Ukraine civilian death toll from war tops 6,500; NATO assembly seeks special tribunal on Russian aggression - CNBC

Iran has agreed to assistance Russia manufacture drones, 2 U.S. officials and a Western authoritative confirmed to NBC News.

Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that Moscow and Tehran reached an statement during a gathering successful aboriginal November to nutrient Iranian-designed weapons connected Russian soil.

The 2 countries are moving rapidly to transportation designs and components to Russia that would let accumulation to statesman wrong the adjacent fewer months, U.S. quality officials told The Post.

Iran had antecedently been accused by Ukraine and Western allies of supplying Russia with self-detonating drones that were utilized connected Ukrainian territory, heightening concerns astir an arms speech betwixt the 2 nations.

— Rocio Fabbro

One idiosyncratic was killed and 4 others injured from Russian shelling successful the Kherson region, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, lawman caput of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

Despite Russia's withdrawal from Kherson earlier this month, shelling has continued successful the confederate Ukrainian region. aforesaid t

Over the past respective months, Russia has consistently attacked civilian infrastructure, including vigor systems and residential buildings.

Ukrainian officials began evacuating civilians from Kherson and a neighboring state arsenic infrastructure harm was deemed excessively captious for inhabitants to safely stay during the winter.

— Rocio Fabbro

At slightest 6,595 civilians person died and 10,189 person been injured successful Ukraine since Russia invaded its ex-Soviet neighbour connected Feb. 24, according to the United Nations.

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said that the decease toll successful Ukraine is apt higher than that due to the fact that equipped struggle tin hold fatality reports.

Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the usage of explosive weapons with a wide interaction area, including shelling from dense artillery and aggregate motorboat rocket systems, arsenic good arsenic missiles and airstrikes, according to the organization.

— Amanda Macias

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged NATO members to warrant the extortion of Ukraine's atomic plants from Russian sabotage, a time aft the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia works was rocked by dense shelling.

"All our nations are funny successful not having immoderate unsafe incidents astatine our atomic facilities," Zelenskyy said successful a video code to NATO's Parliamentary Assembly successful Madrid.

"We each request guaranteed extortion from Russian sabotage astatine atomic facilities," helium added.

The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness works successful confederate Ukraine was shelled connected Saturday and Sunday, raising interest astir the imaginable for a superior mishap conscionable 500 km (300 miles) from Chornobyl, tract of the world's worst atomic catastrophe successful 1986.

— Reuters

The NATO Parliamentary Assembly successful Madrid called for the instauration of a peculiar planetary tribunal connected Russia's aggression successful Ukraine and recognized Russia arsenic a violent state, according to a connection from the caput of Ukraine's imperishable delegation to the NATO assembly.

"All 30 NATO countries supported the proposals of our delegation," Yehor Chernev said successful the statement.

"Such a tribunal volition marque it imaginable to convict not lone the nonstop perpetrators of warfare crimes, but besides the elder enactment of the Russian Federation."

The resolution, which besides includes proposals to summation arms supplies to Ukraine, make further steps for Ukraine's accession to NATO, and make a reparation postulation mechanism, volition beryllium sent to each NATO subordinate countries, Chernev said.

"The adoption of this solution is an important governmental measurement that reflects the temper successful Western parliamentary circles, and truthful influences the enactment of countries successful decision-making," helium said.

At the assembly, NATO Allies and the European Union besides reinforced their committedness to long-term, sustained fiscal and subject enactment for Ukraine.

— Rocio Fabbro

Graffiti by the celebrated anonymous thoroughfare creator Banksy have been popping up connected destroyed buildings from Russia's continued warfare successful Ukraine.

Banksy posted a video connected his Instagram relationship and website detailing him doing immoderate of the work successful the colony of Horenka.

"Don't beryllium bittersweet honey," 1 Ukraine parent said connected the video arsenic she comforted her tiny girl extracurricular the bombed-out rubble of a schoolhouse wherever the miss had attended kindergarten.

"We already cried truthful much. We don't person immoderate much tears left," the pistillate said.

Banksy past week confirmed to The Art Newspaper that helium created 7 murals successful antithetic locations successful Ukraine.

— Dan Mangan and Adam Jeffrey

Residents of the 2 confederate regions, regularly shelled successful the past months by Russian forces, person been advised to determination to safer areas successful the cardinal and and occidental parts of the country, said Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.

The authorities volition supply "transportation, accommodation, aesculapian care," she said.

The evacuations travel conscionable implicit a week aft Ukraine retook the metropolis of Kherson and areas astir it. The liberation of the country marked a large battlefield gain, portion the evacuations present item the difficulties the state is facing pursuing dense Russian shelling of its powerfulness infrastructure arsenic wintertime upwind sets in.

— The Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urged members to proceed their enactment of Ukraine, noting that the semipermanent costs of Russian triumph outweigh the existent fiscal outgo connected subordinate nations.

"If we let Putin to win, each of america volition person to wage a overmuch higher price," Stoltenberg told the 68th Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. "Authoritarian regimes astir the satellite volition larn that they tin get what they privation with brute force. This would person nonstop consequences for our security. It would marque the satellite much dangerous. And america much vulnerable."

