Cover photo: The Ukrainian president after his meeting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a bipartisan group, Thursday, September 21, 2023. WIN MCNAMEE / AFP
- Volodymyr Zelensky tried in Washington on Thursday to convince the US to help him cross the “finish line” against Russia. The Ukrainian president is not received with great fanfare at the Capitol, the seat of Congress, but by party leaders. He claimed to the press that he had had “a very good dialogue” with those responsible. After passing the Pentagon, he and his wife have to be received by Joe and Jill Biden.
- Included The White House announced that Washington would provide Ukraine with “significant” air defense assets, but Joe Biden does not want to deploy long-range ATACMS missiles, as demanded by Mr. Zelensky. The President of the United States “decided that he would not provide.” [missiles] ATACMS, but he did not rule out that possibility in the future,” the White House national security adviser said. “To win we have to stay united. And win together. We count on you, on your constant support,” Zelensky said in a statement.
- According to local authorities, several cities were hit by Russian missiles on Thursday. Two people died and five were injured in a bomb attack Kherson. Seven people were injured Kyiv. Two people were also injured in an attack Kharkov. Nine people were also injured Cherkasy. The region Lviv was also hit by bomb attacks. Three people were injured in an attack Nikopol.
- The Polish Prime Minister’s statements that Poland would stop supplying arms to Ukraine were misinterpretedsaid President Andrzej Duda. ” Words [de Mateusz Morawiecki] were interpreted in the worst possible way. (…) In my opinion, the Prime Minister meant that we will not transfer to Ukraine the new weapons that we are acquiring to modernize the Polish army,” Mr. Duda explained.
- Ukraine and Slovakia agree to introduce a licensing system for grain trade, which would lift the ban on imports of several products, the Slovakian Ministry of Agriculture said on Thursday.
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