Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukraine retakes key village near Bakhmut; Kyiv sacks six deputy defence ministers | Ukraine

People’s rights in Russia have substantially worsened since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last year, a top UN expert said on Monday.

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The UN special rapporteur on the rights situation in Russia, Mariana Katzarova, said Moscow had launched a systematic crackdown on critics since its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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“The situation of human rights in the Russian Federation has significantly deteriorated since its invasion of Ukraine,” Katzarova said in her first report.

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The dramatic degradation came after “the situation had already been on a steady decline over the past two decades,” she added.

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Last April, Katzarovabecame the first monitor appointed by the UN human rights council to examine the rights situation in Russia or any permanent member of the UN security council.

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She said Russian authorities had “severely curtailed the freedoms of association, peaceful assembly and expression” and undermined the independence of the judiciary and the guarantees of fair trial.

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According to AFP, Katzarova said sanctions were “being applied arbitrarily against dissenters and force used against peaceful protesters”. She also decried the “persistent use of torture” and sexual violence.

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The report read:

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Both the harshness of recent criminal sentences and the number of people sentenced on politically motivated charges has increased.

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Katzarova said she had been granted no access to Russia, adding that Moscow tried to “obstruct” her work.

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Her findings were based on consultations with more than 60 Russian and international rights groups and individuals, in person, by phone or online, and nearly 100 written submissions.

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• The Ukrainian president says his forces have recaptured the strategically important village of Klishchiivka on the southern flank of the key frontline city of Bakhmut. “Today I would like to particularly commend the soldiers who, step by step, are returning to Ukraine what belongs to it, namely in the area of Bakhmut,” Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Sunday. Officials shared a video of Ukrainian forces displaying flags including the blue and yellow national flag, with ruined buildings and the sound of ongoing fighting in the background.

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• Overnight, Ukraine claims to have shot down all 17 cruise missiles fired into its territory by Russia. The air force also reported that 18 out of 24 “Shahed” drones were downed. Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, also reports that four people have been injured near a bus station in Beryslav in Kherson region, and that a recreational facility in Odesa region was set on fire during an attack, but that there were no casualties.

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• The Ukrainian government decided to dismiss six deputy defence ministers on Monday following the appointment of a new defence minister earlier this month. The government gave no reason for the dismissals. Those removed from their post included Hanna Maliar, who has frequently issued public updates on Russia’s war against Ukraine. Rustem Umerov was appointed defence minister less than two weeks ago to replace Oleksii Reznikov.

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• Earlier Maliar had issued a lengthy update on Telegram, claiming that Ukrainian forces have repelled Russian attacks in a number of areas, including in the Kupyansk, Bakhmut, and Marinka directions. Maliar also gave new figures for the amount of territory recaptured by Ukraine. She said 2 sq km had been captured around Bakhmut, and in the past week, and that 51 sq km had been recaptured there since the start of the counteroffensive.

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• Russia called on the UN’s highest court in The Hague on Monday to throw out a case that centres around claims by Moscow that its invasion of Ukraine was carried out to prevent genocide. The request was made at the start of hearings dealing with the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), also known as the World Court. Ukraine brought the case just days after the Russian invasion on 24 February last year. Kyiv argues Russia is abusing international law by saying the invasion was justified to prevent an alleged genocide in eastern Ukraine.

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• Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of the Belgorod region in Russia, reports that power supplies have been cut to the villages of Glotovo and Bezymeno near the border with Ukraine after shelling. He said there were no casualties.

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• Roman Starovoyt, governor of neighbouring region Kursk in Russia, reported on Telegram that a woman had been injured by cross-border fire into the village of Tetkino.

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• Russia said it repelled Ukrainian drone attacks over several parts of Crimea, outer Moscow and two border regions on Sunday. Russia occupied and unilaterally annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

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• Bulgaria’s defence ministry said on Monday it had sent a special unit to inspect and deactivate a drone carrying explosives which landed on Sunday evening in the Black Sea town of Tyulenovo. Following inspection the team from Bulgaria, a Nato member, will decide how to dispose of it

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• Ukraine plans to sue Poland, Hungary and Slovakia over bans on Ukrainian agricultural products, Politico quoted Ukrainian trade representative Taras Kachka as saying in an interview published on Monday.

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• China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, will begin a four-day visit to Russia for security talks on Monday.

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• A United Nations report said on Monday that the human rights situation in Russia had significantly deteriorated since it invaded Ukraine in February last year, describing a “systematic crackdown” on civil society organisations. “Russian authorities have severely curtailed the freedoms of association, peaceful assembly and expression, both online and offline, and have fundamentally undermined the independence of the judiciary and the guarantees of fair trial,” said a copy of the report seen by Reuters.

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The Ukrainian government decided to dismiss six deputy defence ministers on Monday following the appointment of a new defence minister earlier this month.

