Cover photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang on September 8. Lee Jin-man / AP
- Interviewed on the American channel CNN, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday rejected any possibility of an agreement with Vladimir Putin. “If you want to compromise or have a dialogue with someone, you can’t do it with a liar,” he said of the Russian president.
- According to a Downing Street statement British planes fly over the Black Sea to “stop Russia from carrying out illegal attacks against civilian grain transport ships.” After Russia withdrew from the grain deal in July, it said it would consider all ships entering Ukrainian ports as military targets, and Russian attacks have targeted Ukrainian ports.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy recognized on Friday that Russia’s air superiority was stopping the Ukrainian counteroffensiveHe complained about the slowdown in western military aid and the sanctions against Moscow because “processes are becoming more and more complicated and slower”.
- Ukraine’s president said on Friday he was “ready” to hold elections in his war-torn country “if the people need it”. Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, Kiev had planned to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in 2024.
- At least four people were killed and dozens injured in a series of Russian attacks and bombings on towns and villages in Ukraine on Fridayauthorities said. In Kryvyi RihIn the south of the country, a bomb attack on administrative and residential buildings left at least one dead and sixty injured while a bomb attack was ongoing OdradokamiankaAccording to the Interior Ministry, three people were killed and four were injured in the southern Kherson region.
- The first Leopard 1 tanks have arrived in Ukraine and more will follow, the Danish army announced on Friday. “The first ten tanks were sent to Ukraine. And more are on the way,” the Danish military said in a statement, noting that “ten more have been delivered from the factory.” The delivery of around a hundred Leopard 1A5 tanks was announced by these three European countries in early February and was announced for “the coming months”.
- Ukraine has denounced the “fake elections” organized in Russian-occupied territories until this weekend. “Russia’s “pseudo elections” in the temporarily occupied territories have no value,” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday. Paris will not recognize “the results” of the “so-called Russian elections” in the occupied Ukrainian territories, French diplomacy said. At the end of August, Kiev had already ordered the citizens of the four partially occupied regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – not to take part in the vote.
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