Cover photo: A Ukrainian soldier with a drone near the front line in Bakhmut, September 3rd. LIBKOS / AP
- Russian defense forces shot down three drones in the western regions of Moscow, Kaluga and Tver. The authorities announced this on Tuesday, September 5th. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said damage was found in the Istrin district after falling debris.
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un plans to visit Russia to discuss arms sales with President Vladimir Putin from Pyongyang to Moscow, the White House said on Monday. “As we have stated, arms negotiations between Russia and North Korea are actively progressing,” said Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council.
- Mr Putin is willing to revive the grain deal only if “restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products are lifted”. “We will do this as soon as all agreements to lift restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products are fully implemented,” he said at a news conference in Sochi, southern Russia, alongside his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
- On Monday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was near the front line in the east. “Donetsk region. “We are visiting the combat brigades that defend Ukraine and are part of the Donetsk tactical task force,” Mr. Zelensky said as a video showed him meeting soldiers.
- Russia claimed on Monday morning that it had destroyed four fast military missiles in the Black Sea. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the boats were carrying “landing parties of the Armed Forces of Ukraine heading toward” Cape Tarhankut, which lies in the west of the annexed Crimean peninsula.
- For its part, Ukraine claimed to have destroyed 23 explosive drones fired by Russia in the south on the night of Sunday to Monday. About ten of them landed on the ground, but without causing any casualties. Odessa Governor Oleh Kiper complained that “warehouses, production buildings, agricultural machinery and equipment of industrial enterprises” had been damaged in Izmail district.
- The Cuban government said Monday it had identified a Russian “human trafficking network” aimed at recruiting Cubans for “military operations in Ukraine.” and to have initiated criminal proceedings against those involved.
- The Ukrainian President announced on Sunday evening the impending replacement of its Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov by Rustem Umerov. Mr. Reznikov, who was involved in a corruption case, “went through more than five hundred and fifty days of war. I believe that the ministry needs new approaches,” said the Ukrainian president.
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