Cover photo: Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Monday, September 4th in Sochi. SPUTNIK / via Portal
- Vladimir Putin is ready to resume the grain agreement only if “restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products are lifted.” Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was ready to reinstate the grain deal that allows Ukrainian grain exports across the Black Sea on condition that his demands are met. “We will do this as soon as all agreements on lifting restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products are fully implemented,” Vladimir Putin said at a news conference in Sochi, southern Russia, alongside his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
- 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.
- Moscow also announced that it had shot down a Ukrainian drone off the coast of Crimea and a second aircraft in Russia’s Kursk Oblast on the night of Sunday to Monday.on the border with Ukraine.
- The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Sunday evening that his Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov would be replaced 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.
- The Ukrainian army made a significant breakthrough in the Russian defense lines in the south of Ukraine, one of his senior generals claimed to the British daily The Guardian. “We are now between Russia’s first and second lines of defense,” said General Oleksandr Tarnavsky, who was in charge of the counteroffensive in the south.
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