s barbaric penetration of Ukraine.”
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PRAGUE — The Czech Republic has agreed to bid up to 4,000 Ukrainian soldiers connected Czech territory.
The Defense Ministry said Wednesday the grooming volition see 5 rotations with up to 800 soldiers successful each of them. The archetypal rotation is scheduled for this year, the remainder for 2023.
The Defense Ministry said the programme is based connected a bilateral statement betwixt the Czech Republic and Ukraine but volition beryllium aboriginal incorporated into a European Union subject grooming ngo which the bloc approved past month.
Several EU and NATO nations are already grooming Ukraine’s equipped forces connected a bilateral basis.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s main diplomat says the travel of lipid successful a pipeline taking Russian lipid crossed Ukraine to Central European countries has resumed aft repairs.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto says that dense Russian strikes connected Ukrainian infrastructure Tuesday halted the proviso to respective countries successful Central Europe.
Szijjarto said Wednesday that repairs connected the Druzhba, oregon “Friendship,” pipeline had allowed lipid to statesman flowing again, albeit astatine debased pressure.
The pipeline is 1 of the world’s longest. It takes Russian lipid into Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia and different countries.
Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine has disrupted the vigor proviso to different countries successful the region. Moldova besides reported monolithic powerfulness outages connected Tuesday aft the Russian strikes downed a cardinal powerfulness enactment to the tiny nation.
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PRZEWODOW, Poland — A nonmigratory of the Polish borderline colony wherever a rocket landed says the 2 victims of the blast were men astir 60 years of age.
Kinga Kancir, from the colony of Przewodow successful eastbound Poland adjacent Ukraine, said Wednesday some men worked astatine the colony grain-drying facility.
“One was a guard, who guarded everything there, the different 1 was the tractor driver” who transported each the grain, Kancir, 24, told The Associated Press.
The men were killed by a rocket that landed Tuesday successful the village. NATO officials accidental the blast appears to person been an accident, not an onslaught connected Poland by Russia.
“One of the victims was our neighbour who lived crossed from our flat bloc,” Kancir said. “The different 1 lived successful the neighboring village.”
She said determination is “fear, anxiety” successful the colony astir what the aboriginal mightiness hold.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the United States intends to support up its travel of weapons and assistance to Ukraine done the winter.
Austin said astatine the Pentagon connected Wednesday the assistance volition assistance Kyiv support the unit connected Russia aft the Kremlin withdrew its forces from the confederate metropolis of Kherson, successful a large battlefield setback for Moscow.
“We’re going to support our momentum passim the wintertime truthful that Ukraine tin proceed to consolidate gains and prehend the inaugural connected the battlefield,” Austin said.
He spoke up of the seventh Ukraine Contact Group meeting, wherever NATO and spouse nations conscionable to coordinate information assistance for Kyiv.
This gathering was besides to code grooming for Ukrainian troops, Austin said.
The U.S. to day has provided $18.6 cardinal successful weapons and instrumentality to Ukraine.
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BERLIN — The caput of the U.N. atomic watchdog says determination volition beryllium much consultations this week and adjacent connected his calls for Ukraine and Russia to hold to a information portion astir Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant.
Rafael Grossi, the caput of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has been urging statement connected specified a portion for implicit 2 months.
Repeated shelling astir Europe’s biggest atomic powerfulness works has contributed to it being disconnected from the grid connected respective occasions and fueled fears of a imaginable catastrophe.
Grossi said Wednesday that the main issues nether treatment impact subject instrumentality and the radius of the zone. He said successful Vienna that the IAEA’s connection is “very feasible.”
Grossi added that “what we are proposing is precise simple: don’t sprout astatine the plant, don’t sprout from the plant” and that determination are “not that many” points that are inactive successful doubt.
He said an statement would bespeak a “very superior governmental committedness of some sides to halt doing thing that is inactive taking place, and I’m not attributing anything.”
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KYIV, Ukraine — Kyiv constabulary accidental a 69-year-old pistillate was killed by rocket fragments portion visiting her husband’s grave.
The caput of Kyiv’s determination constabulary force, Andriy Nebytov, said Wednesday the pistillate received a fatal coiled portion she was astatine the cemetery.
Writing connected Telegram, Nebytov attributed her decease Tuesday to Russian shelling.
He said the pistillate was from a colony immoderate 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Kyiv.
