Russia Ukraine war updates today: Wagner says no ammunition from Putin ahead of Victory Day parade

The Biden administration is prone to announce a brand new $1.2bn (£9.5m) army help package deal for Ukraine, packing in air defence techniques, ammunition and funds for coaching, an official mentioned.

Ukraine will obtain 155-mm Howitzer ammunition, counter-drone ammunition, and funding for satellite tv for pc imagery in addition to varied sorts of coaching on this tranche of help, the official mentioned.

The package deal is paid from Ukraine Safety Help Initiative (USAI) funding which permits president Biden’s administration to purchase weapons from business relatively than pull from US weapons shares.

Ukraine’s air defence techniques are repelling Russian assaults on Kyiv, the capital metropolis’s army administration mentioned early in the present day as air raid sirens wailed throughout the nation within the small hours.

“Air defence techniques are engaged on the outskirts of Kyiv,” the administration mentioned on its Telegram.

This comes only a day after Russia launched its largest drone swarm but in a renewed air marketing campaign unleashed 10 days in the past after a lull since early March.

Russia’s mercenary Wagner forces haven’t but acquired the ammunition promised by Moscow, the group’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin mentioned, backtracking on his earlier feedback from simply hours earlier claiming that they had been being equipped with promised weapons.

“The individuals who had been imagined to fulfil the (cargo) orders have to this point, over the previous day, not fulfilled them,” Prigozhin mentioned in a video publish on Telegram.

Nonetheless, he added that he doesn’t need to “spoil” Russia’s grand Victory Day parade in the present day and reserved extra particulars on ammunition starvation for later.

Late yesterday, he had mentioned preliminary knowledge confirmed his troops had been starting to get the ammunition, whereas cautioning that they had not “seen it in follow”.

Footage from a Ukrainian army drone exhibits the second a shell exploded within the western a part of embattled Ukrainian metropolis Bakhmut.

The footage exhibits broken buildings and heavy plumes of smoke rising over town, which has been the main focus of heavy combating between Russian and Ukrainian forces.

Reuters information company verified the situation from the buildings, street format, and subject, which matched satellite tv for pc images of the world.

Russia has intensified shelling of Bakhmut hoping to take it by Tuesday, Ukraine’s prime common in control of the defence of the besieged metropolis mentioned late on Sunday, vowing to do every part to stop it.

High UN officers and well being business leaders try to sort out an alarming surge in tuberculosis, which is now killing extra folks worldwide than Covid-19 or AIDS. Among the many issues: a excessive variety of circumstances in battle zones, together with Ukraine and Sudan, the place it’s tough to trace down folks with the illness and diagnose new victims (Edith Lederer writes).

Tuberculosis is the most important infectious illness killer on this planet in the present day, taking the lives of round 4,400 folks each day, together with 700 kids, Dr Lucica Ditiu, government director of the Cease TB Partnership, mentioned earlier than a listening to Monday to arrange for a high-level assembly in late September throughout the annual gathering of world leaders on the UN Common Meeting.

Earlier than Covid-19, which like TB is transmitted by means of the air, “we didn’t see very dramatic circumstances of TB,” she mentioned, “however after Covid we noticed a kind of TB that we noticed in … motion pictures by which folks spit blood and they’re very weak, and so forth.”

Ditiu mentioned the financial influence of Covid and conflicts, initially in Ukraine however now additionally in Sudan, are having “a big impact” on efforts to deal with folks with TB and diagnose new circumstances.

Ukraine has the best variety of estimated folks with TB within the European area – 34,000 – and in addition a excessive quantity with drug-resistant TB, she mentioned at a information convention final week.

The New York Instances gained the Pulitzer prize for worldwide reporting for its protection of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A Reuters staff was named as a finalist in that class for a sequence exposing grave human-rights abuses by the Nigerian army in opposition to girls and youngsters throughout its lengthy conflict with Islamist militants.

The Wall Avenue Journal gained the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for revealing monetary conflicts of curiosity amongst officers at dozens of federal businesses, the award administrator mentioned on Monday.

The Los Angeles Instances gained the Pulitzer Prize for breaking information for revealing a secretly recorded dialog amongst metropolis officers that included racist feedback, whereas the Washington Publish took house the nationwide reporting award for her protection of abortion after the US Supreme Courtroom’s choice to eradicate a nationwide proper to abortion.

The annual Pulitzers, first introduced in 1917, are essentially the most prestigious honours in US journalism.

The pinnacle of Russia‘s mercenary Wagner group mentioned on Monday that based on preliminary knowledge his troops had been starting to obtain the ammunition they wanted, and reported heavy combating within the jap Ukrainian metropolis of Bakhmut.

“Right now, the teams superior a most of 130 metres (400 toes) … Fierce combating is happening, however the teams are persevering with to advance,” Yevgeny Prigozhin mentioned in an audio message posted on social media.

“In line with preliminary knowledge, we’re beginning to obtain ammunition. We’ve not (but) seen it in follow.”

Mr Prigozhin final week posted a video of himself raging in opposition to army leaders in Moscow for what he claimed was an ammo scarcity that had allowed a lot of his troops to die.

Russia enacted a serious safety clampdown forward of Tuesday’s annual commemorations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany within the Second World Warfare, curbing the usage of drones and car-sharing companies in its largest cities amid its 14-month conflict with Ukraine.

A minimum of 21 Russian cities cancelled Might 9 army parades – the staple of Victory Day celebrations throughout Russia – for the primary time in years, Russian media mentioned.

Regional officers blamed unspecified “safety issues” or vaguely referred to “the present scenario” for the restrictions and cancellations. It was not clear whether or not their selections had been taken in co-ordination with the Kremlin.

Final week, Russia – which has not witnessed the carnage skilled by Ukraine throughout the invasion – was rattled by ambiguous official studies that two Ukrainian drones flew into the guts of Moscow beneath the quilt of darkness and reached the Kremlin earlier than being shot down.

Media and native officers have blamed different sporadic drone assaults, particularly concentrating on oil depots close to the 2 nations’ border, on the Ukrainian army. Kyiv officers have declined to touch upon such claims.

Rome’s international ministry on Monday “strongly advisable” that any Italians nonetheless in Ukraine depart by any means.

The alert was issued within the wake of “ever heavier missile assaults on Kyiv and throughout all Ukrainian territory”, the ministry mentioned on its “Viaggiare sicuri” (Travelling safely) web site.

“All journey to Ukraine, in any capability, is strongly discouraged,” it mentioned, urging anybody going for work to take “applicable threat prevention and mitigation measures” and train “most warning”.

Russia launched its largest swarm of drone assaults for months in opposition to Ukraine on Monday, and Kyiv says it is going to quickly launch a counteroffensive to attempt to reclaim territory from Moscow’s invasion forces.

Ukraine‘s Eurovision act has described the UK as “household” after arriving in Liverpool to the sight of sunflowers and their nationwide flag.

The town has been remodeled with public artworks and installations for the worldwide music competitors, which the UK is internet hosting on behalf of Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.

Digital duo Tvorchi, made up of producer Andrii Hutsuliak and Nigeria-raised vocalist Jeffery Kenny, will compete within the grand closing with their rousing track Coronary heart Of Metal.

The pair are hoping to defend Ukraine‘s Eurovision title after Kalush Orchestra swept to victory final yr on a wave of help from the voting public.

They’re but to fulfill the folk-rap outfit, who’re scheduled to carry out throughout the grand closing on Saturday, and in addition mentioned President Volodymyr Zelensky had not but reached out to want them luck.