Cover photo: The bulk carrier Aroyat, flying the flag of the Palau Archipelago, is pictured at sea in a social media photo posted on September 22, 2023. OLEKSANDR KUBRAKOV via X / Oleksandr Kubrakov via Portal
- Two dead in Russian attacks on Donetsk and Sumy oblasts. A 74-year-old woman was killed by shelling in Pokrovsky district on Saturday, and one person was killed in attacks on Yunakivska.
- Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met for the first time on Saturday with Special Representative for the Reconstruction of the Ukrainian Economy Penny Pritzker. The World Bank estimates that Ukraine would need more than $400 billion (around €375 billion) to rebuild.
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West of fighting Russia “directly” in Ukraine. on the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. “We call it a ‘hybrid war,’ but that doesn’t change the reality,” he added, referring to financial aid, weapons and “mercenaries” from Western countries.
- Deputy Prime Minister for Occupied Territories and Reintegration Iryna Vereshchuk called on Ukrainians to “leave Crimea.”until this area was recaptured by the Russians, who annexed the peninsula in 2014.
- A new series of rockets hit Sevastopol in Crimea on SaturdayAccording to Russian authorities, the day after a Ukrainian attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
- Ukrainian forces “continue their offensive on the Zaporizhzhia front near Verbowe, forcing the enemy to abandon their positions,” The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army reported this in its daily update on Saturday
- Former head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and nationalist figure Dmitry Rogozin has been appointed senator for the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraineannounced the regional governor.
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