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The government gave no reason for the dismissals. Those removed from their post included Hanna Maliar, who has frequently issued public updates on Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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Rustem Umerov was appointed defence minister less than two weeks ago to replace Oleksii Reznikov. The ministry had been dogged by media allegations of corruption while Reznikov was in the post although he faced no corruption allegations himself.

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“Rebooting. We started. We continue. Ministry continues to work as usual,” Umerov said in a Facebook post.

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Reuters reports that Maliar, a war crimes lawyer, had served as a deputy defence minister since 2021 and her latest update on the war in Ukraine appeared on Monday morning.

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She faced criticism last week after initially reporting that Ukrainian forces had recaptured an eastern village from Russian forces, but later saying her report was inaccurate and that fighting was still raging around the village.

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Russia called on the UN’s highest court in The Hague on Monday to throw out a case that centres around claims by Moscow that its invasion of Ukraine was carried out to prevent genocide.

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The request was made at the start of hearings dealing with the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), also known as the World Court.

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Ukraine brought the case just days after the Russian invasion on 24 February last year. Kyiv argues Russia is abusing international law by saying the invasion was justified to prevent an alleged genocide in eastern Ukraine.

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Russian officials continue to accuse Ukraine of committing genocide. On Monday, Russia repeated allegations that the “Russophobic and neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv” was using the 1948 Genocide Convention, to which both countries are a party, as a pretext to “drag” a case before the court.

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Russia wants the case to be thrown out and says the court has no jurisdiction. The hearings, set to run until 27 September, will not delve into the merits of the case and are instead focused on legal arguments about jurisdiction.

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Reuters reports that while Russia has so far ignored the ICJ’s orders to stop its military actions and the court has no way of enforcing its decisions, experts say an eventual ruling in favour of Ukraine could be important for any future reparations claims.

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Reuters has a quick snap that Ukraine’s government has dismissed deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar along with five other deputies.

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Overnight Ukraine claims to have shot down all 17 cruise missiles fired into its territory by Russia. The air force also reported that 18 out of 24 “Shahed” drones were downed.

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Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, also reports that four people have been injured near a bus station in Beryslav in Kherson region, and that a recreational facility in Odesa region was set on fire during an attack, but that there were no casualties.

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In the Mykolaiv region, debris from a downed drone hit a residential building, but there were no injuries.

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Bulgaria’s defence ministry said on Monday it had sent a special unit to inspect and deactivate a drone carrying explosives which landed on Sunday evening in the Black Sea town of Tyulenovo.

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Following inspection the team from Bulgaria, a Nato member, will decide how to dispose of it, Reuters reports the defence ministry said in a statement adding that the team was sent upon the request of the regional government.

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The tourist town of Tyulenovo is situated 70km from the Romanian border and across the sea from Crimea, which Russia occupied and unilaterally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

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Bulgarian media reported that a drone carrying explosives landed late on Sunday evening. One local news website quoted witnesses saying that the drone was between 3 and 3.5 metres long, and had a container with explosives attached to it.

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China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, will begin a four-day visit to Russia for security talks on Monday, his foreign ministry said.

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Agence France-Presse reports that his trip is the latest in a series of high-level visits and phone calls between the two sides, which have a “no limits” partnership.

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China’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that Wang would go to Russia for the “18th round of the China-Russian strategic security consultations” from 18 to 21 September at the invitation of Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Moscow’s security council.

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In an earlier briefing, Moscow’s foreign ministry said Wang would meet with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and the two planned to “focus on efforts to strengthen collaboration on the international scene”.

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There will be a detailed exchange of views on issues related to a settlement in Ukraine, as well as ways of ensuring stability and security in the Asia-Pacific region.

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China has sought to position itself as a neutral party on the Ukraine war while offering Moscow a vital diplomatic and financial lifeline as its international isolation deepens.

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The high-level contact looks set to ramp up, with an aide to Vladimir Putin saying in July that the Russian president was planning to visit China in October.

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The Ukrainian president says his forces have recaptured the strategically important village of Klishchiivka on the southern flank of the key frontline city of Bakhmut.

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“Today I would like to particularly commend the soldiers who, step by step, are returning to Ukraine what belongs to it, namely in the area of Bakhmut,” Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Sunday.

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The deputy defence minister, Hanna Maliar, shared a video of Ukrainian forces displaying flags including the blue and yellow national flag, with ruined buildings and the sound of ongoing fighting in the background. Russia was still trying to regain lost positions despite Klishchiivka’s liberation, she said on Telegram.

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Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, also confirmed the recapture of the village, which Russia claimed control of in January and is about 9km (six miles) south of Bakhmut, the city taken by Russia in May after months of heavy fighting.

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Ilia Yevlash, a spokesperson for Ukrainian troops in the east, said the battle inflicted “powerful damage” on Russian forces.

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Read the full story here:

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Welcome back to our rolling coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This is Adam Fulton and here’s a roundup of the latest developments.

