BANDUNG, Indonesia, Dec 7 (Reuters) – A suspected Islamist militant, angered by Indonesia’s new criminal code, killed one different individual and wounded at the least 10 in a suicide bomb assault at a police station within the metropolis of Bandung on Wednesday, authorities stated.

The suicide bomber was believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State-inspired group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) and had beforehand been jailed on terrorism costs, Indonesian police chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo instructed a information convention.

The police chief stated the attacker, recognized as Agus Sujatno, was launched in late 2021 and investigators had discovered dozens of paperwork protesting the nation’s controversial new criminal code on the crime scene.

“We found dozens of papers protesting the newly ratified criminal code,” he stated.

Though there are sharia-based provisions within the new criminal code ratified by parliament on Tuesday, Islamist hardliners might have been angered by different articles that might be used to crackdown on the propagation of extremist ideologies, analysts say.

West Java police chief Suntana earlier instructed Metro TV that authorities had discovered a blue bike on the scene, which they believed was utilized by the attacker.

Attached to the bike was a note carrying a message decrying the new criminal code as “an infidel product,” Suntana stated.

Todd Elliott, a senior safety analyst at Concord Consulting in Jakarta, stated it was doubtless the assault had been deliberate for a while and was an ideological rejection of the nation’s new legal guidelines.

“While all the attention is on some of these sharia-based provisions in the criminal code and how that is an indication of the spread of conservative Islam in Indonesia, there are also changes in the criminal code that hardliners would not support,” he stated.

“Including outlawing any ideology that goes against the state ideology, Pancasila, and that would also include extremist ideology.”

Video footage from the scene of Wednesday’s assault confirmed smoke rising from the broken police station, with particles n the bottom.

“Suddenly I heard the sound of an explosion… I saw a few police officers come out from the station and they couldn’t walk properly,” Hanes, a 21-year-old avenue vendor who witnessed the explosion instructed Reuters.

Islamist militants have lately carried out assaults on the planet’s largest Muslim-majority nation, together with at church buildings, police stations and venues frequented by foreigners.

Members of JAD have been liable for a collection of suicide church bombings within the metropolis of Surabaya in 2018. Those assaults have been perpetrated by three households, who additionally hooked up suicide vests to their younger kids, and killed at the least 30 individuals.

In 2021, a pair of JAD newlyweds carried out a suicide bomb assault at a cathedral in Makassar, killing solely themselves.

In an effort to crack down on militants, Indonesia created a tricky new anti-terrorism legislation after suicide bombings linked to JAD.

The group, which is now largely splintered, has been considerably weakened by a wave of arrests by the counterterrorism company lately, analysts say.

Reporting by Ananda Teresia, Fransiska Nangoy, Stefanno Sulaiman, Yuddy Cahya Budiman and Kate Lamb; Writing by Kate Lamb; Editing by Ed Davies, Gerry Doyle & Simon Cameron-Moore

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KYIV, Oct 11 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will ask the leaders of the G7 group of countries to urgently provide Ukraine with air defence weapons on Tuesday, after Russia rained down cruise missiles on cities throughout the nation.

New missile strikes killed a minimum of one individual within the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia and left a part of the Western metropolis of Lviv with out energy, officers stated, after Ukraine awakened to the wailing of air raid sirens for a second day.

Other components of the nation remained blacked out after the cruise missile assaults on Monday which officers stated killed 19 folks within the greatest air raids because the begin of the conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, beneath home strain to ramp up the battle as his forces have misplaced floor because the begin of September, stated he ordered the strikes as revenge for an explosion that broken Russia’s bridge to annexed Crimea.

Kyiv and its allies condemned Monday’s assaults, which primarily hit civil infrastructure resembling energy stations. Missiles additionally landed in parks, vacationer websites and busy rush hour streets.

U.S. President Joe Biden and different G7 leaders will convene just about afterward Tuesday to talk about what extra they will do to assist Ukraine and to pay attention to Zelenskiy, who has referred to as air defence techniques his “number 1 priority”. Biden has already promised extra air defences.

