What happened in the last few hours

On day 579 of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, here is the main information as of 8:00 p.m. this Monday, September 25:

Zelensky says first US Abrams tanks arrived in Ukraine. American-made Abrams tanks arrived in Ukraine on Monday, according to the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Good news from the minister [de Defensa] Umerov. The Abrams are already in Ukraine and are preparing to reinforce our brigades,” Zelensky said in a message on his Telegram channel. United States President Joe Biden announced last week that the first American Abrams tanks would be delivered in Ukraine this year. week.

Russia launches new wave of missiles and drones against Odessa ports. Russia again launched a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine in the early hours of Monday, this time against targets linked to grain exports in the country’s southwestern province of Odessa. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, its defenses managed to intercept all 19 drones launched, as well as 11 of 12 cruise missiles and the two hypersonic maritime missiles. Two people died, according to kyiv.

Three people died in Kherson after Russian bombing, Ukraine says. Three people, two men and a woman, died in a Russian shelling in the Dnipro district of the southern city of Kherson, according to the provincial governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, via his Telegram account. Three other people were injured.

Russian troops tortured civilians to death, UN investigation finds. Russian soldiers tortured Ukrainian civilians so brutally that some of their victims died and forced their families to listen as they raped the women, a field investigation by a UN team concludes. The chairman of the commission of inquiry, Erik Mse, told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that his team had “gathered new evidence indicating that the use of torture by Russian armed forces in areas under their control was widespread and systematic. “

Russian authorities remain silent on the alleged death of the leader of their fleet in the Black Sea. Russian authorities have not commented on the alleged death of their Black Sea Fleet general Viktor Sokolov, and it has not been possible to verify it. Some Russian bloggers claim he is still alive. “The commander of the Black Sea Fleet is still active. Two days ago he participated in consultations with civilian organizations to resolve the consequences of the missile attack on the headquarters,” published Canal Crimea , a local news aggregator, on Telegram.

Canadian Parliament apologizes for ovation given to a Ukrainian soldier who fought alongside the Nazis during World War II. Canadian House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota apologized after the chamber’s ovation to a veteran of Ukrainian descent who, during Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Parliament, was greeted by Rota as ” a veteran of the Ukrainian-Canadian War who, during World War II, fought for Ukraine’s independence from the Russians. Yaroslav Hunka, 98, fought in the 14th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, organized largely by Ukrainian nationalists and which joined Nazi forces during the Soviet counter-offensive in World War II. It is documented that the forces that would later make up the 14th Division participated in several war crimes, particularly against the ethnic Polish population.