우크라이나-러시아 전쟁 – 라이브: 젤렌스키는 최전선 돌파를 위해 푸틴군을 ‘도주’시키는 것을 목표로 하고 있습니다
아르판 라이, 타라 코밤, 맷 매더스
2023년 9월 12일 화요일 오전 1시 07분(AEST)
우크라이나는 동부와 남부의 최전선에서 이득을 얻었다고 키예프는 러시아군을 도주시키려 한다고 주장했습니다.

최전선 마을인 아브디브카(Avdiivka) 근처의 우크라이나군은 러시아군이 남쪽으로 진격해 오피트네(Opytne) 마을 일부를 점령하는 데 주력했다고 현지 군 행정장관이 말했습니다.

Vitaliy Barabash는 국영 TV에 “제 생각에는 이것이 매우 중요합니다.”라고 말했습니다. “솔직히 적군은 이 남쪽 방향을 조금 간과했습니다.”

그는 이번 진격을 “천둥같은 공격 작전”이라고 불렀으며 정착지에서 전투가 진행 중이라고 말했습니다.

앞서 볼로디미르 젤렌스키 우크라이나 대통령은 기상 조건이 바뀌어 전진이 더 어려워지기 전에 우크라이나가 반격에서 큰 돌파구를 찾을 수 있다고 말했다.

Zelensky의 군대는 Zaporizhzhia에 있는 세 개의 러시아 주요 방어선 중 첫 번째를 돌파했으며 앞으로 몇 주 안에 더 많은 이득을 얻을 수 있다고 그는 말했습니다. 그러나 돌파구가 “내일이나 모레”가 되지는 않을 것입니다.

그는 인터뷰에서 이코노미스트와의 인터뷰에서 “우리가 그들(러시아)을 남쪽에서 밀어낸다면 그들은 도망갈 것”이라고 말했다.

키 포인트
푸틴군, 도네츠크서 ‘천둥같은 돌격 작전’으로 후퇴

Zelensky는 우크라이나가 큰 돌파구를 찾을 수 있다고 제안했습니다. ‘그들은 달릴 것입니다’

우크라이나군, ‘천둥같은 공격작전’

우크라이나, 러시아가 키예프에 밤새 드론 공격 개시

당 본부가 파괴돼 ‘푸틴군 하루 만에 600명 사망’

우크라이나에 참전하러 갔던 영국인이 숨진 채 발견됐다.

영국, 러시아가 8월 24일 흑해 항구에 정박한 민간 화물선을 공격했다고 밝혔습니다.
20:00 , 엘레노어 노이스

영국은 월요일 러시아가 8월 24일 흑해 항구에서 민간 화물선을 표적으로 삼았다고 비난했으며, 이전에 확인되지 않은 미사일 공격이 우크라이나 방어에 의해 성공적으로 좌절됐다고 밝혔습니다.

우크라이나는 러시아-우크라이나 분쟁이 시작된 이후 UN 지원 흑해 곡물 통로가 붕괴된 후 오데사 항구에 좌초된 선박이 공해로 항해할 수 있도록 허용하기 위해 노력해 왔습니다.

영국 의회에서 리시 수낙 총리가 한 발언은 우크라이나의 노력이 시작된 이후 처음으로 한 관리가 표적이 된 선박에 대해 언급한 것입니다. 8월 18일 이후 화물선 4척이 오데사에서 출발했습니다.

수낙은 자신이 뉴델리에서 참석한 G20 정상회담에 대한 의회 업데이트에서 “기밀 해제된 정보 덕분에 우리는 러시아군이 8월 24일 다수의 미사일로 흑해에서 민간 화물선을 표적으로 삼았다는 것을 알고 있다”고 말했습니다.

영국 외무부는 성명을 통해 해당 미사일이 항구에 정박 중인 라이베리아 국적 화물선을 겨냥해 성공적으로 격추됐다고 밝혔다. 이 미사일에는 흑해함대 미사일 모함에서 발사된 ‘칼리브르(Kalibr)’ 미사일 2발이 포함됐다고 덧붙였다.

러시아 국방부는 로이터의 논평 요청에 즉각 응답하지 않았다.

러시아는 지난 7월 우크라이나가 흑해를 통해 곡물을 안전하게 수출할 수 있도록 허용하는 유엔 중개 협정을 중단한 이후 우크라이나로부터 흑해에서 민간 선박을 위협했다는 비난을 받아왔습니다.

미국과 영국은 지난 7월 러시아가 흑해의 민간 선박에 대한 공격을 포함하여 우크라이나 곡물 시설에 대한 공격을 확대할 수 있다고 경고한 바 있습니다.

제임스 클레버리 외무장관은 성명을 통해 “푸틴 대통령은 자신이 이길 수 없는 전쟁에서 이기려고 노력하고 있다”며 “이번 공격은 푸틴 대통령이 얼마나 절박한지를 보여준다”고 말했다.

“러시아는 화물선과 우크라이나 인프라를 표적으로 삼아 전 세계에 피해를 주고 있습니다.”

미국과 영국, 러시아의 우크라이나 마리우폴 포위 작전을 다룬 다큐멘터리 유엔 상영회 개최
19:07, 샘 르카이나

미국과 영국은 전쟁 초기 러시아가 우크라이나 항구 도시를 무자비하게 포위하는 동안 언론인 3인의 이야기를 다룬 다큐멘터리 ‘마리우폴에서의 20일’의 유엔 상영을 주최합니다.

바버라 우드워드 영국 대사는 월요일 저녁 유엔 본부에서 열린 공연이 중요하다고 말했습니다. “러시아의 우크라이나 침공은 유엔이 옹호하는 것, 즉 모든 국가의 주권과 영토 보전이 기본인 국제 질서를 위협하기 때문입니다.”

이 상영은 제78차 유엔 총회가 시작될 때 그리고 세계 지도자들이 연례 회의를 위해 도착하기 일주일 전에 이루어집니다. 이 회의에서는 우크라이나에서 18개월 이상 지속된 전쟁, 특히 볼로디미르 우크라이나 대통령이 주목을 받을 것으로 예상됩니다. 젤렌스키는 처음으로 직접 연설할 예정이다.

AP와 PBS 시리즈 “Frontline”이 제작한 이 참혹한 다큐멘터리는 AP 저널리스트 Mstyslav Chernov와 그의 동료들이 2022년 2월 24일 러시아의 우크라이나 침공과 포위 공격 이후 마리우폴에서 촬영한 30시간 분량의 영상에서 발췌한 것입니다. 도시.

G20 정상회담 후 ‘절박한’ 푸틴 대통령이 민간 화물선을 공격했다고 수낙이 밝혔습니다.

18:10 , 샘 르카이나

수낙, 러시아가 민간 화물선을 표적으로 삼았다고 비난
17:40 , 샘 르카이나

리시 수낙(Rishi Sunak)은 러시아군이 8월 24일 흑해에서 민간 화물선을 “여러 미사일”로 표적으로 삼았다고 비난했습니다.

“기밀 해제된 정보 덕분에 우리는 러시아군이 8월 24일 다수의 미사일로 흑해에서 민간 화물선을 표적으로 삼았다는 것을 알고 있습니다”라고 수낙 총리는 뉴델리에서 참석한 G20 정상회담에 대한 의회 업데이트에서 말했습니다.

러시아는 지난 7월 우크라이나가 흑해를 통해 곡물을 안전하게 수출할 수 있도록 허용하는 유엔 중개 협정을 중단한 이후 우크라이나로부터 흑해에서 민간 선박을 위협했다는 비난을 받아왔습니다.

미국과 영국은 지난 7월 러시아가 흑해의 민간 선박에 대한 공격을 포함하여 우크라이나 곡물 시설에 대한 공격을 확대할 수 있다고 경고한 바 있습니다.

(PA 와이어)
(PA 와이어)
백악관, 북한에 푸틴 대통령에게 무기 팔지 말라고 촉구
16:50 , 샘 르카이나

김정은 북한 국무위원장이 러시아를 방문 중인 것으로 알려진 가운데 백악관은 월요일 북한이 우크라이나 전쟁에 사용하기 위해 러시아에 무기를 판매하지 말 것을 촉구했습니다.

“우리가 공개적으로 경고한 대로, 김정은의 러시아 방문 기간 동안 러시아와 북한 사이의 무기 논의는 계속될 것으로 예상됩니다.

백악관 국가안보회의(NSC) 대변인 에이드리엔 왓슨은 “우리는 북한이 러시아에 무기를 제공하거나 판매하지 않겠다는 공개 약속을 준수할 것을 촉구한다”고 말했다.

2019년 이전 회담 당시 푸툰과 김 위원장(AP)
2019년 이전 회담 당시 푸툰과 김 위원장(AP)
독일 장관은 우크라이나의 위치는 EU에 있다고 말하고 키예프 방문 중 무기 요구를 들었다
16:20 , 엘레노어 노이스

아날레나 베어보크 독일 외무장관은 월요일 키예프를 방문하는 동안 우크라이나의 위치는 유럽연합에 속하지만 부패 척결을 위해 더 많은 노력을 기울일 것을 촉구했습니다.

18개월 전 러시아의 침공 이후 네 번째 우크라이나 방문에서 그녀는 독일이 인도주의적 지원으로 2천만 유로(2,144만 달러)를 추가로 제공할 것이며 베를린이 올해 제공한 금액은 3억 8천만 유로가 될 것이라고 말했습니다.

볼로디미르 젤렌스키 대통령과 다른 우크라이나 지도자들과의 회담에서 그녀는 또한 서방 파트너들이 러시아군과 싸우기 위해 장거리 미사일을 포함한 더 많은 무기를 키예프에 제공해야 한다는 요청을 들었습니다.

베어복 총리는 우크라이나 수도에 도착하자마자 “우크라이나는 큰 용기와 결단력으로 우리 모두의 자유를 수호하고 있다”고 말했습니다.

“우크라이나가 우리를 옹호하는 것처럼, 우크라이나는 또한 러시아 전쟁의 필연적인 지정학적 결과로서 EU 확대에 대한 우리와 우리의 이해에 의존할 수 있습니다. 그리고 유럽연합을 향한 우크라이나의 여정에 대한 우리의 확고한 지지에 대해 말씀드립니다.”

러시아의 침공에도 불구하고 우크라이나는 EU가 28개국 블록에 합류하기 전에 EU가 요청한 개혁을 수행하려고 노력하고 있는데, 이 과정은 보통 수년이 걸린다.

“사법 개혁과 미디어 입법 분야의 개혁 결과는 이미 인상적입니다. 그러나 반과두제법의 시행과 부패 척결에는 아직 갈 길이 멀다”고 Baerbock은 말했다.

그녀는 또한 러시아가 올 가을과 겨울에 공습을 통해 우크라이나의 에너지 시설을 표적으로 삼을 것이라고 경고했습니다.

“러시아의 비열한 목표는 이번 겨울에도 국민을 굶겨 얼어 죽게 하는 것입니다.”라고 그녀는 말했습니다.

우크라이나, 크림반도 합병 당시 압수한 흑해 석유 플랫폼 탈환 주장
16:06 , 엘레노어 노이스

우크라이나군은 월요일 흑해에서 러시아로부터 전략적 가스 및 석유 시추 플랫폼을 탈환했으며 전쟁의 가장 길고 치명적인 전투 이후 폐허로 남겨진 우크라이나 동부 도시 바흐무트 인근 점령 지역에서 이득을 얻었다고 밝혔습니다.

소위 Boyko Towers 플랫폼의 탈환은 에너지원을 제공하고 러시아가 2015년에 압수하여 헬리콥터 발사에 사용했던 자산을 회수한다고 우크라이나 국방부가 말했습니다.

러시아는 흑해 해역을 완전히 통제할 수 있는 능력을 박탈당했으며 이로 인해 우크라이나는 크림반도 탈환에 한 걸음 더 가까워졌다고 정보국은 말했습니다.

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우크라이나, 크림반도 합병 당시 압수한 흑해 석유 플랫폼 탈환 주장

룰라는 브라질이 푸틴을 체포하지 않을 것이라는 발언에 반발했다.
15:50 , 엘레노어 노이스

루이스 이나시우 룰라 다 실바 브라질 대통령은 월요일 브라질이 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 지도자에 대한 전쟁 범죄 체포 영장을 무시할 것이라고 말하면서 브라질의 국제형사재판소 가입 여부를 재검토하겠다고 밝혔습니다.

지난 토요일, 룰라는 G20 국가 회의를 위해 인도를 방문하는 동안 현지 인터뷰어에게 푸틴 대통령이 리우데자네이루에서 열릴 예정인 내년 정상회담에 참석한다면 체포될 “절대” 없다고 말했다.

브라질은 회원국들에게 체포 영장을 준수할 의무를 부과하는 국제형사재판소 로마규정의 서명국이다. 법원은 지난 3월 푸틴 대통령에게 영국에서 수백 명의 어린이를 추방한 전쟁범죄 혐의로 체포영장을 발부했다.

레인.

러시아는 자국 군대가 전쟁 범죄에 가담했거나 우크라이나 어린이들을 강제로 납치했다는 사실을 부인했습니다.

푸틴 대통령은 ICC의 체포 요청 이후 아직 해외 여행을 하지 않고 있으며, 특히 지난달 남아공 브릭스 정상회담과 이번 달 인도 G20 정상회담에 불참했다. 그는 지난해 발리 G20 정상회담에도 불참했다.

룰라는 월요일 기자회견에서 “푸틴 대통령이 (내년 정상회담에) 합류하기로 결정한다면 (체포 가능성을) 결정하는 것은 사법부의 몫이지 내 정부가 아니다”라고 말했다.

그는 브라질이 ICC 조약에 가입한 이유를 검토하겠다고 밝히며 “미국과 인도, 중국이 왜 ICC 조약에 서명하지 않았는지, 우리나라는 왜 서명했는지 알고 싶다”고 말했다.

푸틴 대통령은 체포되지 않을 것이라는 룰라의 앞서 발언은 브라질에서 비판을 불러일으켰다.

상파울루에 있는 게툴리오 바르가스 재단(Getulio Vargas Foundation)의 올리버 스투엔켈(Oliver Stuenkel) 교수는 소셜 미디어 사이트 X에서 해당 댓글이 “해롭고 불필요하다”고 말했습니다.

Stuenkel은 “룰라는 자신을 원로 정치가라고 생각하기보다는 경험이 없고 무지한 사람으로 인식했습니다.”라고 썼습니다.

룰라는 러시아-우크라이나 분쟁의 평화를 중재하려고 노력했지만 실패했으며 조 바이든 미국 대통령이 분쟁을 막기 위해 더 많은 일을 할 수 있었다고 말했습니다.

러시아는 지난해 우크라이나를 침공해 자국 영토의 약 6분의 1을 합병했다고 주장했다. 우크라이나는 러시아군을 우크라이나 땅에 주둔시키는 평화협정이 체결되면 푸틴 대통령의 침공 결정에 대한 보상이 될 것이라고 밝혔습니다. 모스크바는 우크라이나가 자신들의 영토 주장을 받아들이지 않는 한 평화는 있을 수 없다고 말했습니다.

스웨덴은 2024년 국방비에 SEK 7억을 추가합니다.
15:35 , 엘레노어 노이스

스웨덴은 2024년 국방예산 계획을 다시 한 번 늘려 올해 총 계획 증가액을 270억 크라운(24억4천만 달러)으로 늘리고 NATO 기준인 GDP의 2%를 초과했다고 정부가 월요일 밝혔습니다.

국방부 장관은 스웨덴이 다가오는 가을 예산에 7억 달러를 추가해 2024년 전체 국방비 지출을 2020년의 거의 두 배인 1,190억 크라운으로 늘릴 것이라고 발표했습니다.

지출은 스웨덴 GDP의 2.1%에 해당할 것으로 예상된다고 그는 말했다.

팔 존슨 국방부 장관은 기자회견에서 “우리는 제2차 세계대전 이후 가장 심각한 안보 정책 상황에 처해 있다”고 말했다.

스웨덴은 지난해 러시아의 우크라이나 침공 이후 방어력 강화에 안간힘을 쓰고 있다.

스웨덴은 2023년 NATO에 가입하도록 초청받았지만 터키와 헝가리의 신청 승인을 기다리고 있습니다.