Stoltenberg recognized the cost-of-living situation astir the satellite and the concerns astir the outgo of enactment for NATO Allies, arsenic galore countries person begun to acquisition what has go known arsenic "Ukraine fatigue." However, Stoltenberg contrasted the monetary terms paid by Allies to the monolithic nonaccomplishment of beingness successful Ukraine: "the Ukrainians, they wage a terms which is measured successful blood."

NATO importantly stepped up its enactment to Ukraine earlier this year, pursuing the Alliance's June acme successful Madrid. It is due to the fact that of this continued subject and fiscal support, on with Ukrainian bravery, according to Stoltenberg, that Russia faces "setback aft setback" including the withdrawal from Kherson.

"But it would beryllium a large mistake to underestimate Russia," helium warned. "It retains important subject capabilities and a precocious fig of troops. Russia is consenting to endure important casualties. And is consenting to inflict horrific suffering connected Ukrainian people."

"So we indispensable beryllium prepared to enactment Ukraine for the agelong haul," helium said.

 — Rocio Fabbro

The caput of Russia's state-run atomic vigor agency, Rosatom, warned that there's a hazard of a atomic mishap astatine the Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness works a time aft respective attacks connected the Russian-occupied site, which Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev blamed connected Ukraine.

"We are informing the satellite assemblage that the works is astatine hazard of a atomic accident, and it is evident that Kyiv considers a tiny atomic incidental acceptable," Russian authorities quality bureau Tass quoted Likhachev arsenic telling reporters.

"Large oregon tiny radioactivity, this volition beryllium a precedent that volition everlastingly alteration [the] people of history. Therefore, everything indispensable beryllium done truthful that nary 1 has successful their minds to encroach connected the information of the atomic powerfulness plant," helium said.

Russia and Ukraine person repeatedly accused each different of shelling Europe's largest atomic powerfulness works and risking a monolithic atomic accident.

It's chartless who was down the attacks astatine the play that damaged buildings, systems and equipment, with immoderate of the explosions occurring adjacent the reactors but not straight striking them.

The IAEA has called for the instauration of a information portion astir the plant, thing Likhachev said would lone beryllium imaginable if it was approved by the U.S.

— Holly Ellyatt

The Kremlin said that it volition "bring to justice" those liable for the alleged execution of Russian solders arsenic a quality implicit the alleged killings continues betwixt Moscow and Kyiv.

Speaking to reporters Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said "Russia volition bash everything imaginable wrong the model of planetary mechanisms successful bid to gully attraction to this transgression and telephone to bid and to the instrumentality those who whitethorn beryllium progressive successful it."

Ukraine has said it would analyse video footage circulated connected Russian societal media which Moscow claims shows Ukrainian forces sidesplitting Russian troops who whitethorn person been trying to surrender.

"Of people Ukrainian authorities volition analyse this video," Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's lawman premier minister, said connected the sidelines of a information forum successful Nova Scotia, AP reported earlier Monday.

However, Stefanishyna, speaking precocious Saturday, said "it is precise unlikely" that the short, edited snippets amusement what Moscow claims to beryllium a "brutal murder."

Conversely, Ukraine says Russia has been liable for aggregate alleged warfare crimes connected Ukrainian ungraded since the commencement of the invasion, including the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and schools, and residential buildings. Allegations of torture chambers acceptable up to interrogate Ukrainian civilians and captured troops is besides being investigated. Moscow denies targeting civilians during the war.

— Holly Ellyatt

Spanish constabulary volition deploy successful Ukraine implicit the coming weeks to assistance analyse alleged warfare crimes, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told the NATO Parliamentary Assembly successful Madrid connected Monday.

An beforehand delegation of Spanish constabulary officials has already arrived successful Kyiv to conscionable with representatives of the Ukrainian nationalist prosecutor's office, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.

In their archetypal meeting, the 2 countries established the presumption of practice and specified the areas of deployment, the ministry said.

Spanish officers are acceptable to enactment alongside Ukrainian investigators and prosecutors successful the postulation of grounds that could beryllium incorporated into cases probing alleged violations of planetary instrumentality pursuing Russia's penetration of Ukraine successful February.

Sanchez besides announced that a caller grooming halfway for Ukrainian troops successful the cardinal Spanish metropolis of Toledo volition commencement operating astatine the extremity of November.

— Reuters

Ukraine says it volition analyse video footage circulated connected Russian societal media which Moscow alleged shows that Ukrainian forces killed Russian troops who whitethorn person been trying to surrender, aft 1 of the men seemingly refused to laic down his limb and opened fire, AP reported.

"Of people Ukrainian authorities volition analyse this video," Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's lawman premier curate overseeing the country's propulsion to articulation the European Union, said connected the sidelines of a information forum successful Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Stefanishyna, speaking precocious Saturday, said "it is precise unlikely" that the short, edited snippets amusement what Moscow claims.

Russian authorities announced the opening Friday of a transgression probe based connected the snippets posted connected Russian Telegram channels and relayed connected different societal media. They contiguous a muddled and incomplete picture.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed the footage shows an "execution" and said Russia wants an planetary investigation.

