Biden warns the world faces ‘Armageddon’ if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine

The Parliament of Ukraine approved this Friday a law for the voluntary enlistment of women in the Army, while military operations are intensifying after Russia announced weeks ago the mobilization of some 300,000 reservists. The proposal has been approved with 297 votes in favor in a Ukrainian Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, in which there is full consensus after the departure of the main party opposed to the Government, Opposition Platform for Life, suspended after being classified as pro-Russian.

Holos (Voice) deputy Yaroslav Zhelezniak explained that the new law provides that women will be able to enlist voluntarily if they are fit for military service due to health or age, as well as if their activity or profession appears on the list drawn up by the Ministry of Defense to facilitate access.

Ukraine has liberated the village of Makiivka in Lugansk, the kyiv Post reports. Yesterday, officials confirmed that the army He recovered the Hrekivka village in the region.

? According to the preliminary reports, the #Ukrainian army has liberated the Makiivka village in #Luhansk Oblast.

Yesterday, officials confirmed that the ?? army recaptured the Hrekivka village in the region. pic.twitter.com/Hy2QNhVlwL

— KyivPost (@KyivPost) October 7, 2022

The Russian organization Memorial, which was liquidated in December 2021 by Russia led by Vladimir Putin, has dedicated the last 30 years to investigating both the Soviet political repressions up to 1991 as well as denouncing human rights abuses in Russia since the fall of the USSR.

The director of Memorial, Alexandr Cherkásov, assured EFE today that the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to all human rights defenders in the post-Soviet space.

“This Nobel is for all those who are alive, those who have already left, those who are in jail or those who were murdered. The three of us are friendly organizations,” Cherkásov said after meeting awarding the award to Memorialthe Belarusian Ales Bialiatski, founder of the Vesná organization, and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today warned the United States and others “patrons of the kyiv regimeagainst further involvement as part of the conflict in Ukraine.

“We again warn the US and other sponsors of the kyiv regime against further involvement in the situation as part of the conflict”Lavrov said, quoted by the official TASS agency, in a telematic intervention in an international forum on ecological policies and sustainable development. The head of Russian diplomacy stressed that Russia’s military doctrine and policy in the field of nuclear containment, which does not provide for the preventive use of weapons of this typeremain unchanged.

The Russian Government has accused the Ukrainian authorities of trying turn the Zaporizhia nuclear plant into a “dirty nuclear bomb” through constant attacks against the facilities and their surroundings, of which kyiv and Moscow blame each other.

In comments to Channel 1 of Russian television collected by the TASS agency, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, has denounced that “the intentional bombings” of Ukraine are “true nuclear blackmail”, deserving of the qualification of “acts of terrorism”. “The idea is to do everything possible to threaten a nuclear facility to use as a dirty nuclear bomb”Zakharova declared.

The Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas, warned this Friday that if the weight of the Russian population increases in small countries such as the Baltics, albeit through those fleeing military recruitment, Vladimir Putin could use them as an excuse to “liberate” them. “We have to understand is that we are in a hybrid war with Russia, which means that they use different elements as weapons against us. The energy, we have already seen it; migration is the next weapon,” Kallas said upon his arrival at the informal summit of EU heads of state and government in Prague.

The Russian authorities announced this Friday an extension of two weeks of terror alert decreed in the Kursk region, located on the border with Ukraine, due to the latest events in the war, unleashed on February 24 by the invasion order given by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

The announcement has been made by the regional governor, Roman Starovoit, who has indicated in a message on his Telegram account that “The yellow level of anti-terrorism alert has been extended from October 7 for 15 days, until October 22.” “I ask citizens to remain vigilant: report suspicious citizens, abandoned objects and drones”has said.

The High Representative for Foreign Policy of the EU, Josep Borrell, warned this Friday that energy prices have become in a matter of “security” that goes beyond economic concern, so it must be addressed as a key geopolitical issue that affects the “balance of power in the world”.

“Energy is becoming the most important geopolitical issue today in relation to war, but also to the balance of power in the world,” he told reporters in Prague, upon arrival at the informal summit of EU Heads of State and Government.

The British Ministry of Defense has announced that Ukraine has captured at least 440 Russian tanks and 650 vehicles. armored since the beginning of the war.

British Defense Intelligence Update Ukraine – 7 October 2022#UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/SshlCtadYy

— KyivPost (@KyivPost) October 7, 2022

At least five civilians were killed today and five others wounded in a Ukrainian rocket attack on a bus in the Kherson region, annexed by Moscowreported the health authorities installed by Russia.

“Today, October 7, the nationalists fired rockets at a bus with civilians on the Darivka bridge. The civilians were on their way to work. As a result of the attack, unfortunately five people were killed and five were injured,” the Kherson Ministry of Health said in a statement posted on Telegram.

The Russian authorities have announced this Friday a two-week extension of the anti-terrorist alert decreed in the Kursk regionlocated on the border with Ukraine, because of the latest events in the war, unleashed on February 24 by the invasion order given by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.

The announcement has been made by the regional governor, Roman Starovoit, who has indicated in a message on his Telegram account that “the yellow level of anti-terrorist alert has been extended from October 7 for 15 days, until October 22″. “I ask citizens to remain vigilant: report suspicious citizens, abandoned objects and drones,” she said.

The Ukrainian authorities have raised this Friday to eleven the death toll in the missile attack carried out on Thursday by Russian forces against the city of Zaporizhia, capital of the homonymous region, which reached several residential buildings.

The Ukrainian Emergency Service (SES) has noted in a message on Telegram that “emergency and rescue operations continue in the area of ​​the destroyed buildings” and added that eight bodies have been found in one of them, while another six have been rescued alive. On the other hand, three other bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a second building.

They have continued to find bodies. There are already 11 deceased.
Neighbors who were in their houses.? #Zaporizhzhia #Zaporijia https://t.co/odCB2Ao8Eg

– Almudena Ariza (@almuariza) October 7, 2022