러시아 최대의 미개발 구리 매장지에서 정광 생산 시작
15:20 , 엘레노어 노이스

블라디미르 푸틴 대통령이 비디오 링크를 통해 감독한 기념식에 이어 월요일 러시아 최대의 미개발 구리 매장지에서 구리 정광 생산이 시작되었습니다.

오랫동안 기다려온 러시아 극동 지역의 Udokan 프로젝트가 어려운 시기에 시작됩니다. 미국은 지난 4월 우크라이나에서의 활동으로 인해 러시아에 가해진 제한 조치의 일환으로 운영업체인 Udokan Copper LLC에 제재를 가했습니다.

구리 가격도 2022년에 14% 하락했으며 예상보다 약한 수요로 인해 올해 현재까지 보합세를 보이고 있습니다.

그러나 이 프로젝트는 최고 금속 소비국인 중국과의 근접성과 중국의 수요, 글로벌 녹색 에너지 전환에 따른 미래 수요에 의존합니다.

국영 TV를 통해 방송된 시상식에서 푸틴 대통령은 “계속 하세요”라고 말했다.

Udokan의 가공 공장에서는 금속 함량이 40~45%인 황화동 정광을 생산할 것이라고 회사측은 밝혔습니다. 올해 상업 판매를 계획하고 있지만 아직 잠재 구매자를 공개하지 않았습니다.

2024년 야금 공장의 첫 번째 단계가 가동되면 Udokan은 연간 최대 1,500만 톤의 광석을 처리할 수 있으며, 구리 음극 및 정광 형태로 연간 최대 150,000톤의 구리를 생산할 수 있게 됩니다.

매장량은 약 2,670만 톤에 달하는 구리 자원으로 러시아 최대 규모다. 독특하고 추출하기 어려운 광석을 활용하는 기술이 존재하지 않았기 때문에 1949년 발견된 이후 미개발 상태였습니다.

1970년대 모스크바 광산 연구소의 한 학생이 우도칸의 광석을 추출하기 위해 “깨끗한” 핵폭발에 대한 아이디어를 연구했지만 그 내용은 종이에 남아 있었습니다.

러시아의 억만장자 알리셰르 우스마노프(Alisher Usmanov)는 2008년 금융위기 직전 정부로부터 우도칸(Udokan) 개발권을 5억 달러에 사들였습니다. 프로젝트의 기술적 과제를 해결하고 새로운 지질 모델을 만들고 건설을 시작하는 데 10년이 걸렸습니다.

2028년까지 Udokan은 광산 및 야금 단지의 두 번째 단계를 건설하여 연간 생산 능력을 광석 2,400만~2,800만 톤, 구리 최대 450,000톤으로 늘릴 계획입니다.

푸틴 대통령과 회담 위해 러시아로 가는 북한 김 위원장
15:05 , 엘레노어 노이스

우크라이나 전쟁으로 러시아의 고립이 심화되는 가운데 북한과 러시아가 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령과의 정상회담을 어제 확정한 가운데, 김정은 북한 국무위원장이 특수열차를 타고 러시아로 출발했다고 소식통이 전했습니다.

김씨가 방문할 것이다

크렘린궁은 푸틴 대통령의 초청으로 며칠 안에 러시아와 접촉할 것이라고 밝혔고, 북한 관영 통신사인 KCNA는 “두 사람이 만나 대화를 나눌 것”이라고만 밝혔습니다.

미국 관리들은 두 사람이 러시아의 우크라이나 전쟁을 지원하고 북한에 절실히 필요한 경제적, 정치적 생명줄을 제공하기 위해 가능한 무기 거래를 논의할 것이라고 말했습니다.

미국과 동맹국들은 최근 러시아와 핵무장한 북한 사이의 긴밀한 군사 협력 조짐에 대해 우려를 표명해 왔습니다. 김 위원장과 푸틴 대통령의 정상회담은 2019년 회담에 이어 두 번째다.

북한과 모스크바 모두의 부인에도 불구하고, 미국은 북한이 18개월이 넘는 전쟁 기간 동안 막대한 무기 비축량을 소비한 러시아에 무기를 공급하기 위한 회담이 활발히 진행되고 있다고 밝혔습니다.

한국 정부 고위 관계자는 로이터 통신에 북한 지도자가 일요일 늦게 열차를 타고 떠났다고 말했습니다.

익명을 요구한 이 관계자는 “특수열차는 김 위원장을 러시아와 북한의 북동쪽 국경으로 데려갈 것이며 정상회담은 이르면 화요일 열릴 수 있다”고 정보당국의 우려를 언급하며 세부 사항은 현지 상황에 따라 변경될 수 있다고 덧붙였습니다. .

러시아와 평양 모두 정확한 방문 일정을 즉각 확정하지 않았다.

북한은 지난해 우크라이나 침공 이후 러시아를 공개적으로 지지한 몇 안 되는 국가 중 하나이며, 푸틴 대통령은 지난 주 “공동 노력을 통해 계획적인 방식으로 모든 측면에서 양국 관계를 확대”하겠다고 약속했습니다.

김 위원장의 2019년 마지막 해외 순방은 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령과의 북핵 군축 회담 결렬 이후 첫 푸틴 대통령과의 정상회담을 위해 블라디보스토크를 방문한 것이기도 하다.

적십자, 기부금 감소로 2024년 예산 삭감
14:50 , 엘레노어 노이스

국제적십자위원회(International Committee of the Red Cross)는 미국을 포함한 주요 기부국들이 자금을 삭감함에 따라 내년도 예산을 약 13% 삭감할 것이라고 월요일 밝혔다.

우크라이나와 수단의 전쟁을 포함해 전 세계적으로 위기가 심화되는 가운데 인도주의적 지원이 급증하면서 구호 예산이 부족해지면서 정부는 누구를 어떻게 도울지에 대한 결정을 다시 생각하게 되었습니다.

로버트 마르디니(Robert Mardini)는 기자들에게 “전 세계적으로 구호 예산이 줄어들면서 ICRC 예산이 줄어들 것이라는 예측은 전 세계 인도주의적 필요가 그 어느 때보다 높은 시기에 일어나고 있다”며 삭감이 미칠 영향을 우려한다고 말했다.

“이러한 추세는 상당한 인적 비용을 초래합니다”라고 그는 덧붙였습니다.

인도주의 단체는 90개 이상의 국가에 존재하며 기본적인 인도적 지원 제공부터 전쟁 포로 방문까지 다양한 활동을 펼치고 있습니다.

2024년 예산은 21억 CHF(23억 6천만 달러)가 될 것이며 제네바 본사에서 270명의 추가 인력 감축이 이루어질 것이라고 그는 말했습니다.

ICRC 웹사이트에는 제네바 협약 당사국, 적십자 및 적신월사, 유럽연합 집행위원회와 같은 초국가적 조직, 공공 및 민간 기부자의 자발적인 기부로 자금을 조달한다고 나와 있습니다.

3월 말 이사회는 2023년과 2024년 초에 걸쳐 글로벌 비용에서 4억 3천만 CHF를 절감하는 계획을 승인하고 전체 예산을 24억 CHF로 수정했습니다.

미국 자금에 대한 질문에 마르디니는 미국이 조직의 가장 큰 기부자였으며 금액에 대한 세부 사항을 밝히지 않은 채 2023년 기부금을 전년도에 비해 줄였다고 말했습니다.

마르디니는 “우리는 인도주의 체제를 다시 생각해 볼 필요가 있다”고 말했습니다. “전체 시스템은 소수의 국가와 기부자에 의존하고 있으며 이는 설계상 큰 문제이자 큰 위험이라고 생각합니다.”라고 그는 덧붙였습니다.

NATO 회원국 루마니아가 전쟁에 휘말릴 위험은 없다고 동맹 고위 관계자가 밝혔습니다.
14:35 , 엘레노어 노이스

미르체아 지오아나 나토(NATO) 부총장은 월요일 전쟁으로 피폐해진 우크라이나와의 국경 근처 영토에서 최근 드론 파편이 발견된 이후 동맹 회원국인 루마니아가 전쟁에 휘말릴 위험은 없다고 말했다.

지오아나는 루마니아 수도 부쿠레슈티 인근 학교를 방문하는 동안 기자들에게 “가장 중요한 것은 (러시아가) 루마니아 영토와 NATO 영토를 공격하려는 고의적인 행동의 징후가 없다는 사실을 재확인하는 것”이라고 말했다.

나토 부국장의 이런 발언은 나토 회원국인 루마니아가 강 건너편 우크라이나 다뉴브강 항구에 대해 러시아군을 지속적으로 공격하는 가운데 루마니아 당국이 루마니아 땅에서 드론 파편이 발견된 사실을 두 번 확인한 지 며칠 만에 나온 것입니다.

Stephen McGrath와 Vadim Ghirda는 다음과 같이 보고합니다.

NATO 회원국 루마니아가 전쟁에 휘말릴 위험은 없다고 동맹 고위 관계자가 밝혔습니다.

우크라이나에 영국 전차 14대만? 우리는 그보다 더 잘해야 합니다
14:15 , 엘레노어 노이스

안일함은 우크라이나에서 성공의 적이 될 수 있습니다. 푸틴 대통령의 우크라이나 불법 침공이 영국과 유럽 안보에 대한 핵심 가정을 흔들은 지 564일 만이다. 유럽에서의 전쟁은 국내의 안전을 위해서는 해외에서도 강해야 하며, 우리의 동맹국은 영국의 가장 큰 보루라는 점을 잔인하게 상기시켜 줍니다.

평가 강도. 영국의 방어는 우크라이나에서 시작됩니다.

깊숙히 파고 있고 많은 지뢰가 있는 러시아 방어에도 불구하고 우크라이나인들은 남부 전장에서 점차 우위를 점하고 있을 뿐만 아니라 러시아의 심해 비행장에서 크림 반도의 목표물에 이르기까지 적을 타격하는 방식을 다양화하고 있습니다. 흑해의 러시아 선박.

일부에서는 우크라이나의 반격 속도가 느린 것을 비판했습니다. 그러나 영국군은 D-Day 상륙 이후 노르망디로 진군하는 영국군과 비슷한 진전 속도를 보이고 있습니다. 이제는 우크라이나의 동맹국들이 우리의 지원을 두 배로 늘려야 할 때입니다.

존 힐리 예비 국방장관은 영국의 젤렌스키에 대한 군사적 지원이 EU 동맹국들에 비해 왜소해졌다고 썼습니다. 우리가 푸틴을 물리치고 영국을 방어하는 것을 진지하게 생각한다면 우리는 지원을 두 배로 늘려야 합니다.

우크라이나에 영국 전차 14대만? 우리는 그보다 더 잘해야 합니다 | 존 힐리

우크라이나에 대한 러시아의 공격으로 외국인 구호요원 2명이 사망하고 키예프를 목표로 삼았습니다.
14:00 , 맷 매더스

일요일 우크라이나 동부에서 우크라이나 비정부기구(NGO)와 협력하는 4명의 팀을 태운 밴에 러시아의 포격이 가해졌고, 수십 대의 러시아 드론이 키예프를 표적으로 삼아 최소 1명의 민간인에게 부상을 입혀 일요일 우크라이나 동부에서 2명의 외국 구호요원이 사망한 것으로 알려졌다.

최전방 지역에서 부상자들을 대피시키는 데 도움을 주는 로드 투 릴리프(Road to Relief) 그룹의 자원봉사자 4명은 차시브 야르(Chasiv Yar) 마을 근처에서 포탄에 맞아 밴이 뒤집히면서 밴 안에 갇혀 불이 붙었다고 이 단체는 밝혔습니다. 인스타그램 페이지.

우크라이나에 대한 러시아의 공격으로 외국인 구호요원 2명이 사망하고 키예프를 목표로 삼았습니다.

우크라이나는 러시아가 곧 대규모 동원 운동을 시작할 것이라고 말했습니다.
13:47 , 엘레노어 노이스

우크라이나 군은 월요일 러시아가 러시아 내부와 우크라이나를 점령한 곳에서 수십만 명의 군인을 모집하기 위해 곧 대규모 동원 캠페인을 시작할 수 있다고 말했습니다.

우크라이나 참모진은 성명에서 자신의 주장을 뒷받침할 어떤 증거도 제시하지 않았습니다. 러시아 관리들은 현재 새로운 동원 계획은 없으며 모스크바는 전문 군인 모집에 초점을 맞추고 있다고 말했습니다.

참모부는 전장 검거에서 “점령자들의 엄청난 손실로 인해 러시아 연방과 일시적으로 우크라이나 영토를 점령한 인구의 대규모 강제 동원이 예상된다”고 말했다.

동원 캠페인은 다양한 추정치를 인용해 40만~70만 명의 신병을 대상으로 할 수 있다고 말했습니다.

모스크바와 상트페테르부르크에서 모집되는 러시아인의 수는 “최소”로 유지될 것이며, 러시아인들은 러시아의 두 대도시 이외의 지역에서 크게 끌려갈 것이라고 말했습니다.

참모부는 우크라이나 군 고위 정보원이 현재 우크라이나 내에 42만 명의 러시아 군인이 있다고 밝힌 지 며칠 만에 성명을 발표했습니다.

러시아와 우크라이나는 모두 전장에서의 손실을 국가기밀로 취급합니다.

지난달 뉴욕타임스는 익명의 미국 관리들의 말을 인용해 2022년 2월 러시아의 전면적인 침공 이후 우크라이나와 러시아군 약 50만 명이 사망하거나 부상을 입었다고 말했습니다.

ICYMI: G20 정상회담은 ‘가족 사진’ 없이 끝나고 우크라이나 선언에 대한 비판
13:40 , 매트 매더스

인도에서 열린 G20 정상회담은 러시아의 우크라이나 침공과 관련해 정상들이 발표한 공동 선언문에 사용된 희석된 언어에 대해 일부 위원들이 의문을 제기하면서 평소의 ‘가족 사진’ 없이 끝났습니다.

대부분의 지도자들은 야무나강 유역에 있는 마하트마 간디의 추모비에서 그에게 경의를 표한 뒤 이날 오전 델리를 떠났습니다. 세계 최대 경제국 간의 단결을 상징하는 관례적인 단체 사진의 부재는 우크라이나 전쟁에 여전히 깊은 분열이 남아 있다는 사실을 보여줍니다.

Shweta Sharma는 다음과 같이 보고합니다.

G20 정상회담은 ‘가족사진’ 없이 마무리, 완화된 선언 비판

독일, 우크라이나에 2천만 유로 추가 지원 제공 – 키예프의 Baerbock
13:23 , 엘레노어 노이스

독일은 우크라이나에 추가로 2,000만 유로(2,144만 달러)의 인도적 지원을 제공할 것이라고 Annalena Baerbock 외무장관이 월요일 키예프를 방문하는 동안 말했습니다.

추가 원조로 인해 올해 독일의 총액은 3억 8천만 유로가 될 것이라고 장관은 말했습니다.

Baerbock은 또한 러시아가 올 가을과 겨울에 다시 우크라이나의 에너지 시설을 표적으로 삼을 것이라고 경고했습니다. “러시아의 배신적인 목표는 이번 겨울에 국민을 다시 굶어 얼어 죽게 만드는 것입니다.”

우크라이나는 항구를 보호하기 위해 더 많은 방공망이 필요합니다 – FM
13:20 , 매트 매더스

우크라이나 외무장관은 월요일 키예프에서 독일 외무장관과 대공방어 공급에 대해 논의했으며 우크라이나는 곡물 수출을 보장하기 위해 러시아 공습으로부터 항구를 보호하기 위해 더 많은 시스템이 필요하다고 말했습니다.

Dmytro Kuleba는 또한 베를린에게 가능한 한 빨리 타우루스 미사일을 우크라이나로 보낼 것을 촉구했습니다.

그는 키예프에서 열린 기자회견에서 “어쨌든 그렇게 할 것”이라며 “시간 문제일 뿐인데 우리가 왜 시간을 낭비하는지 모르겠다”고 말했다.

우크라이나 외무장관 Dmytro Kuleba와 미국 국무장관 Antony Blinken(AFP 또는 라이센스 제공자)
우크라이나 외무장관 Dmytro Kuleba와 미국 국무장관 Antony Blinken(AFP 또는 라이센스 제공자)
러시아는 러시아인들이 EU에 자동차와 일부 상품을 반입하는 것을 금지하는 것은 인종차별적이라고 말했습니다.
12:46, 매트 매더스

러시아는 월요일 유럽연합이 러시아인의 자동차와 일부 개인 물품 반입을 금지하는 것은 인종차별적이라고 밝혔으며 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령의 한 동맹국은 이에 대응하여 모든 외교관계를 단절해야 한다고 제안했습니다.

