The claim came as Ukrainian citizens endured the first day of planned nationwide power cuts since the war began eight months ago so repairs could be made to damaged or damaged power plants as winter approaches. US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Iran had sent a “relatively small number” of personnel to Crimea, a part of Ukraine unilaterally annexed by Russia in violation of international law in 2014, to assist Russian troops to the launch of Iranian drones. against Ukraine. “The information we have is that the Iranians have put trainers and technical support in Crimea, but the Russians are doing the piloting,” Kirby said. US officials believe Iran may have deployed military personnel to help the Russians who were having trouble using it due to technical problems. Firefighters try to put out a fire in a building in Kyiv that was targeted by a drone attack on Monday. Iran has since been sanctioned for supplying drones to Russia. (Roman Hrytsyna/The Associated Press) “The Iranians decided to bring in some trainers and some technical support to help the Russians use them with better lethality,” Kirby said. He said the US would shelve its efforts to renegotiate a nuclear deal with Iran, both because of its involvement with the Russian military and the violent crackdown on protesters after the death of a woman arrested in Tehran for “improper clothing”. There was no immediate public reaction to the US allegations from Tehran. Russia’s defense and foreign ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Much of the recent destruction to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been caused by Russian drones, which Ukraine and the West say are Iranian-made, which Tehran denies. Tetyana Safonova sits with her cat Asya as she looks at her mobile phone during a power outage on Thursday in Borodyanka. Safonova was unable to buy candles, which were suddenly in high demand due to government-imposed power cuts aimed at saving energy. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) The EU on Thursday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Shahed Aviation Industries as well as three Iranian military generals for undermining Ukraine’s territorial integrity by helping supply Russia with drones. Britain also announced new sanctions on Thursday against Iranian officials and companies accused of supplying the drones. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian tweeted that he told the European Union’s foreign affairs chief that “the allegation of sending Iranian missiles to Russia for use in the war with Ukraine is a baseless allegation.” “We have defense cooperation with Russia, but without a doubt, sending weapons and drones against Ukraine is not our policy,” he said.
Ukraine imposes energy restrictions, blackouts
Ukrainians have suffered power cuts, including blackouts imposed on Thursday by grid authorities – the first since the start of the war – to allow infrastructure damaged by Russian airstrikes to be repaired as Kiev forces push towards city of Kherson. Even as Ukraine advances against Russian troops in the east and south, it is struggling to protect power plants and other utilities from missile and drone strikes that appear designed to disrupt and deter as winter approaches. A family warms up around a fire in Liman in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Thursday. Ukraine has ordered its people to reduce their electricity use between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., as Russia continues to attack vital infrastructure, including power plants. (Carl Court/Getty Images) People across the country have been urged to use less energy as the government imposed nationwide restrictions on electricity use between 7 a.m. That followed a barrage of Russian attacks that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said hit a third of all power plants. Meanwhile, the northeastern region of Sumy ran out of water as some Kiev grocers reported increased sales of bottled water in preparation for possible shortages there. “There is a lot of anger against the Russian leaders and the Russian people,” Kiev resident Mykhailo Kholovnenko told Reuters. “But we are ready for a holiday. We have candles, charged power banks. Ukraine is charged to win.” People walk in a Kyiv metro station at dusk on Thursday. Kyiv and Kharkiv are limiting the use of electric public transport to help save energy. (Francisco Seco/The Associated Press) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of using energy and hunger as weapons. “Scorched earth tactics will not help Russia win the war. They will only strengthen the unity and determination of Ukraine and its partners,” Scholz told the German parliament.
