War in Ukraine: 13 injured in a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, new military aid for kyiv… an update on the situation
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Every day, Midi Libre takes stock of the situation in Ukraine. This Sunday, September 29, 2024, discover the latest news about this conflict.
13 injured after a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia
At least 13 people were injured Sunday in a series of Russian bombings on Zaporizhzhia, in southern Ukraine, Ukrainian emergency services announced.
The capital was pounded by several "massive airstrikes"at dawn, according to the account of the rescue services in a press release.
“A building and six houses located in different districts of the city suffered significant destruction”, they added, specifying that 42 rescuers were on site to come to the aid of any people trapped under the rubble.
“The number of victims has risen to 13 people. A 17-year-old boy was among the injured,", Ukrainian rescuers continued in a separate statement later in the morning.
A woman was pulled from the rubble and taken to hospital.
The official said the Russian military had struck the city of Zaporizhzhia ten times, destroying, among other things, “a multi-storey building and houses”. The state-owned railway company Ukrzaliznytsia said in a statement that one of the stations in Zaporizhzhia had been “damaged” by these strikes, but without causing any casualties.
The head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andrii Yermak, denounced on social networks a new Russian attack aimed at “terrorizing” the civilian population.
Mr. Yermak once again called on kyiv's Western allies to provide "more weapons'to intercept the missiles coming from Russia and to impose effective economic sanctions against "the Russian military-industrial complex", so as to put more pressure on Moscow.
Russia annexed the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia in 2022, but did not fully control it. The eponymous city, located along the Dnieper River, is still under kyiv's control, but remains within firing range of Russian attacks.
New military aid for Ukraine
Among Ukraine's most loyal allies, Denmark announced on Sunday that it would give Kiev 1.3 billion crowns (174 million euros) to help it arm itself and set up a Danish-Ukrainian defense industrial hub.
“It “It will involve delivering to the front arms weapons and equipment produced in Ukraine and financed by Denmark and frozen Russian assets”, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. Moreover, “wars are not won only on the battlefield, but also in industry”, Trade and Industry Minister Morten Bødskov was quoted as saying in a separate statement.
Denmark signed a ten-year security agreement with Ukraine in late February, following similar deals signed by Berlin, London and Paris.
Russia's nuclear doctrine is being updated, Kremlin says
The Kremlin announced on Sunday that amendments to Russia's nuclear doctrine have been prepared and are about to be formalized, suggesting that the documents defining the circumstances in which nuclear weapons can be used by Moscow will be updated.
On Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin warned the West that under proposed changes to Russian nuclear doctrine, Russia could use nuclear weapons if it were struck by conventional missiles and would consider any offensive against it, supported by a nuclear power, a joint attack.
The changes were widely seen as an attempt by Putin to draw a “red line” for the United States and its allies by indicating that Moscow would consider responding with nuclear weapons if they allowed Ukraine to strike inside Russia with Western long-range missiles. scope.
“The amendments have been prepared and will now be formalized”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state television journalist Pavel Zarubin on Sunday.
Dmitry Peskov justified the changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine by the changing international situation, heightened tensions near Russia's borders, the growing proximity of NATO infrastructure, as well as greater involvement of Western “nuclear powers” in the war in Ukraine.
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