Ukraine military reports attempts by Russia to advance on several towns in Donetsk as the conflict enters 173rd day.
A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022.
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Monday, August 15, 2022
Zelenskyy defends fighting as all eyes are on Zaporizhzhia plant
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has defended fighting against Russian and Moscow-backed forces, including those positioned at Europe’s largest nuclear power station in Zaporizhzhia.
As Ukrainian forces reported heavy Russian shelling and attempts to advance on several towns in the eastern region of Donetsk, they said many of the attacks were repelled. The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces also reported Russian shelling of more than a dozen towns on the southern front – particularly in Kherson, mainly controlled by Russian forces.
Zelenskyy noted that Ukraine had many times proposed different formats to the Russian leadership for peace talks, without progress.
“So we have to defend ourselves, we have to answer every form of terror, every instance of shelling — the fierce shelling which does not let up for a single day,” he said in video remarks.
For live updates from Sunday (August 14), click here
Ukraine military reports attempts by Russia to advance on several towns in Donetsk as the conflict enters 173rd day.
A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022.
(Reuters)
Monday, August 15, 2022
Zelenskyy defends fighting as all eyes are on Zaporizhzhia plant
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has defended fighting against Russian and Moscow-backed forces, including those positioned at Europe’s largest nuclear power station in Zaporizhzhia.
As Ukrainian forces reported heavy Russian shelling and attempts to advance on several towns in the eastern region of Donetsk, they said many of the attacks were repelled. The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces also reported Russian shelling of more than a dozen towns on the southern front – particularly in Kherson, mainly controlled by Russian forces.
Zelenskyy noted that Ukraine had many times proposed different formats to the Russian leadership for peace talks, without progress.
“So we have to defend ourselves, we have to answer every form of terror, every instance of shelling — the fierce shelling which does not let up for a single day,” he said in video remarks.
For live updates from Sunday (August 14), click here
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip did not constitute a violation of Chinese sovereignty, claims Washington but Beijing warns America will "pay the price for its own mistakes."
Nancy Pelosi's trip is "extremely dangerous", says China and warns the "consequences are extremely serious."
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The United States has defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's controversial visit to Taiwan, saying she was within her rights to visit the island state even as enraged China repeated its warning that Pelosi's visit will have consequences.
The Biden administration wants
to keep tensions between Washington and Beijing worsened by a
high-level visit to Taiwan from boiling over into a conflict,
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said late on Tuesday.
He said Pelosi was within her rights to visit Taiwan but also stressed that the trip did not constitute a
violation of Chinese sovereignty or America's longstanding
"one-China" policy.
"What we don't want to see is this spiral into any kind of a
crisis or conflict," Kirby told reporters in a briefing.
"There's just no reason to amp this up," he added.
Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on a trip she said shows an unwavering American commitment to the island state, but China condemned the highest-level US visit in 25 years as a threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.
Beijing said that Pelosi's trip was "extremely dangerous" and warned the "consequences are extremely serious."
It also summoned the US ambassador in Beijing to slam Pelosi's "egregious" trip to Taiwan. China said, "it will not sit idly by."
Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said the United States "shall pay the price for its own mistakes" and urged Washington to "immediately address its wrongdoings, take practical measures to undo the adverse effects caused by Pelosi's visit to Taiwan."
Chinese warplanes meanwhile buzzed the line dividing the Taiwan Strait before her arrival, and the Chinese military announced joint air and sea drills near Taiwan starting on Tuesday night and test launches of conventional missiles in the sea east of Taiwan, with the Chinese state news agency Xinhua describing live-fire drills and other exercises around Taiwan from Thursday to Sunday.
Kirby said that the United States will continue to operate in the seas and skies of the Western Pacific. Beyond the military moves, Kirby said China could use "economic coercion" against Taiwan without going into detail.
North Korea 'denounces' visit
Meanwhile, North Korea's Foreign Ministry criticised what it called US "imprudent interference" in China's internal affairs, the official KCNA said.
The ministry spokesperson said they "vehemently denounce" any external force's interference in the issue of Taiwan and "fully support" China, its major ally and economic lifeline.
"It is the due right of a sovereign state to take countermeasures against the moves of the outside forces openly interfering in its internal affairs and destroying its territorial integrity," the unidentified official was quoted by KCNA as saying.
In the UK, China's ambassador Zheng Zeguang vowed "severe consequences" if British lawmakers visit Taiwan, the Guardian reported.
Visits would interfere in China's internal affairs and would lead to severe consequences in China-UK relations, Zheng said at a news conference in London, the report said.
"We call on the UK side to abide by the Sino-UK joint communique and not to underestimate the extreme sensitivity of the Taiwan issue, and not to follow the US' footsteps," the Guardian quoted Zheng as saying.
Beijing considers Taiwan a "breakaway province," but the latter has maintained its self-rule since 1949 and enjoys diplomatic ties with at least 14 countries.
Interactions between Washington and Taipei have grown significantly since the tenure of former US president Donald Trump, with former and sitting lawmakers making trips to the island home to more than 25 million people.
The US formally recognised China in 1979 and shifted diplomatic relations from Taipei to Beijing, and accepted Taiwan as part of the mainland under Washington's One China policy.
Kareena Kapoor: Defends the controversy over a naked photoshoot
Kareena Kapoor Khan is the latest celebrity to react to the controversy surrounding Ranveer Singh’s nude photoshoot.
She said that it is an “open ticket for everyone” to discuss and debate.
Kareena Kapoor Khan is the furthest down the line superstar to respond to the contention encompassing Ranveer Singh’s bare photoshoot.
The Jayeshbai Jordaar entertainer’s photos became a web sensation, and keeping in mind that many had decent comments about them, the entertainer got a ton of savaging and reaction for it as well.
Ranveer turned into the focal point of contention after he shot naked photos for the worldwide magazine, Paper Magazine. Presently, Kareena shielded Ranveer for his photoshoot and said that it is an “open ticket for everybody” to talk about and banter.
In the most recent meeting with India Today, the Veere Di Wedding entertainer said: “I think bolne ke liye sabko bolna hai (I think individuals express it for saying).
It is an open ticket for everybody to talk about and have discusses. I feel like everybody has a ton of leisure time too on the grounds that everybody has an assessment on everything. I don’t have any idea why it is a major take.
Like I said, it simply demonstrates that everybody has a ton of leisure time.” Earlier, numerous big names like Arjun Kapoor, Janhvi Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Alia Bhatt, Swara Bhasker, and others likewise guarded Ranveer.
As of late, a NGO recorded a FIR in Mumbai against Ranveer and expressed that he had “hurt the opinions of ladies overall and offended their humility through his photos.”
In the mean time, on the work front, Kareena is at present preparing for the arrival of her impending satire show film, Laal Singh Chaddha, which will highlight Aamir Khan, Naga Chaitanya, and Mona Singh.
It is an authority change of the 1994 American film Forrest Gump which itself depends on Winston Groom’s 1986 novel of a similar name.
It is booked for film discharge on 11 August 2022. Aside from this, she has Sujoy Ghosh’s spine chiller with Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Varma, which is scheduled to deliver on Netflix.
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