Three Ukraine drones downed en route to Moscow: Russia
Two Moscow airports - Vnukovo and Domodedovo - suspended arrivals and departures for safety reasons but later resumed operations, Russian aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said.
The Russian Defence Ministry said its air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 27 Ukrainian drones in total from 3pm to 7pm Moscow time, including four over Moscow region, 15 over Bryansk region, six over Kaluga region and two over Tula region.
Earlier on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian forces had launched attacks involving more than 300 drones and about 30 missile and cruise missiles on Ukrainian cities overnight.
Zelenskiy posted photos on Telegram showing damage caused to a residential block in Odessa on the Black Sea, where one person was killed and six others injured, according to local officials.
Two people were killed in a Russian missile strike in the Synelnykove district, the military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region Serhiy Lysak said.
A school and a cultural institution were destroyed; private buildings were also damaged and cars were burned out, he said.
The Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions were also hit, according to Zelenskiy.
Important infrastructure was destroyed in Sumy, where thousands of households were now without electricity.
"There are still drones in the sky," Zelenskiy said.
He added that Ukraine's air defences were destroying them and that emergency services were in operation.
Pavlohrad in Dnipropetrovsk had been badly hit, with a residential block and important infrastructure damaged, Zelenskiy said.
Regional military governor Serhiy Lysak spoke of a "hellish night" and said it was the worst attack to date on the city, which lies due east of Dnipro.
"One explosion after another. Russian terrorists attacked with missiles and drones," he posted on Telegram.
Ukrainian rail head Oleksandr Pertsovskyi posted on Facebook that there were increasing Russian attacks on civilian trains not transporting military goods.
Coal trains were being hit in particular, he said.
Ukraine has been defending itself against a full-scale Russian invasion for more than three years.
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This is the worst criminal conduct known to humankind
The images of starving children coming out of Gaza reminded me of the images of the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of World War II. Victims and perpetrators come in all colours, races and religions. Maybe Shakespeare would have said: "If you starve us, do we not look skeletal". In Tel Aviv last week, Jewish people took to the streets holding photographs of children whose starvation is being caused by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu's illegal waging of an aggressive war and the illegal withholding of food in Gaza. If you offend decency, do we not protest. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said this week: "Quite clearly it is a breach of international law to stop food being delivered which was a decision that Israel made in March." He said, "You can't hold innocent people responsible" for the actions of Hamas. Indeed, the only lawful warfare is defence. What Israel is doing in Gaza has for months now gone well beyond what would be a legitimate defensive response to the Hamas attacks in October 2023. It is similar to the unnecessary Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945. Waging an aggressive war is the worst criminal conduct known to humankind. It is worse than the crimes of serial killers or serial rapists. Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin should be compared to Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, the Columbine School shooters, or Martin Bryant - not just other authoritarian leaders of nations. Those who wage an aggressive war do not just condone or turn a blind eye to death and suffering; they cause it - as surely as a serial killer. Worse, because they bring many of the resources of the state and its people to join in to their crime - wittingly or unwittingly - the scale of the crime is much greater than that of the serial killer or mass shooter, and so is the scale of evil. Netanyahu's action a breach of international law the same as Putin's action because he is waging war beyond the borders of his own nation as recognised by the United Nations. It is the same as Putin's because its aim is the genocidal removal of the civilian populations. "Netanyahu's action" is the deliberate starvation of innocent civilians, particularly children. There is more than enough food to prevent the starvation of anyone in Gaza. The reason people are starving is that the food is not getting through. And getting it through or not getting it through is within the power of Netanyahu. He is causing the starvation and death. "To starve" is a peculiar verb. It is too often used in the passive voice, as in, "The child starved to death." It is rarely used in the active voice, as in, "Netayanhu starved the child to death." The passive voice removes any active person. It removes responsibility, as if the words "the child starved to death" mean that the child caused their own starvation. Ironically, the passive voice is