2023-09-09 00:25:08
USA sends Atacms missiles to Kyiv
The US is expected to send long-range Atacms missiles to Ukraine for the first time. This was reported by ABC, citing some sources who said they could be included in the next aid package, although no final decision has been made yet.
2023-09-08 23:40:50
Kiev: Ready to join the EU in two years
“We will be ready for EU membership in two years, but of course the course of the war will determine the political framework.” According to Ukrainska Pravdà, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Olha Stefanishyna, told “Voice of America”. “I believe that two years will be enough to be fully prepared, and when the war ends we will do ten times more than we do now to make this decision,” he added.
Stefanishyna noted that Ukraine is also working on joining NATO, but the decision itself does not depend only on Ukraine. According to Stefanishyna, the NATO issue is a political decision: “We are working to strengthen interoperability with allied forces and strengthen the country’s strategic defense capabilities through defense and security sector reforms and the war lessons learned from them.” At the same time Stefanishyna believes that Ukraine can join NATO faster than the EU. This is due to the fact that after the victory, the alliance wants to have a country with one of the strongest armies, which will be a guarantor of the security of Europe.
2023-09-08 21:32:17
Zelenskyy: Negotiations with Putin? Impossible, he’s a liar
It is impossible to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin because he is “a liar.” Telling CNN is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “If you have to compromise or talk to someone, you can’t do it as a liar,” Zelensky said, referring to Putin. The death of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin shows what happens when you do business with Putin, the Ukrainian president emphasized. Zelensky then gave the example of Georgia and Moldova, countries where parts of the territory are occupied by Russian troops. “Have you ever seen Putin compromise on other issues? In Moldova? In Georgia?” he asked rhetorically.
2023-09-08 21:03:09
Zelensky: Counteroffensive hampered by Russian air superiority
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted today that Russia’s air superiority is hindering Ukraine’s counteroffensive and complained that the slowdown in Western military aid and sanctions against Moscow was making Moscow’s task easier. “If we are not in the air and Russia is, they will stop us” from the sky. They are stopping our counteroffensive,” the Ukrainian president said at a conference in Kiev. Zelensky complained that decision-making processes regarding sanctions or arms deliveries were becoming increasingly complicated and slow. “The war is slowing down, he admitted,” he said. Zelensky reiterated that if the West delivered long-range munitions more quickly, the Ukrainian army would also advance faster, allowing it to destroy Russian defenses, rear areas and logistics. “A certain weapon has a certain effect. “The stronger and more far-reaching it is, the faster the counteroffensive will be,” he stressed
2023-09-08 20:04:48
Putin: The war in Ukraine caused by the West
“The conflict in Ukraine was deliberately provoked by the West, also in order to limit the development of the Russian Federation,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing Russian authorities.
2023-09-08 15:28:50
Zelensky: As far as we know, Putin killed Prigozhin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes the Kremlin is responsible for the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, at least according to Ukrainians. BBC Russia reports on it. “Putin is discouraged – as a man, as a politician.” He killed Prigozhin, at least that is the information we have,” said the Ukrainian president in Kiev. Zelensky also added that in Ukraine “we had no days of mourning” when Prigozhin died, “for us it is one less terrorist.” “The morale of the Russians collapsed because they covered themselves with the Wagnerians, they rushed forward, they couldn’t go back,” Zelensky explained, concluding that the Russians had lost the Wagner defense and “that’s definitely an advantage for us.”
2023-09-08 15:26:27
Mykhailo PodolyakChief advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyIn a long and polemical conversation with Oksana Kharkovska on Ukrainian Channel 24 – relaunched by the Vatican information site Il Sismografo – he declared: “No mediator role for the Pope, he is pro-Russian, not credible.”
Kiev therefore excludes the possibility of Vatican mediation to resolve the military conflict in Ukraine. Podolyak also mentioned Russian investments in the IOR.
According to the Ukrainian channel 24 TV’s website, Podolyak stated: “The Vatican cannot have a mediation function, because that would be a function that would deceive Ukraine or the judiciary,” adding KyivIn this situation, the Vatican will not receive a “fair assessment.” Podoliak criticized Pope Francis’ appeal to young Catholics in Russia. “There is no point in talking about a mediator named Pope Francis when he represents a pro-Russian position that is completely obvious to everyone,” Zelensky’s adviser said. He also referred to investments by the Russian Federation in the Vatican Bank: “We have to look at the investments that Russia is making in the Vatican Bank, we have to analyze this in a little more detail.”
2023-09-08 13:55:40
Lavrov: We know about plans against pipelines in the Black Sea
Russia has information about attempts to blow up the Turkish Stream and Blue Stream gas pipelines in the Black Sea. This was announced by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, as Tass reported.
2023-09-08 13:03:07
Two Ukrainian drones shot down
Russian air defense shot down two Ukrainian drones as they attempted to attack a polling station in the Kherson region. This is supported by sources from the regional electoral commission cited by Tass. “Today two drones were shot down by Russian defense aircraft near a polling station in the municipality of Skadovsk,” the sources said. Russian authorities have opened polling stations in 54 regions, including in the occupied territories of Ukraine, in elections that Kiev has described as a “farce.”
2023-09-08 10:34:13
Russian troops launched rocket attacks in Ukraine
This morning, Russian troops in Ukraine launched rocket attacks on the cities of Kryvvi Rih, Zaporizhia and Sumy, killing one person and wounding at least 45, the Kyiv Independent reports, citing official sources. Russia attacked a police station in Kryvvi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and also damaged surrounding residential buildings, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said, killing one police officer and wounding six other staff members.
Russia took off this morning #Rocket Attacks on Sumy and Zaporizhia.
In Sumy: A two-story residential building was destroyed and two people were injured.
In Zaporizhzhia, civilian infrastructure objects were hit and one person was injured.
📹 – Emergency service from 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/TlvS7y0SCb
— UkraineWorld (@ukraine_world) September 8, 2023
According to the latest information, a total of 41 people were injured in the attacks this morning in Kryvvi Rih, said Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city’s military administration. Nineteen people were hospitalized. According to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Serhii Lysak, three administrative buildings and seven residential buildings were damaged, writes Kyiv Independent. Also in northeastern Sumy, a Russian missile hit a two-story residential building, causing a major fire and damaging more than 20 houses and eight vehicles, the regional branch of the state emergency service said. According to Sumy Oblast police, three people were injured in the attack, including an elderly couple who were rescued from the rubble. According to acting mayor Anatolii Kurtiev, another man was injured in Zaporizhia. The blast wave shattered the windows of several skyscrapers and educational institutions, Kurtiev said on Telegram.