유럽연합 집행위원회는 우크라이나 전쟁에 부과된 제재 규정에 대한 설명문에서 러시아인들이 EU 27개국으로 일부 개인 물품이나 차량을 반입하는 것이 일시적으로 금지되었다고 밝혔습니다.

조언에 언급된 부록에서는 화장품, 치약, 탈취제, 화장지, 휴대폰 등 일상적인 품목과 함께 이중 용도로 사용될 수 있는 다양한 품목의 수입을 금지하는 것으로 보입니다.

러시아 외무부 대변인 마리아 자카로바는 위원회의 조언에 대해 “그것은 단지 인종차별일 뿐이다”라고 말했다. “이것은 순수하고 단순한 인종차별이다.”

러시아 외무부 대변인 마리아 자하로바(TASS Host Photo Agency/AFP via G)
러시아 외무부 대변인 마리아 자하로바(TASS Host Photo Agency/AFP via G)
크렘린궁과 북한, 김정은 방문 확인
12:28, 매트 매더스

러시아와 북한이 김정은 북한 국무위원장의 러시아 방문을 월요일 확인했다.

크렘린궁 웹사이트에는 김 위원장의 방문이 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령의 초청으로 이뤄졌으며 “수일 내에” 이뤄질 것이라는 간략한 성명이 나와 있습니다.

북한 관영매체인 조선중앙통신은 이번 방문이 푸틴 대통령과 만날 것이라고 보도하기도 했다.

러시아 확장 무기고 (저작권 2019 AP 통신. 모든 권리 보유)
러시아 확장 무기고 (저작권 2019 AP 통신. 모든 권리 보유)
11:56, 매트 매더스

우크라이나 군인, 교환 희망 위해 쓰러진 러시아인 위해 ‘죽음의 길’ 탐색

우크라이나 군인들은 전사한 동료들과 교환하기 위해 죽은 러시아 군대의 시신을 수색하는 방법에 대해 끔찍한 세부 사항을 말했습니다.

안면 마스크를 쓴 우크라이나 군인들은 황량한 시골길을 따라 덤불에 막대기를 찔렀습니다. 이 길은 우크라이나 군대가 블라호다트네 남동부 마을을 탈환했을 때 그곳에서 많은 러시아 군인들이 사망한 이후 이 길을 ‘죽음의 길’이라고 명명했습니다. 6월의 반격.

3개월 후, 최전선은 남쪽으로 이동했고 마침내 3인으로 구성된 우크라이나 군인 팀이 도네츠크 지역의 해방된 지역에서 작전을 시작할 수 있을 만큼 충분히 안전해졌습니다.

멀리서 포격이 터지자 50세 해병 볼로디미르가 “우리는 수색에 나설 것”이라고 말했다. “눈으로 검색하세요. 그리고 냄새를 이용해요.”

파일사진: 우크라이나 제3독립돌격여단 병사가 바흐무트 인근 APC를 배경으로 바라보고 있다. (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
파일사진: 우크라이나 제3독립돌격여단 병사가 바흐무트 인근 APC를 배경으로 바라보고 있다. (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
러시아, 흑해 곡물 거래 탈퇴로 ‘많은 사람들’이 굶주릴 위험
11:34, 매트 매더스

러시아의 흑해 곡물 계획 탈퇴로 인해 “더 많은” 사람들이 기아의 위험에 처하게 되었다고 유엔 인권 고등판무관이 밝혔습니다.

폴커 터키(Volker Türk)는 월요일 스위스 제네바에서 열린 인권이사회 회의 개막식에서 연설했습니다.

그는 “1년 반 동안의 끔찍한 전쟁으로 인해 우크라이나는 국민들에게 가슴 아픈 피해를 입히고 광대한 농경지에 피해를 입혔다”고 말했다.

“7월 러시아 연방의 흑해 곡물 이니셔티브 탈퇴와 오데사 및 기타 지역의 곡물 시설에 대한 공격으로 인해 많은 개발도상국의 가격이 다시 하늘 높이 치솟게 되었으며, 이는 많은 사람들이 식량에 대한 권리를 누릴 수 없게 되었습니다.”

과테말라오누(AP)
과테말라오누(AP)
푸틴, 동방경제포럼 참석 위해 블라디보스토크 도착 – 국영 TV
10:59, 매트 매더스

러시아 국영 TV에 따르면 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령이 동방경제포럼 회의를 위해 블라디보스토크에 도착했다고 크렘린궁 대변인 드미트리 페스코프가 밝혔다.

러시아는 극동 지역의 투자를 유치하기 위해 2015년부터 포럼을 주최해 왔습니다. 포럼에 대표단을 보내는 국가로는 중국, 미얀마, 몽골, 인도, 아르메니아 및 한국이 있습니다.

올해 행사는 극동연방대학교(FEFU) 캠퍼스에서 진행됩니다.

“동방경제포럼은 러시아 및 글로벌 투자 커뮤니티 내 관계를 구축 및 강화하고 러시아 극동 지역의 경제적 잠재력, 그것이 제공하는 투자 기회 및 선진국 내 비즈니스 조건에 대한 종합적인 전문가 평가를 위한 핵심 국제 플랫폼입니다. 특별 경제 구역”이라고 웹 사이트에 나와 있습니다.

극동연방대학교 (REUTERS)
극동연방대학교(REUTERS)

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우크라이나, 크리미아 인근 해상 시추 플랫폼 탈환 – 군사 정보
10:27 , 맷 매더스

우크라이나 군 정보국은 월요일 우크라이나군이 크림반도 인근 해상 시추 플랫폼 여러 대에 대한 통제권을 되찾았다고 밝혔습니다.

텔레그램 메시징 앱에서는 키예프군이 “독특한 작전”으로 ‘보이코 타워’로 알려진 시추 플랫폼을 탈환했다고 밝혔습니다.

이 플랫폼은 2014년 크림 반도를 점령하고 합병한 러시아가 2015년부터 점유해 왔으며, 2022년 2월 러시아의 우크라이나에 대한 전면적인 침공이 시작된 이후 모스크바가 군사 목적으로 사용해왔다고 밝혔다.

G20 참석차 브라질 방문 시 푸틴 대통령 체포 여부는 사법부에 달려 있다 – 룰라
10:01, 맷 매더스

루이스 이나시우 룰라 다 실바 브라질 대통령은 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령이 내년 G20 정상회담을 위해 방문할 경우 그를 체포할지 여부는 국가 사법부에 달려 있다고 말했습니다.

룰라는 올해 G20 정상회담에 참석하고 있던 뉴델리에서 기자들에게 “푸틴 대통령이 합류하기로 결정한다면 결정하는 것은 우리 정부가 아니라 사법부의 권한”이라고 말했다.

그는 인도 뉴스 매체인 Firstpost와의 카메라 인터뷰에서 “나는 푸틴 대통령이 브라질로 쉽게 갈 수 있다고 믿는다”고 말했다.

“내가 말할 수 있는 것은 내가 브라질 대통령이고 그가 브라질에 온다면 그가 체포될 가능성은 없다는 것입니다.”

루이스 이나시오 룰라 다 실바 브라질 대통령과 로산겔라 다 실바 영부인(저작권 2023 AP통신. 모든 권리 보유)
루이스 이나시오 룰라 다 실바 브라질 대통령과 로산겔라 다 실바 영부인(저작권 2023 AP통신. 모든 권리 보유)
김정은 위원장 ‘러시아로 가다’
09:27, 맷 매더스

김정은 북한 국무위원장을 태운 것으로 추정되는 북한 열차가 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 대통령과의 회담을 위해 러시아로 출발했다고 한국 언론이 월요일 밝혔다.

조선일보는 신원 미상의 한국 정부 소식통을 인용해 열차가 일요일 저녁 북한 수도 평양을 출발했을 가능성이 높으며 이르면 화요일 김-푸틴 회담이 가능하다고 보도했습니다.

연합뉴스와 일부 언론도 비슷한 보도를 내놨다. 국정원은 이런 내용을 즉각 확인하지 않았다.

미국 관리들은 지난 주 북한과 러시아가 미국과의 대립이 심화되는 상황에서 협력을 확대하기 위해 이달 안에 지도자 간 회담을 주선하고 있다는 정보를 공개했습니다.

러시아 무기고 확장
러시아 무기고 확장
G20 정상회담, ‘가족사진’ 없이 종료…우크라이나 선언에 대한 비판
09:03, 맷 매더스

인도에서 열린 G20 정상회담은 러시아의 우크라이나 침공과 관련해 정상들이 발표한 공동 선언문에 사용된 희석된 언어에 대해 일부 위원들이 의문을 제기하면서 평소의 ‘가족 사진’ 없이 끝났습니다.

대부분의 지도자들은 야무나강 유역에 있는 마하트마 간디의 추모비에서 그에게 경의를 표한 뒤 이날 오전 델리를 떠났습니다. 세계 최대 경제국 간의 단결을 상징하는 관례적인 단체 사진의 부재는 우크라이나 전쟁에 여전히 깊은 분열이 남아 있다는 사실을 보여줍니다.

Shweta Sharma는 다음과 같이 보고합니다.

G20 정상회담은 ‘가족사진’ 없이 마무리, 완화된 선언 비판

젤렌스키, 도네츠크에서 사망한 구호요원들에게 경의를 표하다
08:41 , 맷 매더스

볼로디미르 젤렌스키는 어제 도네츠크에서 러시아 대전차 미사일이 자원 봉사 밴을 공격한 후 구호 활동가들에게 경의를 표했습니다.

이 사건으로 캐나다인 앤서니 이그나트(Anthony Ignat)가 사망했으며 스페인의 엠마 이구알(Emma Igual)도 사망했을 가능성이 높다고 우크라이나 대통령이 말했다.

독일 시민 마윅 루벤(Mawick Ruben)과 스웨덴 시민 요한 마티아스(Johan Mathias) 등 다른 자원봉사자 2명이 심각한 부상을 입어 드니프로 병원에서 치료를 받고 있다.

젤렌스키 총리는 텔레그램을 통해 “이번 러시아 포격은 인간의 생명을 진정으로 소중히 여기고 테러를 막고 악을 물리치는 것이 인류의 공통된 도덕적 의무라고 믿는 전 세계 모든 사람에게 우크라이나와의 전쟁이 얼마나 가까이 다가왔는지 다시 한 번 확인시켜준다”고 말했다.

(Ritzau Scanpix/AFP, Getty Ima 경유)
(Ritzau Scanpix/AFP, Getty Ima 경유)
우크라이나의 위치는 EU에 있다고 키예프 주재 독일 외무장관이 밝혔습니다.
08:22 , 마리암 자키르-후세인

아날레나 베어보크 독일 외무장관은 월요일 아침 전투 중인 국가의 수도 키예프를 방문하는 동안 우크라이나의 위치는 유럽연합에 있다고 강조했습니다.

성명서에 따르면 베어복은 도착하자마자 “우크라이나는 러시아 전쟁의 필연적인 지정학적 결과로서 EU 확대에 대한 우리와 우리의 이해에 의존할 수 있다”고 말했다.

우크라이나는 이미 후보 자격을 갖고 있다고 Baerbock은 말했습니다. “그리고 이제 우리는 EU 가입 협상 개시에 대한 결정을 준비하고 있습니다.”

사법 개혁과 미디어 입법에 있어서 우크라이나의 개혁 결과는 이미 인상적이라고 그녀는 말했습니다.

그러나 반과두제법 시행과 부패 척결에는 아직 갈 길이 멀다고 외무장관은 덧붙였다.

방문은 Baerbock의 f입니다.

2022년 2월 우크라이나 전쟁이 발발한 이후 이번이 처음이다.

푸틴, 산업 인력에 타격으로 연말까지 42만명 채용 – 영국 국방부
08:03 , 아르판라이

러시아군은 2023년 말까지 42만명의 계약 인력을 모집할 계획이라고 영국 국방부가 오늘 밝혔으며, 이것이 러시아 산업 인력에 부정적인 영향을 미칠 것이라고 경고했습니다.

9월 3일 러시아 안보리 부의장 디미트리 메드베데프는 지금까지 28만명의 인력이 모집됐다고 밝혔으며 그 숫자는 확인할 수 없다고 덧붙였다.

“러시아의 징집은 산업 인력에 계속해서 부정적인 영향을 미치고 있습니다. 예고르 가이다르 경제정책 연구소는 2023년 7월 러시아 산업의 근로자 부족률이 2023년 4월보다 7% 증가한 42%라는 새로운 최고치를 기록했다고 밝혔습니다.

다른 곳의 징병 노력과 달리 러시아 IT 부문은 인력을 보존하기 위한 조치를 취했다고 덧붙였습니다. “이는 2022년에 약 10만 명의 IT 근로자가 러시아를 떠난 이후 이 분야의 특히 심각한 부족을 강조하는 것 같습니다.”라고 말했습니다.

“이는 IT 부문 인력의 10%에 해당합니다. 2023년 9월 4일, 푸틴 대통령은 IT 전문가의 군대 모집 면제 연령을 27세에서 30세로 늘리는 법령에 서명했습니다.

“이는 러시아 내 동원과 징병이 비국방 인력 부족을 악화시켰다는 것을 보여줍니다. 2024년 3월로 예정된 러시아 대통령 선거를 앞두고 러시아 당국은 인기 없는 동원을 피하기 위해 노력할 가능성이 높다”고 국방부는 최신 정보 업데이트에서 밝혔다.

우크라이나군, 도네츠크와 남부 진격에 ‘천둥같은 돌격작전’
07:21 , 아르판라이

우크라이나군은 러시아의 지속적인 침공의 중심지인 동부 도네츠크 지역의 여러 지역과 남부에서 승리를 거두었다고 관리들이 어제 말했습니다.

아브디브카(Avdiivka) 최전선 마을 근처의 우크라이나군은 한 구역에 집중하는 러시아군을 이용하여 도시 남쪽 오피트네(Opytne) 마을의 일부를 점령했다고 현지 군청장이 말했습니다.

Vitaliy Barabash는 국영 TV에 “제 생각에는 이것이 매우 중요합니다.”라고 말했습니다. “솔직히 적군은 이 남쪽 방향을 조금 간과했습니다.”

그는 이번 진격을 “천둥같은 공격 작전”이라고 불렀으며 정착지에서 전투가 진행 중이라고 말했습니다.

주요 코크스 공장이 있는 아브디브카(Avdiivka)는 수개월 동안 거의 끊임없는 러시아의 공격을 받아왔습니다.

우크라이나 군대의 참모진은 바흐무트 근처에서 성공을 거두었다고 보고했습니다.

저녁 보고서에서 총참모는 바흐무트 남쪽 고지대에 위치한 마을인 클리시치브카(Klishchiivka) 근처에서 “공격 작전의 결과 부분적인 성공”을 보고했는데, 이는 마을 탈환에 중요한 것으로 간주됩니다.

보고서는 또한 지난달 말에 점령한 정착지인 로보타인 근처에서 러시아가 점령한 지역을 거쳐 아조프 해까지 남쪽으로 이동하는 과정에서 성공의 척도를 설명했습니다.

미 재무장관, G20의 우크라이나 관련 성명 부인
06:56 , 아르판라이

재닛 옐런 미국 재무장관은 지난 주말 발표된 델리 선언에서 우크라이나에 대한 러시아의 공격을 직접적으로 언급하지 않은 G20의 우크라이나에 대한 입장을 수그러들었다는 사실을 부인했습니다.

옐런 총리는 성명을 “실질적으로 매우 강력하다”며 “미국은 이 표현이 어떤 식으로든 우크라이나에 대한 G20의 입장을 약화시키는 것으로 보지 않는다”고 말했다.

“분명히 미국과 다른 나라를 만족시킬 수 있는 언어를 찾는 것이 어려웠지만 우리는 강한 언어, 실질적으로 강한 언어를 원한다고 느꼈고 이는 실질적으로 매우 강력했습니다.”라고 그녀는 Financial Times에 말했습니다.