part of the armoury of war. A reporter can write or broadcast the words: "Ten civilians were killed in the Middle East conflict yesterday" - and the people who did the killing are not identified. Similarly: "A hospital was bombed today, killing 23 people." The words "shooting", "killing", "bombing", and the like, however, can just as easily, and without any awkwardness, be used in the active voice, as in "Houthi rebels fired a missile at a Greek oil tanker yesterday." But using the verb "to starve" in the active voice, as in "Netanyahu starved the child", is awkward so people avoid it, thereby shielding the perpetrator. Moving from the passive voice to the active voice is critical to the effective rule of law. The rule of law only enters the picture after the passive voice. "Veronica Victim was murdered" is in the passive voice. "Peter Perpetrator murdered Veronica Victim" is in the active voice and, in rule-of-law countries, is usually only uttered after a legal finding of guilt. READ MORE CRISPIN HULL: Unfortunately, that might never happen in the case of Netanyahu. He has visited the US three times and Hungary once since the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest in November 2024 under the Statute of Rome. The US has never signed up to the International Criminal Court, nor to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is a member of the World Trade Organisation but has effectively neutered it by vetoing appointments to its judicial arm. Even so, it used to support a rules-based international order. Now it has even dispensed with that pretence. Israel (under Netanyahu) and Hungary (Under Viktor Orban), once rule-of-law democracies, have done likewise. Albanese can take credit for expressing Australia's traditional rule-of-law values this week. In doing so he further distanced himself for the US which has been complicit in the starvation by withholding humanitarian aid and complicit in the slaughter at food-distribution centres and in general because it supplies weapons. Unlike President Donald Trump and the US leadership generally he has not been silent. If we want a rules-based international order, however, nations must seek out the individual leaders who are accused of crimes on the basis of credible evidence and under the rule of law bring them to account. The images of starving children coming out of Gaza reminded me of the images of the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of World War II. Victims and perpetrators come in all colours, races and religions. Maybe Shakespeare would have said: "If you starve us, do we not look skeletal". In Tel Aviv last week, Jewish people took to the streets holding photographs of children whose starvation is being caused by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu's illegal waging of an aggressive war and the illegal withholding of food in Gaza. If you offend decency, do we not protest. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said this week: "Quite clearly it is a breach of international law to stop food being delivered which was a decision that Israel made in March." He said, "You can't hold innocent people responsible" for the actions of Hamas. Indeed, the only lawful warfare is defence. What Israel is doing in Gaza has for months now gone well beyond what would be a legitimate defensive response to the Hamas attacks in October 2023. It is similar to the unnecessary Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945. Waging an aggressive war is the worst criminal conduct known to humankind. It is worse than the crimes of serial killers or serial rapists. Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin should be compared to Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, the Columbine School shooters, or Martin Bryant - not just other authoritarian leaders of nations. Those who wage an aggressive war do not just condone or turn a blind eye to death and suffering; they cause it - as surely as a serial killer. Worse, because they bring many of the resources of the state and its people to join in to their crime - wittingly or unwittingly - the scale of the crime is much greater than that of the serial killer or mass shooter, and so is the scale of evil. Netanyahu's action a breach of international law the same as Putin's action because he is waging war beyond the borders of his own nation as recognised by the United Nations. It is the same as Putin's because its aim is the genocidal removal of the civilian populations. "Netanyahu's action" is the deliberate starvation of innocent civilians, particularly children. There is more than enough food to prevent the starvation of anyone in Gaza. The reason people are starving is that the food is not getting through. And getting it through or not getting it through is within the power of Netanyahu. He is causing the starvation and death. "To starve" is a peculiar verb. It is too often used in the passive voice, as in, "The child starved to death." It is rarely used in the active voice, as in, "Netayanhu starved the child to death." The passive voice removes any active person. It removes responsibility, as if the words "the child starved to death" mean that the child caused their own starvation. Ironically, the passive voice is part of the armoury of war. A