- The Associated Press

The Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant, which came nether dense shelling implicit the weekend, had a fortunate escape, according to the caput of the U.N.'s atomic vigor agency.

"Once again, we were fortunate that a perchance superior atomic incidental did not happen. Next time, we whitethorn not beryllium truthful lucky. We indispensable bash everything successful our powerfulness to marque definite determination is nary adjacent time," the International Atomic Energy Agency's manager wide Rafael Mariano Grossi said successful a statement Sunday.

The IAEA said repeated shelling astatine the Zaporizhzhya works connected Saturday evening and Sunday greeting damaged buildings, systems and equipment, with immoderate of the explosions occurring adjacent the reactors and damaging parts of the plant, including a radioactive discarded and retention gathering and cooling pond sprinkler systems.

Grossi reiterated his telephone for urgent measures to support the works and forestall a atomic mishap during the existent struggle successful Ukraine. He added that agreeing and implementing a atomic information and information extortion portion astir the atomic powerfulness works indispensable hap now.  

"Even though determination was nary nonstop interaction connected cardinal atomic information and information systems astatine the plant, the shelling came dangerously adjacent to them. We are talking metres, not kilometres. Whoever is shelling astatine the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, is taking immense risks and gambling with galore people's lives," Grossi said.

Ukraine and Russia impeach each different of shelling the atomic powerfulness plant, Europe's largest of its kind, which has been occupied by Russian troops since adjacent the commencement of the war. The IAEA squad of experts program to measure the shelling interaction connected the tract connected Monday.

— Holly Ellyatt

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Ukraine is successful a bully presumption to support warring Russia's invading forces done winter.

"As we spell guardant into the winter, we've done a batch to effort to hole the Ukrainians to beryllium prepared for a combat successful the winter, and alteration them to proceed to support unit connected our adversaries passim the wintertime months," helium told a property league as helium prepared to conscionable his Indonesian counterpart, Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, Monday.

"I deliberation they'll beryllium successful overmuch amended information than their adversaries, due to the fact that of the things that we provide. And again, our absorption is to enactment them throughout. Their absorption is to marque definite that they're doing everything to instrumentality backmost each borderline of their sovereign territory," helium said.

He added that it's "hard to foretell however things volition evolve" oregon what benignant of timeline determination mightiness beryllium for the warfare ending, however.

Austin said Ukraine had enactment the subject assistance from its allies to bully usage successful the war, noting "we've seen Ukraine usage that assistance successful precise artful ways and they they've been precise palmy connected the battlefield ... they've taken backmost Kharkiv, and they've besides astir precocious taken backmost arsenic the important municipality of Kherson. And truthful we've seen a fig of successes connected the battlefield."

Ukraine's eastbound Donetsk portion has been the absorption of aggravated warring for weeks, if not months, but Britain's Ministry of Defense said it believes a cardinal country of vulnerability for Russian forces is Svatove, an administrative hub successful the neighboring Luhansk region.

"With Russia's south-western beforehand enactment present much readily defendable on the eastbound slope of the Dnipro River, the Svatove assemblage is apt present a much susceptible operational flank of the Russian force," the ministry said connected Twitter Monday.

"As a important colonisation centre wrong Luhansk Oblast [province], Russian leaders volition highly apt spot retaining power of Svatove arsenic a governmental priority."

"However, commanders are apt struggling with the subject realities of maintaining a credible defence, portion besides attempting to assets violative operations further southbound successful Donetsk," it added. "As connected different parts of the front, Russian forces proceed to prioritise constructing antiaircraft positions, astir surely partially manned by poorly trained mobilised reservists."

The ministry noted that some Russia's antiaircraft and violative capableness continues to beryllium hampered by these terrible shortages of skilled unit and munitions.

The ministry said that successful the past week, "intense artillery exchanges" person continued successful the country of Svatove successful Luhansk.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said fierce battles are inactive ongoing, with the astir aggravated being successful the Donetsk region, but that crushed attacks person declined arsenic wintertime sets in.

"The fiercest battles, arsenic before, are successful the Donetsk region. Although determination are less attacks contiguous owed to the deterioration of the weather, the fig of Russian shelling occasions remains, unfortunately, highly high," Zelenskyy said successful his nightly code Sunday.

In Luhansk, the portion adjacent to Donetsk, Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces are advancing "little by little," but added determination person been astir 400 instances of shelling successful the eastbound portion connected Sunday alone. The president said forces successful the confederate portion of Ukraine are "holding the line," though the concern astir de-occupied Kherson remains tense, with Russians shelling the metropolis past night.

Ukraine's damaged vigor networks stay a monolithic occupation for the government, with Zelenskyy noting that the "restoration of networks and method proviso capabilities, demining of powerfulness transmission lines, repairs - everything goes connected circular the clock."

He said vigor workers had managed to alleviate the concern successful immoderate regions "where determination were a batch of existent problems yesterday." Nonetheless, "stabilization shutdowns" (scheduled vigor shutdowns) person taken spot successful 15 regions and successful Kyiv.

— Holly Ellyatt