Death toll from Russian missile strike on military institute in town of Poltava on Tuesday rises to 55 with seven killed in attack on Lviv
Death toll from Russia n missile strike on military institute in town of Poltava on Tuesday rises to 55 with seven killed in attack on Lviv NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg: 'Only the Ukrainians can make the difficult choices that are needed.
' Photograph: Johanna Geron/Pool/AFP via Getty“Only the Ukrainians can make the difficult choices that are needed, such as where to deploy their forces and what type of warfare is appropriate in this situation,” Mr Stoltenberg said. Russian forces are advancing in the east of Ukraine while Ukrainian troops have made a bold incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, where it on August 6th launched the biggest foreign attack on Russia since the second World War. Mr Stoltenberg said Ukraine has the right to self-defence, including with long-range missiles that can reach military targets on Russian territory.US charges Russian RT network employees in crackdown on election influence efforts“I am glad that many Nato countries have given that opportunity, and those that still have restrictions have softened the restrictions so that Ukraine can defend itself,” Mr Stoltenberg said.will on Friday attend a meeting of the Ramstein group, a coalition of nations supplying arms to Ukraine, where he is expected to ask for increased weapons deliveries, specifically long-range missiles, according to German magazine Spiegel. Mr Zelenskiy has called on allies to assist with air defences and remove restrictions preventing Kyiv from using donated weapons for long-range strikes into Russia. Mr Stoltenberg earlier told a conference he does not see any immediate military threat against Nato countries but said there was a constant danger of terrorism, cyber attacks and sabotage. Ukrainians lay flowers at the site of a Russian strike that hit a residential area in Lviv on Wednesday. Photograph: Mykola Tys/EPA Meanwhile, the death toll from a Russian missile strike on a military institute in the east central Ukrainian town of Poltava on Tuesday rose to 55 as the rescue operation was completed, the emergency service said on Thursday. Moscow’s troops hit the educational facility with two extremely hard-to-intercept ballistic missiles, and the Ukrainian officials said people barely had time to seek shelter. The deadliest single attack of this year wounded 328 others, the emergency service added on the Telegram messaging app. Regional governor Filip Pronin said 27 people were in intensive care. The rescue operation continued for three days but had to be stopped due to new air raid alerts, officials said. Experts were now working to identify bodies’ remains.Ukraine’s land forces said that military personnel had been killed in the strike but did not provide details. Moscow’s troops stepped up missile strikes on Ukraine in recent weeks attacking energy infrastructure and civilian facilities. The day after the deadly Poltava attack, Russian drones and missiles hit the Ukrainian western city of Lviv, close to the border with Nato member Poland. Seven people were killed, including four from the same family, leaving only the father alive. Elsewhere, one civilian died following Ukrainian shelling on the town of Shebekino in Russia’s southern Belgorod region on Thursday, governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Reuters could not independently confirm the report. Additionally on Thursday, Poland backed away from earlier claims that a drone had likely entered its airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine in August, after a 10-day analysis and search for the object produced no results. The Nato member has been on high alert for possible incursions on its airspace resulting from Russian attacks on neighbouring Ukraine, and the announcement that an object thought to be a drone appeared on radars on August 26th raised questions as to why it had not been shot down. At the time the army said that weather conditions meant the object couldn’t be identified with complete certainty, meaning that shooting it down could have risked hitting a civilian target such as a light aircraft. However, after an extensive search failed to find any trace of a Russian drone, general Maciej Klisz said: “as a result of the analytical activities undertaken, I currently state that with a very high probability there was no violation of the airspace of the Republic of Poland on August 26th” he told reporters. – ReutersMunich police shoot man following incident near Israeli consulateIf you want to know whether Sinn Féin’s housing policy will work, look at what it achieved in the NorthKitchen porter left jobless after fatal shooting at Blanchardstown steakhouse awarded €22,000 Man allegedly beaten at Dublin city squat says he ‘didn’t want to die’ in country he sought refuge inNorthern Ireland Executive agrees government programme but withholds details
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