Ukraine

Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be at the center of President Biden's address to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, as the U.S. warns Russia is ...

In addition, the president will address the impacts of climate change on food supply and access, he said. General Assembly since the COVID-19 pandemic — though one leader, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, [will address the meeting with virtual remarks](https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-2427ea0fce71024167bbecc6db0a6cc2). "The United States will never recognize Russia's claims to any purportedly annexed parts of Ukraine," Sullivan said. Security Council, has "struck at the very heart of the charter by challenging the principle of territorial integrity and sovereignty," Sullivan said. With the rising cost of food around the world, Sullivan said Biden's speech will also include a "robust" section on global food security, and said the president will advocate for an elimination of export bans and hoarding to help food prices come down. President Biden is expected to focus on Russia's war on Ukraine in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday and will announce new support for countries facing food shortages caused in part by the war, the White House said.

Warning that Russia's imperial ambitions threaten the globe, President Joe Biden stood at the United Nations and denounced Moscow's efforts to “erase” ...

But rather than fly directly from London to New York, he returned to the White House for nearly 24 hours — and delivered a slightly off-topic speech about dark money in politics — before making his way to Manhattan on Tuesday evening. Beyond Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi have not made the trip to New York, depriving Biden of an ability to chastise the two powers face to face for the soft support of Russia. He headed straight for a Democratic party fundraiser — one of at least two on his New York itinerary. The president hammered that point home from the rostrum in Turtle Bay, calling for the continent to stiffen its resolve as the United States continues to funnel billions of dollars of weapons and supplies to the Ukrainian resistance. Hushed conversations across New York this week also held the rumor that Volodymyr Zelenskyy might also appear in Bali, in what would be his first time leaving his war-torn country since Russia’s invasion. The Western alliance’s resolve will be tested by what looms as a cold, dark winter for Europe — with the continent cut off from Russia’s energy supplies, its resolve tested by rising prices and plunging temperatures. officials believe the most perilous moment of the conflict is on the horizon. “Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenants of the United Nations charter.” Putin had long resisted any sort of military mobilization for fears that a widespread effort to recruit more fighters could lead to protests and other domestic turmoil. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan reviewed the speech with Biden in the morning, adjusting and emphasizing certain lines, aides said. Biden aides believe Ukraine’s recent wins prove it remains worth it for Europe to stand with Kyiv. But Putin’s inflammatory rhetoric heightened his call’s urgency, with fears growing that the Russian president would use some sort of tactical nuclear device on the battlefield.

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday, said he was not bluffing when he said he was ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia.

This is not a bluff.” And those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the weathervane can turn and point towards them,” he added. 24 invasion, Putin raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict.

Vladimir Putin, president of Russia on Wednesday called 300000 of the country's reserve army to support the ongoing war in Ukraine....

Conscripts were used throughout the protracted Afghan War of the Soviet Union. He said Moscow will respond with its full might and its vast military weapons if the West continues what he called “nuclear blackmail” over the ongoing conflict. [ Russia](http://government.ru/en/) on Wednesday called 300,000 of the country’s reserve army to support the ongoing war in Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia, according to his counterpart in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky, wants to "drown Ukraine in blood."

Putin also insisted that his warning to deploy Russia’s WMDs if its territory was threatened was “not a bluff,” which increased the likelihood of a nuclear exchange. Zelensky declared: “He intends to drown Ukraine in blood, including the blood of his own men.” President Vladimir Putin of Russia, according to his counterpart in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky, wants to “drown Ukraine in blood.”

How significant are Russian President Vladimir Putin's order for a “partial mobilization” to replenish Russian military forces and his support for referendums ...

At the same time, the United States is certainly reviewing with greater urgency the range of possible responses to Russia’s use of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict, and should continue to stress, as Biden already has, that Russia will pay a heavy price. The conflict might not be existential for Russia, but it certainly is for Putin and his entourage. That said, the Kremlin turned to the partial mobilization to mitigate the hard-line blowback it has already faced because of the military’s stunning retreat in recent weeks and the overall general lack of progress on the ground in Ukraine. The threat of nuclear weapons has formed the backdrop to this conflict from the very beginning. The widespread view in Moscow is that the Kremlin has avoided calling a general mobilization because of doubts that young Russians were ready to actually fight and die for Putin’s goals in Ukraine. Putin’s order is designed to reconfigure the character of the conflict to Russia’s advantage after it recently suffered stinging setbacks in Kharkiv Oblast.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announces plans to mobilise up to 300000 military reservists to fight in Ukraine.