reporter can write or broadcast the words: "Ten civilians were killed in the Middle East conflict yesterday" - and the people who did the killing are not identified. Similarly: "A hospital was bombed today, killing 23 people." The words "shooting", "killing", "bombing", and the like, however, can just as easily, and without any awkwardness, be used in the active voice, as in "Houthi rebels fired a missile at a Greek oil tanker yesterday." But using the verb "to starve" in the active voice, as in "Netanyahu starved the child", is awkward so people avoid it, thereby shielding the perpetrator. Moving from the passive voice to the active voice is critical to the effective rule of law. The rule of law only enters the picture after the passive voice. "Veronica Victim was murdered" is in the passive voice. "Peter Perpetrator murdered Veronica Victim" is in the active voice and, in rule-of-law countries, is usually only uttered after a legal finding of guilt. READ MORE CRISPIN HULL: Unfortunately, that might never happen in the case of Netanyahu. He has visited the US three times and Hungary once since the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest in November 2024 under the Statute of Rome. The US has never signed up to the International Criminal Court, nor to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is a member of the World Trade Organisation but has effectively neutered it by vetoing appointments to its judicial arm. Even so, it used to support a rules-based international order. Now it has even dispensed with that pretence. Israel (under Netanyahu) and Hungary (Under Viktor Orban), once rule-of-law democracies, have done likewise. Albanese can take credit for expressing Australia's traditional rule-of-law values this week. In doing so he further distanced himself for the US which has been complicit in the starvation by withholding humanitarian aid and complicit in the slaughter at food-distribution centres and in general because it supplies weapons. Unlike President Donald Trump and the US leadership generally he has not been silent. If we want a rules-based international order, however, nations must seek out the individual leaders who are accused of crimes on the basis of credible evidence and under the rule of law bring them to account. The images of starving children coming out of Gaza reminded me of the images of the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of World War II. Victims and perpetrators come in all colours, races and religions. Maybe Shakespeare would have said: "If you starve us, do we not look skeletal". In Tel Aviv last week, Jewish people took to the streets holding photographs of children whose starvation is being caused by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu's illegal waging of an aggressive war and the illegal withholding of food in Gaza. If you offend decency, do we not protest. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said this week: "Quite clearly it is a breach of international law to stop food being delivered which was a decision that Israel made in March." He said, "You can't hold innocent people responsible" for the actions of Hamas. Indeed, the only lawful warfare is defence. What Israel is doing in Gaza has for months now gone well beyond what would be a legitimate defensive response to the Hamas attacks in October 2023. It is similar to the unnecessary Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945. Waging an aggressive war is the worst criminal conduct known to humankind. It is worse than the crimes of serial killers or serial rapists. Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin should be compared to Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, the Columbine School shooters, or Martin Bryant - not just other authoritarian leaders of nations. Those who wage an aggressive war do not just condone or turn a blind eye to death and suffering; they cause it - as surely as a serial killer. Worse, because they bring many of the resources of the state and its people to join in to their crime - wittingly or unwittingly - the scale of the crime is much greater than that of the serial killer or mass shooter, and so is the scale of evil. Netanyahu's action a breach of international law the same as Putin's action because he is waging war beyond the borders of his own nation as recognised by the United Nations. It is the same as Putin's because its aim is the genocidal removal of the civilian populations. "Netanyahu's action" is the deliberate starvation of innocent civilians, particularly children. There is more than enough food to prevent the starvation of anyone in Gaza. The reason people are starving is that the food is not getting through. And getting it through or not getting it through is within the power of Netanyahu. He is causing the starvation and death. "To starve" is a peculiar verb. It is too often used in the passive voice, as in, "The child starved to death." It is rarely used in the active voice, as in, "Netayanhu starved the child to death." The passive voice removes any active person. It removes responsibility, as if the words "the child starved to death" mean that the child caused their own starvation. Ironically, the passive voice is part of the armoury of war. A reporter can write or broadcast the