Moscow (AFP) – Images released by the Russian Defence Ministry show mobilised men saying goodbye to their relatives at a draft centre as Moscow’s mayor says military draft offices in the Russian capital are to close.
Britain’s new Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announces sweeping changes to the government’s so-called ‘mini-budget’, which was announced less than a month ago by his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng. The September fiscal event brought instability to financial markets and increased the UK’s borrowing costs. In a statement to media, Hunt announced that the base rate of tax will now not be cut ‘until economic circumstances allow it’, and said that the existing energy price support scheme will be redesigned in a more targeted way to help those most in need from next April, while also warning that government spending will need to be cut in other areas to deliver stability.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian emergency workers hold a cat rescued from the rubble after multiple explosions caused by “kamikaze drones” hit the capital Kyiv, damaging residential and administrative buildings, according to Ukrainian officials.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Kyiv residents describe deadly drone strikes in Kyiv as emergency services work amid smoke in the street of the Ukrainian capital. Hundreds of Ukrainian towns were cut off from electricity by Russian attacks against critical infrastructure and deadly kamikaze drone strikes in Kyiv, Ukraine said.
Beijing (AFP) – China says it hopes the UK will ‘facilitate normal operations’ of the Chinese embassy and consulates after the reported beating of a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester in the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester, northern England.
EU foreign ministers meet to adopt sanctions on Iran. Several countries are expected to condemn the regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters — while stressing the need to revive a moribund nuclear deal with Tehran. IMAGES
Berlin (AFP) – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender welcomes the Spanish Royal couple, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, to Berlin with military honours.
Stockholm (AFP) – Moderates leader Ulf Kristesson arrives at Sweden’s parliament, where he is expected to be voted the country’s new Prime Minister just over a month after the right-wing won a narrow victory in a general election that ousted the Social Democrats after eight years in power.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian police officers open fire at what the Ukrainian presidency claims are “kamikaze drones” swooping low across the skies of Kyiv, with smoke rising from where the drones struck.
Belgorod (Russia) (AFP) – The Russian Belgorod region bordering Ukraine was hit by strikes on Sunday, leaving at least four people injured in the latest attacks in the area, Russian officials said. Around 16 explosions were recorded in the city of Belgorod, Russia’s investigative committee, which investigates serious crimes, said Sunday. The city of 330,000, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Ukrainian border, had until recently rarely been hit, unlike the surrounding region. The attacks come a day after an oil depot was hit in the same area.
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Smoke billows from a struck building and Ukraine’s emergency services rush to the scene of a strike after Russian-launched “kamikaze drones” attacked Kyiv early Monday, the Ukrainian presidency said, describing the strikes as an act of desperation nearly eight months into a war that has claimed thousands of lives.
To end a “Weekend of Resistance” organised by Extinction Rebellion, people march from Hyde Park to Parliament Square in London, to show the British government their vision for the future regarding the environment.
