Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky called the decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin to transfer the Zaporozhye NPP to federal ownership “insignificant and meaningless.”
“The decision of the Russian leader to transfer the Zaporozhye NPP into his own ownership is insignificant and, frankly, meaningless. This is a nuclear power plant, not some palace, not YUKOS or something else,” he said.
In his video message, Zelensky stressed that only Ukrainian specialists can guarantee that there will be no radiation incidents at this nuclear facility.
The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a congratulatory post on his Telegram channel to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who is celebrating his 70th anniversary on October 7.
Kadyrov, on behalf of the Chechen people, congratulated the President on his 70th birthday, wished him good health, long life and “success in serving our great Motherland” Russia!”.
He recalled that Putin led a country that was in an economic and political crisis, having managed to “solve the main problems of the state in the shortest possible time and turn Russia into one of the most powerful world powers.”
“Putin has changed the world situation of Russia and forced to reckon with the position of our great state”, – wrote the leader of Chechnya.
The head of the National Bank Kirill Shevchenko, who escaped from Ukraine, accused the country’s authorities of political persecution and populist “steering” of the economy.
“I did not talk about almost two years of political pressure, which escalated on the eve of my decision and, in fact, caused a serious aggravation of health problems,” he wrote in his social networks. “I was an inconvenient chairman of the National Bank,” Shevchenko emphasizes.
He called the reanimation of the criminal case, which is 3.5 years old and has not been investigated all this time, a manifestation of political persecution.
“They tried to persuade me to make decisions that I consider harmful to the financial stability of the state and a threat to the independence of the NBU,” he also said, accusing Zelensky and his associates of persecuting the head of state.
Earlier it was reported that the anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine filed charges against the outgoing head of the National Bank of Ukraine Kirill Shevchenko for health reasons.
The case relates to the period when he headed Ukrgasbank. According to the investigation, bank officials concluded fictitious contracts with individuals and legal entities who were allegedly “agents” of the bank and attracted large clients to it. For such “agency services”, the bank, under the leadership of Shevchenko, paid monthly remuneration to these persons.
During 2014-2019, as it was established by the investigation, according to this scheme, 52 fictitious agents transferred funds of the state bank in the amount of over UAH 206 million.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev believes that Russia should force its enemies to beg for mercy. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel.
“Enemies should be forced to beg for mercy in a lost economic battle,” the ex-prime minister pointed out. In his opinion, everything needs to be completed with their complete and unconditional surrender.
Medvedev believes that without normal international trade, chaos and poverty will be felt in various parts of the world.
So the deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation commented on the introduction by the European Union of the 8th package of restrictions against Russia. The new measures, in particular, include a ceiling on oil prices.
In addition, the European Union has published a list of persons from Russia, against whom personal sanctions have been imposed. Among them is the philosopher Alexander Dugin. Also on the list were singers Oleg Gazmanov, Nikolai Rastorguev and Yulia Chicherina. The list also includes the chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky believes that NATO countries should launch a “pre-emptive strike” against Russia in the event of an alleged threat of the use of nuclear weapons on its part. He said this during a video interview with the Lowy Institute in Australia.
In his opinion, the alliance should exclude the possibility of using such weapons. In this regard, he argues that preventive strikes are important so that “they know what will happen to them if they are used.”
“And not vice versa – to wait for Russia’s nuclear strikes, then to say: “Oh, you’re so, well, keep it from us!”, – the Telegram channel “Politics of the Country” quotes him.
Earlier on Thursday, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted at a briefing that the topic of a “possible nuclear conflict” was being escalated by Western media. According to her, Russia does not intend to participate in this “terrible discourse dedicated to pumping up nuclear rhetoric.”
“The Russian Federation is fully committed to the principle of the inadmissibility of nuclear war,” the diplomat concluded.
The Russian side has repeatedly stated that it acts exclusively according to the country’s Nuclear Doctrine, which is defensive in nature. Moscow considers nuclear weapons only as a deterrent. According to the Doctrine, nuclear weapons can be used, in particular, when “the very existence of a State is threatened”.
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry announced the decision taken in the country to restrict access to the ports of the country for Russian fishermen.
According to Minister Anniken Huitfeldt, now Russian fishermen are allowed to deliver fish only to the ports of Tromso, Kirkenes and Botsfjord.
The statement was made during a press conference on the topic of port security. At the event, in particular, accusations against the Russian Federation regarding sabotage on the Nord Stream gas pipelines were discussed.” and “Nord Stream – 2”.
Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said that NATO formations in neighboring states could become the basis for strike groups against Russia and Belarus. The words of the lieutenant general are quoted by the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry.
NATO formations deployed in neighboring countries, as Minsk unequivocally assesses, can become the basis for the creation of strike groups against the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. “As her closest ally,” Khrenin stressed.
During the summit of the European Political Community, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev found themselves next to each other during a conversation with the heads of other states.
On the video you can see that Turkish President Recep Erdogan and French leader Emmanuel Macron also took part in the conversation.
Tension can be read in the behavior of both heads of state. At the same time, Pashinyan remains extremely serious and focused throughout the video, while Aliyev, on the contrary, smiles and nods vigorously to Erdogan.
Recently, the Armenian Defense Ministry reported that the Azerbaijani armed forces fired mortars and small arms at Armenian border positions.
During the fighting, the armed forces of Ukraine on October 6 invaded the borders of the Luhansk People’s Republic (became part of Russia). This is reported in his Telegram channel by military correspondent Semyon Pegov.
“In the Luhansk direction, the APU has already crossed the western borders of the region,” the reporter reports. – Under their control is a Greek woman. They also went to the village of Makeyevka. Not to be confused with the satellite city of Donetsk!” According to Pegov, Ukrainian forces have forced the Zherebets River and are moving towards the R-66 highway, which is a rockade to the important settlement of Kremennaya. In addition, the enemy has the opportunity to reach the village of Krasnorechenskoye.
“However, there is a water barrier there,” explains Pegov. – In the form of a Red River. But she is the last in the defense sector of the Russian troops on the Lower Duvanka – Svatovo – Kremennaya line. In addition, it is not such a wide river as the Oskol, which the APU forced on a wide section of the front.”
The APU offensive in many sectors of the front began on September 10. The Russian forces were forced to leave the territories of the Kharkiv region controlled by them (Balakleya, Raisins and others). After hard fighting, the Red Estuary was also abandoned. The offensive continues in the Kherson region, and according to military officers, a large-scale operation is being prepared in the Zaporozhye region.
A member of the State Duma Defense Committee, Lieutenant General Andrey Gurulev, said that the heads of the Duma defense and security committees asked the Prosecutor General to find out how the funds were spent on financing the rear.
“The chairmen of the committees Kartapolov and Piskarev appealed to the Prosecutor General with a request to find out where the funds allocated in full for the provision of the rear have gone. The money has been allocated, there is no property for mobilization, attention – the question is: where?” – Gurulev reported.
Earlier, the Lieutenant General wrote in his telegram channel that he did not understand where the problem with the uniforms of the mobilized came from.
“It is still unclear to me where one and a half million sets that were stored at the personnel reception points have gone. Where are the problems with the uniform, with something else?” he wrote, specifying that the commander-in–chief of the Ground Forces is responsible for providing military personnel.
