Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hesitated to welcome Ukraine to the European Union and warned Brussels on Friday September 29 against starting accession negotiations. “Is it appropriate to enter into negotiations with a country that is at war?” he asks. Hungary has tense relations with Kiev: although it is a member of NATO, it refuses to make military contributions and has ties to the Kremlin. Follow our live stream.
For Putin, the Russian prisoners who died in Ukraine made amends. The Russian president said that the convicts recruited from prisons and dying in thousands on the front lines in Ukraine had “paid off” their debt to society. “We are all human, everyone can make mistakes, they did. They gave their lives for their homeland and redeemed themselves as much as possible,” Vladimir Putin said.
A former Wagner lieutenant will train the volunteers. Vladimir Putin assigned Andrei Trochev, a former lieutenant who was very close to Yevgeny Prigozhin, to train volunteers to fight in Ukraine. “They will be involved in training volunteer units capable of carrying out various combat missions,” the Russian president said. Further evidence of the integration of Wagner veterans into the Russian army.
Three women were killed in bomb attacks near Kherson. “The Russians bombarded Kherson with their artillery. So far three women have been killed,” an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday evening the X platform (formerly Twitter).
A Ukrainian drone damages a power plant in Russia. The explosives dropped by the drone on Friday caused the power supply to a hospital to be cut off, Kursk Region Governor Roman Starovoit said. The Russian Defense Ministry says it destroyed a total of 11 drones overnight, including 10 in the Kursk region.