우크라이나는 “G20은 우크라이나에 대한 러시아의 공격에 대해 자랑스러워할 것이 없다”며 공동성명을 거부했다.

Zelensky는 우크라이나가 큰 돌파구를 찾을 수 있다고 제안했습니다. ‘그들은 달릴 것입니다’
05:21 , 아르판라이

어제 발표된 The Economist와의 인터뷰에서 Volodymyr Zelensky는 우크라이나의 사기를 유지하려면 꾸준한 진전이 필수적이라고 말했습니다.

“의욕을 높게 유지하는 것이 중요합니다. 이것이 바로 최전선에서 제한된 진전이라도 필수적인 이유입니다.”라고 Zelensky 씨는 간행물에 말했습니다.

“이제 움직임이 생겼습니다. 그것은 중요하다”고 간행물은 그의 말을 인용했다.

“우리가 그들을 남쪽에서 밀면 그들은 도망칠 것입니다.”라고 그는 우크라이나의 악명 높은 습한 가을 날씨가 시작되어 전장 이동을 더욱 어렵게 만들기 전에 여전히 큰 돌파구가 올 수 있음을 암시했습니다.

우크라이나는 반격 초기 단계에서 초기 손실을 입은 후 자포리자 지역에서 러시아의 3개 주요 방어선 중 첫 번째를 해체하는 데 어느 정도 성공했습니다.

젤렌스키 총리는 승리가 “내일이나 모레”에 오지 않을 것이라고 덧붙였습니다. 젤렌스키 총리는 러시아군이 “많은 사람”을 잃고 있다고 말하면서 침공국은 우크라이나의 진격을 막기 위해 예비군을 재배치해야 했다고 덧붙였다.

“그것은 그들이 졌다는 것을 의미한다”고 그는 말했다.

젤렌스키는 군대가 남쪽으로 진군하고 동쪽으로 이동한다고 말했습니다.
04:17 , 아르판라이

볼로디미르 제

렌스키는 러시아 점령군에 대한 반격을 가하는 우크라이나군이 지난 주 남부 전선으로 진격했으며 동부 바흐무트 근처에서도 움직임이 있었다고 말했습니다.

“지난 7일 동안 우리는 타브리아(남부) 부문에서 진전을 이루었습니다”라고 Zelensky 씨는 야간 비디오 연설에서 말했습니다.

“바흐무트 부문에 움직임이 있습니다. 예, 움직임이 있습니다.”

그는 우크라이나군이 러시아의 주요 공격 거점 근처에 있는 아브디프카(Avdiivka)와 마린카(Maryinka), 그리고 더 북쪽으로 진격하려는 러시아의 시도를 받고 있는 리만(Lyman)과 쿠피안스크(Kupiansk) 등 동쪽의 다른 전선에서 자신의 입지를 유지하고 있다고 덧붙였습니다.

전시 대통령의 최근 논평은 비록 미미하더라도 동부와 남부에서 성과가 있었다는 다른 관료들의 평가를 확증해 줍니다.

아브디브카(Avdiivka) 인근 지역 군 행정부 수장은 우크라이나군이 도시 남쪽 오피트네(Opytne) 마을 일부를 진격해 점령하기 위해 한 구역에 집중하는 러시아군을 이용했다고 말했습니다.

러시아 벨고로드 지역 근처에서 드론 2대가 격추됐다.
03:55 , 아르판라이

러시아 국방부는 오늘 새벽 벨고로드 지역 상공에서 두 대의 드론을 격추했다고 텔레그램 채널을 통해 밝혔으며, 우크라이나의 공격을 저지했다고 주장했다.

벨고로드 주지사 뱌체슬라프 글라드코프(Vyacheslav Gladkov)에 따르면 드론 잔해가 야코블레프스키(Yakovlevsky) 지역 도로에 떨어진 후 즉각적인 부상은 보고되지 않았다.

ICYMI: 러시아 공습으로 외국 구호요원 사망
03:00 , 리디아 패트릭

자선단체는 직원 4명이 바흐무트 지역에서 일제 사격을 당한 민간인에게 다가가려다가 러시아 포탄에 맞았음을 확인했습니다.

Road to Relief 대변인에 따르면 그들의 차량은 러시아의 공격을 받아 밴에 불이 붙고 뒤집어졌다고 합니다. 독일 의료 자원 봉사자 Ruben Mawick, 스웨덴 자원 봉사자 Johan Mathias Thyr, 캐나다 자원 봉사자 Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat, 스페인 자원 봉사자 및 Road to Relief 차량에는 구호 책임자 엠마 이구알(Emma Igual)이 모두 타고 있었다. 자선단체에 따르면 루벤과 요한은 파편 부상과 화상 등 중상을 입었지만 현재는 안정된 상태다.

안타깝게도 Tonko는 사망한 것으로 확인되었으며, Emma의 행방을 추적할 수 없기 때문에 Emma의 현재 상태는 아직 알려지지 않았습니다.

젤렌스키, 서방에 우크라이나 지원 유지 촉구
02:00 , 리디아 패트릭

우크라이나 대통령은 키예프가 반격에 돌입한 지 3개월 만에 ‘온건한’ 진전을 이루면서 유럽인들은 장기전을 준비해야 한다고 말했습니다.

The Economist와의 인터뷰에서 지도자는 키예프가 ‘적당한’ 이익을 얻음에 따라 서방 지도자들 사이에서 사기가 변화하는 것처럼 보인다고 표현했습니다.

젤렌스키는 서방이 우크라이나와의 연대를 지속할 것을 촉구했다(UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER)
젤렌스키는 서방이 우크라이나와의 연대를 지속할 것을 촉구했다(UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER)
The Economist와의 대화에서 그는 다음과 같이 말했습니다. 저는 그들의 눈을 읽고 듣고 보고 [그들이 말할 때] ‘우리는 항상 당신과 함께 있을 것입니다’라고 직관했습니다.

“하지만 그 사람은 여기 없고 우리와 함께 있는 것 같아요.”

전직 TV 배우는 서구 경제 지원의 중요성을 알고 있습니다.

젤렌스키 총리는 “우크라이나가 아니면 러시아가 되고, 러시아가 아니면 우크라이나가 된다”고 덧붙였다. 그리고 파트너가 우리를 돕지 않는다면 이는 그들이 러시아가 승리하도록 도울 것임을 의미합니다. 그게 다야.”

ICYMI: 러시아, 키예프에 밤새 드론 공격 실시
01:00 , 리디아 패트릭

러시아는 일요일 일찍 키예프에 공습을 가했으며 우크라이나 수도와 그 지역 전역에서 거의 2시간 동안 폭발이 울려 퍼지고 드론 잔해가 도시의 여러 중앙 지역에 떨어졌다고 우크라이나 관리들이 말했습니다.

우크라이나 육군은 우크라이나의 방공 시스템이 러시아가 발사한 이란산 샤헤드 드론 32대 중 25대를 파괴했다고 밝혔는데, 이들 드론 중 대부분은 키예프와 키예프 지역을 표적으로 삼았습니다.

로이터의 목격자들은 키예프 전역에서 최소 5번의 폭발음을 들었고 우크라이나 언론 영상에는 다수의 차량이 파손된 모습이 담겨 있었습니다.

키예프 시 군사청장인 세르히 포프코(Serhiy Popko)는 텔레그램 메시지 앱을 통해 “드론이 여러 방향에서 집단으로 수도에 상륙했다”고 말했다.

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푸틴의 드론이 키예프에 쏟아졌다(로이터)
푸틴의 드론이 키예프에 쏟아졌다(로이터)
키예프 파업에서 사망한 자원봉사자들을 위한 추모 물결
2023년 9월 11일 월요일 00:00 , Lydia Patrick

오늘 아침 포탄이 밴에 부딪쳐 불이 붙고 뒤집어지면서 두 명의 외국 구호요원이 사망했습니다.

Candian Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat는 공격으로 목숨을 잃은 자원봉사자 중 한 명이었습니다.

그가 이전에 일했던 단체인 Paracrew Humanitarian Aid는 페이스북을 통해 슬픔을 공유했습니다.

“그분의 동정심, 공감, 강인함은 영원히 우리 모두에게 영감이 될 것입니다. 그리고 우리는 가능한 모든 방법으로 우크라이나를 돕기 위해 노력함으로써 그의 기억을 생생하게 유지할 것입니다. 사랑하는 친구여, 편히 쉬세요.”

러시아 공습으로 NGO 이사 사망
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 23:00 , Lydia Patrick

34세 스페인 인도주의 활동가가 러시아 공격의 희생자 중 한 명으로 지명되었습니다.

오늘 아침에 키예프에 있어요.

Emma Igual은 우크라이나 민간인을 돕기 위해 2022년 3월에 창설된 우크라이나 등록 인도주의 NGO인 Road to Relief의 이사였습니다.

자선단체의 주요 목적은 민간인을 대피시키고 인도주의적 지원과 이동 의료 서비스를 제공하는 것입니다.

허프 포스트에 따르면 그녀는 다른 사람들을 돕기 위해 평생을 바쳤으며 이전에는 모로코 케냐에서 자원 봉사 활동을 수행한 적이 있습니다. 그리스와 미얀마.

젤렌스키 “키예프가 승리하면 반격에 큰 돌파구가 있을 수 있다”
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 22:00 , Lydia Patrick

볼로디미르 젤렌스키 대통령은 우크라이나군이 남쪽 전선으로 진격해 동쪽 바흐무트 근처로 이동했다고 발표했다.

젤렌스키는 야간 영상 연설에서 “지난 7일 동안 우리는 타브리아(남부) 부문에서 진전을 이루었습니다”라고 말했습니다.

3개월 간의 반격 상태에 대한 Zelenskiy의 최근 발언은 동부와 남부(EPA)에서 비록 미미하더라도 이득에 대한 다른 관리들의 평가를 확인하는 것으로 보입니다.
3개월 간의 반격 상태에 대한 Zelenskiy의 최근 발언은 동부와 남부(EPA)에서 비록 미미하더라도 이득에 대한 다른 관리들의 평가를 확인하는 것으로 보입니다.
“바흐무트 부문에 움직임이 있습니다. 예, 움직임이 있습니다.”

젤렌스키는 우크라이나군이 동쪽의 다른 전선, 즉 러시아의 주요 공격 지점 근처에 있는 아브디프카와 마린카, 그리고 더 북쪽으로 진격하려는 러시아의 리만과 쿠피안스크 등 다른 전선에서 자신들의 입지를 유지하고 있다고 말했습니다.

아브디브카(Avdiivka) 인근 지역 군 행정부 수장은 우크라이나군이 도시 남쪽 오피트네(Opytne) 마을 일부를 진격해 점령하기 위해 한 구역에 집중하는 러시아군을 이용했다고 말했습니다.

Vitaliy Barabash는 국영 TV에 “제 생각에는 이것이 매우 중요합니다.”라고 말했습니다. “솔직히 적군은 이 남쪽 방향을 조금 간과했습니다.”

젤렌스키와 다른 관리들은 반격에는 시간이 필요하다고 말하면서 전술적 오류로 인해 너무 느리게 진행되고 있다는 서방 언론의 비판을 일축했다.

젤렌스키 총리는 일요일 발표된 이코노미스트와의 인터뷰에서 사기를 유지하려면 꾸준한 발전이 필수적이라고 말했다.

그는 앞으로 큰 돌파구가 있을 수 있다고 제안했습니다.

G20 정상회담은 ‘가족사진’으로 끝나지 않는다
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 21:00 , Lydia Patrick

이번 일요일 G20 정상회담은 일부 회원국들이 러시아의 누락과 성명서에 사용된 ‘신중한’ 언어에 대해 의문을 제기하면서 평소처럼 조화로운 방식으로 끝나지 않았습니다.

이전 선언문 초안에는 러시아에 관해 더 강한 표현이 포함된 것으로 알려졌으나, 협상에 참여한 유럽연합 고위 관리는 일요일 정상회담 장소에서 기자들에게 다음과 같이 말했습니다. 그들은 완화된 버전에 동의하지 않았습니다.

관계자는 “우크라이나가 가장 논란이 많은 문제였다. 합의를 찾기 위해 매우 다른 입장이 테이블 위에 있었지만 인도의 대통령이었고 우리는 합의를 믿었기 때문에 그것을 받아들여야 했습니다.”

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G20 정상회담은 ‘가족사진’ 없이 마무리, 완화된 선언 비판

러시아 장군 “우크라이나는 유럽 나머지 지역으로 가는 디딤돌”
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 20:00 , Lydia Patrick

안드레이 모르드비체프(Andrey Mordvichev) 장군은 러시아 국영 TV와의 TV 인터뷰에서 우크라이나가 나머지 동유럽의 시작일 뿐이라고 경고했습니다.

그는 또한 참석자에게 전쟁이 매우 오랫동안 지속될 것으로 예상한다고 말했습니다.

뉴스위크(Newsweek)에 보도된 바와 같이 모르드비체프는 이렇게 말했습니다. “아직 쓸 시간이 많이 있다고 생각합니다. 특정 기간에 대해 이야기하는 것은 의미가 없습니다. 물론 동유럽에 관해 이야기해야 한다면 시간이 더 길어질 것입니다.”

면접관은 우크라이나가 단지 디딤돌에 불과한지 물었습니다.

그는 이렇게 대답했습니다. “그렇습니다. 물론이죠. 이제 시작일 뿐입니다.”

미 국무장관, 비판에도 불구하고 G20 성명 수용 결정 옹호
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 19:30 , 리디아 패트릭

앤서니 블링켄(Anthony Blinken)은 우크라이나가 그 성명이 러시아를 비난하기에 충분하지 않다는 불만 속에서 정상회담 선언에 동의하기로 한 미국의 결정을 옹호했습니다.

ABC의 이번 주 인터뷰에서 그는 이렇게 말했습니다. “오늘 모든 지도자들이 바이든 대통령과 대화를 나눌 때 나는 그 방에 있었는데 그들이 말한 모든 것에서 그들은 이 전쟁이 끝나는 것을 보고 싶을 뿐만 아니라 그들이 원하는 것이 매우 분명했습니다. 정의롭고 지속 가능한 조건으로 전쟁이 끝나는 것을 확인했으며 러시아의 침략의 결과가 G20 국가와 개발도상국 전체에서 느껴지고 있다는 것도 매우 분명했습니다.”

Blinken은 “G20이 하나가 되어 말하는 것이 매우 중요하다고 생각합니다.”라고 덧붙였습니다.

우크라이나 외무부 장관 올렉 니콜른코(Oleg Nikolnko)는 성명에서 사용된 언어가 러시아를 비난할 만큼 충분하지 않다고 말했습니다.

Blinken은 정기적으로 소셜 미디어에서 우크라이나에 대한 지원을 약속합니다.

러시아가 우크라이나의 군사 전술에 능숙해지고 있다고 군사정보국장이 밝혔습니다.
9월 10일 일요일

2023년 18:30 , 리디아 패트릭

우크라이나 군사정보국장 키릴로 부다노프(Kyrylo Budanov)는 어젯밤 키예프에서 열린 얄타 유럽 전략 포럼에서 연설했습니다.

우크라이나와 국제 정책 입안자들이 모여 전쟁의 진행 상황을 논의했습니다.

The Guardian에 보고된 바와 같이 Budanov는 다음과 같이 말했습니다.

창의성과 유연성 측면에서 우리는 여전히 우위를 점하고 있으며 다소 구식입니다. 그러나 그들은 적응하고 있고, 전술을 바꾸고, 힘을 사용하는 방식을 바꾸려고 노력하고 있습니다. 그들은 비참하게 전략에 실패했지만, 그들의 전술은 어느 정도 개선되었습니다.

그들은 드론의 대량 사용으로 전환했습니다. 전쟁 전에는 드론의 중요성을 이해하지 못했지만 이제는 우리를 많이 적응시키고 모방하고 있습니다.

키릴로 부다노프

ICYMI: 우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인, 양손이 묶인 채 물 속에서 숨진 채 발견
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 18:00 , Lydia Patrick

우크라이나에서 싸운 영국 남성이 양손이 뒤로 묶인 채 수역에서 숨진 채 발견됐다고 그의 가족이 밝혔다.

2022년 10월 초 우크라이나를 여행한 조던 채드윅(31세)은 국제군단에서 싸우고 있었다.

