Vladimir Putin says US making an attempt to ‘delay’ Ukraine battle | World News

Kyiv/Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Washington on Tuesday of drawing out the conflict in Ukraine, as explosions rocked a Russian army facility on the Kremlin-controlled peninsula of Crimea.

The primary UN-chartered vessel laden with grain in the meantime left Ukraine for Africa following an indicator deal brokered by Turkey and the UN to alleviate a worldwide meals disaster.

“The scenario in Ukraine exhibits that the US is making an attempt to delay this battle,” Putin mentioned, addressing the opening ceremony of a safety convention in Moscow.

Washington is “utilizing the folks of Ukraine as cannon fodder”, he mentioned, lashing out at the USA for supplying weapons to Kyiv.

Explosions rock Crimea

Explosions and fires ripped by an ammunition depot in Russia-annexed Crimea on Tuesday within the second suspected Ukrainian assault on the peninsula in simply over every week, forcing the evacuation of greater than 3,000 folks.

Russia blamed the blasts within the village of Mayskoye within the Dzhankoi district an “act of sabotage”, with out naming the perpetrators.

The blasts on Tuesday come one week after not less than one individual was killed and 5 extra injured in related explosions at a Russian airbase in Crimea.

Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak mentioned on Tuesday the newest blasts in Dzhankoi had been a “reminder” that “Crimea occupied by Russians is about warehouses explosions and excessive threat of loss of life for invaders and thieves”.

In one other reported act of sabotage, Russia’s Tass information company quoted the FSB safety company as saying Ukrainian operatives blew up six high-voltage transmission towers earlier this month in Russia’s Kursk area, near Ukraine.

In the meantime within the jap Donbas area, which has seen many of the preventing, Ukraine mentioned Russia had launched a “huge” offensive from an oil refinery within the recently-captured metropolis of Lysychansk in Lugansk province.

Zaporizhzhia shelling

Russia-installed officers within the occupied areas of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia area mentioned on Tuesday Ukrainian forces had been shelling the town of Enerhodar, the place the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, Europe’s largest, is positioned.

Kyiv and Moscow have traded accusations over a sequence of strikes this month on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine.

On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned a “disaster” on the Russian-controlled facility would threaten the entire of Europe.

French President Emmanuel Macron underlined to Ukraine’s president his issues over dangers to the nation’s nuclear amenities, throughout a cellphone name between the 2 leaders on Tuesday, mentioned the French presidency.