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world news Diaranson 12 october 2022

More missiles, drones strike Ukraine,

alarms keep up fear

concentrated most of its firepower during the 7 At least five of the victims were in Kyiv, Mayor Vi-
1/2-month war in eastern and southern Ukraine, tali Klitschko said. More than 300 cities and towns
and Ukrainian officials said the previous day's dif- lost power, from the capital to Lviv on the border
fuse strikes on power plants and civilian areas made with Poland.
no "practical military sense." Beside the usual sirens, a new type of loud alarm
However, Putin's supporters had urged the Krem- that blared automatically from mobile phones
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces show- lin for weeks to take more drastic steps in Ukraine jolted Kyiv residents early Tuesday. A text message
ered Ukraine with more missiles and mu- and actively criticized the Russian military for a warning of the possibility of missile strikes accom-
nition-carrying drones Tuesday after wide- series of embarrassing battlefield setbacks. Pro- panied the caustic-sounding alert.
spread strikes killed at least 19 people in what Kremlin pundits lauded Monday's attack as an A spokesperson for the office of the U.N. High
the U.N. human rights office described as appropriate and long-awaited response to Kyiv's Commissioner for Human Rights said Tuesday
a "particularly shocking" attack that could recently successful counteroffensives, and many that strikes on "civilian objects," including infra-
amount to war crimes. of them argued that Moscow should keep up the structure such as power plants, could qualify as a
intensity in order to win the war. war crime.
Air raid warnings extended throughout the country
for a second straight morning. Ukrainian officials The bombardment Tuesday struck both power Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed
advised residents to conserve energy and stock up plants and civilian areas, just as Monday's attacks the issue Tuesday, saying Moscow would only re-
on water after strikes in the capital and 12 other did. One person was killed when 12 missiles sort to that if the Russian state faced imminent
regions the previous day caused widespread power slammed into public facilities in the southern city destruction. Speaking on state TV, he accused the
outages and pierced the relative calm that had re- of Zaporizhzhia, setting off a large fire, the State West of encouraging false speculation about the
turned to Kyiv and many other cities far from the Emergency Service said. A local official said the Kremlin's intentions.
war's front lines. missiles hit a school, residential buildings and
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ad- medical facilities.
dressed the leaders of the Group of Seven indus-
trial powers by videoconference Tuesday. After the Energy facilities in the western Lviv and Vinnit-
meeting, the G-7 leaders said their countries "will sya regions also took hits. Although officials said
stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes." Ukrainian forces shot down an inbound Russian
missile before it reached Kyiv, the capital region ex-
Russia launched the widespread attacks in re- perienced rolling power outages as a result of the
taliation for a weekend explosion that damaged a previous day's deadly strikes.
bridge linking the country to the Crimean Pen- The governor of the Mykolaiv region, Vitaliy Kim,
insula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in urged residents to remain in bomb shelters as
2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged the "there are enough missiles still in the air."
Ukrainian special services masterminded the Sat- The State Emergency Service said 19 people died
urday attack on the Kerch Bridge. Russia has has and 105 people were wounded in Monday's strikes.

UN flight from rebel-held Yemen capital returns 129 migrants

CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. than 40,000 migrants landed
returned 129 Ethiopian on Yemen's shores this year
migrants stranded in so far, a third of them women
war-torn Yemen to their and children. Those arriving
homeland Tuesday in its are mostly fleeing enduring
first humanitarian repa- conflicts, famine and au-
triation flight to depart thoritarian governments that
from the rebel-held capi- have long gripped several
tal of Sanaa this year. countries across the Horn of
Africa, including Somalia and
The United Nations' Inter- Ethiopia.
national Organization for
Migration has facilitated the Ethiopia has been rocked
voluntary return of more by conflict since November
than 1, 800 mostly East Af- 2020, following a dispute be-
rican migrants from Yemen tween the Ethiopian govern-
this year. However, all of ment and the Tigrayan rebel
2022's previous returnees forces over control of north-
flew from airports controlled ern Tigray.
by Yemen's internationally
recognized government in The majority of Yemen's East
the cities of Aden and Marib. African migrants first ar-
rive in Djibouti before being
The migration agency said in packed into small boats by a
a news release Tuesday that travel north to neighboring power. bloody civil war after a six- network of people smugglers.
many of the passengers on Saudi Arabia, although few month cessation of front-line In recent years, many have
the voluntary flight from Sa- have completed the journey. In trying to traverse the fighting. The regional proxy drowned trying to make the
naa to Adis Ababa were unac- country, African migrants are war between Saudi Arabia crossing, with rights groups
companied minors and indi- Yemen's ruinous conflict regularly caught in the cross- and Iran has killed in excess accusing smugglers of throw-
viduals with medical condi- began in 2014 when Iran- fire. They are often killed, of 150,000 people, according ing people overboard.
tions. backed Houthi rebel forces detained or forcibly enlisted to the Armed Conflict Loca-
seized Sanaa. A Saudi Arabia- as fighters by Yemeni's war- tion & Event Data Project, The U.N. agency said it
Some 43,800 mostly East Af- led coalition including the ring factions. turning Yemen into one of plans to help a further 5,000
rican migrants are thought to United Arab Emirates inter- the world's worst humanitar- stranded migrants in Yemen
be stranded in Yemen. Vir- vened the next year to try to The failure to extend Yemen's ian crises. voluntarily return home to
tually all arrived in the war- restore the internationally nationwide truce Oct. 2 has three locations in the coming
ravaged country intending to recognized government to threatened to reignite the According to the IOM, more months.