Let’s consider those as warning strikes,” Putin said on September 16 in reference to the strikes. [said Kirill Stremousov](https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/15756697), deputy head of the occupation administration of Kherson. “I know that today’s era is not of war,” said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Putin said this was in retaliation for Ukraine’s targeting of Russian infrastructure. Sergey Eliseev, Russia’s top Kherson administrator, said he was [stepping up patrols](https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/15766641) in the province. [Ukrainian special forces](//3337AB5D-56C1-4777-9F05-188CD1E3D24E/v) who tried to form a bridgehead in occupied Kherson on September 15. “This is a permanent process; it happens throughout the day,” Rogov said. “It is not a pride that features flag waving and empty patriotic gestures. Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in northwestern Kherson on August 29 and Kyiv claims it has recaptured 500sq km of territory. On July 31, Ukraine attacked the Sevastopol naval base, with reports that some personnel were wounded. “If you get on the Kinburn Spit, look at the map, you can almost walk to… Russian Defence minister Sergei Shoigu admitted that 6,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in the seven-month conflict.

A previously unreported drone boat, known as a USV (uncrewed surface vessel), appears to have slipped past Russian Navy patrols.

Local media reported “The explosion in Sevastopol is the destruction of a floating drone.” Blowing it up also supports the suggestion that it was carrying explosives. This is likely the main sensor for steering and situational awareness. Going further, a theory is that this device is designed to ram another vessel and detonate, like a modern interpretation of an explosive boat. And such a small vessel, about the size of a kayak, would likely have a very small radar signature. In this David and Goliath battle, the smaller combatant has not found itself wanting.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization on Wednesday, again blaming the West for the conflict in Ukraine.

"The sham referenda and the potential mobilization of additional forces isn't a sign of strength. The meeting between Thomas-Greenfield and Kuleba, their second since Russia's war broke out in late February, comes as the Kremlin attempts to hold referendums in Russian-controlled Ukrainian cities. It is clear what will happen to these guys there, whom, as we saw in the first days of the invasion, the army cannot properly train and provide," he said. It's widely expected that the war in Ukraine and global food security will dominate discussions. He called on the U.N. Russia denies it has targeted civilians or civilian infrastructure, despite evidence to the contrary. delegation will meet with a Ukrainian delegation on the sidelines of the U.N. As we can see, the Russian authorities intend to compensate for this with violence and repression against their own people. Yesterday he telephoned me, he is spending time there, helping in the area of Odesa and bringing closeness," Pope Francis said, according to an NBC News translation. delegate to the United Nations, Hugh Dugan. Let us unite ourselves to these people who are so noble and martyred," the Pope added. Elsewhere, Russian-backed officials in several parts of Ukraine have announced plans to hold referenda on joining Russia.

POWs are released and transferred to Saudi Arabia as part of Russia-Ukraine exchange mediated by the Saudi crown prince.

The Swedish citizen detained in Donetsk has now been exchanged and is well. Some of them have been caught by Russian forces, along with other foreigners in the country who say they were not fighters. Aslin was captured earlier this year then sentenced to death by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), one of Russia’s proxies in eastern Ukraine. She also thanked Ukraine and Saudi Arabia. We thank the Crown Prince and Government of Saudi Arabia for facilitating. [@ZelenskyyUa], [@AndriyYermak]and the Ukrainian government for including 2 U.S.

Much depends on whether Russian losing streak continues; even then negotiations will be tricky, fraught, Putin expert says.

