Cover photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, September 13, 2023. SPUTNIK/via Portal
- Russian drones targeted the south of Ukraine’s Odessa region on the night of Tuesday and Wednesday, damaging port infrastructure in the district of the port city of Ismail and injuring six people., reported local governor Oleh Kiper. Three injured people are in serious condition, the official added.
- A shipyard in the Crimean city of Sevastopol was hit by a Ukrainian missile, injuring 24 people. said Russian-backed governor Mikhail Razvojaev. The attack caused a fire, he said, specifying after visiting the scene that the health of four people remained in a “stable condition”.
- Kim Jong-un and Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Alexander Kozlov met in Russia. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian presidency, said Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un would meet after the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
- Warsaw announces the maintenance of import restrictions on Ukrainian grain. “Poland will not allow Ukrainian grain to be flooded, no matter what the decision of the Brussels authorities is,” said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Kiev says it is ready to take the matter to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to demand compensation from Poland.
- The supply of F-16 aircraft and cluster munitions to Ukraine will “only prolong the conflict,” Vladimir Putin said. “They will deliver F-16s. Will this change anything? I don’t believe that. “This will only prolong the conflict,” he said at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East.
- The G7 condemned the organization of “falsified elections” in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. Four annexed regions are affected by these elections for the appointment of city councils and governors: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson.
- Denmark provides Ukraine with additional aid worth 777 million euroswhich is primarily intended to finance air defense equipment, ammunition and tanks, the Defense Ministry said.
- Romania is building air raid shelters on the border with Ukraine. The army has started building two concrete shelters to “protect the population” in the town of Plauru, the Defense Ministry wrote in a press release.
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