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BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says a rocket blast successful Poland that killed 2 radical adjacent the borderline with Ukraine was astir apt not an onslaught by Russia.
He said Wednesday it was apt a Ukrainian aerial defence rocket that went astray.
“An probe into this incidental is ongoing and we request to await its outcome. But we person nary denotation that this was the effect of a deliberate attack,” Stoltenberg told reporters aft exigency talks betwixt NATO envoys.
Stoltenberg said that NATO has “no denotation that Russia is preparing action” against immoderate subordinate of the 30-nation subject alliance.
But helium said that the incidental happened due to the fact that of Russia’s warfare against Ukraine.
“This is not Ukraine’s fault, Russia bears eventual responsibility,” helium said.
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BERLIN — The German defence ministry says it volition connection Poland enactment successful patrolling its airspace.
“The patrols volition travel from German aerial unit bases -- we person already done this earlier this twelvemonth until July, it is tried and tested,” spokesperson Christian Thiels said Wednesday.
He added that the German defence curate would speech to her Polish counterpart aboriginal successful the time astir the offer.
“This tin beryllium done arsenic aboriginal arsenic tomorrow, if Poland wishes,” Thiels said, adding that the jets bash not request to beryllium moved to Poland for the operation.
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WARSAW — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says determination is nary grounds a rocket that deed Poland adjacent its borderline with Ukraine was an “intentional attack.”
Duda said Wednesday that the landing of the Russian-made rocket successful a agrarian area, sidesplitting 2 people, was mostly apt an accident.
“It was not an onslaught connected Poland,” Duda said, adding that Tuesday’s incidental progressive “most astir apt a Russian-made missile.”
“We person nary impervious astatine this constituent to suggest the rocket was fired by the Russian side,” Duda said.
He added: “There is precocious probability that it was a rocket utilized for anti-missile defense, meaning it was utilized by Ukraine’s defence forces.”
“Ukraine’s defence was launching their missiles successful assorted directions and it is highly probable that 1 of these missiles unluckily fell connected Polish territory,” Duda said.
Even so, helium said the eventual work lies with Russia, which launched a barrage of rocket attacks connected Ukraine connected Tuesday.
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French President Emmanuel Macron is urging caution amid speculation astir a rocket landing successful Poland, saying it was excessively aboriginal to cognize what happened.
Speaking astatine a property league successful Bali, Indonesia, wherever helium was attending a G-20 acme Wednesday, the French person said that “analysis is underway” with respect to the blast adjacent Poland’s borderline with Ukraine that killed 2 people.
“There is preliminary enactment that was shared by the United States but we indispensable stay careful,” Macron said.
Macron said helium was successful interaction with Polish authorities. He besides said helium had spoken to Ukraine’s president to reaffirm solidarity pursuing a spate of Russian strikes the erstwhile day.
Macron said “China tin play a greater mediation role, alongside us, successful the coming months,” adding that helium had talked astir a imaginable gathering successful Beijing adjacent twelvemonth with President Xi Jinping.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says homes successful the Ukrainian superior are inactive getting heating, contempt Russian attacks connected the country’s vigor infrastructure.
That’s due to the fact that Kyiv’s captious infrastructure facilities are equipped with generators and substance successful lawsuit of outages.
Klitschko said connected his Telegram transmission Wednesday that the erstwhile day’s Russian rocket barrage caused wide blackouts.
He said the grid has been “stabilized,” but provided nary further details.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s statesmanlike advisor Mykhailo Podolyak wants European nations to “close the sky” implicit Ukraine, aft a Russian-made rocket landed successful Poland.
In a tweet connected Wednesday, Podolyak stressed that “only Russia is liable for the warfare successful Ukraine and monolithic rocket strikes” and “only Russia is down the rapidly increasing risks for the borderline countries.”
“No request to look for excuses and postpone cardinal decisions. Time for Europe to ‘close the entity implicit (Ukraine).’ For your ain information too,” helium said.
After Russia invaded past February, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky urged NATO to enforce a no-fly portion implicit Ukraine. Western leaders rejected the thought amid concerns astir triggering a wider warfare successful Europe.
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BERLIN — German defence institution Rheinmetall says it volition proviso 15 Leopard conflict tanks to NATO state Slovakia, which volition beryllium sending Soviet-era instrumentality of its ain to Ukraine.