What is the buildup going to be to the presidential election in 2024? They are going to continue to be neighbors, and eventually, they are going to have to find a way to live together. And finally, what it all in the end depends on is the situation on the battlefield. The problem is, he is being pushed into a corner and if that continues, it’s very difficult to say, “He won’t do this” or “He won’t do that.” Because if he feels that his own position is threatened — which is not the case at the moment — or if he feels that Russia as a nation, Russia as a whole, is at a very serious disadvantage, then I don’t think you can completely rule out anything. That is something I don’t think is going to happen. Or is that potentially too risky, and would it be better to seize this time to stabilize the situation through negotiations? Eventually, all wars end either with complete defeat, in other words in a Ukrainian flag flying over the Kremlin, and that is not going to happen, or with negotiations. One, and the most important, is that the war is not going well for the Russians. and the West take advantage of this moment as it helps Ukraine put maximum pressure on Russia to end the war militarily? My instinct is that he will continue to escalate until he reaches a position where he’s sure he can present whatever the result is as an acceptable outcome for him. He didn’t expect Zelensky to remain in Kyiv and lead the resistance. The Ukrainian successes have spurred discussion in the West about the prospect for negotiations to end the aggression and at what cost.

What President Putin announced today constitutes another major escalation in the unprovoked war that he has launched against Ukraine. It looks like he is ...

Since the beginning, we have said that we are not belligerent, that we are not engaged in the war. What will more of the same do to a President who has just called up hundreds of thousands of new troops? And we have to do a kind of political pedagogy in order to explain what are the causes of the war and what are the consequences of the war. You just said that you are not engaged in the war, that you are providing military equipment. You said the recipe is “More of the same”. We do not have to be alarmist, but we have to be aware of the risk. What can be done – what have you done – to achieve some kind of unity so that the world is sending the same message that you are? We see an escalation between [President Ebrahim] Raisi and [President Joe] Biden, do you think that it will lead the deal [to be] turned down or it is just a political way of lifting the ceiling? It is not the sanctions, it is the war itself. On the previous question, you know that the nuclear power station in Zaporizhzhia is in a dire situation. Now, I have to convene another one because I think that the [EU Foreign Affairs] Ministers have to discuss about these threats, to reiterate the continued support to Ukraine and to alert the international community about the unacceptable situation in which Putin is putting all of us. I will speak on behalf of the European Union to the Security Council.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy urges UN to adopt five-point plan for peace in Ukraine; more than 1300 people arrested in anti-mobilisation rallies throughout Russia.

[Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine)has released a recording of an intercepted call by a Russian soldier in which he appears to complain about the setbacks faced by Russian troops in recent months. The US president was speaking to the UN general assembly, where [he sought to galvanise the outrage of UN member states](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/21/joe-biden-putin-nuclear-weapons-ukraine-un-general-assembly)at the threat that Putin’s actions and “imperial ambitions” posed to the UN’s founding values. [More than 1,300](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/russia-protests-more-than-1300-arrested-at-anti-war-demonstrations-ukraine)protesters have been arrested in anti-mobilisation rallies that are taking place throughout [Russia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia). According to the decree, the contracts of soldiers fighting in Ukraine will also be extended until the end of the partial mobilisation period. Ours rape local women,” the soldier appeared to say into the phone, adding there was little to no chance of him returning home anytime soon. The Russian president said in a Explosions were heard across Kharkiv at around 2am. [At least one missile struck a high-rise apartment](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/sep/21/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-blinken-calls-moscows-referendum-attempts-a-sham-zelenskiy-to-speak-at-un?page=with:block-632afd0b8f08146227061488#block-632afd0b8f08146227061488)in the western Zalutino district. Russia has released 215 Ukrainians it took prisoner after a protracted battle for the port city of Mariupol earlier this year, including top military leaders, a senior official in Kyiv said. [televised address](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/putin-announces-partial-mobilisation-in-russia-in-escalation-of-ukraine-war)that the “partial mobilisation” was a direct response to the dangers posed by the west. [in a joint statement](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/sep/21/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-blinken-calls-moscows-referendum-attempts-a-sham-zelenskiy-to-speak-at-un?page=with:block-632b39c28f08f4c4bf5d772c#block-632b39c28f08f4c4bf5d772c)following a meeting between the pair in New York that Putin’s calls for partial mobilisation were “a sign that Russia’s invasion is failing”. [Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/putin-announces-partial-mobilisation-in-russia-in-escalation-of-ukraine-war)as “reckless” and “irresponsible” and called Russia’s planned annexation of more regions of Ukraine as “an extremely significant violation” of the UN charter.

