Cover photo: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on the tarmac at Knevichi airport near Vladivostok, September 16, 2023. STR / AFP
- Ukraine announced on Saturday that two cargo ships would call at its ports, a first since the end of the grain deal in July, which until then allowed Ukrainian goods to be exported despite the Russian invasion. The cargo ships Resilient Africa and Aroyat “confirmed that they are ready to take the route to the port of Chornomorsk to load almost 20,000 tons of wheat for Africa and Asia,” Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Facebook.
- Moscow claims to have shot down several Ukrainian drones near Moscow and in Crimea. Russian air defenses were able to hit a Ukrainian drone in the Moscow region and six others on the way to the annexed Crimean peninsula, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
- “If President Zelensky and the Ukrainians stop fighting, their country will no longer exist,” said the NATO Secretary General. In an interview with the Funke media group on Sunday, Jens Stoltenberg warns that we must prepare “for a long war in Ukraine” and assures that “there is no doubt that Ukraine will be admitted to NATO sooner or later.” .
- According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s National Resistance Center, a new Russian militia has been created to recruit Wagner Group members. A new private military company under the direct control of the Russian Defense Ministry has been created to recruit Wagner Group mercenaries, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s National Resistance Center reported on Saturday.
- Three large Russian landing ships were moved from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov after attacks this week damaged several buildings in Sevastopol, announced Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletentchouk. According to him, the Minsk, another landing ship that is among the affected boats, cannot be repaired.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu According to the state news agency TASS, they have committed to strengthening their cooperation. The North Korean leader inspected Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers, hypersonic missiles and warships during a visit to Russia on Saturday.
- The Russian army said on Saturday it had not been “forced out” of the village of Andriivka in Ukraine, south of the destroyed city of Bakhmut on the Eastern Front, contradicting an announcement by the Ukrainian General Staff the day before.
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