Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in New York to attend the UN General Assembly. After New York, Zelensky will travel to Washington, where he will be received by Joe Biden at the White House.
“I have arrived in the United States for the UN Assembly and a visit to Washington,” during which “I will thank the United States for assistance on behalf of Ukraine.” Zelensky writes it on X. “I will attend the UN General Assembly and the Security Council and hold numerous bilateral meetings. “Ukraine will submit a concrete proposal to UN member states on how to strengthen the principle of territorial integrity,” Zelensky said, underlining that “in Washington he will meet with President Joe Biden, congressional leaders, military leaders and American companies. He will thank the United States on behalf of Ukraine for its support in our fight for independence and freedom.”
“Thanks to the success of our troops, the enemy’s defensive line was broken” in the direction of Bakhmut. The Russians “tried to close it by throwing all available reserves into battle.” This was announced by the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Alexander Syrsky, citing the Telegram channel Military Media Center, adding that the Russian armed forces lost some of the best units in the fighting in this area, but the situation on the Eastern Front Changes remain difficult and the fighting is fierce. According to the commander, Moscow “does not give up attempts to regain lost positions” in the Kupiansk and Lyman directions.
In an interview with CBS News, Zelensky admitted that the Kiev counteroffensive was progressing slowly and that “the situation was difficult” but that it was necessary to move forward and “not give Putin a break.” “We have the initiative. This is an advantage,” said the Ukrainian president. “We stopped the Russian offensive and went on to the counteroffensive. And yet it is not very fast,” he added. “We have to clear our territory as much as possible and move forward, even if it’s less than half a mile or a hundred meters, we have to do it,” he continued. “We cannot give Putin a break.” Commenting on drone strikes on Russia, which does not officially recognize Ukraine, Zelensky stressed that Kiev “uses its partners’ weapons only on the territory of Ukraine,” but “Russia must know that “Ukraine has every moral right to attack these places.”
Kiev: “2 dead in Russian attacks on Kherson last night”
Two people were killed in Russian attacks on the Kherson region of Ukraine overnight. This was stated by the governor of the region, Oleksandr Prokudin, in a message on Telegram quoted by Ukrinform. “A 72-year-old man died after an attack in Kherson. Another was injured and was rescued on site,” the statement said. “A private house was hit in Kizomys. An elderly woman died immediately from her injuries. A 60-year-old man was hospitalized in fair condition. Olhivka was also under fire. A 63-year-old woman was injured for years. She was hospitalized.
Chinese Foreign Minister visits Russia until September 21st
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Russia for security talks by September 21, his ministry announced. “At the invitation of Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Wang Yi… will travel to Russia from September 18 to 21 to hold the 18th round of China-Russia Strategic Security Consultations (SSCC).” We read in a statement posted on the ministry’s website.
Drones from Moscow and Kiev were shot down in Crimea and near the capital
Russia said it shot down several Ukrainian drones overnight in the annexed Crimea and in the Moscow, Belgorod and Voronezh regions. “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),” the Defense Ministry said in a statement without mentioning the number of planes shot down. The note also said that “the workshops of the Kharkiv plant, where the repair and restoration of armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were carried out, were hit by a missile attack.”
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