words: "Ten civilians were killed in the Middle East conflict yesterday" - and the people who did the killing are not identified. Similarly: "A hospital was bombed today, killing 23 people." The words "shooting", "killing", "bombing", and the like, however, can just as easily, and without any awkwardness, be used in the active voice, as in "Houthi rebels fired a missile at a Greek oil tanker yesterday." But using the verb "to starve" in the active voice, as in "Netanyahu starved the child", is awkward so people avoid it, thereby shielding the perpetrator. Moving from the passive voice to the active voice is critical to the effective rule of law. The rule of law only enters the picture after the passive voice. "Veronica Victim was murdered" is in the passive voice. "Peter Perpetrator murdered Veronica Victim" is in the active voice and, in rule-of-law countries, is usually only uttered after a legal finding of guilt. READ MORE CRISPIN HULL: Unfortunately, that might never happen in the case of Netanyahu. He has visited the US three times and Hungary once since the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest in November 2024 under the Statute of Rome. The US has never signed up to the International Criminal Court, nor to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is a member of the World Trade Organisation but has effectively neutered it by vetoing appointments to its judicial arm. Even so, it used to support a rules-based international order. Now it has even dispensed with that pretence. Israel (under Netanyahu) and Hungary (Under Viktor Orban), once rule-of-law democracies, have done likewise. Albanese can take credit for expressing Australia's traditional rule-of-law values this week. In doing so he further distanced himself for the US which has been complicit in the starvation by withholding humanitarian aid and complicit in the slaughter at food-distribution centres and in general because it supplies weapons. Unlike President Donald Trump and the US leadership generally he has not been silent. If we want a rules-based international order, however, nations must seek out the individual leaders who are accused of crimes on the basis of credible evidence and under the rule of law bring them to account. The images of starving children coming out of Gaza reminded me of the images of the liberation of the concentration camps at the end of World War II. Victims and perpetrators come in all colours, races and religions. Maybe Shakespeare would have said: "If you starve us, do we not look skeletal". In Tel Aviv last week, Jewish people took to the streets holding photographs of children whose starvation is being caused by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu's illegal waging of an aggressive war and the illegal withholding of food in Gaza. If you offend decency, do we not protest. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said this week: "Quite clearly it is a breach of international law to stop food being delivered which was a decision that Israel made in March." He said, "You can't hold innocent people responsible" for the actions of Hamas. Indeed, the only lawful warfare is defence. What Israel is doing in Gaza has for months now gone well beyond what would be a legitimate defensive response to the Hamas attacks in October 2023. It is similar to the unnecessary Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945. Waging an aggressive war is the worst criminal conduct known to humankind. It is worse than the crimes of serial killers or serial rapists. Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin should be compared to Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, the Columbine School shooters, or Martin Bryant - not just other authoritarian leaders of nations. Those who wage an aggressive war do not just condone or turn a blind eye to death and suffering; they cause it - as surely as a serial killer. Worse, because they bring many of the resources of the state and its people to join in to their crime - wittingly or unwittingly - the scale of the crime is much greater than that of the serial killer or mass shooter, and so is the scale of evil. Netanyahu's action a breach of international law the same as Putin's action because he is waging war beyond the borders of his own nation as recognised by the United Nations. It is the same as Putin's because its aim is the genocidal removal of the civilian populations. "Netanyahu's action" is the deliberate starvation of innocent civilians, particularly children. There is more than enough food to prevent the starvation of anyone in Gaza. The reason people are starving is that the food is not getting through. And getting it through or not getting it through is within the power of Netanyahu. He is causing the starvation and death. "To starve" is a peculiar verb. It is too often used in the passive voice, as in, "The child starved to death." It is rarely used in the active voice, as in, "Netayanhu starved the child to death." The passive voice removes any active person. It removes responsibility, as if the words "the child starved to death" mean that the child caused their own starvation. Ironically, the passive voice is part of the armoury of war. A reporter can write or broadcast the words: "Ten civilians were killed in