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Deadly strikes in southern Ukraine and new battlefield video from Andriivka: Here's the latest
From CNN staff
The Ukrainian military on Sunday released additional footage from the battle for the village of Andriivka, a small hamlet immediately south of the city of Bakhmut, which Kyiv's forces say they reclaimed on September 15.
Liberating Andriivka was considered a key step in the fight for Bakhmut, Maksym Zhorin, deputy commander of Ukraine's Third Separate Assault Brigade, said at the time.
Meanwhile, Russian shelling killed three people and wounded at least nine others Sunday in the southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Ukrainian officials said.
In Kherson city, Russians dropped "two aerial bombs," Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the region's military administration, said in a Telegram post.
One strike hit an industrial area and the other hit civilian infrastructure, an official said.
Here are some of the other latest developments from the war in Ukraine:
- Transit routes for Ukrainian grain: Poland has prepared transit corridors that will allow Ukrainian grain shipments to move through its territory and reach the countries most in need, President Andrzej Duda said Sunday. The comments are notable because the Polish government has joined Hungary and Slovakia in extending a ban on cheap Ukrainian grain imports, which they say have undercut local farmers.
- Russia-backed separatist leaders impose curfew: A curfew and a communicationscensorshiptook effect Sunday in the self-proclaimedDonetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine, according to Russian state media. The curfew will last from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. local time on weekdays, starting on Monday, according to a decree signed by the region’s Russia-backed leader,Denis Pushilin, state news agency TASS reported.An additional decree imposes a militarycensorshipon mail, internet communications and phone conversations, according to TASS.
- Pope speaks out on support for Ukraine: Pope Francis on Saturday told journalists that the withholding of weapons to Ukraine is turning the Ukrainian people into "martyrs." The Pope also spoke of the "paradox" of countries supplying Ukraine with weapons before taking them away. The pontiff was possibly referring to the recent decision by Poland to stop providing weapons to Ukraine, amid a growing dispute between the two countries over a temporary ban on Ukrainian grain imports.
Poland is establishing routes for Ukrainian grain to reach countries in need, president says
From CNN's Radina Gigova and Svitlana Vlasova
Poland has prepared transit corridors that will allow Ukrainian grain shipments to move through its territory and reach the countries most in need, President Andrzej Duda said Sunday.
The comments are notable because the Polish government has joined Hungary and Slovakia in extending a ban on cheap Ukrainian grain imports, which they say have undercut local farmers. Speaking Sunday, Duda said Poland will still help shipments reach their final destination, however.
During a speech at a Ukraine recovery summit on Friday, Duda saidthe grain dispute with Ukraine will not have a serious impact on the relations between the two countries, as they have a "historic dimension," according to state news agency PAP.
"We are trying to help Ukraine and those countries that require this help. I believe that it is the right decision that the Polish government has maintained the ban on the sale of Ukrainian grain on the Polish market," Duda said in an interview with Polish television channel TVP1 on Sunday. "However, we must do everything to ensure that transit is as great as possible," Duda added, according to a statement by his office.
Some context: Kyiv and Warsaw have publicly feuded this week over the grain issue and the question of supplying weapons.
During a speech at a Ukraine recovery summit on Friday, Duda saidthe grain dispute with Ukraine will not have a serious impact on the relations between the two countries, as they have a "historic dimension," according to state news agency PAP.
In remarks on Thursday, Duda also tried to clarify statements by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who had said that Poland will stop weapons deliveries to Ukraine, after President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that "some of our friends in Europe, play out solidarity in a political theater."
After a week of tense back and forth between Kyiv and Warsaw,Morawieckishot back at Zelensky on Friday, saying he shouldnever "insult Poles again."
Barrage of Russian attacks has left at least 9 wounded in Kherson region, officials say
From CNN's Svitlana Vlasova and Radina Gigova
Russian forces continue to attack Ukraine's Kherson region on Sunday, leaving two people dead and at least nine wounded, according to an update from Ukrainian authorities.
"The enemy dropped two aerial bombs on the city (of Kherson),"Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the region's military administration, said in a Telegram post.
One strike hit an industrial area and the other hit civilian infrastructure, an official said.
A49-year-old woman working as a security guard was among those wounded in the bombings, Prokudin said.
A total of six people have been wounded in the city of Kherson in Sunday's attacks, Roman Mrochko, the head of the Kherson city military administration, said in a Telegram post.
More have been wounded elsewhere in the region: Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office said earlier Sunday that two people had been killed and three were injured in attacks near the city ofBeryslav.
Ukraine's military releases more battlefield video from eastern village of Andriivka
From CNN's Svitlana Vlasova and Radina Gigova
The Ukrainian military on Sunday released additional footage from the battle for the village of Andriivka, a small hamlet immediately south of the city of Bakhmut, which Kyiv's forces say they reclaimed on September 15.
Liberating Andriivka was considered a key step in the fight for Bakhmut, Maksym Zhorin, deputy commander of Ukraine's Third Separate Assault Brigade, said at the time.
The new video, released by Zhorin's brigade after it fought for control of the village, shows fighters advancing through "a forest belt scorched by the fighting."
The fighters were engaged "in close combat and clearing out enemy dugouts and holes," the brigade said. When soldiers entered the streets of Andriivka, they found the village had been "wiped out."
"Only mountains of concrete, brick and metal fragments remind us that there were buildings here," the brigade said.
More background:Zhorin's brigade says it has been working to hold on to Andriivka and consolidate its gains there since initially recapturing the village. It released its first video from the battlefield last week, showing that little remained of the town.
