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On Friday Russian authorities published footage of the Russian president meeting Troshev, the Wagner Group’s former chief of staff, and tasking him with overseeing and establishing new “volunteer fighting units”, the ministry said. Deputy defence minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was also at the meeting.

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The ministry said in its update, posted on X/Twitter, that around the time of Wagner’s short-lived insurrection in June, Troshev took up a role in Russia’s official security forces and was probably involved in encouraging other Wagner personnel to sign contracts with Russia, contributing to the rebellion.

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Many Wagner veterans likely consider him a traitor.

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Yevkurov had recently been pictured touring African states, the ministry said.

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Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 30 September 2023.

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Nato member Romania said on Saturday its airspace may have been violated during overnight drone attacks by Russia on infrastructure in neighbouring Ukraine, Agence France-Presse has just reported.

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Since exiting a deal allowing safe grain shipments via the Black Sea, Moscow has ramped up strikes on Ukraine’s southern Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, home to vital grain-exporting infrastructure.

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“Following the detection of groups of drones heading towards Ukrainian territory near the Romanian border”, residents in the Tulcea and Galati municipalities were alerted, the defence ministry said in a statement.

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The defence ministry said that no objects so far appeared to have fallen on Romanian territory but the search would continue on Saturday.

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Around midnight, residents of Galati and Tulcea, which face the port of Reni in southern Ukraine across the Danube, received alerts warning them to take shelter.

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The alert measures were lifted about two hours later.

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Earlier this month, Romanian soldiers built air-raid shelters to protect the residents in the eastern Romanian village of Plauru after drone fragments were found in the area.

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Authorities in the western Ukrainian region of Vinnytsya ordered an evacuation early on Saturday, saying an infrastructure site had been struck in a Russian attack, Reuters reports.

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“At this time there is no need for a general evacuation,” apart from in the immediate area around the site of the hit, said Vasyl Polishchuk, the head of administration for the town of Kalynivka, according to the town’s website.

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It did not say what target had been struck or what weapon had been used.

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Regional governor Serhiy Borzov had reported the hit on an unspecified infrastructure site, a term Ukrainian officials sometimes use to refer to facilities involved in power generation or other industries.

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Earlier reports said drones had been operating in the area.

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Welcome back to our ongoing live coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This is Adam Fulton and here’s a snapshot of the latest to bring you up to speed.

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Authorities in the western Ukrainian region of Vinnytsya ordered an evacuation early on Saturday around what they said was an infrastructure site that had been hit in a Russian attack.

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Earlier reports said drones had been operating in the area.

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More on that story shortly. In other news as it turns 9am in Kyiv:

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• Vladimir Putin said residents of Russian-held regions in Ukraine expressed their desire to be part of Russia in recent local elections, reaffirming referendums last year that western countries denounced as illegal. In a video address released early on Saturday on the one-year anniversary of Moscow’s announcement it was annexing four parts of Ukraine, the Russian president said the choice to join Russia was reinforced by this month’s local elections that returned officials supporting Russia’s annexation. Western countries dismissed the outcomes as meaningless, underpinned by mass coercion of voters. Flag-waving Russians gathered for a concert in Red Square on Friday as the Kremlin held celebrations to mark the annexations.

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• The UK government has imposed an asset freeze and travel bans on Russian officials in the annexed Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Crimea as part of its broader sanctions against Russia.

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• Seven European Union countries have ordered ammunition under a landmark EU procurement scheme to get urgently needed artillery shells to Ukraine and replenish depleted western stocks, according to the EU agency in charge.

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• Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine autumn conscription campaign, calling up 130,000 citizens for statutory military service, a document posted on the government website showed. Separately, Putin reportedly met Andrei Troshev, formerly a top Wagner mercenary commander, to discuss how voluntary fighting units are used in the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday.

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• German chancellor Olaf Scholz and the leaders of five Central Asian nations on Friday pledged to cooperate closely on sanctions in a carefully worded statement that did not pinpoint Russia. The gathering of Scholz and the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan in Berlin was the first of its kind in an EU country.

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• Top US general Mark Milley was to retire on Friday after four years as chair of the US joint chiefs of staff. Milley’s tenure included providing military assistance to Ukraine’s defence against Russia’s invasion in February 2022.

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• A Russian blogger who criticised highway patrol officers was jailed for eight-and-a-half years on Friday after a court alleged he posted “fake news” about Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine. Alexander Nozdrinov, 38, ran a small YouTube channel where he posted videos of highway patrol officers from his home region of Krasnodar allegedly breaking the law. He was detained in March 2022 after investigators accused him of posting a photo of destroyed buildings on social media with the caption: “Ukrainian cities after the arrival of liberators”.

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• Norway says it will start barring Russian-registered passenger cars from entering the country starting next week, in a move that mirrors sanctions already imposed by the EU against Moscow over the war in Ukraine.

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Key events

The Russian air defence shot down nine missiles launched from Ukraine over Russia’s Belgorod oblast, the Russian defence ministry said on Telegram.

As well, the ministry is claiming to have exposed and suppressed more than 10 artillery crews of Ukrainian troops, with a tactical aviation group carrying out strikes on two temporary Ukrainian deployment points near Torskoye in the Donetsk oblast.

The ministry believes that Ukrainian forces here lost up to 50 military personnel, as well as an armoured fighting vehicle.

Russian forces launched six missiles, 56 air strikes and 40 multiple launch rocket system attacks yesterday, and engaged Ukrainian troops in 44 combat engagements, the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces said in their morning briefing.

The air strikes hit ir strikes hit Komisarove, Petropavlivka, Ivanivka, Pishchane, Sen’kove and Kopanky in the Kharkiv oblast, as well as Novoselivs’ke and Nevs’ke in the Luhansk oblast. In the Donetsk oblast, Zarichne, Spirne, Serebryanka, Bohdanivka, Krasnohorivka, Mar’inka, Vuhledar, Velyka Novosilka, Urozhaine and Staromaiors’ke came under aerial attack, as did Novodarivka, Robotyne, Novodanylivka and Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhya oblast, and Beryslav and Ol’hivka in the Kherson oblast.

More than 100 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts came under artillery fire.

In return, the Ukrainian air force yesterday launched 11 air strikes on the concentrations of troops, weapons and military equipment, and two air strikes on the anti-aircraft missile systems of the adversary. In total, Ukrainian missiles hit three concentrations of Russian troops, weapons and military equipment, as well as two anti-aircraft missile systems, 13 artillery systems, one ammunition depot and one electronic warfare station.

The general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces believes that Russian forces lost 470 personnel yesterday.