Joe로 알려진 Chadwick 씨는 Lancashire의 Burnley 출신이었습니다. 그는 2011년부터 2015년까지 영국군에서 스코틀랜드 근위대로 복무했습니다.

그의 어머니 브렌다 채드윅은 BBC에 아들의 죽음으로 가족이 “완전히 망연자실했다”고 말했다.

그녀는 “우리는 그의 흔들리지 않는 용기와 회복력을 매우 자랑스럽게 생각하지만 그의 죽음은 충격적이었다”고 말했다.

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우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인이 양손이 묶인 채 물에 빠져 숨진 채 발견됐다.

ICYMI: 우크라이나는 G20 정상회담 선언에 ‘자랑할 것이 없다’고 말했습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 17:00 , Lydia Patrick

우크라이나 외무부는 G20 공동선언에서 러시아에 대한 언급을 생략한 것에 대해 강력히 비난하고 자체적으로 수정된 버전을 내놓았습니다.

G20 회원국들은 토요일 합의에 이르렀지만 러시아-우크라이나 분쟁에 대해서는 지난해 문서와 비교해 언어에 눈에 띄는 차이가 있었다.

모스크바의 침공을 비난하기 위해 강한 언어를 사용하기를 열망하는 유럽 국가들 사이에는 의견 차이가 있었지만 러시아와 중국은 전쟁에 대한 어떠한 언급도 받아들이지 않았습니다.

니콜렌코는 이렇게 말했습니다.

모스크바, 우크라이나 점령지역에서 지방선거 실시
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 16:15 , 리디아 패트릭

러시아 당국은 우크라이나 점령 지역에서 진행되는 지방 선거에서 투표를 방해하려는 여러 시도를 보고했습니다.

이번 주말 러시아의 79개 지역에서 주지사, 지역 입법부, 시의회, 시의회 투표가 포함되어 있으며 지난해 모스크바가 불법 합병한 우크라이나 4개 지역인 도네츠크, 헤르손, 루한스크, 자포리자 지역에서도 투표가 진행됩니다. 2014년 크렘린이 합병한 크림반도.

키예프와 서방은 우크라이나 점령 지역에서 투표하는 것은 국제법을 위반하는 것이라고 말했습니다.

일요일 러시아 선거 관리들은 키예프에 충성하는 게릴라 세력이 이전에 친 모스크바 관리들을 살해하고 다리를 폭파했으며 주요 목표를 식별하여 우크라이나 군대를 도왔던 점령 지역에서 투표를 방해하려는 시도를 보고했습니다.

일요일 이른 시간에 드론 공격으로 자포리지아 지방의 한 투표소가 파괴되었다고 러시아 중앙선거관리위원회 니콜라이 불라예프 부위원장이 기자들에게 말했습니다. 그는 공격 당시 역에 직원이 없었다고 말했습니다.

러시아가 임명한 이웃 헤르손 지역의 한 관리는 토요일 그곳 투표소 근처에서 실제 수류탄이 발견되었다고 말했습니다. 마리나 자카로바(Marina Zakharova)는 수류탄이 역 밖의 덤불 속에 숨겨져 있었으며 긴급 구조대가 수류탄을 처리하는 동안 투표를 중단해야 했다고 말했습니다.

지역 주민들과 우크라이나 활동가들은 러시아 여론 조사원들이 무장 군인들과 함께 두 지방 모두에서 집에 전화를 걸어 투표를 거부하는 사람들을 구금하고 형사 사건의 근거로 사용될 수 있는 “설명문”을 작성하도록 압력을 가하고 있다고 주장했습니다.

러시아 모스크바에서 열린 모스크바 시장 선거 중 한 노인 여성이 투표소에서 투표하고 있다(모스크바 통신)
러시아 모스크바에서 열린 모스크바 시장 선거 중 한 노인 여성이 투표소에서 투표하고 있다(모스크바 통신)
ICYMI: 러시아는 탄약 보충을 위해 오랜 동맹국인 북한으로 눈을 돌렸습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 15:42 , 리디아 패트릭

러시아의 보급품은 우크라이나에서 1년 반 동안 전투를 벌인 끝에 고갈되고 있으며, 그들은 김정은에게 눈을 돌리고 있습니다.

고립된 아시아 국가는 러시아 군대를 도울 수 있는 수천만 개의 포탄과 로켓을 보유하고 있는 것으로 알려져 있습니다.

미국 관리들은 북한 지도자 김정은이 앞으로 며칠 안에 러시아를 방문해 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령과 군수품 이전에 관한 협상을 성사시킬 것으로 예상하고 있습니다.

카네기 러시아 유라시아 센터의 알렉산더 가부예프 소장은 “우리는 세르게이 쇼이구 러시아 국방장관이 최근 포탄을 주로 방문했다는 것을 알고 있으며 이는 푸틴 대통령과 푸틴 대통령 사이에서 논의될 가능성이 높다”고 말했다.

그리고 김정은.”

2023년 7월 세르게이 쇼이구 러시아 국방장관이 북한을 방문했는데, 이는 1991년 소련 붕괴 이후 처음으로 북한을 방문한 러시아 국방장관이다.

크렘린궁은 무기 거래의 성격에 대해 논평을 거부했지만 드미트리 페스코프 대변인은 두 사람의 긴밀한 유대관계를 밝혔습니다.

그는 “북한은 우리의 이웃”이라며 “다른 나라의 의견을 돌아보지 않고 관계를 더욱 발전시켜 나가겠다”고 말했다.

여기에서 전체 내용을 읽어보세요.

러시아는 우크라이나 전쟁에 필요한 무기고를 재보급하기 위해 오랜 동맹국인 북한에 눈을 돌리고 있다.

러시아 “모든 조건 충족되면 곡물 거래 재개할 것”
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 15:02 , Tara Cobham

러시아는 자체 곡물과 비료를 세계 시장에 수출하기 위한 모스크바의 조건이 충족되면 “같은 날” 흑해 곡물 거래에 복귀할 것이라고 세르게이 라브로프 외무장관이 일요일 기자들에게 말했습니다.

러시아는 유엔과 터키의 중재를 받은 지 1년 뒤인 7월 자국의 식량과 비료 수출이 장애물에 직면했고, 부족한 우크라이나 곡물이 도움이 필요한 국가에 전달되지 않는다고 불평하며 협정을 종료했습니다.

“곡물과 비료 수출에 대한 장애물을 제거하기 위해 필요한 모든 조치가 이행되면 같은 날 우리는 ‘흑해 이니셔티브’의 우크라이나 부분을 공동으로 이행할 것입니다.”라고 Lavrov는 두 차례 회의에 참석한 후 브리핑에서 말했습니다. 뉴델리에서 G20 정상회담이 열렸습니다.

미 육군 참모총장 “키예프 공세 30일밖에 남지 않았다”
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 14:34 , Tara Cobham

키예프가 모스크바에 대한 반격을 30일밖에 남길 수 없다고 미군 수뇌부는 우려하고 있습니다.

마크 밀리 장군은 우크라이나의 악천후로 인해 공격이 방해되기까지 약 30~45일밖에 남지 않았으며, BBC의 Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg에 비가 오면 “기동하기가 매우 어려워질 것”이라고 말했습니다.

루크 오라일리는 다음과 같이 보고합니다.

우크라이나, 날씨로 인해 공격이 어려워질 때까지 약 45일 남았습니다 – 미 육군 참모총장

요약: 머스크는 우크라이나 드론 공격을 저지했다고 인정해 분노를 촉발했습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 13:30 , Tara Cobham

일론 머스크(Elon Musk)는 우크라이나의 스타링크 위성 네트워크 사용 허가를 거부한 것이 러시아 해군 함대에 대한 드론 공격을 막으려는 시도였다고 인정했습니다. 큰 자아”.

기술 억만장자의 SpaceX 회사가 운영하는 Starlink 위성 인터넷 서비스는 우크라이나 군대와 러시아의 침공으로 인프라가 황폐화되거나 마비된 지역의 민간인 모두에게 디지털 생명줄 역할을 해왔습니다.

목요일 CNN이 발표한 머스크의 새로운 전기에서 발췌한 내용에 따르면, 머스크가 엔지니어들에게 네트워크를 끄라고 명령한 후 작년에 좌절된 공격 중에 폭발물로 가득 찬 드론이 “연결이 끊어지고 무사히 해변으로 떠내려왔다”고 합니다. 머스크는 러시아가 점령한 크림반도 항구에 대한 공습이 ‘작은 진주만’이 될 것을 우려한 것으로 전해진다. 머스크는 크림 반도에 대한 공격이 핵 대응을 촉발할 것이라고 말한 것으로 알려진 미국 주재 러시아 대사와 통화한 후 그의 엔지니어들에게 크림 반도 100km 이내에서 스타링크 방송을 끄라고 명령했다고 합니다. 해안”.

크리스 스티븐슨은 다음과 같이 보고합니다.

엘론 머스크는 러시아 선박에 대한 우크라이나 드론 공격을 저지했다고 인정해 분노를 촉발했다.

러시아, 미국이 공급한 우크라이나 쾌속정을 파괴했다고 주장
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 13:00 , Tara Cobham

러시아 국방부는 일요일 이른 시간에 모스크바군이 앞서 크림반도로 향하던 미국이 공급한 우크라이나 쾌속정 3척을 파괴했다고 밝혔습니다.

해당 주장은 독립적으로 검증될 수 없습니다.

미군 수장은 우크라이나의 여름 공세를 실패로 판단하기에는 너무 이르다고 말했다
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 12:20 , Tara Cobham

우크라이나의 여름 공세가 실패했는지 여부를 말하기에는 너무 이르다고 미군 사령관이 말했습니다.

Mark Milley 장군은 BBC의 Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg와의 인터뷰에서 다음과 같이 말했습니다. “그 공세는 약 90일 전에 시작되었습니다. 계획자들이 예상했던 것보다 느리게 진행되었습니다. 그러나 이것이 클라우제비츠가 종이 위의 전쟁이라고 불렀던 것과 실제 전쟁 사이의 차이입니다.

“그래서 이들은 실제 지뢰밭에서 싸우는 실제 차량에 탄 실제 사람들이고 실제 죽음과 파괴가 있으며 실제 마찰이 있습니다.

“아직 날씨와 싸울 만한 충분한 시간이 30~45일 정도 남아 있습니다.

“그래서 우크라이나인들은 아직 끝나지 않았습니다. 이 전투는 끝나지 않았습니다. 그들은 그들이 달성하려는 전투 부분을 끝내지 않았습니다. 따라서 우리는 이것이 어떻게 끝날지 말하기에는 너무 이르다는 것을 알게 될 것입니다. 그들은 적어도 그들이 계획한 일에서 부분적인 성공을 거두었고 그것이 중요합니다.그리고 나서 비가 올 것입니다.

“그 시점에서는 기동하기가 매우 어려울 것이며, 그 다음에는 깊은 상황에 빠지게 될 것입니다.

겨울. 그리고 그 시점에서 우리는 일이 어디로 가는지 보게 될 것입니다. 하지만 지금으로서는 이번 공격이 실패했다, 실패하지 않았다고 단정하기에는 너무 이르다”고 말했다.

사진: 러시아 드론이 밤새 몇 시간 동안 키예프에 쏟아진다
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 12:18 , Tara Cobham

러시아 드론이 밤새 2시간 동안 키예프에 공습을 가했다(로이터)
러시아 드론이 밤새 2시간 동안 키예프에 공습을 가했다(로이터)
일요일 오전 러시아 드론 공격 중 도시 상공에서 드론 폭발이 목격되고 있다(로이터)
일요일 오전 러시아 드론 공격 중 도시 상공에서 드론 폭발이 목격되고 있다(로이터)
러시아의 우크라이나 미사일 공격으로 외국 구호요원 사망
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 10:56 , Tara Cobham

일요일 우크라이나 동부에서 우크라이나 NGO에서 일하는 4명의 팀을 태운 밴에 러시아의 포격이 가해 두 명의 외국 구호요원이 사망한 것으로 알려졌습니다.

최전방 지역에서 부상자들을 대피시키는 데 도움을 주는 Road to Relief NGO의 자원봉사자 4명은 차시브 야르(Chasiv Yar) 마을 근처에서 포탄에 맞아 밴이 뒤집히면서 밴 안에 갇혀 불이 붙었다고 이 단체는 밝혔습니다. 인스타그램 페이지.

Road to Relief는 이번 공격으로 캐나다인 Anthony Ihnat가 사망했으며 독일인 의료 자원봉사자인 Ruben Mawick과 스웨덴 자원봉사자인 Johan Mathias Tyr가 심각한 부상을 입었다고 말했습니다.

조직은 밴의 네 번째 승객이자 조직의 이사였던 스페인 국적의 Emma Igual의 행방을 추적할 수 없다고 덧붙였습니다. 몇 시간 후, 호세 마누엘 알바레스 스페인 외무장관 대행은 스페인 언론에 마드리드 당국이 32세의 이구알의 사망에 대해 ‘구두 확인’을 받았다고 말했습니다.

자원봉사자들은 지난 5월 모스크바에 함락되기 전 전쟁에서 가장 길고 가장 치열한 전투를 벌였던 동부 마을과 관련하여 바흐무트 외곽의 민간인의 필요를 평가하기 위해 가고 있었다고 Road to Relief는 말했습니다. 우크라이나군은 바흐무트 서부 교외 지역을 장악하고 해당 지역에서 반격을 가하고 있습니다.

해당 조직의 이사였던 스페인 국적의 엠마 이구알(Emma Igual)이 러시아의 미사일 공격으로 사망했다고 한다 (사프린 시카제 / Road to Relief)
해당 조직의 이사였던 스페인 국적의 엠마 이구알(Emma Igual)이 러시아의 미사일 공격으로 사망했다고 한다 (사프린 시카제 / Road to Relief)
4명의 자원봉사자들은 최전선에서 부상자들을 대피시키는 일을 돕는 NGO인 Road to Relief 소속이었습니다. (Saphryn Shikaze / Road to Relief)
4명의 자원봉사자들은 최전선에서 부상자들을 대피시키는 일을 돕는 NGO인 Road to Relief 소속이었습니다. (Saphryn Shikaze / Road to Relief)
러시아 전역에서 지방선거가 실시되지만 우크라이나는 ‘의제에 포함되지 않음’
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 10:12 , Tara Cobham

러시아에서는 이번 주말 79개 지역에서 지방선거가 시작됐으며, 유권자들은 주지사, 지방의회, 시의회, 시의회에 투표하고 있다.

러시아 당국은 지난해 모스크바가 불법 합병한 우크라이나 4개 지역(도네츠크, 헤르손, 루한스크, 자포리지아 주)에서도 지방선거를 실시하고 있다. 연방 및 지방 의원을 선출하는 투표는 크렘린이 2014년에 합병한 크림 반도에서도 진행되고 있습니다. 우크라이나 점령 지역에서 투표하는 것은 키예프와 서방에 의해 가짜이며 국제법 위반이라고 비난되었습니다.

모스크바에서는 세르게이 소뱌닌 시장의 자리가 공석이지만 그는 다시 재선에 출마하고 있으며 모든 경쟁자가 크렘린이 지원하는 정당에서 나오는 경주에서 패할 가능성은 낮습니다. 소비야닌은 2010년 시장으로 임명된 후 두 차례 시장 선거에서 승리했습니다. 2013년에는 현재 투옥된 야당 지도자 알렉세이 나발니(Alexei Navalny)가 자신에 맞서 출마했음에도 불구하고, 2018년에는 시장 선거에서 승리했습니다. 올해에는 다른 20개 러시아 지역의 주지사들도 공직 경쟁을 벌이고 있습니다.

러시아 전역에서 지방선거가 실시되지만 우크라이나는 ‘의제에 포함되지 않는다’

한국, 우크라이나에 20억 달러 추가 지원 약속
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 09:26, Tara Cobham

윤석열 대통령은 20일(현지시간) 우크라이나에 내년에 약속한 3억 달러에 이어 2025년부터 장기적으로 20억 달러를 추가 지원하겠다고 밝혔다고 연합뉴스가 보도했다.

윤 위원장은 인도 뉴델리에서 열린 G20 정상회의에서 이같이 밝혔습니다.

