Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian missile strike kills at least four in school, say Ukrainian officials | Ukraine

Russian missile strike kills four in Ukrainian school, officials say

The death toll from the Russian missile strike on a school in the town of Nikopol in the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk has been revised from three to four by Ukrainian officials.

“As a result of the Russian strike, four people died: a 72-year-old man and three women aged 69, 67 and 60,” interior minister Ihor Klymenko said on Telegram.

Two people who were injured were receiving medical assistance, he added.

Klymenko said earlier that the victims were employees of the educational institution (see earlier post at 17.35).

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He added that Nato had ramped up production of armaments</p></li>\n <li><p>The US defence secretary, <strong>Lloyd Austin,</strong> said on Wednesday Washington would continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes, even amid the unfolding political chaos in Congress and despite the escalating violence in the Middle East. “We’re here to dig deep to meet Ukraine’s most urgent needs – especially for air defence and ammunition,” he added.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Belgium</strong> will send F-16 fighter jets to <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine\">Ukraine</a> from 2025, Belgian defence minister Ludivine Dedonder said on Bel RTL radio.</p></li>\n <li><p>The US Treasury secretary, <strong>Janet Yellen</strong>, on Wednesday said a G7-led price cap on Russian oil had sharply reduced Russian revenues over the past ten months, and that it was critical to keep imposing severe and increasing costs on Russia over its war in Ukraine.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Alexander Bogomaz</strong>, the <strong>Bryansk</strong> regional governor, has claimed that Russia has shot down at least three Ukrainian drones over his region in the last few hours.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Kajsa Ollongren, </strong>the defence secretary of the <strong>Netherlands,</strong> said outside the Nato headquarters in Brussels that Sweden should be admitted into the alliance as swiftly as possible. She said: “I’ve also talked about this issue to my Turkish colleague. I think it is vital for the strength of Nato, especially in north-eastern part of Nato. And I really hope that Turkey as soon as possible will take the right decision”. Turkey and Hungary remain the only two members of the alliance yet to ratify Sweden joining.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Vladimir Putin</strong> will visit <strong>Kyrgyzstan</strong> on Thursday, the presidential office of the central Asian country said, in what would be the Russian leader’s first known trip abroad since the international criminal court issued a warrant for his arrest.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Extensive damage to an undersea gas pipeline and communications cable connecting Finland and Estonia “could not have occurred by accident” and <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/undersea-pipeline-damage-appears-to-be-deliberate-says-finland\">appears to be the result of a “deliberate … external act”</a>, Finnish authorities said Tuesday</strong>. Local media cited unnamed government sources as saying Russian sabotage was suspected, while regional security experts said a Russian survey vessel had recently been observed making repeated visits to the vicinity of the Balticconnector pipeline.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Stoltenberg</strong> said on Wednesday of the pipeline damage that “if it is proven to be a deliberate attack on a Nato critical infrastructure, then this will be of course serious, but it will also be met by a united and determined that response from Nato.”</p></li>\n</ul>","elementId":"d20c0225-60e1-4c91-ae7a-b7657aa2dbd3"}],"attributes":{"pinned":false,"keyEvent":false,"summary":true},"blockCreatedOn":1697017909000,"blockCreatedOnDisplay":"05.51 EDT","blockLastUpdated":1697018755000,"blockLastUpdatedDisplay":"06.05 EDT","blockFirstPublished":1697018520000,"blockFirstPublishedDisplay":"06.02 EDT","blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone":"06.02","title":"Summary of the day so far 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And that will increase their ability to finance and to provide also ammunition themselves for the war.</p>\n</blockquote>","elementId":"485cbb3d-e9c8-40ce-9fec-d0cf744d9f1a"}],"attributes":{"pinned":false,"keyEvent":true,"summary":false},"blockCreatedOn":1697008309000,"blockCreatedOnDisplay":"03.11 EDT","blockLastUpdated":1697013480000,"blockLastUpdatedDisplay":"04.38 EDT","blockFirstPublished":1697008412000,"blockFirstPublishedDisplay":"03.13 EDT","blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone":"03.13","title":"Nato to support Ukraine with air defence, ammunition and artillery - Stoltenberg","contributors":[],"primaryDateLine":"Wed 11 Oct 2023 13.24 EDT","secondaryDateLine":"First published on Wed 11 Oct 2023 02.04 EDT"},{"id":"65263e4d8f0889b52d8c1c21","elements":[{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<p><strong>Belgium</strong> will send F-16 fighter jets to <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Ukraine</a> from 2025, Belgian defence minister Ludivine Dedonder said on Bel RTL radio.</p>","elementId":"db8e98e7-44eb-4f1e-aad8-9b1d3d45a47a"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<p>Reuters notes Dedonder didn’t say how many jets would be sent to Ukraine.</p>","elementId":"c8b691ff-e889-4822-994b-60be03a3c8c9"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<p><em>More details soon …</em></p>","elementId":"c6b99986-46bd-4983-86d9-c798ab852494"}],"attributes":{"pinned":false,"keyEvent":true,"summary":false},"blockCreatedOn":1697005133000,"blockCreatedOnDisplay":"02.18 EDT","blockLastUpdated":1697005191000,"blockLastUpdatedDisplay":"02.19 EDT","blockFirstPublished":1697005191000,"blockFirstPublishedDisplay":"02.19 EDT","blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone":"02.19","title":"Belgium to send Ukraine F-16 fighter jets by 2025","contributors":[],"primaryDateLine":"Wed 11 Oct 2023 13.24 EDT","secondaryDateLine":"First published on Wed 11 Oct 2023 02.04 EDT"},{"id":"652604478f08868e610b8554","elements":[{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<p>Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the war in <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Ukraine</a>.</p>","elementId":"20e257ba-9925-4d42-a334-f204a5da26d2"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<p>Nato defence ministers are set to meet in Brussels on Wednesday, with Ukraine high on the agenda. Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant is also expected to take part via video conference after the deadly attack launched by Hamas militants on Israel at the weekend.</p>","elementId":"665ae5e0-5676-4d1e-ab8f-81293c0ab72b"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<p>There have been fears that the conflict in Israel may distract Ukraine’s partners and in particular that the US may not be able to supply both with adequate munitions.