Cover photo: Smoke in the sky over Kiev after a Russian attack, Wednesday, September 6, 2023. GLEB GARANICH / Portal
- Kiev was the target of a drone attack on Wednesday, September 6th. According to the capital’s military administration, air defense was activated and destroyed “all targets,” explained the head of the military administration, Serhi Popko, on Telegram, describing a combined Russian attack with “cruise missiles” and other “probably ballistic”.
- One person was killed in a Russian drone strike in the Odessa region. In southern Ukraine, Governor Oleh Kiper announced Wednesday morning that port and agricultural infrastructure had been damaged. “Unfortunately, one person died in hospital from their injuries,” Mr. Kiper lamented on Telegram, indicating that the victim was a farm worker.
- According to the Russian Defense Minister, a Ukrainian drone was destroyed over Bryansk around midnight on Wednesday. No further information was released.
- Washington warns Pyongyang against supplying arms to Russia. At a news conference on arms talks between Moscow and Pyongyang, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said: “This will not reflect well on North Korea.” And they will pay the price for it within the international community. »
- Romania leads Russian drone strikes near its border. There were new attacks on Ukraine on Tuesday, said Klaus Iohannis, the president of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member country, a day after Russian drones crashed on the banks of the Romanian Danube.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Ukrainian soldiers near Bakhmut. The Ukrainian president visited the front on Tuesday. He “visited brigades that carried out offensive operations in the Bakhmout area,” his office said in a statement.
- The Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, confirmed the resignation of Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, who was fired on Sunday.
- In 2022, at least 890 victims of cluster munitions were recorded in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has brought the number of people killed and injured by these weapons worldwide to the highest level since at least 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by the Cluster Munitions Observatory, a coalition of nonprofit organizations. Governments (NGOs) .
- UNESCO wants to put Kiev and Lviv on the list of endangered world cultural heritage sites. St. Sophia Cathedral and monastic buildings in Kiev are expected to be added to the list of World Heritage in Danger in mid-September, as is the historic center of Lviv.
- The UK will add the Wagner Group to its list of terrorist organisations. “Wagner is a violent and destructive organization that has acted as a military tool abroad for Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” said British Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
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