The decimated village and nearby Bakhmutare located in the northeast portion of Ukraine's Donetsk region. Bakhmut has been hotly contested for months, even after the Wagner private military group claimed it had seized control of the city and handed it over to Russia's forces. Ukraine, Russia and Wagner have all suffered heavy losses in the ongoing battle for the city.
CNN's Mariya Knight contributed to this report.
State media: Russia-backed separatist leaders impose curfew and censors communications
From CNN's Radina Gigova in London
A curfew and a communicationscensorshiptook effect Sunday in the self-proclaimedDonetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine, according to Russian state media.
Curfew: The curfew will last from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. local time on weekdays, starting on Monday, according to a decree signed by the region’s Russia-backed leader,Denis Pushilin, state news agency TASS reported.
Some officials and public employees will be exempt from the order, including repair workers and thoseoverseeing the supplies of food and other essential items.Police, security personnel and people with special passes will also have permission tomove during the curfew hours.
Pushilin signed the decree on September 18, but it went into effect on Sunday when it was published, according to TASS.
Censorship: An additional decree imposes a militarycensorshipon mail, internet communications and phone conversations, according to TASS.
Under the order, the Russian Federal Security Service and the DPR's so-called "Information Ministry" will develop and enforcecensorshipmeasures, according to TASS.
Local officials characterized the move as an effort to combat enemy saboteurs and reconnaissance officers, according to state news agency RIA Novosti.
Key context: War broke out in 2014 after Russian-backed rebels seized government buildings in towns and cities across eastern Ukraine. Intense fighting left portions of the Ukrainian Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the hands of Russian-backed separatists.
Theseparatist-controlled areasbecame known as the Luhansk and the Donetsk People’s Republics. The Ukrainian government in Kyiv asserts the two regions are, in effect, temporarily Russian-occupied. They have not been recognized by any governments other than Russia and its close allies Syria and North Korea.
The Ukrainian government has steadfastly refused to talk directly with the leaders of either self-proclaimed government, and has set its sights on reclaiming control of the territories in its fight against Russia's full-scale invasion.
CNN's Rob Picheta contributed to this report.
More people wounded in second Russian attack on Kherson region, authorities say
From CNN'a Svitlana Vlasova and Radina Gigova
Russian attacks killed two people and wounded at least seven others in Ukraine's southernKhersonregion on Sunday, according to an update from Ukrainian authorities.
Moscow's forces launched airstrikes this morning at a "number of settlements" in Kherson's Beryslav district, which borders the Dnipro River in southeastern Ukraine, according to a statement from Ukraine'sProsecutor General's Office. Officials said earlier Sunday that the attack left at least two people dead.
Around 12 p.m. local time (5 a.m. ET), Russian forces launched another attack on the region with artillery, the prosecutor's office said in an update.
Four civilians were injured in the second attack, and two of them were hospitalized, officials said. Private houses, apartments and a kindergarten were damaged.
Authorities have launched an investigation into the attacks, the prosecutor's office said.
UK "will stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine" regardless of US election outcome, defense secretary says
From CNN’s Martin Goillandeau in London
TheUnited Kingdomwillcontinue tostand"shoulder to shoulder" withUkraine regardless of the results of next year's US election, the country’s newly appointed defense secretary, Grant Shapps, said on Sunday.
Republicans have been divided in their support forUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with recent polling to suggest that the majority of Republicans agree that the US should be doing less to helpUkraine in its conflict with Russia.
A CNN poll in August found now a majority of Americans are opposed to authorizing more funding forUkraine — and among Republicans, the number opposed soars to 71%.
Shapps was asked Sunday what theUKwould do if a Republican president was elected and decided to pull US support forUkraine. He said London’s support to Kyiv was “watertight,” and called the question “speculative.”
“That’s a while down the line before we see what happens in the Republican election, but wewillcarry onstanding shoulder to shoulder with our friends inUkraine,” Shapps said in an interview on BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
“I genuinely believe, as President Zelensky of*ckraine said this week, that actually the Americans see it in their interest, in the world's interest to ensure thatUkraine remains a democratic nation,” he added. “We know what happens when we allow a tyrant to invade a neighbor and then continue westward. And it's absolutely essential that Putin is unable to walk into a democratic neighbor without consequences. And that is why Britain has stood firm and wewillcontinue to do so,” the secretary concluded.
3 killed in strikes across southern Ukraine overnight
From CNN's Svitlana Vlasova and Alex Stambaugh
Three people have been killed in the latest Russian strikes on the southern Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, local authorities said Sunday.
A 53-year-old man died as a result of an artillery strike onZaporizhzhia, according to Yurii Malashko, the head of the region's militaryadministration.
Russia fired at 25 locations acrossZaporizhzhia, Malashko said, damaging houses and infrastructure.
Meanwhile, in Kherson region, two civilians have died as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, according to theKhersoncity military administration.
Damage was recorded inKhersonand five other settlements in the region, it said.
Elsewhere in southern Ukraine: Russia launched several artillery attacks on Nikopol region, wounding a 25-year-old man, who has been hospitalized with shrapnel wounds and is in serious condition, Serhii Lysak, head of Dnipropetrovsk region military administration, said on Telegram Sunday.
A department store building and a kindergarten were damaged in Nikopol,Lysak said.
In northeastern Ukraine: A 67-year-old was wounded in Russian attacks on Kharkiv,Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv region military administration, said Sunday.
Russia also attacked the Sumy region overnight, firing three times at two communities, theregional military administration said. There were no reports of injuries.
