The head of Beijing diplomacy is continuing his very tight program. After personally meeting with the US Secretary of State on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, he will be in Russia to take part in the 18th Russia-China Strategic Security Session. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, considered seriously ill, in a coma or even dead, returns in a video to denounce the “lies” spread about his health: “If you cannot distinguish between lies and truth, organize your thoughts .” “. After days of assurances and denials, Ukraine announces the reconquest of the areas in Donetsk and forces Moscow to take action on the Eastern Front. According to Kiev, the Kremlin has stationed 52,000 soldiers in this area. According to NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, they have to “prepare for a long war.”
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is meeting with Blinken today and will then fly to Russia
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly today. Immediately after that, the head of Beijing diplomacy will fly to Russia to take part in the 18th session of Russian-Chinese consultations on strategic security at the invitation of Nikolai Patrouchev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
The face-to-face meeting between Wang and Blinken in New York follows just one day that between Wang Yi himself and White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Malta, where the two discussed the situation in Taiwan and the war in Ukraine. The contacts are part of an attempt at rapprochement between the two sides after months in which relations were at a low point due to trade rivalries, tensions over Taiwan, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the discovery of an alleged Chinese spy balloon in the sky of the United States.
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Russia shot down “several Kiev drones” in Crimea
Russia says it shot down “several Ukrainian drones” in the annexed Crimea and in the Moscow, Belgorod and Voronezh regions near Ukraine. “The drones were intercepted over the western, southwestern, northwestern and eastern areas of the Crimean peninsula, over the Istria (west) and Domodedovo (south) districts of the Moscow region, as well as over the Belgorod and Voronezh regions (southwest), according to the Defense Ministry Telegram, without specifying the number of aircraft destroyed and without reporting any damage or casualties. Again, according to the ministry, “the armored vehicle workshops in Kharkiv, where repairs and restoration of armored vehicles for the Ukrainian Armed Forces were carried out, were hit by a missile.”