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Ukrainian forces have recaptured the tactically important village of Klishchiivka near the key frontline city of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian president has said, in what would be Ukraine’s second significant gain in three days.

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised the soldiers fighting near Bakhmut and singled out those who had retaken Klishchiivka, saying “well done!” in an address.

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Russia, meanwhile, said it repelled Ukrainian 13 drone attacks on Crimea as well as outer Moscow and two border regions on Sunday.

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And China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, will begin a four-day visit to Russia for security talks on Monday, his foreign ministry said.

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More on those stories shortly. In other news:

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• North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was on his way home from Russia on Sunday, ending a six-day trip that triggered global concerns about weapons transfer deals between the two countries. Kim began his journey back onboard his armoured train from the Primorye region in Russia’s far east after a farewell ceremony at the train station, Russian state news agency RIA said. After entering Russia on Tuesday in his first overseas trip in more than four years, Kim met Russian president Vladimir Putin, visited key military and technology sites and pledged to step up military and economic cooperation.

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• North Korea may be able to boost Russia’s supply of artillery munitions for the war in Ukraine but that is not likely to make a big difference, the top American military officer said as he arrived in Norway for Nato meetings. US army Gen Mark Milley, chair of the joint chiefs of staff, said the recent meeting between Kim and Putin would probably lead North Korea to provide Soviet-era 152mm artillery rounds to Moscow. But he said it was not yet clear how many or how soon.

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• US oil and gas multinationals are facing fresh questions over their trade with Russia after Russian customs records revealed that more than $7.1m (£5.7m) worth of equipment manufactured by Halliburton has been imported into the country since it announced the end of its Russian operations. Last September Halliburton, one of the world’s largest providers of products and services for oil and gas exploration, sold its Russian office to local management amid pressure on all US companies to cease their trade after the invasion of Ukraine.

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• Ukraine will be able to conduct more attacks on Russian ships, a Ukrainian minister who has played a key role in building the country’s drone industry told Reuters after a recent series of sea raids. “There will be more drones, more attacks, and fewer Russian ships. That’s for sure,” the digital transformation minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, said.

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• The US expects to announce additional aid to Ukraine next week, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said, while announcing that the US president, Joe Biden, would host Zelenskiy next Thursday at the White House. The Ukrainian leader was also expected to meet with congressional leaders from both political parties.

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• A body has been found in Ukraine in the search for a British man who was reported missing a month ago. Daniel Burke, 36, from south Manchester, was reported missing on 16 August by family who had not heard from him, believing that he had travelled to Ukraine. Officers searching for Burke have been informed by Ukrainian authorities they have found a body.

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Ukraine’s Danube Shipping Company (DSC) has asked Romania’s Constanta Black Sea port to allow ship-to-ship grain transfers which would almost double its barge export capacity, the company said on Monday.

A major grower and exporter, Ukraine’s 2023 grain output is seen as up to 56m metric tonnes but a blockade of its major Black Sea ports since Russia’s invasion has constrained shipments.

Ukraine’s Danube River ports, which previously accounted for around a quarter of grain exports, are now the main route out for the country’s harvest, some of which is sent on barges to Constanta for onwards shipment.

DSC said on Telegram that 60% of the grain export flow through Constanta is by river fleet, with barges delivering more than 700,000 tonnes of agricultural products to the Romanian port every month.

However, the company said it currently had about 600 barges at Constanta, with waiting times for unloading in port sometimes stretching to up to 60 days, Reuters reports.

It said:

If Constanta allows the development of …transshipment, the rivermen are ready to increase the volumes by another 500,000 tonnes.

DSC said it had a project to set up three more anchorages near Constanta, one of which should be assigned to Ukraine, and is ready to create a Ukrainian port operator in Constanta.

Hearing at World Court in The Hague over genocide case begins

Russia called on the UN’s highest court in The Hague on Monday to throw out a case that centres around claims by Moscow that its invasion of Ukraine was carried out to prevent genocide.

The request was made at the start of hearings dealing with the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), also known as the World Court.

Ukraine brought the case just days after the Russian invasion on 24 February last year. Kyiv argues Russia is abusing international law by saying the invasion was justified to prevent an alleged genocide in eastern Ukraine.

Russian officials continue to accuse Ukraine of committing genocide. On Monday, Russia repeated allegations that the “Russophobic and neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv” was using the 1948 Genocide Convention, to which both countries are a party, as a pretext to “drag” a case before the court.

Russia wants the case to be thrown out and says the court has no jurisdiction. The hearings, set to run until 27 September, will not delve into the merits of the case and are instead focused on legal arguments about jurisdiction.

Reuters reports that while Russia has so far ignored the ICJ’s orders to stop its military actions and the court has no way of enforcing its decisions, experts say an eventual ruling in favour of Ukraine could be important for any future reparations claims.