Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 249 of the invasion - The Guardian

The Russian authorities has written to the United Nations saying it is indefinitely suspending the Black Sea atom deal that allowed captious exports of Ukrainian nutrient supplies. Moscow besides requested a related gathering of the UN information assembly successful New York connected Monday. The US president, Joe Biden, said Russia’s actions were outrageous.

The UN caput wide urged Russia and Ukraine to renew the atom deal that has seen much than 8m tonnes of atom exported from Ukraine and brought down planetary nutrient prices. The statement betwixt Ukraine and Russia was owed to expire connected 19 November.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence said Russia’s defence ministry was “peddling mendacious claims of an epic scale” aft Moscow accused the British navy of a “terrorist attack” connected Nord Stream state pipelines and claimed British “specialists” aided a drone onslaught successful Sevastopol. Britain’s MoD said: “This latest invented communicative says much astir the arguments going connected wrong the Russian authorities than it does astir the west.”

Ukrainian energy supplies were recovering aft concerted Russian attacks connected generating plants but exigency blackouts whitethorn inactive beryllium needed, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. “Today determination are already importantly less stabilisation [measures] and exigency blackouts … but restrictions are inactive imaginable successful immoderate cities and districts.”

The European Union has frozen Russian assets worthy astir €17bn (£14.6bn oregon $17bn) since Moscow invaded Ukraine, according to the EU justness commissioner, Didier Reynders.

Up to 100 prisoners of warfare person reportedly been exchanged betwixt Russia and Ukraine. Russia’s defence ministry said connected Saturday that Ukraine handed implicit 50 prisoners of warfare aft talks. The Ukrainian equipped forces relationship posted connected Telegram that “52 Ukrainians returned home” during different “exchange of prisoners”.

The Ukrainian statesmanlike adjutant Mykhailo Podolyak has expressed scepticism astir the takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk. The billionaire and Tesla brag drew fury from Kyiv and praise from Moscow this period erstwhile helium posted a Twitter canvass proposing Ukraine permanently cede Crimea to Russia, that referendums beryllium held nether UN auspices connected the destiny of Russian-controlled territory, and that Ukraine hold to neutrality.

Russian-backed forces accidental they person finished a pull-out of civilians from the cardinal confederate Ukrainian metropolis of Kherson. The metropolis had a colonisation of astir 288,000 radical earlier the warfare and was 1 of the archetypal to autumn to Moscow’s troops aft the February invasion. A Russian-installed authoritative successful Kherson said astatine slightest 70,000 radical had near their homes successful the abstraction of a week.

A mobile telephone app has been developed by Ukrainian volunteers to allow civilians to study sightings of incoming Russian drones and missiles – and, it is hoped, summation the proportionality changeable down earlier they deed the ground. The app, ePPO, relies connected a phone’s GPS and compass, and a idiosyncratic lone has to constituent their instrumentality successful the absorption of the incoming entity and property a fastener for it to nonstop a determination study to the military.