</p>","elementId":"3c40e08c-8a2c-4a93-8ae7-75a3f52b9336"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<p>If “international attention risks turning away from Ukraine … that will have consequences,” Ukrainian president <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/volodymyr-zelenskiy\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Volodymyr Zelenskiy</a> warned in a French television interview on Tuesday.</p>","elementId":"004ab4d2-cb8d-41e7-8a2a-b82d2cd10661"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<p>The White House has dismissed such concerns however and the UK and other northern European nations are to officially announce a new £100 million ($123 million) military support package Wednesday for Ukraine, aimed at helping its armed forces clear minefields, maintain vehicles and protect key infrastructure.</p>","elementId":"3e641876-208c-4b2a-84d4-416edec204e3"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<p>Meanwhile, Russian air defences have shot down two Ukrainain drones over the Bryansk region overnight, governor Alexander Bogomaz has said on Telegram. No casualties or damage were reported.</p>","elementId":"8b88fee3-3c91-442f-bdf3-7cc059ada93c"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<p>In other key developments:</p>","elementId":"db3065f7-e7e9-4f04-aee8-3a668a028af6"},{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement","html":"<ul>\n <li><p><strong>Extensive damage to an undersea gas pipeline and communications cable connecting Finland and Estonia “could not have occurred by accident” and <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/undersea-pipeline-damage-appears-to-be-deliberate-says-finland\">appears to be the result of a “deliberate … external act”</a>, Finnish authorities said</strong>. Local media cited unnamed government sources as saying Russian sabotage was suspected, while regional security experts said a Russian survey vessel had recently been observed making repeated visits to the vicinity of the Balticconnector pipeline.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Volodymyr Zelenskiy <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/zelenskiy-promises-not-to-attack-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-says-iaea-chief\">had promised him that Ukraine would not attack Europe’s biggest nuclear plant</a> as part of its counteroffensive against Russia</strong>. In an interview with the Guardian, the nuclear watchdog chief said he was most concerned about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant becoming engulfed in fighting between the two sides, but insisted he had obtained a commitment from the Ukrainian president.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Russia was <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/10/russia-fails-to-win-back-seat-on-human-rights-council-after-un-vote\">defeated in its bid to return to the UN’s human rights council</a></strong>, with Albania and Bulgaria winning more votes at the general assembly, which voted last year to suspend Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Russian forces are closing in on Avdiivka, which has been hit by intense shelling since Tuesday morning, officials said</strong>. The eastern Ukrainian town is symbolically and strategically important to Kyiv, lying just north of the Moscow-controlled city of Donetsk that was seized by separatist forces in 2014.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Germany announced an additional €1bn ($1.1bn) in military aid for Ukraine, in a race to step up weapons deliveries ahead of winter</strong>. The “winter package” includes an extra Patriot air defence system, as well as two more Iris-T air defence missile systems this month capable of short- and medium-range protection.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Zelenskiy called for steps to ensure Russia does not turn the Black Sea into a “dead zone” for shipping </strong>after Moscow quit a deal allowing safe Ukrainian grain exports. On his first trip to Romania since Russia’s invasion, Zelenskiy said after talks with his counterpart, Klaus Iohannis, that he had heard “good news” on artillery and air defence supplies from the Nato and EU member state.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Zelenskiy also expressed his concern that the international community was turning away from the war in Ukraine in the face of the “tragedy” that has befallen Israel </strong>following the Hamas attacks. “I don’t wish to make any comparisons. There is a terrible war going on in our country. In Israel, many people have lost their loved ones. These tragedies are different, but both are immense,” he said in an interview with the France 2 television channel. He warned however, that if “international attention risks turning away from Ukraine, and that will have consequences”.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Ukraine said on Tuesday that it was holding two senior defence ministry officials on suspicion of embezzling $7m (£5.7m) earmarked for buying bulletproof vests</strong>. The state bureau of investigation said the two officials, which it did not name, ordered “low-quality body armour” from abroad.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>A Russian court dismissed a complaint by the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich against the extension of his pre-trial detention,</strong> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/oct/10/russia-ukraine-war-live-un-human-rights-council-putin-zelenskiy-latest-updates?page=with:block-6525271f8f0889b52d8c10f5#block-6525271f8f0889b52d8c10f5\">more than six months after his arrest on spying charges</a>. Judge Yuri Pasyunin at Moscow city court ruled to “keep the detention without changes” until 30 November, an Agence-France Presse reporter at the court said.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>The National Police of Ukraine has documented nearly 100,000 war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine</strong>, according to the head of the body. Speaking to the Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Ivan Vyhovsky said the evidence being gathered would form the basis of future attempts to prosecute the perpetrators.</p></li>\n <li><p><strong>Russia is unlikely to launch an additional mobilisation drive before the presidential election next year, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said</strong>. In its daily intelligence update, the MoD said Vladimir Putin would “almost certainly” run for re-election in the vote, scheduled to take place on 17 March.</p></li>\n</ul>","elementId":"307a6d5b-dcf6-4a8f-987f-156c7952b39b"}],"attributes":{"pinned":false,"keyEvent":true,"summary":false},"blockCreatedOn":1697004293000,"blockCreatedOnDisplay":"02.04 EDT","blockLastUpdated":1697004275000,"blockLastUpdatedDisplay":"02.04 EDT","blockFirstPublished":1697004293000,"blockFirstPublishedDisplay":"02.04 EDT","blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone":"02.04","title":"Opening summary","contributors":[],"primaryDateLine":"Wed 11 Oct 2023 13.24 EDT","secondaryDateLine":"First published on Wed 11 Oct 2023 02.04 EDT"}],"filterKeyEvents":false,"format":{"display":0,"theme":0,"design":11},"id":"key-events-carousel-mobile"}" config="{"renderingTarget":"Web"}">

