Russia-Ukraine War, LIVE: Fire alert at Russian oil depot near Ukraine border

European Commission head proposes special tribunal to try Russia for war in Ukraine

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed on Wednesday the formation of a “specialized court” investigate and prosecute Russia’s war against Ukraine, launched in February this year.

“While we continue to support the International Criminal Court (ICC), we propose to establish a specialized tribunal, supported by the United Nations, to investigate and prosecute Russia’s crime of aggression,” von der Leyen said in a video message.

“We are ready to start working with the international community to gain the widest possible international support for this court,” added the German official, to whom the Russian invasion of Ukraine “has brought death, devastation and untold suffering.”

Fire at a Russian oil depot near the Ukrainian border

A oil depot in the Bryansk region of Russiaa city located 150 km from the border with Ukraine caught fire, the local governor said.

“Two petroleum product depots are on fire in the Surazhsky district,” Alexander Bogomaz said on social media.

“There are firefighters and lifeguards on site”, added the governor, specifying that at the moment there are no victims.

Ukraine has reported Russian casualties since the start of the war

Fire at a Russian oil depot near the Ukrainian border

An oil field in Russia’s Briansk region, a city located 150km from the Ukrainian border, caught fire on Wednesday, according to the local governor, Alexander Bogomax.

“Two petroleum product depots are on fire in the Surazhsky district. Firefighters and rescuers are at the scene. No casualties have been reported yet,” he said on his social media.

The fire affects an area of ​​1,800 km2 and more than 80 people are trying to control it, said Bogomaz, who did not name the cause of the fire.

Russia bombed Zaporizhzhia and started a fire

The governor of Zaporizhia oblast, Oleksandr Starukh, said Russian forces fired a missile at one of the settlements in the region. A gas distribution point was reached and a fire broke out.

Over the past week, 720 wounded Russian soldiers have been sent to hospitals in Donetsk

Over the past week, more than 720 wounded Russian servicemen have been taken to medical facilities in temporarily Russian-occupied Donetsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Facebook.

In addition, he reported that in the temporarily occupied town of Horlivka, one of the civilian hospitals has been transformed into a military hospital, where the access of civilians is completely restricted. Only medical personnel are authorized to visit patients.

Russian shelling injures a 73-year-old woman in Dnipropetrovsk

Mykola Lukashuk, chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk oblast legislature, said a 73-year-old woman was injured as a result of Russian shelling in Myrivska community, Nikopolsky district.

The injured woman was treated at the local hospital. At least half a dozen private homes, outbuildings and a pipeline were destroyed in the community.

Estonia has launched a commemorative coin dedicated to Ukraine

“The Central Bank of Estonia has issued a 2-euro coin dedicated to Ukraine. Today they enter circulation,” Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia, announced on Twitter.

“The coin was designed by Ukrainian refugee Daria Titova – he added -. It will be a daily reminder of Ukraine’s struggle for freedom and its future in the EU”.

The coin – whose center bears the motto “Honour to Ukraine” – “reminds us that freedom is the highest value and that obtaining it requires an equally high cost”, said the president of the Central Bank, Madis Muller, during a press conference conference.

The proceeds from the sale of the kits with the commemorative coin, which can be purchased at Estonian banks, will go to the Central Bank of Ukraine: “Ukrainians -continues MUller- are fighting, sacrificing the lives of citizens for the values ​​of the common areas of the European cultural area and it is our duty to support them.”

Zelensky proposes to create a special court to sue Russia before the International Criminal Court

The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, urged on Tuesday to create a special court so that “every Russian murderer gets the punishment he deserves” at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Zelensky complained in his usual nightly speech that “the available international legal instruments are not sufficient for justice”.

“Even in the International Criminal Court it is still impossible to bring to justice the highest political and military leaders of Russia for the crime of aggression against our state, for the main crime. The crime that gave rise to all other crimes of this war, and not only after February 24, but also since 2014. That’s where it all started,” he said.

The fearsome Ukrainian rocket launcher: “The nightmare of the Russian invaders”

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has published a video on its social networks showing the new rocket launcher donated by Germany for its troops.

“Meet the Ukrainian MARS II that Germany provided us. Nightmare of the Russian invaders,” they wrote on the Twitter account accompanied by a video with images of the military vehicle.
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G7 meets to discuss emergency support to Ukraine

The foreign ministers of the G7 – which brings together the world’s most industrialized democratic countries – met on Tuesday in Bucharest to address Ukraine’s most urgent needs ahead of the donor conference scheduled for next month in Paris to help this country.

“United in their commitment to help Ukraine, the participants discussed the critical situation of energy infrastructure in Ukraine in order to better understand and prioritize the most urgent needs of the Ukrainian people and coordinate assistance efforts,” the ministry said. of German Foreign Affairs. declaration.

Russia accuses the United States of “toxic” in justifying the cessation of dialogue on nuclear disarmament

Russia admitted on Tuesday that the decision to suspend negotiations with the United States on nuclear disarmament is based on bad relations between the two countries and denounced “hostility” and “toxicity” from the White House “at all levels”.

“We note the highest level of toxicity and hostility from Washington at all levels” of cooperation with Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.

Ukraine asks NATO to speed up aid before winter arrives

Ukraine on Tuesday lobbied NATO countries to speed up arms shipments and help recover the power grid, devastated by Russian bombing, as part of an effort to help Ukrainians weather the boreal winter.

During a NATO ministerial meeting in Romania, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called for deliveries, especially for air defense, to be “faster, faster, faster”.

Hungary confirms blocking Ukraine’s participation in NATO meeting

Hungary will continue to block formal meetings of the Ukraine-NATO Commission until the rights of the Hungarian minority are restored, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday at the NATO meeting in Bucharest.

“It has been clear for years now that the Hungarian government will not agree to a formal meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission until the Hungarians of Transcarpathia (Western Ukraine) have their rights restored,” the minister said in statements on Hungarian public television M1 from the Romanian capital.

He added that since the war broke out last February, “everyone can see that Hungary has not raised the issues relating to the rights of Hungarians”.

“We haven’t mentioned them, but we haven’t forgotten these issues either,” said the Hungarian diplomatic leader, whose government, led by the ultra-conservative Viktor Orbán, is Russia’s best EU ally.

Hungary has vetoed official meetings of NATO and Ukraine since 2017, citing laws passed in Ukraine that restrict the use of the languages ​​of ethnic minorities, including that of the 150,000 Magyars living in the country’s western regions.