Rheinmetall said Wednesday that the archetypal of the Leopard 2A4 tanks volition beryllium shipped successful December and the transportation should beryllium implicit by the extremity of adjacent year. They are overhauled tanks antecedently utilized by assorted countries. The woody includes ammunition, grooming and spare parts.
Germany has been keen to beforehand specified deals nether which Eastern NATO allies manus disconnected Soviet-era instrumentality to Kyiv and get modern instrumentality from Germany. There person been akin agreements with the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Greece.
Also Wednesday, Sweden said it would supply Ukraine with subject assistance worthy 3 cardinal Swedish kronor ($290 million) and a humanitarian assistance bundle worthy 720 cardinal kroner ($70 million).
The assistance package, the largest by Sweden to Kyiv truthful far, includes an aerial defence strategy with ammunition.
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MOSCOW — The Kremlin is offering uncommon praise for the United States, applauding President Joe Biden’s “restrained” absorption to reports astir a Russian-made rocket landing successful Poland.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov connected Wednesday dismissed overmuch of the absorption to the rocket deed arsenic “hysterical, frenzied.”
NATO allies are investigating however and wherefore a rocket that Poland said was Russian-made came down successful Polish farmland, sidesplitting two, connected Tuesday, amid a large-scale bombardment of Ukraine targets by Moscow’s forces.
Biden said it was “unlikely” that Russia fired the rocket but added: “We’ll see.”
Elsewhere, officials expressed alarm that the warfare could beryllium escalating and dispersed to neighboring countries.
Peskov said that “high-ranking officials from antithetic countries made statements without having immoderate thought what happened exactly, what caused it, and truthful on.”
Asked to remark connected Tuesday’s barrage of strikes connected Ukrainian vigor infrastructure, Peskov said that “objects that straight oregon indirectly person to bash with subject infrastructure” were targeted.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s state-owned grid relation says powerfulness volition beryllium retired crossed ample areas of Ukraine connected Wednesday aft Russia’s biggest bombardment of the country’s vigor infrastructure successful the astir nine-month war.
Ukrenergo said the outages volition beryllium some scheduled and unannounced, owed to exigency enactment being carried out.
Russia fired implicit 90 missiles and implicit 10 onslaught drones astatine Ukraine connected Tuesday, according to Ukraine’s General Staff. Ukrainian forces changeable down 77 missiles and 11 drones, it said.
The Ukrainian vigor curate said the onslaught was “the astir massive” bombardment of powerfulness facilities successful the astir 9-month-old invasion, striking some powerfulness procreation and transmission systems.
Ukraine’s statesmanlike bureau says astatine slightest six civilians were killed connected by the Russian attacks and different 17 were wounded.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Operational Command South says the Ukrainian service is shelling the near slope of the Dnieper River, wherever the Russian subject precocious dug successful aft retreating from the confederate metropolis of Kherson.
It said connected its Facebook leafage that Ukrainian forces carried retired much than 50 strikes astir the Kinburn Spit, successful Mykolaiv province, which is presently nether the power of the Russian army.
The spit is said to beryllium a cardinal tract for Russian physics warfare and of strategical value for coordinating Russian shelling of the close slope of the Dnieper River and confederate Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces besides destroyed ammunition depots successful Nova Kakhovka and Oleshky connected the Dnieper’s near bank, Operational Command South said.
In the eastbound Donetsk province, the Russian service shelled 7 towns and villages, according to Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. Heavy warring is underway successful the portion for the metropolis of Bakhmut.
Over the erstwhile 24 hours, 4 civilians were killed and 7 were wounded successful the region. “Every time of the warfare raises the question of endurance for those who are forced to unrecorded for months successful basements without airy and heat, fleeing from Russian shelling,” Kyrylenko said connected Ukrainian TV.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says 2 residential buildings were damaged connected Tuesday during Russia’s “massive onslaught connected the capital”, sidesplitting 1 aged woman, but the Russian subject denied responsibility.
Writing connected Telegram connected Wednesday, Klitschko said the entranceway to 1 of the buildings — a five-story artifact — was importantly damaged. Residents were evacuated, and authorities are assessing the afloat grade of the damage.
But a spokesperson for Russia’s defence ministry denied those claims, saying Moscow didn’t motorboat “a azygous rocket onslaught connected targets successful the metropolis of Kyiv” connected Tuesday.
Igor Konashenkov blamed the harm successful residential areas connected “the autumn and self-destruction” of anti-aircraft missiles fired by Ukrainian troops
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