WAR IN UKRAINE: November 3, 2022
Kyiv residents line up for water after about 80 percent of the inhabitants of the Ukrainian capital were left without water on October 31 - RFE/RL
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 253
Podolyak: Iran must be recognized as ‘accomplice of aggression in Europe.’ “Transferring missiles to Russia, Iran knows that it will attack our cities. Teaching Russians to use drones, it knows that they will attack the Ukrainian energy sector, provoking waves of refugees to the EU,” wrote Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the head of the President’s Office, on Nov. 1. CNN reported, citing unnamed Western officials, that Iran is preparing to send around 1,000 additional weapons to Russia, including ballistic missiles and about 400 kamikaze drones - Kyiv Independent
Days after Russia suspended support for grain exports through the Black Sea, it has agreed with Turkey to restart its participation in the agreement. Russia accused Ukraine on Saturday of using a safety corridor for grain ships to attack its fleet in Crimea. However, the UN, Turkey and Ukraine continued sending ships even after Russia halted its support for the deal. Now, Russia's defence ministry says Kyiv has given written assurances not to use the route for military action. But Germany's foreign minister said it showed what the international community could achieve if it refused to be blackmailed by Russia.
In my CNN Opinion OpEd published yesterday, I said that should Russia continue to hold the world hostage with food terrorism that it should face even more crippling sanctions, removal from the G20, as well as the introduction of UN or NATO-flagged military flotillas in the Black Sea so that crucial food flows are able to continue.
The British government has imposed economic sanctions on four Russian businessmen, banning them from entering the U.K. and freezing any assets they hold in Britain. Separately, the White House has accused North Korea of covertly shipping a “significant number” of artillery shells to Russia in support of its invasion of Ukraine - RFE/RL
Video has emerged purporting to show a man preparing and planting explosives on a Russian military helicopter at an airbase deep inside Russia. Subsequent satellite imagery shows several damaged helicopters at the base in Pskov region in northern Russia. The base is about 35 kilometers from the border with Latvia, but nearly 1,000 kilometers from Ukraine. The sabotage of the helicopters is the furthest from Ukrainian territory that an attack has been confirmed against a Russian military target since the conflict began - CNN
The number of registered Ukrainian refugees in Europe has exceeded 4.4 million people, says the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Almost 1.5 million refugees have registered in Poland. After Poland in terms of the number of refugees - Germany and the Czech Republic with more than 815 and 453 thousand people, respectively. In fourth place is Italy with the number of registered refugees from Ukraine (160.67 thousand), in fifth place - Spain (149.21 thousand).