The broad avenues of the capital Kyiv had been largely abandoned after air raid sirens resounded because the morning rush hour was starting – the identical time that Russian missiles struck on Monday. Residents took cowl once more deep within the underground Metro, the place trains had been nonetheless working.

Viktoriya Moshkivski, 35, her husband and their two sons had been amongst a whole lot of individuals ready for the all-clear within the Zoloti Vorota station, close to a park the place a missile ripped a crater subsequent to a playground on Monday.

“(Putin) thinks that if he scares the population, he can ask for concessions, but he is not scaring us. He is pissing us off,” she stated as her sons, Timur, 5, and Rinat, 3, sat by her facet on a sleeping bag, the youthful enjoying with a King Kong motion determine.

MORE STRIKES

Russia stated it continued to launch long-range air strikes on Ukraine’s vitality and army infrastructure on Tuesday, though the assaults didn’t appear as intense because the day earlier than.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated the principle targets had been vitality amenities.

“They’ve hit many yesterday and they hit the same and new ones today. These are war crimes planned well in advance and aimed at creating unbearable conditions for civilians — Russia’s deliberate strategy since months,” he wrote on Twitter.

The governor of the southern city of Mykolayiv stated Russia appeared to have modified ways.

“They launch rockets more than once so that our people can wait and our air defence can work, but at intervals they launch significantly fewer rockets and keep people in shelters. What is this if not terror?” he stated on nationwide tv.

In Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine’s sixth-largest metropolis, residence blocks have been struck in a single day a minimum of 3 times previously week, killing civilians whereas they slept. Moscow has denied deliberately focusing on them.

The metropolis remained beneath Ukrainian management after Russia occupied many of the surrounding province, amongst 4 partially occupied areas that Moscow claims to have annexed this month.

In an in a single day video deal with from the scene of one of many assaults in Kyiv, Zelenskiy promised that Ukraine would maintain combating.

“We will do everything to strengthen our armed forces. We will make the battlefield more painful for the enemy.”

As many as 301 settlements within the areas of Kyiv, Lviv, Sumy, Ternopil and Khmelnytsky remained with out electrical energy on Tuesday.

Faced with blackouts, Ukraine has halted electrical energy exports to neighbouring Moldova and the European Union, at a time when the continent already faces surging energy costs.

BELARUS FEARS

G7 leaders are additionally anticipated to concern a warning to Belarus, Moscow’s closest ally, after Minsk stated on Monday it was deploying troopers with Russian forces close to Ukraine in response to what it referred to as a menace from Kyiv and its Western allies.

Belarus, whose troops haven’t but crossed into Ukraine, may face extra sanctions if it will get extra concerned within the Ukraine battle, French Foreign Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna informed French radio. Russia had violated the principles of conflict with Monday’s assaults, she added.

Moscow has accused the West of escalating the battle by supporting Ukraine.

“We warn and hope that they realise the danger of uncontrolled escalation in Washington and other Western capitals,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying by RIA information company on Tuesday.

Since Ukrainian forces broke by Russia’s entrance strains in September, Putin has not solely introduced the annexation of Ukrainian territory but in addition referred to as up a whole lot of 1000’s of reservists and repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons.

The director of Britain’s GCHQ spy company stated it could count on to see indicators if Russia was contemplating deploying nuclear arms however that its floor forces had been working out of provides.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated Russia wouldn’t flip down a gathering between Putin and Biden at a forthcoming G20 assembly and would think about the proposal if it receives one.

Putin on Tuesday met the president of the United Arab Emirates, a member of the group of oil producers referred to as OPEC+ that rebuffed the United States final week by asserting steep manufacturing cuts.

State information company WAM had stated President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan would push for “military de-escalation”.

Reporting by Reuters bureaux; Writing by Stephen Coates, Andrew Osborn, Peter Graff; Editing by Philippa Fletcher and Nick Macfie

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KYIV, July 29 (Reuters) – Ukraine stepped up its counter-attacks towards Russian forces in the south whereas Moscow bombed Kyiv’s outskirts for the first time in weeks as Europe’s largest battle since World War Two dragged on with no finish in sight.