Concerns about winter survival
Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said on national television that the government is seeking a 20 percent reduction in energy use as a result. “We are seeing a voluntary reduction [in electricity consumption]. But when it is not enough, we are forced to force closures,” he said. Volunteers deliver wood stoves to people in Mykolaiv on Tuesday. Ukrainians face a cold winter with restrictions on energy use due to Russia’s ongoing war. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters) Kyiv and Kharkiv announced restrictions on the use of electric public transport such as trolleybuses and reduced the frequency of metro trains. “We need time to restore power plants, we need a break from our consumers,” Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, head of grid operator Ukrenergo, told Ukrainian television. On Wednesday, Russian strikes destroyed a power plant and another energy facility in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, cutting power to its 600,000 residents. The UN humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, said on Thursday that many Ukrainians displaced by the war were living in “collective centres” such as universities, educational centers and former orphanages that were not well equipped for the winter, adding that the people who spent months mostly in warehouses and undergrounds would need long-term support to overcome the trauma.
Fears of attack from Belarus
The Ukrainian military’s general staff said there was an increased chance that Russian forces would launch an offensive from Belarus aimed at cutting off supply routes for Western weapons and military equipment. Oleksei Hromov, deputy chief of the main operational department of the general staff, said that Russia is deploying aircraft and troops to air bases and military infrastructure facilities in Belarus. Meanwhile, Russian troops fought Thursday to regain lost ground in areas of Ukraine that Putin has illegally annexed. Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions near Bilohorivka, a village in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region. In the neighboring Donetsk region, fighting raged near the town of Bakhmut. Kremlin-backed separatists have controlled parts of both regions for eight and a half years. The Ukrainian army continued to try to press its advance towards the southern city of Kherson, the only regional capital Russian forces have captured. The Russian-appointed administration on Wednesday told citizens to leave the city – control of which gives Russia a land route to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, and the mouth of the Dnipro River. Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a military training center for mobilized reservists in Russia’s Ryazan region on Thursday. Putin recently called up hundreds of thousands of reservists to help Russia’s faltering war effort. (Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin/Reuters) Putin declared martial law in Luhansk, Donetsk and southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions on Wednesday in a bid to impose Russian authority on the annexed regions after a series of battlefield setbacks and a troubled troop mobilization.
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The claim came as Ukrainian citizens endured the first day of planned nationwide power cuts since the war began eight months ago so repairs could be made to damaged or damaged power plants as winter approaches. US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Iran had sent a “relatively small number” of personnel to Crimea, a part of Ukraine unilaterally annexed by Russia in violation of international law in 2014, to assist Russian troops to the launch of Iranian drones. against Ukraine. “The information we have is that the Iranians have put trainers and technical support in Crimea, but the Russians are doing the piloting,” Kirby said. US officials believe Iran may have deployed military personnel to help the Russians who were having trouble using it due to technical problems. Firefighters try to put out a fire in a building in Kyiv that was targeted by a drone attack on Monday. Iran has since been sanctioned for supplying drones to Russia. (Roman Hrytsyna/The Associated Press) “The Iranians decided to bring in some trainers and some technical support to help the Russians use them with better lethality,” Kirby said. He said the US would shelve its efforts to renegotiate a nuclear deal with Iran, both because of its involvement with the Russian military and the violent crackdown on protesters after the death of a woman arrested in Tehran for “improper clothing”. There was no immediate public reaction to the US allegations from Tehran. Russia’s defense and foreign ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Much of the recent destruction to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been caused by Russian drones, which Ukraine and the West say are Iranian-made, which Tehran denies. Tetyana Safonova sits with her cat Asya as she looks at her mobile phone during a power outage on Thursday in Borodyanka. Safonova was unable to buy candles, which were suddenly in high demand due to government-imposed power cuts aimed at saving energy. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) The EU on Thursday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Shahed Aviation Industries as well as three Iranian military generals for undermining Ukraine’s territorial integrity by helping supply Russia with drones. Britain also announced new sanctions on Thursday against Iranian officials and companies accused of supplying the drones. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian tweeted that he told the European Union’s foreign affairs chief that “the allegation of sending Iranian missiles to Russia for use in the war with Ukraine is a baseless allegation.” “We have defense cooperation with Russia, but without a doubt, sending weapons and drones against Ukraine is not our policy,” he said.