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‘Thousands’ of pieces of evidence against Russia in Ukraine, says head of EU judicial agency

An international team of prosecutors seeking to put Russia’s top officials on trial over the Ukraine invasion has already gathered “thousands” of pieces of evidence, the head of EU judicial agency, Eurojust, has told AFP.

Prosecutors are sifting through wiretaps, videos, satellite imagery and witness testimony, building a mountain of evidence that could eventually run into the “hundreds of thousands”, Ladislav Hamran said.

Hamran’s Eurojust agency is coordinating an unprecedented team from several European countries, Ukraine, the US and the international criminal court (ICC) seeking to bring the Kremlin’s senior leadership to justice over the invasion of Ukraine.

Set up just three months ago, the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression (ICPA) aims to plug a hole in international law laid bare by Russia’s February 2022 invasion.

Sometimes described as “Nuremberg 2.0”, the ICPA is the first attempt since the Nazi war crimes tribunals to build a case against the top leadership of a country for the crime of aggression.

The ICC has issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin for the alleged abduction of children, but cannot prosecute Kremlin leaders for the specific crime of aggression, as Moscow is not an ICC member.

“We are speaking about an unprecedented amount of evidence,” said Hamran, 50.

He added:

We are now speaking about thousands of pieces of evidence. But this is something which is changing on a daily basis.

More submissions are coming to Eurojust from different countries so I understand that at the end we will be speaking about hundreds of thousands of pieces of evidence.

The rights activist Oleg Orlov told a Moscow court on Wednesday that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell’s 1984 as he asked a judge to acquit him of discrediting the armed forces by condemning the war in Ukraine.

Reuters reports Orlov, 70, said it was “obvious” that Russians were living in the world of the dystopian novelist, as their country waged war on its neighbour while claiming to support freedom, peace and security.

“There is still no concept of ‘thought crime’ in the Russian criminal code; citizens are not yet punished for doubting the correctness of state policy if it was expressed in a whisper in their own apartment; they are not punished for an incorrect facial expression. Yet,” he said.

“But if someone expresses such doubt outside his apartment, denunciation and punishment may follow.”

Orlov was defending himself in a case based on a November 2022 article in which he wrote that Russia under President Vladimir Putin had descended into fascism.