Cover photo: Roustem Oumerov, new defense minister of Ukraine, during an international conference in Kiev, September 8, 2023. Efrem Lukatsky / AP
- Interviewed on the American channel CNN, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday rejected any possibility of an agreement with Vladimir Putin. “If you want to compromise or have a dialogue with someone, you can’t do it with a liar,” he said of the Russian president.
- According to a Downing Street statement British planes fly over the Black Sea to “stop Russia from carrying out illegal attacks against civilian grain transport ships.” After Russia withdrew from the grain deal in July, it said it would consider all ships entering Ukrainian ports as military targets, and Russian attacks have targeted Ukrainian ports.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy recognized on Friday that Russia’s air superiority was stopping the Ukrainian counteroffensiveHe complained about the slowdown in western military aid and the sanctions against Moscow because “processes are becoming more and more complicated and slower”.
- Ukraine’s president said on Friday he was “ready” to hold elections in his war-torn country “if the people need it”. Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, Kiev had planned to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in 2024.
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