Ukraine imposes energy restrictions, blackouts
Ukrainians have suffered power cuts, including blackouts imposed on Thursday by grid authorities – the first since the start of the war – to allow infrastructure damaged by Russian airstrikes to be repaired as Kiev forces push towards city of Kherson. Even as Ukraine advances against Russian troops in the east and south, it is struggling to protect power plants and other utilities from missile and drone strikes that appear designed to disrupt and deter as winter approaches. A family warms up around a fire in Liman in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Thursday. Ukraine has ordered its people to reduce their electricity use between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., as Russia continues to attack vital infrastructure, including power plants. (Carl Court/Getty Images) People across the country have been urged to use less energy as the government imposed nationwide restrictions on electricity use between 7 a.m. That followed a barrage of Russian attacks that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said hit a third of all power plants. Meanwhile, the northeastern region of Sumy ran out of water as some Kiev grocers reported increased sales of bottled water in preparation for possible shortages there. “There is a lot of anger against the Russian leaders and the Russian people,” Kiev resident Mykhailo Kholovnenko told Reuters. “But we are ready for a holiday. We have candles, charged power banks. Ukraine is charged to win.” People walk in a Kyiv metro station at dusk on Thursday. Kyiv and Kharkiv are limiting the use of electric public transport to help save energy. (Francisco Seco/The Associated Press) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of using energy and hunger as weapons. “Scorched earth tactics will not help Russia win the war. They will only strengthen the unity and determination of Ukraine and its partners,” Scholz told the German parliament.
Concerns about winter survival
Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said on national television that the government is seeking a 20 percent reduction in energy use as a result. “We are seeing a voluntary reduction [in electricity consumption]. But when it is not enough, we are forced to force closures,” he said. Volunteers deliver wood stoves to people in Mykolaiv on Tuesday. Ukrainians face a cold winter with restrictions on energy use due to Russia’s ongoing war. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters) Kyiv and Kharkiv announced restrictions on the use of electric public transport such as trolleybuses and reduced the frequency of metro trains. “We need time to restore power plants, we need a break from our consumers,” Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, head of grid operator Ukrenergo, told Ukrainian television. On Wednesday, Russian strikes destroyed a power plant and another energy facility in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, cutting power to its 600,000 residents. The UN humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, said on Thursday that many Ukrainians displaced by the war were living in “collective centres” such as universities, educational centers and former orphanages that were not well equipped for the winter, adding that the people who spent months mostly in warehouses and undergrounds would need long-term support to overcome the trauma.
Fears of attack from Belarus
The Ukrainian military’s general staff said there was an increased chance that Russian forces would launch an offensive from Belarus aimed at cutting off supply routes for Western weapons and military equipment. Oleksei Hromov, deputy chief of the main operational department of the general staff, said that Russia is deploying aircraft and troops to air bases and military infrastructure facilities in Belarus. Meanwhile, Russian troops fought Thursday to regain lost ground in areas of Ukraine that Putin has illegally annexed. Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions near Bilohorivka, a village in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region. In the neighboring Donetsk region, fighting raged near the town of Bakhmut. Kremlin-backed separatists have controlled parts of both regions for eight and a half years. The Ukrainian army continued to try to press its advance towards the southern city of Kherson, the only regional capital Russian forces have captured. The Russian-appointed administration on Wednesday told citizens to leave the city – control of which gives Russia a land route to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, and the mouth of the Dnipro River. Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a military training center for mobilized reservists in Russia’s Ryazan region on Thursday. Putin recently called up hundreds of thousands of reservists to help Russia’s faltering war effort. (Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin/Reuters) Putin declared martial law in Luhansk, Donetsk and southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions on Wednesday in a bid to impose Russian authority on the annexed regions after a series of battlefield setbacks and a troubled troop mobilization.