Fifteen folks had been injured when missiles hit navy installations in Vyshhorod district on the fringe of the Ukrainian capital on Thursday, Kyiv regional Governor Oleksiy Kuleba stated on Telegram.

Air raid sirens blared as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed parliament alongside visiting Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, as Ukraine marked its Day of Ukrainian Statehood with a public vacation for the first time on Thursday.

“It doesn’t matter with what Russia threatens us; whether it’s air-raid sirens or something else, what is important is that we make other countries fall in love with our Ukrainian firmness,” Zelenskiy stated.

The assault shattered the sense of normalcy that has returned to life in Kyiv since Russian forces deserted makes an attempt to seize the metropolis in the first weeks of the warfare, in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance.

More than 10 Russian missiles additionally hit the Chernihiv area northeast of Kyiv, regional Governor Vyacheslav Chausov informed Ukrainian TV. Like Kyiv, Chernihiv had not been focused for weeks.

“This was Russia offering greetings on Ukraine’s Day of State Sovereignty,” he stated, including there have been issues a couple of “second phase of ground operations by the enemy”.

The North district command of the Ukrainian armed forces stated greater than 20 missiles had been fired at Chernihiv area bordering Russia from a base in Belarus – Russia’s ally.

In the south, Ukraine stated its planes struck 5 Russian strongholds round the metropolis of Kherson and one other close by metropolis, the place it’s focusing its largest counter-offensive since Russia’s invasion started on Feb. 24.

The Kherson area, which borders Russian-annexed Crimea, fell to Russian forces quickly after they started what Moscow calls “a special military operation”. Ukraine describes Russia’s actions as an imperial-style warfare of conquest.

Ukraine has used Western-supplied long-range missile techniques to badly harm three bridges throughout the River Dnipro in latest weeks, making it more durable for Russia to provide its forces on the western financial institution.

British intelligence stated the technique was beginning to isolate Russian forces in the Kherson area.

“Russia’s 49th Army, stationed on the west bank of the Dnipro River, now looks highly vulnerable,” it stated in an intelligence bulletin.

Kherson metropolis was now just about minimize off from the different territories occupied by Russia.

“Its loss would severely undermine Russia’s attempts to paint the occupation as a success,” British intelligence stated.

Ukraine says it has retaken some small settlements on the area’s northern edge in latest weeks because it tries to push Russian forces again.

The Russian defence ministry stated its planes had attacked a Ukrainian infantry brigade in the far north of Kherson area and killed greater than 130 of its troopers in the final 24 hours.

Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the Russian-appointed military-civilian administration working the Kherson area, has additionally dismissed Western and Ukrainian assessments of the battlefield scenario.

Reuters couldn’t confirm the battlefield stories.

RIA reported on Thursday that Russian safety companies had uncovered a gaggle of Ukrainian brokers in Kherson who had been paid to go on the map coordinates of Russian forces there to Ukraine for focusing on with artillery.

Two folks in the southern seaside city of Koblevo had been blown up by a sea mine whereas swimming regardless of a ban, Mykolaiv regional governor Vitaliy Kim stated on Telegram.

EASTERN FRONT

Russia continues to hold out strikes towards targets throughout Ukraine whereas attempting to take management of the entirety of the industrialised Donbas area in the east, comprising the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Russian forces shelled the city of Bakhmut, which has been cited by Russia as a primary goal in its advance by Donetsk, 4 instances, Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated on Telegram. At least three folks had been killed and three had been injured, he stated.

As the combating rages, worldwide efforts continued to attempt to reopen Ukrainian ports and permit exports of grain and different commodities.

Allowing protected passage for grain shipments from Ukrain ought to ease shortages which have left tens of thousands and thousands of individuals round the world dealing with hovering meals costs and starvation.

Russia and Ukraine struck a deal final week to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports, however U.N. support chief Martin Griffiths stated “crucial” particulars for the protected passage of vessels had been nonetheless being labored out.

Griffiths was hopeful the first cargo of grain from a Ukrainian Black Sea port might happen as early as Friday. learn extra

(This story refiles to appropriate sixth paragraph to make clear missile strikes had been in Chernihiv area, not metropolis)

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