우크라이나, 러시아가 키예프에 밤새 드론 공격 개시
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 08:03 , Tara Cobham

러시아는 일요일 오전 키예프에 공습을 가했으며 우크라이나 수도와 그 지역 전역에서 거의 2시간 동안 폭발이 울려 퍼지고 드론 잔해가 도시의 여러 중앙 지역에 떨어졌다고 우크라이나 관리들이 말했습니다.

우크라이나 육군은 우크라이나의 방공 시스템이 러시아가 발사한 이란산 샤헤드 드론 32대 중 25대를 파괴했다고 밝혔는데, 이들 중 대부분은 키예프와 키예프 지역을 표적으로 삼았습니다.

로이터의 목격자들은 키예프 전역에서 최소 5번의 폭발음을 들었고 우크라이나 언론 영상에는 다수의 차량이 파손된 모습이 담겨 있었습니다.

키예프시 군사행정청장인 세르히 포프코(Serhiy Popko)는 텔레그램 메시지 앱을 통해 “드론이 여러 방향에서 집단으로 수도에 상륙했다”고 말했다.

키예프 시장 비탈리 클리츠코는 역사적인 포딜 지역에서 한 명이 부상을 입었고 도시의 공원 중 한 곳 근처에서 화재가 발생했다고 말했습니다.

추락한 드론의 잔해가 Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi 및 Podil 지역에 떨어졌다고 Klitschko와 시 군사 행정부가 말했습니다.

셰브첸키브스키(Shevchenkivskyi) 지역의 한 아파트에서 드론 잔해로 인해 화재가 발생했으나 화재는 빠르게 진화됐다. Popko는 Telegram 메시징 앱을 통해 부상에 대한 즉각적인 보고는 없다고 말했습니다.

이번 공격에 대해 러시아는 즉각적인 언급을 하지 않았다. 모스크바는 우크라이나 영토에 대해 거의 야간 공격을 가해 왔습니다. 우크라이나 관리들은 수요일 동부 코스티안티니프카에서 러시아의 공격으로 17명이 사망했다고 밝혔습니다.

일요일 러시아의 공격 가운데 키예프에서 러시아의 드론 공격 중에 드론의 폭발이 목격되었습니다 (로이터)
일요일 러시아의 공격 가운데 키예프에서 러시아의 드론 공격 중에 드론의 폭발이 목격되었습니다 (로이터)
러시아가 군수품 보충을 위해 고립된 북한으로 눈을 돌리고 있음을 나타내는 징후
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 07:12 , Anuj Pant

러시아의 군사 무기고는 이제 1년 반 동안 우크라이나를 침공하는 가운데 고립된 북한에 의지할 만큼 고갈되었습니다.

보도에 따르면 장갑열차를 타고 북한에 도착할 수 있는 북한 독재자 김정은의 참석을 볼 수 있는 지역 정상회담이 일요일에 한국에서 개최될 예정입니다.

이번 방문은 러시아가 침공으로 인해 자원이 고갈된 상황에서 의미가 크다. 그리고 AP통신이 인용한 추정에 따르면 북한은 러시아군에 엄청난 전력을 공급할 수 있는 수천만 발의 포탄과 로켓을 보유하고 있는 것으로 나타났습니다.

미국 관리들은 1950년대 한국전쟁 당시 소련이 북한에 무기를 공급했던 것과는 현저하게 반전되어 김 위원장이 며칠 안에 러시아에 군수품을 이전하는 계약을 체결할 것으로 예상했다고 말했습니다.

알렉산더 가부에프 카네기 러시아 유라시아 센터 소장은 “우리는 최근 세르게이 쇼이구 러시아 국방장관이 포탄을 주로 방문했다는 것을 알고 있으며 이는 푸틴 대통령과 김정은 사이에 논의될 가능성이 높다”고 말했다고 로이터통신이 전했다. AP 통신.

ICYMI: Elon Musk는 푸틴 해군 함대에 대한 우크라이나 드론 공격을 저지했다고 인정하여 분노를 촉발했습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 06:58, Anuj Pant

일론 머스크(Elon Musk)는 우크라이나의 스타링크 위성 네트워크 사용 허가를 거부한 것이 러시아 해군 함대에 대한 드론 공격을 막으려는 시도였다고 인정했습니다. 큰 자아”.

기술 억만장자의 SpaceX 회사가 운영하는 Starlink 위성 인터넷 서비스는 우크라이나 군대와 러시아의 침공으로 인프라가 황폐화되거나 마비된 지역의 민간인 모두에게 디지털 생명줄 역할을 해왔습니다.

목요일 CNN이 발표한 머스크의 새로운 전기에서 발췌한 내용에 따르면, 머스크가 엔지니어들에게 네트워크를 끄라고 명령한 후 작년에 좌절된 공격 중에 폭발물로 가득 찬 드론이 “연결이 끊어지고 무사히 해변으로 떠내려왔다”고 합니다.

머스크는 러시아가 점령한 크림반도 항구에 대한 공습이 ‘작은 진주만’이 될 것을 우려한 것으로 전해진다.

머스크는 크림 반도에 대한 공격이 핵 대응을 촉발할 것이라고 말한 것으로 알려진 미국 주재 러시아 대사와 통화한 후 그의 엔지니어들에게 크림 반도 100km 이내에서 스타링크 방송을 끄라고 명령했다고 합니다. 해안”.

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엘론 머스크는 러시아 선박에 대한 우크라이나 드론 공격을 저지했다고 인정해 분노를 촉발했다.

러시아, 미얀마 군사정부에 Su-30 전투기 공급
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 06:08, Anuj Pant

미얀마 군부 정부는 러시아 Su-30 전투기의 첫 번째 선적을 받았다고 미얀마 무역 장관이 러시아 국영 언론에 말했습니다.

러시아 국영 RIA에 따르면 러시아와 미얀마는 작년에 Su-30SME 전투기 6대를 납품하는 계약을 체결했습니다.

미얀마 무역부 장관 찰리 탄(Charlie Than)은 국영 통신사에 “이미 두 대의 항공기가 인도됐다”고 말했다.

장관은 블라디보스토크에서 열린 러시아 경제 정상회담과 별도로 연설을 하고 있었습니다. 그는 또한 동방경제포럼에서 양국 간 관광 개발을 포함해 다수의 양자 협정이 체결될 것이라고 말했습니다.

미얀마에서는 2021년 군사 쿠데타를 일으킨 이후 군부가 국가에 대한 지배력을 강화해 왔습니다.

미국은 또한 러시아에게 미얀마 군부 통치자를 지원하지 말라고 경고했으며 러시아의 러시아 무기 공급이 분쟁을 촉발하고 있으며 이는 미얀마에 재앙이 됐다고 말했습니다.

방금 들어옴: 우크라이나는 일요일 일찍 러시아가 발사한 드론 25대를 격추했다고 밝혔습니다.
9월 10일 일요일 2

023 05:47 , 아누즈팬트

블라디미르 푸틴 대통령이 일요일 오전 발사한 드론 32대 중 최소 25대가 익사했다고 우크라이나 육군이 밝혔다.

이번 발표는 키예프가 하룻밤 사이에 공습을 받았고 목격자들이 무려 5번의 폭발음을 들었다고 로이터 통신이 보도한 가운데 나온 것입니다. 공격 규모는 아직 확인되지 않았다.

인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:36 , Anuj Pant

인도는 러시아의 우크라이나 침공에 대한 의미 있는 비난을 대가로 치르면서 이번 주말 G20 정상회담에서 모든 국가의 지지를 받는 뉴델리 선언문을 작성하겠다는 기대를 무시했습니다.

인도 총리 나렌드라 모디(Narendra Modi)는 델리에서 열린 G20 정상회담 첫날 현지 시간 16시 직전에 “좋은 소식”을 발표했습니다. 이는 우크라이나 문제가 초기 성명은 말할 것도 없고, 공동 성명에 대한 합의를 방해하는 것은 더더욱 아닙니다.

우크라이나는 “G20은 우크라이나에 대한 러시아의 공격에 대해 자랑스러워할 것이 없다”며 공동성명을 거부했다.

지난 토요일 인도 외무부가 발표한 37페이지 분량의 선언문 전체에는 우크라이나가 포함되어 있는데, 이 선언문에는 지도자들이 러시아를 직접적으로 언급하지 않은 채 “우크라이나 전쟁이 인간의 고통과 부정적인 부가적 영향을 강조했다”고 적혀 있습니다.

“상황에 대해 서로 다른 견해와 평가가 있었습니다.”라고 절제된 표현으로 덧붙였습니다.

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인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성

ICYMI: 열화우라늄 껍질이란 무엇입니까?
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:30, Anuj Pant

곧 우크라이나의 군비축으로 비축될 열화 우라늄 대전차탄은 계속되는 러시아 침공에서의 사용에 대한 논쟁을 불러일으켰습니다.

미 국방부가 수요일 최신 군사 트렌치에서 발표한 논란의 여지가 있는 이번 라운드는 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령의 장관들 사이에서 다시 한번 확대에 대해 경고한 경각심을 불러일으켰습니다.

영국은 이미 3월에 우크라이나에 열화우라늄이 포함된 철갑탄을 제공하겠다고 약속했습니다. 리시 수낙 총리는 궁극적으로 “주로 러시아의 공격을 저하시키고 억제하기 위해” 영국군 비축물에서 탄약을 꺼내는 것을 지지했습니다.

그러면 이 열화우라늄 탄약은 무엇입니까?

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우크라이나: 열화우라늄탄이란 무엇이며 왜 논란이 됩니까?

러시아, 크림 반도 상공에서 드론 8대 격추 주장
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:15 , Anuj Pant

블라디미르 푸틴 대통령의 국방부는 수도 키예프에서 밤새 드론 공격이 시작됐음에도 불구하고 일요일 이른 시간에 크림 반도 근처 흑해 상공에서 드론 8대를 파괴했다고 주장했습니다.

로이터가 보도한 이 사건은 독립적으로 확인할 수 없었다. 러시아는 우크라이나가 드론을 발사했다고 비난했다.

러시아 국방부는 사상자 발생 여부도 밝히지 않았다. 우크라이나 관리들은 이번 사건에 대해 아직 논평하지 않았다.

푸틴, 밤새 키예프 공습 개시
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 04:48 , Anuj Pant

일요일 아침 키예프에서 공습이 시작되었고 수도 전역에서 폭발음이 들렸습니다. 드론 잔해가 중앙 지역에 떨어졌으며 공격 규모는 아직 확인되지 않았습니다.

키예프 시장 비탈리 클리츠코는 포딜 지역에서 한 명이 부상을 입었고 도시의 공원 중 한 곳 근처에서 화재가 발생했다고 말했습니다.

시 군청과 클리치코 씨에 따르면, 추락한 드론의 잔해는 다르니츠키(Darnytskyi), 솔로미안스키(Solomianskyi), 셰브첸키프스키(Shevchenkivskyi), 스비아토쉰스키(Sviatoshynskyi) 및 포딜(Podil) 지역에 떨어졌다.

이 잔해는 셰브첸키프스키(Shevchenkivskyi) 지역에서도 화재를 촉발시켰으나 당국에 따르면 화재는 즉시 진압됐다.

로이터 통신은 목격자들의 말을 인용해 적어도 5번의 폭발음을 들었다고 말했습니다.

인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 03:00 , Joe Middleton

인도는 러시아의 우크라이나 침공에 대한 의미 있는 비난을 대가로 이번 주말 G20 정상회담에서 모든 국가의 지지를 받는 뉴델리 선언문을 작성하겠다는 기대를 무시했습니다.

인도 총리 나렌드라 모디(Narendra Modi)는 델리에서 열린 G20 정상회담 첫날 현지 시간 16시 직전에 “좋은 소식”을 발표했습니다. 이는 우크라이나 문제가 초기 성명은 말할 것도 없고, 공동 성명에 대한 합의를 방해하는 것은 더더욱 아닙니다.

지난 토요일 인도 외무부가 발표한 37페이지 분량의 선언문 전체에는 우크라이나가 포함되어 있는데, 이 선언문에는 지도자들이 러시아를 직접적으로 언급하지 않은 채 “우크라이나 전쟁이 인간의 고통과 부정적인 부가적 영향을 강조했다”고 적혀 있습니다. “상황에 대해 서로 다른 견해와 평가가 있었습니다.”라고 절제된 표현으로 덧붙였습니다.

인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성

우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인이 양손이 묶인 채 물에 빠져 숨진 채 발견됐다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 02:00 , Joe Middleton

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우크라이나에서 싸운 영국인이 양손이 뒤로 묶인 채 물 속에서 숨진 채 발견됐다고 그의 가족이 밝혔다.

2022년 10월 초 우크라이나를 여행한 조던 채드윅(31세)은 국제군단에서 싸우고 있었다.

그의 어머니 브렌다 채드윅은 BBC에 아들의 죽음으로 가족이 “완전히 망연자실했다”고 말했다.

Joe로 알려진 Chadwick 씨는 Lancashire의 Burnley 출신이었습니다. 그는 2011년부터 2015년까지 영국군에서 스코틀랜드 근위대로 복무했습니다.

우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인이 양손이 묶인 채 물에 빠져 숨진 채 발견됐다.

엘론 머스크는 푸틴 해군 함대에 대한 우크라이나 드론 공격을 저지했다고 인정해 분노를 촉발했다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 01:09 , 리디아 패트릭

Elon Musk는 우크라이나의 Starlink 위성 네트워크 사용 허가를 거부한 것이 러시아 해군 함대에 대한 드론 공격을 방지하려는 시도였다고 인정했습니다.

기술 억만장자의 SpaceX 회사가 운영하는 Starlink 위성 인터넷 서비스는 우크라이나 군대와 민간인 모두에게 디지털 생명선이었습니다.

Elon Musk는 키예프가 자신의 위성 네트워크를 사용하는 것을 거부한 것은 ‘전쟁 행위’에 대한 공모를 피하기 위한 시도라고 말했습니다(Getty Images).
Elon Musk는 키예프가 자신의 위성 네트워크를 사용하는 것을 거부한 것은 ‘전쟁 행위’에 대한 공모를 피하기 위한 시도라고 말했습니다(Getty Images).
억만장자는 이전에 트위터로 알려졌던 소셜 미디어 플랫폼 X의 게시물에서 자신이 해당 지역의 스타링크 네트워크를 껐다는 비난을 부인했지만 크림 반도까지 네트워크를 활성화해 달라는 우크라이나의 요청에는 동의하지 않았다고 말했습니다. 항구 도시 세바스토폴은 현재(당시와 마찬가지로) 러시아가 점령하고 있으며 흑해 함대의 본거지입니다.

“문제의 스타링크 지역이 활성화되지 않았습니다. SpaceX는 아무것도 비활성화하지 않았습니다.”라고 Musk는 말했습니다.

“정부 당국으로부터 세바스토폴까지 스타링크를 활성화해 달라는 긴급 요청이 있었습니다.” 그는 덧붙였습니다. “명백한 의도는 대부분의 러시아 함대를 정박시키려는 것이었습니다. 내가 그들의 요청에 동의했다면 SpaceX는 주요 전쟁 행위와 갈등 확대에 명시적으로 연루되었을 것입니다.”

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인기 메시징 서비스는 러시아의 ‘가짜 뉴스’에 맞서 싸울 것이라고 밝혔습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 00:09 , Lydia Patrick

일본 기술 기업인 라쿠텐 그룹(Rakuten Group)의 창업자는 메시징 서비스인 바이버(Viber)가 ‘다른 소셜 미디어와는 달리’ 러시아 선전 시도를 차단할 것이라고 말했습니다.

미키아니 히로시(Hiroshi Mikiani)는 로이터 통신과의 인터뷰에서 “다른 소셜 미디어와 달리 우리는 러시아의 가짜 뉴스와 선전을 모두 차단할 것임을 분명히 했다”고 말했다.

Viber는 2014년에 라쿠텐 그룹이 인수한 인기 메시징 앱입니다(Getty Images)
Viber는 2014년에 라쿠텐 그룹이 인수한 인기 메시징 앱입니다(Getty Images)
2010년 출시돼 2014년 라쿠텐에 인수된 바이버(Viber)는 우크라이나에서 시장 침투율이 98%에 달하며 러시아에서도 인기가 높다.

이 억만장자 기업가는 이전에 우크라이나를 지지하는 목소리를 냈으며 침공이 시작될 때 우크라이나 정부에 10억 엔(677만 달러)을 기부했습니다.

