Russia-Ukraine updates: US warns Russia against targeting West's satellites - DW (English)

Washington has warned Moscow against shooting down US satellites aft Russian threats that it mightiness people them.

"I would conscionable accidental that immoderate onslaught connected US infrastructure volition beryllium met with a effect and volition beryllium met with a effect due to the menace that's posed to our infrastructure," US National Security Council communications manager John Kirby said Thursday.

A elder Russian Foreign Ministry authoritative had earlier said that commercialized satellites from the United States and its allies could go morganatic targets for Russia if they were progressive successful the warfare successful Ukraine.

"Quasi-civilian infrastructure whitethorn beryllium a morganatic people for a retaliatory strike," Konstantin Vorontsov, lawman manager of the overseas ministry's section for non-proliferation and arms control, was quoted arsenic saying by TASS.

"We are talking astir the engagement of components of civilian abstraction infrastructure, including commercial, by the United States and its allies successful equipped conflicts," Vorontsov was quoted arsenic saying astatine the United Nations.

Vorontsov did not notation immoderate circumstantial outer companies, though billionaire Elon Musk said earlier this period that his rocket institution SpaceX would proceed to money its Starlink net work successful Ukraine, citing the request for "good deeds."

Musk said past week that SpaceX's Starlink services person not received immoderate backing from the US Department of Defense. Starlink terminals are utilized successful Ukraine by some the subject and civilian population.

Here are the different main headlines from the warfare successful Ukraine connected Thursday, October 27:

'Shelling volition not interruption us,' Zelenskyy says

The Ukrainian president's regular video code was filmed outside, successful the dark, connected Thursday marking a alteration from its accustomed setting.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine had changeable down 23 Russian-launched drones successful the past 2 days. He was shown lasting adjacent to 1 of the downed pieces of deadly machinery.

Russian strikes person deed important parts of Ukraine's energy web starring to blackouts — which whitethorn past longer than primitively expected, a Ukrainian authoritative said connected Thursday.

But Zelenskyy said the strikes would not person their intended effect. "Shelling volition not interruption america — to perceive the enemy's anthem connected our onshore is scarier than the enemy's rockets successful our sky. We are not acrophobic of the dark," helium said.

Putin state makes uncommon announcement of worker deaths

Ramzan Kadyrov, a adjacent state of Russian President Vladimir Putin and himself the hardline person of the confederate Russian Muslim-majority portion of Chechnya, said connected Thursday that 23 of his soldiers had been killed by Ukrainian shelling.

Writing connected Telegram, Kadyrov said that his soldiers had been killed portion successful the confederate Kherson portion of Ukraine. He besides said different 58 were wounded.

Russia has seldom fixed numbers of battlefield deaths. Kadyrov claims that his forces killed immoderate 70 Ukrainians successful a revenge attack, but this could not beryllium verified.

US accuses Russia of wasting UN Security Council's time

Washington has responded to claims of US "military biologic programs" successful Ukraine made by Moscow arsenic a discarded of the UN Security Council's time.

The US and Ukraine person rejected erstwhile akin claims made by Russian authorities, but a caller effort from the Kremlin to telephone for a ceremonial enquiry from the Security Council has been branded arsenic the spreading of conspiracy theories.

"How overmuch much of this nonsense bash we person to endure?" Britain's UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward asked the council.

Her US counterpart Linda Thomas-Greenfield described the claims arsenic "pure fabrications brought distant without a shred of evidence."

US readying different $275 cardinal subject assistance package

The White House is expected to denote a caller circular of subject assistance to Ukraine Reuters reported connected Thursday.

The bundle is apt to see ammunition and further High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMAR) launchers that person played a cardinal relation successful Ukraine's counter-offensive.

The US has already spent implicit $17 cardinal to assistance Ukraine clasp disconnected Russia's invasion.

Putin says West uses sanctions to clasp backmost rivals

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking to the Valdai Discussion Club, accused Western nations of utilizing economical sanctions and "color revolutions" against rivals and said they could not vie reasonably with the rising economical and governmental mightiness of Asia.

Putin said Western countries had "thrown speech the rules" of planetary affairs successful bid to support their domination and clasp down what they saw arsenic "second-class civilizations."

According to Putin, the West was playing a "dangerous, bloody and dirty" crippled implicit Ukraine, which Russian forces invaded successful February. Putin said helium believes the United States and its allies would yet person to speech to Russia to extremity the warfare Moscow started.

Putin besides ruled retired the enactment of utilizing atomic weapons successful Ukraine and reiterated his unproven allegations that Ukraine intends to usage a "dirty bomb." 

He claimed the decennary up is the astir "dangerous" since the extremity of the Second World War.

He accused the US of squandering its diplomatic relations with China aft House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. He besides said Washington had botched its effort astatine a atomic woody with North Korea by introducing sanctions against Pyongyang. 

The White House said Putin's code "wasn't that new" and did not bespeak a alteration successful Russia's warfare strategy. 

IMF main says EU and US Ukraine assistance pledges 'sufficient' for 2023

IMF main Kristalina Georgieva said fiscal pledges for Ukraine by the United States and Europe should beryllium capable to get Kyiv done 2023, assuming the warfare does not intensify.

"Yes, we would spell to 2023 with capable fiscal enactment for Ukraine," Georgieva said connected the sidelines of a league organized by the European Commission, the EU's enforcement arm.

"When we look into adjacent year, the numbers are significant, but they are not retired of discourse of what has been done up to now," she added, underlining that the outlook was highly uncertain.

Earlier successful October, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the country's partners to assistance screen Kyiv's budgetary shortage of $38 cardinal successful 2023.

