What you need to know right now By Reuters

(Reuters) – Ukrainian troops mentioned they experienced taken the crucial bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a shut ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin to phone for the achievable use of lower-quality nuclear weapons.

LYMAN

* Russia explained its troops had withdrawn from Lyman to stay away from staying surrounded by Ukraine’s army.

* Ramzan Kadyrov, a Putin ally and head of Russia’s Chechnya location, explained Moscow should really think about working with a very low-yield nuclear weapon in Ukraine following the loss of Lyman.

* U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin cheered Lyman’s seize, saying it was an encouraging battlefield achievement and that the loss of the logistics and transport hub will pose a problem for Russia’s army.

ZAPORIZHZHIA

* A Russian patrol detained the director standard of Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear electrical power plant, the point out-owned corporation in charge of the plant explained. The United Nations nuclear watchdog said Russia experienced verified the move.

* International Atomic Vitality Agency main Rafael Grossi is expected to keep talks in Moscow and Kyiv in coming times on the development of a protection zone all-around the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia plant, the U.N. watchdog stated.

CASUALTIES

* Ukraine’s SBU stability services said at least 20 civilians had been killed in Russian shelling of a civilian convoy in late September in an eastern “grey zone” involving Russian- and Ukrainian-controlled territory.

Gas FLOWS

* Italy’s Eni claimed it would not get any of the gasoline it experienced asked for from Russia’s Gazprom (MCX:) for supply on Saturday, but the companies claimed they were being performing to deal with this.

* Greece and Bulgaria commenced business procedure of a prolonged-delayed fuel pipeline that will assist reduce southeast Europe’s dependence on Russian gasoline and improve electrical power safety.

* Russia’s Gazprom slice supplies to Moldova on Saturday by all-around 30%, claimed the director of gas business Moldovagaz, Vadim Ceban.

DIPLOMACY

* Russia unsuccessful to get sufficient votes for re-election to the U.N. aviation agency’s governing council, in a raise for Western powers that preferred to keep Moscow accountable subsequent its invasion of Ukraine.

* Germany will supply the initially of four innovative IRIS-T air defence units to Ukraine in the coming days to enable ward off drone assaults, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht mentioned all through an unannounced go to to Odesa.