{"id":26958,"date":"2022-11-01T05:27:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T05:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26958"},"modified":"2022-11-01T05:27:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T05:27:27","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/11\/01\/russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine War: Latest development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyiv\u2019s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on Monday that 40% of the city\u2019s residents had been left without water, while 270,000 homes had no electricity after Ukraine suffered another wave of Russian missile strikes on key infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the west of Kyiv, an AFP journalist saw more than 100 people with empty plastic bottles and containers waiting to collect water from a park fountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More on this shortly. In the meantime, here are the key recent developments:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>A barrage of Russian missiles has struck hydroelectric plants and other critical energy and water infrastructure across&nbsp;<\/strong>Ukraine.&nbsp;Russia said it hit military and energy infrastructure targets, but Ukraine said its military facilities were not targeted.<\/li><li><strong>Large parts of Kyiv were left without power or water.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Ukrainian capital\u2019s mayor said 40% of residents did not have water, with 270,000 apartments without power as of Monday evening.<\/li><li><strong>Twelve grain export ships left Ukraine despite Russia\u2019s decision to pull out of the Black Sea grain deal,&nbsp;<\/strong>Ukraine\u2019s minister of infrastructure said. The UN also confirmed the first of 40 planned ship inspections was completed in Istanbul waters.<\/li><li><strong>Russia\u2019s president, Vladimir Putin, said the strikes and the decision to pull out of the Black Sea grain deal were responses to a drone attack on Moscow\u2019s fleet in Crimea<\/strong>&nbsp;that he blamed on Ukraine. Putin told a news conference on Monday that Ukrainian drones had used the same marine corridors that grain ships transited under the UN-brokered deal.<\/li><li><strong>Moscow called ship movements through the Black Sea security corridor \u201cunacceptable\u201d.<\/strong>&nbsp;In a statement, the Russian defence ministry said it wanted \u201ccommitments\u201d from Ukraine not to use the Black Sea grain corridor for military purposes, adding \u201cthere can be no question of guaranteeing the security of any object\u201d in the area until then.<\/li><li><strong>The UN disputed Moscow\u2019s claim that a civilian cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain may have been involved in a drone strike against Russia.<\/strong>&nbsp;The UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said no such ships were in the Black Sea\u2019s designated \u201csafe zone\u201d corridor at the time Russia said the attack had taken place.<\/li><li><strong>France is working towards allowing Ukrainian food exports to go through land routes<\/strong>&nbsp;rather than the Black Sea.<\/li><li>Russia dismissed reports that its<strong>agents hacked Liz Truss\u2019s phone&nbsp;<\/strong>and gained access to sensitive information.<\/li><li><strong>Norway put its military on a raised level of alert<\/strong>&nbsp;to enhance its response to the war in Ukraine,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>though the prime minister, Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re, said no direct threat of invasion was detected from Russia.<\/li><li><strong>Afghan special forces soldiers are being recruited by the Russian military&nbsp;<\/strong>to fight in Ukraine, three former Afghan generals have told the Associated Press. They said the Russians wanted to attract thousands of the former elite Afghan commandos into a \u201cforeign legion\u201d with offers of $1,500 a month and promises of safe havens for themselves and their families.<\/li><li><strong>Also on Monday, the Russian defence ministry said Moscow had completed the partial military mobilisation announced by Putin in September<\/strong>&nbsp;and no further call-up notices would be issued.<\/li><li><strong>A 40% cut in deliveries of Russian natural gas is hitting Moldova\u2019s ability to provide sufficient electricity for its 2.5 million people,<\/strong>&nbsp;the deputy prime minister of the small ex-Soviet state has said.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyiv\u2019s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on Monday that 40% of the city\u2019s residents had been left without water, while 270,000 homes had no electricity after Ukraine suffered another wave of Russian missile strikes on key infrastructure. In the west of Kyiv, an AFP journalist saw more than 100 people with empty plastic bottles and containers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4836,6850,5304,6573,11583,11092,10328,9331,6623,5262,9506,10413,7445,5800,5494,6738,6496,5575,5491,9385,10598,8995,5252,5539,6030,8954,5342,8029,5840,5331,5572,5254,12985,6067,5340,1379,7039,8536,3805,3174,71,3457,5217,3852,5655,5250,5618,5818,5180,5521,5555,5465,5654,694,5251,8869,1100],"class_list":["post-26958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-access","tag-aid","tag-attack","tag-black","tag-capital","tag-cargo","tag-cargo-ship","tag-city","tag-crimea","tag-cut","tag-drone","tag-drone-strike","tag-drones","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-families","tag-food","tag-france","tag-gas","tag-hacked","tag-homes","tag-infrastructure","tag-invasion","tag-istanbul","tag-journalist","tag-klitschko","tag-kyiv","tag-land","tag-liz-truss","tag-mayor","tag-military","tag-missile","tag-missiles","tag-moldova","tag-moscow","tag-norway","tag-phone","tag-plastic","tag-president","tag-prime-minister","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-russians","tag-security","tag-ship","tag-soldiers","tag-strike","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukrainian","tag-un","tag-vitali-klitschko","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war","tag-water","tag-water-shortage"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}