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La Unión Europea dijo que no reconocerá las elecciones rusas de este domingo en la península de Crimea

La Unión Europea (UE) comunicó que no reconoce las elecciones regionales y locales que las autoridades rusas realizarán este domingo en la península ucraniana de Crimea, anexionada por Rusia en 2014.
De acuerdo con un portavoz del Servicio Europeo de Acción Exterior (SEAE), “el 14 de septiembre, las autoridades rusas celebran elecciones regionales y locales, incluso en la Crimea anexionada ilegalmente, concretamente en la ciudad de Sebastopol. La UE no reconoce ni las llamadas ‘elecciones’ ni sus resultados en el territorio ocupado”, indicó en un comunicado.
Según el texto, las elecciones representan “otra violación del derecho internacional, incluida la Carta de las Naciones Unidas, y de la soberanía, la independencia y la integridad territorial de Ucrania”.
Ela Pamfílova, presidenta de la Comisión Electoral Central (CEC) de Rusia, afirmó el jueves pasado que el país llevará adelante las elecciones a pesar de “las condiciones de guerra”.
El proceso electoral comenzó el viernes y finalizará el domingo en 81 regiones de la Federación de Rusia.
La UE reiteró que “Crimea es Ucrania” y solicitó a Rusia detener “sus esfuerzos por socavar la unidad nacional y la integridad territorial de Ucrania”.
“La Unión Europea expresa su apoyo inquebrantable a Ucrania en sus esfuerzos por resistir la guerra de agresión de Rusia y se mantiene firme en su apoyo a una paz amplia, justa y duradera en Ucrania”, concluyó.
En otro orden, Rusia lanzó un misil balístico y 164 drones contra Ucrania durante la noche, según informó la Fuerza Aérea ucraniana este sábado.
Las fuerzas defensivas ucranianas derribaron o neutralizaron 137 drones, mientras que se reportaron impactos en nueve localizaciones y la caída de fragmentos de drones en otras tres.
El parte militar detalló que desde las 20:00 del viernes, las fuerzas rusas lanzaron un misil balístico Iskander-M/KN-23 y drones de ataque Shahed, Gerbera y otros modelos desde las zonas de Kursk, Oriol, Briansk, Mílerovo y Primorsko-Ajtarsk. De los drones lanzados, aproximadamente 90 eran del tipo Shahed.
Hasta las 09:00 horas de este sábado, la defensa antiaérea ucraniana logró derribar o neutralizar 137 drones enemigos en el norte, sur, este y centro del país, según la cuenta oficial de la Fuerza Aérea en Telegram.
El ataque fue repelido por la aviación, unidades de misiles antiaéreos, medios de guerra electrónica, sistemas no tripulados y grupos móviles de fuego de las Fuerzas de Defensa de Ucrania.
Por otra parte, los ejércitos de Rusia y Bielorrusia participan desde este viernes en la fase activa de las maniobras estratégicas Západ-2025. Esta actividad militar, junto con la reciente incursión aérea rusa en Polonia, llevó a la OTAN a reforzar la defensa de su flanco oriental.
Según el Ministerio de Defensa ruso, los mandos de ambos países coordinaron la planificación para “bloquear y eliminar” potenciales grupos subversivos enemigos. Las maniobras se desarrollan en el polígono militar Borísovski, cerca de Minsk y a menos de 500 kilómetros de la frontera polaca, donde el espacio aéreo fue violado por drones rusos esta semana; hecho que Varsovia calificó como “acto de agresión”.
La Flota del Báltico rusa también participa con actividades en las que los grupos de sabotaje se desplazan hacia las costas rusas en sumergibles. Además, este sábado se incorporaron bombarderos Tu-22M3 y sistemas de misiles de defensa costera, que realizaron prácticas de tiro en el archipiélago ártico de Francisco José.
Las maniobras, con término previsto para el día 16, incluyen simulaciones de uso de armas nucleares tácticas y misiles balísticos hipersónicos Oréshnik.
Dmitri Peskov, portavoz presidencial, dijo este viernes: “Quiero recordar las palabras de nuestro presidente, Vladimir Putin: ‘Rusia nunca ha amenazado a nadie y tampoco amenaza ahora a los países de Europa’”.
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Pope Leo says he ‘can’t comment’ on 20-year sentence of Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai

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Pope Leo XIV this week said he «can’t» comment on the 20-year sentence imposed on a democracy activist in Hong Kong.
«I can’t comment,» the American-born Leo told EWTN News, which covers Catholic news globally, while speaking to reporters in Italy.
He added, «Let’s pray for less hatred and more peace and work for authentic dialogue. God bless you all.»
Hong Kong publisher and democracy activist Jimmy Lai, who is a converted Catholic, was sentenced to 20 years by Beijing last month for violating their 2020 national security law, which U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called «unjust and tragic.»
Pope Leo XIV this week said he «can’t» comment on the 20-year sentence imposed on a democracy activist in Hong Kong. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images; Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)
«The conviction shows the world that Beijing will go to extraordinary lengths to silence those who advocate fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong,» Rubio said in a statement. «The United States urges the authorities to grant Mr. Lai humanitarian parole.»
The 78-year-old founded the now-closed Hong Kong-based Apple Daily in 1995, while the island was still under British rule.
Lai’s sentence closed one of the country’s most consequential national security cases since Beijing imposed the sweeping new law in 2020 in the wake of months-long anti-Chinese Communist Party protests in 2019, which were sparked by fears Beijing was eroding Hong Kong’s promised autonomy.