라쿠텐은 우크라이나 최대 이동통신사인 Kyivstar와 협력하여 소프트웨어를 사용하여 클라우드에서 네트워크 기능을 실행하는 개방형 무선 액세스 네트워크(Open RAN) 통신 기술을 제공할 계획을 발표했습니다. 이는 Mikitani가 미래 기술로 선전한 것입니다.

우크라이나의 반격은 혹독한 겨울 조건을 견딜 수 있을 것이라고 정보국장이 밝혔습니다.
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 22:18 , 리디아 패트릭

러시아군에 대한 키예프의 반격은 혹독한 추위 속에서도 계속될 것이라고 키예프 정보국장이 토요일 말했습니다.

Kyrylo Budanov는 다음과 같이 말했습니다. “전투 활동은 어떤 식으로든 계속될 것입니다. 춥고, 습하고, 진흙에서는 싸우기가 더 어렵습니다. 싸움은 계속될 것이다. 반격은 계속될 것”이라고 말했다.

F-35 전투기에 손수건을 들고 있는 키릴로 부다노프(AP)
F-35 전투기에 손수건을 들고 있는 키릴로 부다노프(AP)
Victor Pinchuk 재단이 주최한 키예프 회의에서 나온 논평은 우크라이나가 올해 말 날씨가 악화되더라도 추진을 중단할 계획이 없음을 나타냅니다.

우크라이나 군사 정보 기관의 관리인 바딤 스키비츠키(Vadym Skibytskyi)는 토요일 오전 러시아가 현재 우크라이나 내에 42만 명의 군인을 보유하고 있다고 말했습니다.

현재 Robotyne과 Verbove 마을을 중심으로 한 남동부 Zaporizhzhia 지역에서의 공격은 러시아 점령군을 남쪽에서 절반으로 나누려는 작전의 중요한 부분으로 간주되지만 그 목표에는 아직 멀었습니다.

부다노프는 “우리의 반격은 여러 방향에서 일어나고 있다”며 자신이 원했던 것보다 진전이 더디었다는 점을 인정하고 상황이 어렵다고 설명했다.

2022년 2월 본격적인 우크라이나 침공을 개시한 러시아는 우크라이나의 반격이 실패했다고 밝혔다.

러시아, 크림반도서 드론 3대 격추
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 20:18 , 리디아 패트릭

러시아 점령 지역과 러시아 내부에 대한 드론 공격

키예프는 모스크바를 최대한 방해함으로써 우크라이나 지상군 블라디미르 푸틴 군대에 대한 반격을 지원하려고 여름 내내 급격히 증가했습니다.

가장 최근의 공습은 러시아 방공군이 크림반도 북서부에서 러시아가 임명한 반도 행정부 수장인 세르게이 악쇼노프(Sergei Aksyonov)의 적 드론 3대를 격추한 토요일에 이루어졌습니다.

리시 수낙(Rishi Sunak)은 G20 지도자들이 러시아의 우크라이나 침공에 대해 “매우 강력한” 공동 메시지를 보내기로 합의했다고 말했습니다.
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 19:20 , Lydia Patrick

영국 총리는 정상회담에서 모든 국가의 지지를 받는 뉴델리 선언에 대한 지지를 표명했습니다.

인도는 역경을 이겨내고 37페이지에 달하는 선언문을 통해 모든 G20 회원국들이 “핵무기 사용이나 사용 위협은 용인될 수 없다”는 점에 동의하도록 할 수 있었습니다.

로이터 통신에 따르면 수낙 씨는 방송사에 다음과 같이 말했습니다. “방금 우리가 공유하게 되어 기쁘게 생각하는 소식은 모디 총리와 인도 대통령 임기 중 G20이 매우 강력한 언어로 공동 성명에 합의했다는 것입니다. 러시아의 우크라이나 불법전쟁.

Rishi Sunak이 행사 중 언론과 인터뷰했습니다(PA).
Rishi Sunak이 행사 중 언론과 인터뷰했습니다(PA).
“성명에서 볼 수 있는 것은 전쟁이 식량 가격과 식량 안보에 미치는 영향을 강조하는 강력한 언어이며, 러시아가 흑해 곡물 이니셔티브에 다시 참여하여 수출이 세계의 일부 지역을 떠나도록 허용하고 도움을 줄 것을 촉구합니다. 수백만 명의 가장 취약한 사람들에게 식량을 공급하고 영토 보전을 존중하는 유엔 헌장의 원칙을 인정하는 성명을 발표합니다.

“그래서 나는 그것이 좋고 강력한 결과라고 생각합니다. 그리고 이번 정상회담에서 볼 수 있듯이 러시아는 완전히 고립돼 있다”고 말했다.

젤렌스키, 일본 외무장관 만나 우크라이나 재건 지지 서약
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 17:00, Rachel Flynn

일본 외무성은 하야시 요시마사 일본 외무상과 볼로디미르 젤렌스키 우크라이나 대통령이 토요일 회담을 갖고 안전 보장에 대한 논의를 시작하고 우크라이나 경제 재건을 위해 협력하기로 합의했다고 일본 외무부가 밝혔습니다.

이번 안보보장 논의는 일본이 회원국인 G7 국가들이 지난 7월 우크라이나와 양자간 안보보장 회담을 시작할 것이라고 밝힌 이후 이뤄졌다.

하야시 요시마사 일본 외무상(왼쪽)이 키예프에서 열린 공동기자회견에서 드미트로 쿨레바 우크라이나 외무상과 악수하고 있다. (Getty Images를 통한 POOL/AFP)
하야시 요시마사 일본 외무상(왼쪽)이 키예프에서 열린 공동기자회견에서 드미트로 쿨레바 우크라이나 외무상과 악수하고 있다. (Getty Images를 통한 POOL/AFP)
하야시 총리는 또 미키타니 히로시 라쿠텐그룹 창업자 겸 최고경영자(CEO) 등 일본 기업 임원들이 동행한 이번 전격 우크라이나 방문에서 우크라이나 경제 재건을 위한 일본 내 공공 및 민간 부문의 지원을 약속했다고 외교부가 밝혔다.

일본은 내년 초 우크라이나 경제재건을 위한 회의를 개최할 예정이다.

하야시 총리는 드미트로 쿨레바 우크라이나 외무장관과의 회담에서 우크라이나에 대한 일본의 확고한 지지와 국제사회의 도움으로 러시아 침공을 종식시키는 것이 시급하다는 점을 거듭 강조할 예정이라고 외무부는 밝혔습니다.

기시다 후미오 일본 총리는 지난 3월 볼로도미르 젤렌스키 우크라이나 대통령을 만나기 위해 키예프를 전격 방문했다.

루마니아, 자국 영토에서 러시아 드론의 새로운 파편 발견
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 16:30 , Rachel Flynn

러시아군이 사용하는 것과 유사한 새로운 드론 파편이 루마니아 땅에서 발견됐다고 국방부가 토요일 밝혔습니다.

루마니아 대통령 클라우스 이오하니스(Klaus Iohannis)는 이는 루마니아 영공에 대한 용납할 수 없는 침해가 발생했음을 의미한다고 말했습니다.

이오하니스는 성명을 통해 옌스 스톨텐베르크 NATO 사무총장에게 이번 주 루마니아 영토에서 두 번째로 추락한 드론 조각에 대해 알렸으며 스톨텐베르크는 루마니아와의 동맹의 완전한 연대를 거듭 강조했다고 말했습니다.

“루마니아 당국이 우크라이나 국경 근처 루마니아 영토에서 새로운 드론 파편을 식별한 것은 나토 국가인 루마니아 영공에 용납할 수 없는 침해가 발생했으며 해당 지역의 루마니아 시민의 안전에 실질적인 위험이 있음을 나타냅니다. “요하니스가 말했다.

나는 우크라이나의 도나우 강 항구에 대한 러시아의 공격으로 인해 발생한 이번 사건을 단호히 규탄합니다.”

루마니아 국경에서 불과 수백 미터 떨어진 우크라이나의 하항에 대한 공격은 상호 방어를 약속하는 회원국인 NATO의 보안 위험을 증가시켰습니다.

미국 국무부는 이번 주 초 루마니아에서 NATO의 항공 치안 임무를 강화하기 위해 미국 F-16 전투기를 추가로 순환 배치할 것이라고 밝혔습니다.

우크라이나, G20 정상회담 선언은 ‘자랑할 일 없다’
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 15:45 , Rachel Flynn

우크라이나 외무부는 토요일 G20의 공동 선언이 “자랑스러울 일이 아니다”라고 말하며 R에 대해 언급하지 않았다고 비난했습니다.

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외무부 대변인 올렉 니콜렌코는 공동 선언문의 관련 부분 스크린샷을 게시했는데, 일부 텍스트에는 빨간색으로 줄이 그어져 있고, 우크라이나는 도발되지 않은 러시아 침략의 희생자라는 우크라이나의 입장을 반영하는 문구로 수정되었습니다.

올렉 니콜렌코 외교부 대변인은 자신의 페이스북에 해당 부분의 스크린샷을 올렸다. (올렉 니콜렌코)
올렉 니콜렌코 외교부 대변인은 자신의 페이스북에 해당 부분의 스크린샷을 올렸다. (올렉 니콜렌코)
그는 페이스북에 “(G20 회의에) 우크라이나 측이 참여했다면 참가자들이 상황을 더 잘 이해할 수 있었을 것이 분명하다”고 썼다.

“텍스트의 주요 요소가 현실에 더 가까워 보일 수 있는 부분은 다음과 같습니다.”라고 그는 덧붙였습니다.

G20 문안 전체에 대한 실망에도 불구하고 니콜렌코는 선언문에서 우크라이나의 입장을 발전시키기 위해 그들의 역할을 다한 우크라이나 동맹국들에게 감사를 표했습니다.

“우크라이나는 본문에 강력한 표현을 포함시키려고 노력한 파트너들에게 감사합니다.”라고 그는 말했습니다.

G20 정상회담 성명은 평화를 촉구하지만 러시아의 우크라이나 전쟁 비난은 피한다
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 14:24, Tara Cobham

G20 국가는 토요일 정상회담에서 우크라이나 전쟁에 대한 러시아의 비난을 피하면서도 모든 국가에 영토 점령을 위한 무력 사용을 자제할 것을 촉구하는 합의 선언을 채택했습니다.

주최국 인도의 나렌드라 모디 총리는 주말 정상회담 첫날 지도자 선언문이 채택됐다고 발표했습니다.

서방 국가들은 앞서 지도자 선언에서 러시아에 대한 강력한 비난을 추진한 반면, 다른 국가들은 보다 광범위한 경제 문제에 초점을 맞출 것을 요구하는 등 우크라이나 전쟁을 두고 그룹이 크게 분열되어 있는 가운데 이러한 합의는 놀라운 일이었습니다.

대부분의 다른 회원들은 즉각적인 반응을 보이지 않았습니다.

선언문은 “우리는 모든 국가가 영토 보전과 주권, 국제인도법, 평화와 안정을 수호하는 다자체제 등 국제법의 원칙을 지킬 것을 촉구한다”고 밝혔다.

“우리는 우크라이나의 포괄적이고 정의로우며 지속적인 평화를 지원하는 모든 관련 있고 건설적인 계획을 환영합니다.

성명은 “핵무기 사용이나 사용 위협은 용인될 수 없다”고 덧붙였다.

러시아, 흑해 곡물 거래 요구 계속 고수
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 11:27 , Tara Cobham

러시아는 지난 7월 중단한 흑해 곡물 거래에 복귀하기 위한 조건을 고수하고 있다고 토요일 밝혔습니다.

특히 크렘린궁 대변인 드미트리 페스코프는 러시아가 국제 SWIFT 은행 결제 시스템에 다시 연결되려면 유엔이 제안한 대로 은행의 자회사가 아닌 국영 농업은행이 필요하다고 말했습니다.

“우리의 모든 조건은 완벽하게 잘 알려져 있습니다. 해석이 필요하지 않으며 완전히 구체적이며 이 모든 것이 절대적으로 달성 가능합니다.”라고 Peskov는 말했습니다. “따라서 러시아는 대통령이 반복적으로 표명한 책임감 있고 명확하며 일관된 입장을 유지하고 있습니다.”

흑해 협정은 전쟁에도 불구하고 우크라이나가 해상으로 곡물을 수출하고 세계 식량 위기를 완화하는 데 도움이 되도록 2022년 7월 터키와 유엔에 의해 중개되었습니다.

이 합의에는 러시아 자체의 식량 및 비료 수출을 촉진하기 위한 합의가 동반되었지만 모스크바는 이행되지 않았다고 밝혔습니다. 곡물 거래를 중단한 이후 러시아는 우크라이나 항구와 곡물 상점을 반복적으로 폭격했으며 키예프와 서방은 러시아가 식량을 무기로 사용하고 있다고 비난했습니다.

모스크바는 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령이 타이이프 에르도안 터키 대통령과 만나 곡물 문제를 논의한 지 5일 만에 타협하지 않는 입장을 재천명했습니다.

러시아는 그 회의에서 우크라이나가 협정 부활을 위한 회담에서 “접근 방식을 완화”하고 유럽보다는 아프리카에 더 많은 곡물을 수출해야 한다는 에르도안의 발언을 통해 격려를 받은 것으로 보입니다. 우크라이나는 자신의 입장을 바꾸지 않을 것이며 “러시아 협박”의 인질이 되지 않을 것이라고 말했습니다.

우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인이 양손이 묶인 채 물에 빠져 숨진 채 발견됐다.
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 10:45 , Tara Cobham

우크라이나에서 싸운 영국 남성이 양손이 뒤로 묶인 채 수역에서 숨진 채 발견됐다고 그의 가족이 밝혔다.

2022년 10월 초 우크라이나를 여행한 조던 채드윅(31세)은 국제군단에서 싸우고 있었다.

그의 어머니 브렌다 채드윅은 BBC에 아들의 죽음으로 가족이 “완전히 망연자실했다”고 말했다.

Joe로 알려진 Chadwick 씨는 Lancashire의 Burnley 출신이었습니다. 그는 2011년부터 2015년까지 영국군에서 스코틀랜드 근위대로 복무했습니다.

레이첼 플린(Rachel Flynn)은 다음과 같이 보고합니다.

우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인이 양손이 묶인 채 물에 빠져 숨진 채 발견됐다.

당 본부가 파괴돼 ‘푸틴군 하루 만에 600명 사망’
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 10:32 , Tara Cobham

키예프에 따르면 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 대통령은 하루 만에 병력 600명을 잃었고 우크라이나에 있는 그의 보수당 본부는 금요일 파괴됐다.

일반 세인트

우크라이나군 관계자는 금요일 모스크바 군인 중 600명이 사망해 2022년 2월 이후 총 사망자 수는 268,140명에 달하는 것으로 추산하고 있습니다.

한편, 멜리토폴 시장에 따르면, 같은 날 러시아가 점령한 우크라이나 도시 폴로히에 있는 통합 러시아 정당 본부가 공격으로 파괴됐다고 키예프 인디펜던트가 보도했습니다.

이반 페도로프는 텔레그램 메시지 앱을 통해 지역 주민들이 “지옥같은 의사선거”로 인해 러시아인들이 본부에 “지쳐버렸다”고 묘사했다고 말했다. 그는 사상자를 언급하며 “일부는 병원으로 갔지만 일부는 곧바로 영안실로 갔다”고 말했다.

IAEA, 자포리자(Zaporizhzhya) 원전 주변의 ‘군사 활동 증가’에 ‘심각한 우려’
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 09:26, Tara Cobham

전문가들은 우크라이나 자포리지야 원자력발전소 주변 지역에서 ‘군사 활동이 증가하는 것’을 ‘깊이 우려’하고 있다.

국제원자력기구(IAEA)는 금요일 “지난 주 동안 수많은 폭발이 발생했다”고 보고했는데, 이는 “현장의 핵 안전과 보안에 잠재적인 위협이 될 수 있다”고 밝혔습니다.

지난 토요일부터 3일 동안 IAEA 팀은 약 20여 차례의 폭발음을 들었고 최근 며칠 동안 여러 차례의 폭발음이 들렸습니다. 하지만 러시아가 점령한 시설 자체에는 피해가 없었습니다.

라파엘 마리아노 그로시 사무총장은 유럽 최대 원자력발전소의 상황이 “아직 매우 위태롭다”고 말했다.