the Middle East conflict yesterday" - and the people who did the killing are not identified. Similarly: "A hospital was bombed today, killing 23 people." The words "shooting", "killing", "bombing", and the like, however, can just as easily, and without any awkwardness, be used in the active voice, as in "Houthi rebels fired a missile at a Greek oil tanker yesterday." But using the verb "to starve" in the active voice, as in "Netanyahu starved the child", is awkward so people avoid it, thereby shielding the perpetrator. Moving from the passive voice to the active voice is critical to the effective rule of law. The rule of law only enters the picture after the passive voice. "Veronica Victim was murdered" is in the passive voice. "Peter Perpetrator murdered Veronica Victim" is in the active voice and, in rule-of-law countries, is usually only uttered after a legal finding of guilt. READ MORE CRISPIN HULL: Unfortunately, that might never happen in the case of Netanyahu. He has visited the US three times and Hungary once since the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest in November 2024 under the Statute of Rome. The US has never signed up to the International Criminal Court, nor to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is a member of the World Trade Organisation but has effectively neutered it by vetoing appointments to its judicial arm. Even so, it used to support a rules-based international order. Now it has even dispensed with that pretence. Israel (under Netanyahu) and Hungary (Under Viktor Orban), once rule-of-law democracies, have done likewise. Albanese can take credit for expressing Australia's traditional rule-of-law values this week. In doing so he further distanced himself for the US which has been complicit in the starvation by withholding humanitarian aid and complicit in the slaughter at food-distribution centres and in general because it supplies weapons. Unlike President Donald Trump and the US leadership generally he has not been silent. If we want a rules-based international order, however, nations must seek out the individual leaders who are accused of crimes on the basis of credible evidence and under the rule of law bring them to account.
7NEWS
4 hours ago
- 7NEWS
Trump changes deadline for Russia on Ukraine war amid growing frustration with Putin
US President Donald Trump says he is setting a new 10 or 12-day deadline for Russia over its war in Ukraine, underscoring his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin for prolonging fighting between the two sides. Trump has threatened both sanctions on Russia and buyers of its exports unless progress is made. Speaking in Scotland, where he is holding meetings with European leaders and playing golf, Trump said he was disappointed in Putin and shortening a 50-day deadline he had set on the issue earlier this month. 'I'm going to make a new deadline of about ... 10 or 12 days from today,' Trump told reporters during a meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. 'There's no reason in waiting ... We just don't see any progress being made.' The US president has repeatedly voiced exasperation with Putin for continuing attacks on Ukraine despite US efforts to end the war. Before returning to the White House in January, Trump, who views himself as a peacemaker, had promised to end the three-and-a-half-year-old conflict within 24 hours. 'I'm disappointed in President Putin,' Trump said on Monday. 'I'm going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number because I think I already know the answer what's going to happen.' There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised Trump for his 'expressed determination' in calling for a shortened deadline. 'Clear stance and expressed determination by @POTUS - right on time, when a lot can change through strength for real peace,' Zelensky wrote on the X social media platform. 'I thank President Trump for his focus on saving lives and stopping this horrible war.' In his nightly video address, Zelensky again praised Trump's 'particularly significant' statement in the light Russia's 'constant attempts to inflict pain on Ukraine' through air strikes on its cities. Ukraine, he said, viewed the imposition of tough sanctions on Russia as a 'key element' in ending the war. 'Russia pays attention to sanctions, pays attention to such losses,' he said. 'Ukraine is ready to work productively with the United States, to work with President Trump to end this war with dignity and a secure, lasting peace.'
Sky News AU
4 hours ago
- Sky News AU
Donald Trump pulls Russia's 50 day deadline down as he is ‘disappointed' with Putin
Sky News contributor Sophie Elsworth says US President Donald Trump has shortened his deadline for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine from 50 days down to between 10 and 12. Mr Trump had a meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, where they discussed global conflicts. 'They had this discussion in terms of what the deadline for Russia will be,' Ms Elsworth told Sky News Australia. 'That will bring it down to 10 to 12 days, which Mr Trump said he'll make an announcement tomorrow, exactly when the deadline will be. 'He said he's very disappointed with the Russian President and said he wants action on this swiftly.'