Lai has already been in custody since 2020. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)
They were followed by a sweeping security crackdown that criminalized dissent and reshaped the city’s legal system.
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Lai had been arrested several times during the 2019 protests, and he was detained at his home in 2020. His newspaper was also raided at the time and closed.
He was found guilty in December of attempting to undermine national security.

Jimmy Lai supporters in Los Angeles last month. (Apu Gomes/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump said in December that he had personally urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to release Lai.
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«I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release,» Trump said. «He’s not well, he’s an older man, and he’s not well, so I did put that request out. We’ll see what happens.»
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After the strikes, how would the US secure Iran’s enriched uranium?

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When War Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked recently whether U.S. forces would ever move to secure enriched uranium reportedly stored at Iran’s Isfahan nuclear complex, he declined to say, citing operational security.
The exchange highlighted a question the U.S. and Israel’s air campaign alone cannot answer: even if U.S. strikes degrade Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, who would physically secure the enriched uranium, and how?
Iran is believed to possess a significant stockpile of uranium enriched to 60%, near weapons-grade. That material could theoretically be used in multiple nuclear devices if further refined.
Moving from 60% to weapons-grade 90% enrichment requires additional processing, and weaponization would involve further technical steps. But analysts say the more immediate issue is physical control of the material itself.
«If the U.S. wants to secure Iran’s nuclear materials, it’s going to require a massive ground operation,» Kelsey Davenport, director of nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, told Fox News Digital.
Davenport said the highly enriched uranium believed to be stored at Isfahan appears to be deeply buried and contained in relatively mobile canisters. Securing it would likely require locating the full stockpile, accessing underground facilities and safely extracting or downblending the material.
Satellite imagery taken on Jan. 30, 2026 shows a new roof over a previously destroyed building at the Natanz nuclear site. (2026 PLANET LABS PBC/Handout via Reuters)
«It’s not even clear the United States knows where all of the uranium is,» she said, noting that the mobility of storage containers raises the possibility that some material could be moved or dispersed.
The administration repeatedly has said preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon remains a central objective of Operation Epic Fury.
«Ultimately, this issue of Iran’s nuclear pursuit and their unwillingness through negotiations to stop it is something President Trump has said for a long time needs to be dealt with,» Hegseth said.
Senior administration officials have argued that Iran sought to build up its ballistic missile arsenal in part to create a deterrent shield — enabling Tehran to continue advancing its nuclear program while discouraging outside intervention.
So far, however, the bulk of U.S. strikes have focused on degrading missile launchers, air defenses and other conventional military targets.
Experts note that dismantling missile systems may reduce Iran’s ability to shield a potential nuclear breakout. But physically controlling enriched uranium itself presents a separate and more complex challenge.

This photo released on Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)
Airstrikes versus physical control
Defense officials have acknowledged that degrading nuclear infrastructure from the air is different from safely managing or securing nuclear material.
Airstrikes can destroy centrifuges, power systems and support buildings. But enriched uranium stored underground may remain intact unless it is physically secured, removed or verifiably downblended.
Striking or extracting nuclear material also carries safety risks that military planners must weigh.
If storage casks containing uranium hexafluoride gas were compromised, the material could pose chemical toxicity risks to personnel entering the site without proper protective equipment. Analysts say a conventional strike is unlikely to trigger a nuclear detonation, but dispersal of material could create localized hazards and complicate recovery efforts.
Chuck DeVore, a former Reagan-era defense official who worked on nuclear issues, argued that directly targeting the stockpile may not be a priority under current battlefield conditions.
«You don’t want to release the material into the surrounding areas and cause radioactive contamination,» DeVore said, adding that deeply buried facilities are difficult to reach from the air.
DeVore also downplayed the immediacy of a breakout scenario, arguing that further enrichment, weaponization and delivery would be difficult to execute undetected amid sustained U.S. air operations.
Even if Iran were able to further enrich uranium, he said, assembling a deliverable weapon under active military pressure would present significant technical and operational hurdles.

Trump said that the United States completed a «very successful» strike against Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, saying that Iran’s nuclear enrichment installations have been «obliterated.» (Fox News)
Still, DeVore acknowledged that long-term control of the uranium would ultimately require a political resolution inside Iran and some form of outside oversight.
What would securing it require?
Nonproliferation experts say securing enriched uranium generally involves more than military force. It requires verified accounting of the material, sustained access to storage sites and either removal or downblending to lower enrichment levels suitable for civilian use.
Davenport said internationally monitored downblending would be the safest option if political conditions allow.
«The IAEA remains the best place to go back into Iran to monitor the sites, to try to track down and account for the enriched uranium,» she said, describing downblending as a relatively straightforward technical process compared to attempting to extract and transport highly enriched material in a contested environment.
Both pathways — physical seizure or internationally monitored reduction — depend on conditions that do not currently exist.
Administration officials argue that dismantling Iran’s missile network weakens Iran’s ability to shield a nuclear breakout and reduces the immediate threat to U.S. forces and regional allies.
But suppressing missiles and controlling enriched uranium are separate challenges.
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Destroying infrastructure can slow or disrupt a program. Physically locating, accounting for and securing nuclear material requires sustained access, reliable intelligence and — ultimately — political conditions that allow it.
For now, the administration maintains that Iran will not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. How the enriched uranium itself would be secured remains a question without a public answer.
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