The United States welcomes the negotiated prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, which includes two U.S. citizens captured while serving in Ukraine's ...

The United States is appreciative of Ukraine including all prisoners of war, regardless of nationality, in its negotiations, and we look forward to these U.S. We also thank our Saudi partners for helping to spearhead this humanitarian initiative and facilitating the return of ten foreign nationals, including the two U.S. The United States welcomes the negotiated prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, which includes two U.S.

Prime minister says 215 soldiers imprisoned by Russia, including fighters who led the defence of Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks, have been released.

[were part of the swap deal](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/aiden-aslin-among-five-uk-nationals-released-by-russian-backed-forces), Zelenskiy said. [surrendered after a long siege of the steelworks](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/17/fate-hundreds-ukrainian-soldiers-unclear-azovstal-resistance-ends) and were transferred to Russian-held territory. [Viktor Medvedchuk](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/viktor-medvedchuk-arrest-matter-to-kremlin), a former Ukrainian lawmaker and ally of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin accused of high treason, the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in his daily address.

Saudi Arabia brokered an arrangement whereby the 10 foreigners were flown to Saudi Arabia. The mediation involved Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who ...

The head of the U.N. Also freed was Serhiy Volynsky, the commander of the 36th Marine Brigade. And the main thing is that 215 families can see their loved ones safe and at home," Zelenskiy said in a video address. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the swap - which involved help from Turkey and Saudi Arabia - had been under preparation for quite a long time and involved intense haggling. The foreigners released included two Britons and a Moroccan who had been sentenced to death in June after being captured fighting for Ukraine. Pro-Russian separatists had also said last month that the Mariupol commanders would go on trial.

He spoke on the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin called up 300,000 military reservists for duty, a move which prompted rare protests on the streets of ...

As his fourth and fifth conditions, he called for new security guarantees for Kyiv, and for the world to unite in calling out Moscow's armed aggression. He also called for Ukrainian lives to be protected, and for the country's internationally-recognised borders to be respected. In a pre-recorded video, the Ukrainian leader called for the creation of a special war tribunal and detailed alleged war crimes by Russia.

US President Joe Biden has taken a swipe at Russia over its ongoing war in Ukraine which he says is in violation of the UN's 1945 general charter,

Russia is one of five permanent members of the Security Council, capable of vetoing any security resolution, and President Biden said he wanted to expand the number of permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council, to include representatives from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Biden said that the war was about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state and as a people “plain and simple.” US President Joe Biden has taken a swipe at Russia over its ongoing war in Ukraine which he says is in violation of the UN’s 1945 general charter, signed after World War II.

Buoyed by a counteroffensive that has retaken swaths of territory that the Russians seized, Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed in a video address Wednesday that his ...

But Russia will not be able to stop the course of history,” he said, declaring that “mankind and the international law are stronger” than what he called a “terrorist state.” “They talk about the talks but announce military mobilization. It was apparently an effort to seize momentum after the Ukrainian counteroffensive. “This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state, plain and simple, and Ukraine’s right to exist as a people. But this speech was one of the most keenly anticipated at the U.N. Putin’s decree Wednesday about the mobilization was sparse on details.

The war has widened gender gaps in food insecurity, malnutrition, energy poverty and increased gender-based violence inside Ukraine and around the world.

That is simply the only way to be certain that their rights and needs are fully taken into account as we respond to the clear facts before us.” Women-headed households in Ukraine were already more food insecure prior to the war, with 37.5 per cent of them experiencing moderate or severe levels of food insecurity compared to 20.5 per cent of male-headed households. [new UN policy paper](https://reliefweb.int/node/3889007) published as the Security Council meets on Ukraine, reveals how the war and its global impacts on food, energy and finance are affecting women and girls disproportionately both inside Ukraine and globally.

A UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting has been held on Thursday to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UNSC that ...

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Russian-backed officials in four occupied regions of Ukraine are holding self-styled referendums on joining Russia, after Vladimir Putin announced a call-up ...

