RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR LIVE: Ukraine issues nationwide air-raid alerts as Vladimir Putin’s cronies call for obliteration of Kyiv
Air-raid alerts have been issued across the whole of Ukraine in anticipation of more Russian missiles strikes just a day after Putin unleashed the biggest barrage since the start of the war – killing 19 civilians and wounding 105.
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How Vladimir Putin and Russian forces would deploy nukes in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin yesterday unleashed a barrage of missiles on Ukraine in retaliation for the attack on the Kerch bridge in Crimea.
It has led analysts to fear that Russia’s campaign is entering a new phase of escalation as his forces in the east lose vast swathes of territory – even as he annexes captured regions.
And Kremlin military doctrine in some cases calls for so-called limited nuclear war using tactical nuclear weapons in an attempt to ‘escalate to de-escalate’ a war in Europe.
That means that if an increasingly cornered Putin feels like he is out of options to secure victory, nuclear weapons could be his next step on the ladder of escalation.
There have been reports of fresh missile strikes in the western city of Lviv, according to several Ukrainian channels on the Telegram messaging app.
The city’s electricity supply has reportedly been taken offline, just hours after it was restored following yesterday’s attacks.
Ivan Tertel, the head of Belarus’ KGB national security agency, has claimed that the ‘tipping point’ of the war is likely to come between November 2022 and February 2023.
‘If the Russian Federation conducts a proper mobilisation, provides its grouping with technical means and advanced weapons, then the hostilities will enter a key phase,’ Tertel said in comments to Belta news agency.
‘We estimate that there will be a tipping point between November of this year and February of next year.’
Japanese carmaker Nissan will sell its Russian assets – including a factory in Saint Petersburg – to the Russian government, the ministry of industry and trade in Moscow has declared.
‘Nissan’s executive committee approved the sale of its Russian assets to the Russian Federation… this includes Nissan’s production and research facilities in Saint Petersburg as well as a sales and marketing centre in Moscow,’ the ministry said in a statement.
Putin’s soldiers ‘are entering Belarus in huge quantities’ on ‘waves of trains’
Russian soldiers are flooding into Belarus ‘by the trainload’, according to reports, after dictator Alexander Lukashenko announced he will deploy a ‘joint military task force’ with Moscow on his country’s western border.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has said that it is strengthening its northern border with Belarus amid fears Russia is trying to draw its ally into Vladimir Putin’s on-going war.
Lukashenko said the task force with Russia was in response to a clear threat to Belarus from Kyiv and its backers in the West, baselessly claiming Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine were training Belarusian ‘radicals’ for terror attacks.
Britain’s MoD claimed Russia’s defence ministry is becoming increasingly factional with internal battles amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The MoD’s latest intelligence update said the Russian defence ministry is ‘poorly resourced to achieve the political objectives it has been set in Ukraine’, adding that the appointment of General Sergei Surovikin as overall commander of Russian forces is an attempt to unite troops and improve the ‘delivery of the operation’
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 11 October 2022
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the margins of a regional summit in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on Wednesday.
Turkey, which has stayed neutral throughout the conflict in Ukraine, has good relations with its two Black Sea neighbours – Russia and Ukraine – and has positioned itself as one of the principal mediators in negotiations between the two sides.
Erdogan has not yet commented on the mass Russian strikes across Ukraine on Monday, which killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 100.
He still hopes to bring Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky together for truce talks which Turkish officials insist are both essential and realistic.
Russia is running short of weapons, allies and troops with Vladimir Putin’s regime becoming increasingly desperate, the head of the UK’s GCHQ intelligence agency has claimed.
Sir Jeremy Fleming said Moscow still had a ‘very capable military machine’ despite those shortcomings, although it was being stretched by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘We believe that Russia is running short of munitions, it’s certainly running short of friends and we have seen, because of the declaration for mobilisation, that it is running short of troops.’
Sir Jeremy said Moscow’s top brass were ‘worried about the state of their military machine’, adding ‘the word I have used is desperate and we can see that desperation at many levels inside Russian society and inside the Russian military machine’.
Whole of Ukraine is put on alert for fresh Russian strikes
Air raid alerts have been issued across the whole of Ukraine in anticipation of more Russian missiles strikes just a day after Putin unleashed the biggest barrage since the start of the war – killing 19 civilians and wounding 105.
Every Ukrainian region bar occupied Crimea was told to be on alert for more strikes early Tuesday amid reports that incoming rockets had been shot down over the capital Kyiv and that suicide drones were prowling the skies near Odesa.
The city of Zaporizhzhia, located close to the Russian frontlines in the south, continued to be bombed overnight with officials saying schools, hospitals and homes were destroyed, killing at least one person. Vinnytsia was also targeted.
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