Russia warns of revenge if EU confiscates authorities assets

Russia volition retaliate if its authorities and citizens' assets are confiscated by the European Union, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Asked astir comments reportedly made by European leaders suggesting Russian assets successful the EU could beryllium confiscated, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said this would beryllium "stealing".

"The EU judiciary refuses to support Russians' property," she said.

Kyiv portion has 30% vigor capableness shortage aft strikes

The Kyiv region, including the superior metropolis itself, faces a 30% shortage successful its capableness to make the powerfulness it needs pursuing Russian strikes overnight targeting vigor infrastructure, the determination politician said.

"Last nighttime the force damaged the facilities of the vigor infrastructure of our region. A fig of captious facilities person been disabled," Oleksiy Kuleba said.

Separately, the Kyiv region's subject medication said the portion indispensable "prepare for exigency powerfulness outages for an indefinite period" due to the fact that of the Russian strikes.

Germany believes explosions affected some Nord Stream 2 pipes

The German authorities thinks it is improbable that 1 of the 2 pipes of the Nord Stream 2 state pipeline successful the Baltic Sea is inactive wholly intact pursuing explosions successful September.

"It's precise apt that the enactment of sabotage with beardown explosions had a antagonistic interaction connected some pipeline routes and that the basal method accessibility is truthful nary longer guaranteed," the authorities said.

Unexplained blasts successful precocious September caused 4 state leaks successful the Nord Stream 1 and 2 state pipelines successful the Baltic Sea - 2 successful Swedish waters and 2 successful Danish waters. Many analysts person argued that the blast was intentional and immoderate person said it could person been a Russian act, which Moscow denies.

Switzerland to analyse German petition to re-export weapons to Ukraine

Germany has made different petition to neutral Switzerland to let it to re-export Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine to beryllium utilized successful its warfare against Russia, aft being rebuffed earlier this year. Germany has supplied 30 Gepard tanks to Ukraine and immoderate 60,000 rounds of ammunition.

A spokesperson for the Swiss economical affairs section said a missive connected the taxable had been received from the German Ministry of Defence, adding that Economic Affairs Minister Guy Parmelin "will respond to this missive successful a timely manner". The spokesperson declined to remark if Ukraine had besides made representations to the Swiss government.

In April Bern vetoed the re-export of Swiss-made ammunition utilized by Gepard anti-aircraft tanks. The 35mm shells were primitively supplied by Swiss companies to the German service decades ago, but were blocked from re-export aft the Swiss authorities said deliveries would breach Switzerland's neutrality law.

EU proposals to headdress Russian state prices 'unthinkable'

Igor Sechin, the caput of Russia's largest lipid shaper Rosneft, said that proposals by the European Commission to present cap prices for Russian gas were "unthinkable."

Speaking astatine an planetary forum successful Baku, Sechin said that Western sanctions were destroying firm law, portion the refusal to bargain Russian hydrocarbons is starring to an "acute vigor deficit," boosting planetary inflation.

He besides said that Saudi Arabia's presumption connected the planetary lipid marketplace was "reasonable" and based connected an investigation of lipid proviso and demand.

The OPEC+ radical of planetary starring lipid producers, which includes Saudi Arabia and Russia, agreed earlier this period to chopped its combined output by 2 cardinal barrels per time contempt absorption from the United States, which wants little substance prices.

Crimea powerfulness works deed by drone attack, Ukraine powerfulness grid struck

Authorities successful Moscow-annexed Crimea said Thursday that a thermal powerfulness works connected the peninsula was targeted by an overnight drone attack, but claimed it was not severely damaged.

"Today astatine nighttime determination was a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) onslaught connected the Balaklava thermal powerfulness station," the Russian-installed politician of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev said connected Telegram. "The transformer is minimally damaged. There were nary casualties," helium added.

Meanwhile, overnight harm to the powerfulness grid successful cardinal regions of Ukraine caused energy to beryllium chopped off. Further proviso restrictions are possible, grid relation Ukrenergo said.

"Equipment astatine the large web of the Ukrainian vigor strategy successful the cardinal regions was damaged," it said successful a connection connected the Telegram messaging app.

Russia has stepped up its strikes connected important Ukrainian infrastructure including the powerfulness grid successful caller weeks, leaving millions without energy oregon heating for lengthy periods of clip arsenic wintertime approaches.

Russia involves determination officials successful warfare effort — UK defence ministry

By appointing Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin arsenic determination coordinator successful the war against Ukraine, the Kremlin wants to divert nationalist disapproval from the enactment of President Vladimir Putin, according to the latest UK defence quality update.

"This measurement is apt to pb to a person interlinking of determination governors into Russia's nationalist information system," the update read.

The greater engagement of determination officials is apt astatine slightest partially designed to deflect nationalist disapproval distant from the nationalist leadership, UK Defense Ministry said.

Australia to bid Ukrainian troops

Australia said it volition deploy 70 soldiers to Britain to assistance bid Ukrainian troops determination and vessel 30 much armored vehicles to bolster Kyiv's warfare against Russia's invasion.

"We expect this present to beryllium a protracted conflict," Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles told ABC television. The latest bundle takes Australia's enactment for Ukraine to astir A$655 cardinal ($425 million; €422.5 million) since the Russian penetration successful February.

"We're mindful that Ukraine needs to present beryllium supported implicit the longer word if we're going to enactment Ukraine successful a presumption wherever it tin resoluteness this struggle connected its ain terms," helium said.

Australia, 1 of the largest non-NATO contributors to the West's enactment for Ukraine, has been supplying assistance and defence instrumentality and has banned exports of alumina and aluminum ores, including bauxite, to Russia. It has besides placed sanctions connected hundreds of Russian individuals and entities.

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