Russia analyst Alexander Baunov says merely redefining the occupied areas as Russian territory is unlikely to stop Ukraine's army, but it does send a message of intent to the populations under their control. The head of Russia's proxy authority in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, ordered a mass evacuation days before the invasion. Russia does control most of Luhansk in the north-east even if it has begun to lose ground. They talk of "house-to-house" voting for the first four days, with stationary polling stations on 27 September. The central administration building was hit by a series of missiles only last week. By annexing another 15% of sovereign Ukraine, Russia will be able to claim its territory is under attack from Nato weapons.

Russian men explain how they are trying to resist Vladimir Putin's call-up of 300000 military reservists.

He was taken to a police station, handed call-up papers and signed them as he was being videoed by the police. He had planned to go back but is now worried by President Putin's nuclear weapons threat and will stay in Russia, close to his family. "He has now locked himself in one room and refuses to come out," says Vyacheslav. You can't be certain but hopefully this will be enough to avoid being taken [into the army]." But Sergei has no military experience and his stepfather is worried, as dodging the draft is a criminal offence in Russia. Instead, he was faced with two men in civilian clothes who handed him military papers and asked him to sign.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia escalated its military and political campaign Thursday to capture Ukrainian territory, rounding up Russian army ...

Pro-Moscow authorities in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied regions are preparing to hold referendums on becoming part of Russia — a move that could allow Moscow to escalate the war. One Russian man who arrived in the Armenian capital’s airport with his 17-year-old son said he had made plans for such a scenario. More than 1,300 Russians were arrested in the anti-war demonstrations, according to the independent Russian human rights group OVD-Info. Denis Pushilin, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, confirmed that the Putin ally, pro-Russian Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk, was part of the swap. Overnight, one person was killed during Russian shelling in Nikopol, across the river from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, according to the Dnipropetrovsk regional governor. The governor of the Zaporizhzhia region, Oleksandr Starukh, said Russian forces had targeted infrastructure and damaged apartment buildings.

Ukrainian opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk liberated as result of swap - Anadolu Agency.

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. "As a result of a complex exchange negotiation process, 55 servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Donetsk and Luhansk republics, who were in mortal danger in captivity, were returned from the territory of Ukraine controlled by the Kyiv regime tonight," the country's Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement. Russia said Thursday 55 servicemen were released in the recent exchange of prisoners of war with Ukraine.

Commanders who led defence of Azovstal steelworks among those freed in exchange for Putin ally and 55 Russian soldiers.

On Thursday, the former president Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the deputy chair of Russia’s security council, said nuclear weapons could be used to defend the new territories that Russia planned to claim. In Donetsk, Russian proxy authorities claimed that Ukrainian shelling had killed six people. The Russian president is godfather to his daughter. I just said his name over and over again,” she said, adding that the call was brief and they had not discussed the conditions of his detention in Russia. Medvedchuk was arrested in April after escaping house arrest on treason charges days after Russia launched its invasion. Volynskyi is one of five commanders to be released who will have to stay in Turkey. Russia’s embassy in Britain tweeted in July that the fighters should be hanged. Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, criticised Russia’s leadership in unusually harsh terms on Thursday, saying “terrorist criminals should not be swapped for soldiers”. They had refused to give up for weeks despite running out of ammunition and with many wounded in the underground tunnels of the vast Azovstal plant. [Kremlin rejected the offer](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/12/ukraine-arrest-putin-ally-viktor-medvedchuk). Of those we have freed, 108 are Azov fighters,” said Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to the Ukrainian president, “We knew that negotiations were ongoing, but we didn’t know the details.

There is "mounting evidence" of war crimes against citizens in Ukraine, the foreign secretary says.

"We know what Vladimir Putin is doing. He is planning to fabricate the outcome of those referenda, he is planning to use that to annex sovereign Ukrainian territory, and he is planning to use it as a further pretext to escalate his aggression," he said. At a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Mr Cleverly accused Russian forces of committing atrocities in Ukraine and violating international law.

The war in Ukraine is now in its seventh month. The fallout—humanitarian, economic and environmental—continues to grow. Its costs are being felt not only ...

The cost of food has risen by 50 per cent since the start of 2022. An even larger portion of the global fertilizer supply—especially crucial for agriculture in soil-depleted countries—remains in Russia and Belarus. Much of the world’s wheat, corn and barley remains in Ukraine and Russia.