“내가 우리 전문가들로부터 받은 보고서에 따르면 폭발은 Zaporizhzhya 원자력 발전소에서 어느 정도 떨어진 곳에서 발생했다고 합니다.”라고 그는 말했습니다. “그럼에도 불구하고 나는 이 지역의 군사적 긴장이 고조되는 이 시기에 공장이 직면할 수 있는 위험에 대해 여전히 깊은 우려를 갖고 있습니다.

“분쟁 지역에서 무슨 일이 일어나든, 어디서든 모두가 핵사고로 손해를 입게 될 것입니다. 저는 그런 일이 일어나지 않도록 필요한 모든 예방 조치를 취해야 한다고 촉구합니다.”

우크라이나에 참전하러 갔던 영국인이 숨진 채 발견됐다.
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 07:19, Vishwam Sankaran

우크라이나에 참전하러 갔던 31세 영국 남성이 수역에서 숨진 채 발견됐다.

BBC는 랭커셔주 번리 출신 조던 채드윅으로 알려진 이 남성이 우크라이나에서 외국군단의 일원으로 싸웠으며 알 수 없는 상황에서 사망했다고 보도했다.

채드윅의 사망 원인에 대한 조사는 2월에 열릴 것으로 알려졌다.

그의 어머니는 BBC에 “자유를 지지하고 자신의 기술로 다른 사람들을 도우려는 그의 열정으로 인해 그는 2022년 10월 초 영국을 떠나 우크라이나로 여행했습니다.”라고 말했습니다.

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미군 수장은 키예프가 모스크바에 대한 반격을 30일밖에 남지 않았으며 우크라이나에서 러시아의 공격으로 외국 구호요원들이 사망했다고 우려했습니다.

마크 밀리 장군은 우크라이나의 악천후로 인해 공격이 방해되기까지 약 30~45일밖에 남지 않았으며, BBC의 Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg에 비가 오면 “기동하기가 매우 어려워질 것”이라고 말했습니다.

한편, 최전선 지역에서 부상자들을 대피시키는 데 도움을 주는 로드 투 구호(Road to Relief) NGO 자원봉사자 4명이 일요일 동부 우크라이나에서 러시아 포탄에 맞아 밴이 뒤집혀 불이 붙었다고 이 단체가 밝혔습니다. 인스타그램 페이지.

Road to Relief는 이번 공격으로 캐나다인 Anthony Ihnat가 사망했으며 독일인 의료 자원봉사자인 Ruben Mawick과 스웨덴 자원봉사자인 Johan Mathias Tyr가 심각한 부상을 입었다고 말했습니다. 스페인 당국은 나중에 밴의 네 번째 승객이자 조직의 이사였던 스페인 국적의 32세 Emma Igual의 사망을 확인했습니다.

이는 일요일 이른 시간에 2시간 동안 지속된 공습으로 수십 대의 러시아 드론이 키예프에 쏟아져 민간인이 부상을 입힌 후에 나온 것이라고 우크라이나 관리들이 말했습니다.

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러시아의 우크라이나 미사일 공격으로 외국 구호요원 사망

우크라이나, 러시아가 키예프에 밤새 드론 공격 개시

당 본부가 파괴돼 ‘푸틴군 하루 만에 600명 사망’

우크라이나에 참전하러 갔던 영국인이 숨진 채 발견됐다.

IAEA, 자포리자(Zaporizhzhya) 원전 주변의 ‘군사 활동 증가’에 ‘심각한 우려’

푸틴, 동방경제포럼 참석 위해 블라디보스토크 도착 – 국영 TV
10:59, 매트 매더스

러시아 국영 TV에 따르면 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령이 동방경제포럼 회의를 위해 블라디보스토크에 도착했다고 크렘린궁 대변인 드미트리 페스코프가 밝혔다.

러시아는 극동 지역의 투자를 유치하기 위해 2015년부터 포럼을 주최해 왔습니다. 포럼에 대표단을 보내는 국가로는 중국, 미얀마, 몽골, 인도, 아르메니아 및 한국이 있습니다.

올해 행사는 극동연방대학교(FEFU)에서 열립니다.

교정.

“동방경제포럼은 러시아 및 글로벌 투자 커뮤니티 내 관계를 구축 및 강화하고 러시아 극동 지역의 경제적 잠재력, 그것이 제공하는 투자 기회 및 선진국 내 비즈니스 조건에 대한 종합적인 전문가 평가를 위한 핵심 국제 플랫폼입니다. 특별 경제 구역”이라고 웹 사이트에 나와 있습니다.

극동연방대학교 (REUTERS)
극동연방대학교 (REUTERS)
우크라이나, 크리미아 인근 해상 시추 플랫폼 탈환 – 군사 정보
10:27 , 맷 매더스

우크라이나 군 정보국은 월요일 우크라이나군이 크림반도 인근 해상 시추 플랫폼 여러 대에 대한 통제권을 되찾았다고 밝혔습니다.

텔레그램 메시징 앱에서는 키예프군이 “독특한 작전”으로 ‘보이코 타워’로 알려진 시추 플랫폼을 탈환했다고 밝혔습니다.

이 플랫폼은 2014년 크림 반도를 점령하고 합병한 러시아가 2015년부터 점유해 왔으며, 2022년 2월 러시아의 우크라이나에 대한 전면적인 침공이 시작된 이후 모스크바가 군사 목적으로 사용해왔다고 밝혔다.

G20 참석차 브라질 방문 시 푸틴 대통령 체포 여부는 사법부에 달려 있다 – 룰라
10:01, 맷 매더스

루이스 이나시우 룰라 다 실바 브라질 대통령은 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령이 내년 G20 정상회담을 위해 방문할 경우 그를 체포할지 여부는 국가 사법부에 달려 있다고 말했습니다.

룰라는 올해 G20 정상회담에 참석하고 있던 뉴델리에서 기자들에게 “푸틴 대통령이 합류하기로 결정한다면 결정하는 것은 우리 정부가 아니라 사법부의 권한”이라고 말했다.

그는 인도 뉴스 매체인 Firstpost와의 카메라 인터뷰에서 “나는 푸틴 대통령이 브라질로 쉽게 갈 수 있다고 믿는다”고 말했다.

“내가 말할 수 있는 것은 내가 브라질 대통령이고 그가 브라질에 온다면 그가 체포될 가능성은 없다는 것입니다.”

루이스 이나시오 룰라 다 실바 브라질 대통령과 로산겔라 다 실바 영부인(저작권 2023 AP통신. 모든 권리 보유)
루이스 이나시오 룰라 다 실바 브라질 대통령과 로산겔라 다 실바 영부인(저작권 2023 AP통신. 모든 권리 보유)
김정은 위원장 ‘러시아로 가다’
09:27, 맷 매더스

김정은 북한 국무위원장을 태운 것으로 추정되는 북한 열차가 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 대통령과의 회담을 위해 러시아로 출발했다고 한국 언론이 월요일 밝혔다.

조선일보는 신원 미상의 한국 정부 소식통을 인용해 열차가 일요일 저녁 북한 수도 평양을 출발했을 가능성이 높으며 이르면 화요일 김-푸틴 회담이 가능하다고 보도했습니다.

연합뉴스와 일부 언론도 비슷한 보도를 내놨다. 국정원은 이런 내용을 즉각 확인하지 않았다.

미국 관리들은 지난 주 북한과 러시아가 미국과의 대립이 심화되는 상황에서 협력을 확대하기 위해 이달 안에 지도자 간 회담을 주선하고 있다는 정보를 공개했습니다.

러시아 무기고 확장
러시아 무기고 확장
G20 정상회담, ‘가족사진’ 없이 종료…우크라이나 선언에 대한 비판
09:03, 맷 매더스

인도에서 열린 G20 정상회담은 러시아의 우크라이나 침공과 관련해 정상들이 발표한 공동 선언문에 사용된 희석된 언어에 대해 일부 위원들이 의문을 제기하면서 평소의 ‘가족 사진’ 없이 끝났습니다.

대부분의 지도자들은 야무나강 유역에 있는 마하트마 간디의 추모비에서 그에게 경의를 표한 뒤 이날 오전 델리를 떠났습니다. 세계 최대 경제국 간의 단결을 상징하는 관례적인 단체 사진의 부재는 우크라이나 전쟁에 여전히 깊은 분열이 남아 있다는 사실을 보여줍니다.

Shweta Sharma는 다음과 같이 보고합니다.

G20 정상회담은 ‘가족사진’ 없이 마무리, 완화된 선언 비판

젤렌스키, 도네츠크에서 사망한 구호요원들에게 경의를 표하다
08:41 , 맷 매더스

볼로디미르 젤렌스키는 어제 도네츠크에서 러시아 대전차 미사일이 자원 봉사 밴을 공격한 후 구호 활동가들에게 경의를 표했습니다.

이 사건으로 캐나다인 앤서니 이그나트(Anthony Ignat)가 사망했으며 스페인의 엠마 이구알(Emma Igual)도 사망했을 가능성이 높다고 우크라이나 대통령이 말했다.

독일 시민 마윅 루벤(Mawick Ruben)과 스웨덴 시민 요한 마티아스(Johan Mathias) 등 다른 자원봉사자 2명이 심각한 부상을 입어 드니프로 병원에서 치료를 받고 있다.

젤렌스키 총리는 텔레그램을 통해 “이번 러시아 포격은 인간의 생명을 진정으로 소중히 여기고 테러를 막고 악을 물리치는 것이 인류의 공통된 도덕적 의무라고 믿는 전 세계 모든 사람에게 우크라이나와의 전쟁이 얼마나 가까이 다가왔는지 다시 한 번 확인시켜준다”고 말했다.

(Ritzau Scanpix/AFP, Getty Ima 경유)
(Ritzau Scanpix/AFP, Getty Ima 경유)
우크라이나의 위치는 EU에 있다고 키예프 주재 독일 외무장관이 밝혔습니다.
08:22 , 마리암 자키르-후세인

아날레나 베어보크 독일 외무장관은 월요일 아침 전투 중인 국가의 수도 키예프를 방문하는 동안 우크라이나의 위치는 유럽연합에 있다고 강조했습니다.

우크라이나는 “러시아 전쟁의 필연적인 지정학적 결과로서 EU 확대에 대한 우리와 우리의 이해에 의존할 수 있다”고 말했다.

성명에 따르면 도착 시 Baerbock을 지원해야 한다고 합니다.

우크라이나는 이미 후보 자격을 갖고 있다고 Baerbock은 말했습니다. “그리고 이제 우리는 EU 가입 협상 개시에 대한 결정을 준비하고 있습니다.”

사법 개혁과 미디어 입법에 있어서 우크라이나의 개혁 결과는 이미 인상적이라고 그녀는 말했습니다.

그러나 반과두제법 시행과 부패 척결에는 아직 갈 길이 멀다고 외무장관은 덧붙였다.

이번 방문은 2022년 2월 우크라이나 전쟁이 발발한 이후 베어복의 네 번째 방문이다.

푸틴, 산업 인력에 타격으로 연말까지 42만명 채용 – 영국 국방부
08:03 , 아르판라이

러시아군은 2023년 말까지 42만명의 계약 인력을 모집할 계획이라고 영국 국방부가 오늘 밝혔으며, 이것이 러시아 산업 인력에 부정적인 영향을 미칠 것이라고 경고했습니다.

9월 3일 러시아 안보리 부의장 디미트리 메드베데프는 지금까지 28만명의 인력이 모집됐다고 밝혔으며 그 숫자는 확인할 수 없다고 덧붙였다.

“러시아의 징집은 산업 인력에 계속해서 부정적인 영향을 미치고 있습니다. 예고르 가이다르 경제정책 연구소는 2023년 7월 러시아 산업의 근로자 부족률이 2023년 4월보다 7% 증가한 42%라는 새로운 최고치를 기록했다고 밝혔습니다.

다른 곳의 징병 노력과 달리 러시아 IT 부문은 인력을 보존하기 위한 조치를 취했다고 덧붙였습니다. “이는 2022년에 약 10만 명의 IT 근로자가 러시아를 떠난 이후 이 분야의 특히 심각한 부족을 강조하는 것 같습니다.”라고 말했습니다.

“이는 IT 부문 인력의 10%에 해당합니다. 2023년 9월 4일, 푸틴 대통령은 IT 전문가의 군대 모집 면제 연령을 27세에서 30세로 늘리는 법령에 서명했습니다.

“이는 러시아 내 동원과 징병이 비국방 인력 부족을 악화시켰다는 것을 보여줍니다. 2024년 3월로 예정된 러시아 대통령 선거를 앞두고 러시아 당국은 인기 없는 동원을 피하기 위해 노력할 가능성이 높다”고 국방부는 최신 정보 업데이트에서 밝혔다.

우크라이나군, 도네츠크와 남부 진격에 ‘천둥같은 돌격작전’
07:21 , 아르판라이

우크라이나군은 러시아의 지속적인 침공의 중심지인 동부 도네츠크 지역의 여러 지역과 남부에서 승리를 거두었다고 관리들이 어제 말했습니다.

아브디브카(Avdiivka) 최전선 마을 근처의 우크라이나군은 한 구역에 집중하는 러시아군을 이용하여 도시 남쪽 오피트네(Opytne) 마을의 일부를 점령했다고 현지 군청장이 말했습니다.

Vitaliy Barabash는 국영 TV에 “제 생각에는 이것이 매우 중요합니다.”라고 말했습니다. “솔직히 적군은 이 남쪽 방향을 조금 간과했습니다.”

그는 이번 진격을 “천둥같은 공격 작전”이라고 불렀으며 정착지에서 전투가 진행 중이라고 말했습니다.

주요 코크스 공장이 있는 아브디브카(Avdiivka)는 수개월 동안 거의 끊임없는 러시아의 공격을 받아왔습니다.

우크라이나 군대의 참모진은 바흐무트 근처에서 성공을 거두었다고 보고했습니다.

저녁 보고서에서 총참모는 바흐무트 남쪽 고지대에 위치한 마을인 클리시치브카(Klishchiivka) 근처에서 “공격 작전의 결과 부분적인 성공”을 보고했는데, 이는 마을 탈환에 중요한 것으로 간주됩니다.

보고서는 또한 지난달 말에 점령한 정착지인 로보타인 근처에서 러시아가 점령한 지역을 거쳐 아조프 해까지 남쪽으로 이동하는 과정에서 성공의 척도를 설명했습니다.

미 재무장관, G20의 우크라이나 관련 성명 부인
06:56 , 아르판라이

재닛 옐런 미국 재무장관은 지난 주말 발표된 델리 선언에서 우크라이나에 대한 러시아의 공격을 직접적으로 언급하지 않은 G20의 우크라이나에 대한 입장을 수그러들었다는 사실을 부인했습니다.

옐런 총리는 성명을 “실질적으로 매우 강력하다”며 “미국은 이 표현이 어떤 식으로든 우크라이나에 대한 G20의 입장을 약화시키는 것으로 보지 않는다”고 말했다.

“분명히 미국과 다른 나라를 만족시킬 수 있는 언어를 찾는 것이 어려웠지만 우리는 강한 언어, 실질적으로 강한 언어를 원한다고 느꼈고 이는 실질적으로 매우 강력했습니다.”라고 그녀는 Financial Times에 말했습니다.

우크라이나는 “G20은 우크라이나에 대한 러시아의 공격에 대해 자랑스러워할 것이 없다”며 공동성명을 거부했다.

Zelensky는 우크라이나가 큰 돌파구를 찾을 수 있다고 제안했습니다. ‘그들은 달릴 것입니다’
05:21 , 아르판라이

어제 발표된 The Economist와의 인터뷰에서 Volodymyr Zelensky는 우크라이나의 사기를 유지하려면 꾸준한 진전이 필수적이라고 말했습니다.

“의욕을 높게 유지하는 것이 중요합니다. 이것이 바로 최전선에서 제한된 진전이라도 필수적인 이유입니다.”라고 Zelensky 씨는 간행물에 말했습니다.

“이제 움직임이 생겼습니다. 그것은 중요하다”고 간행물은 그의 말을 인용했다.

“우리가 그들을 남쪽에서 밀면 그들은 도망칠 것입니다.”라고 그는 우크라이나의 악명 높은 습한 가을 날씨가 시작되어 전장 이동을 더욱 어렵게 만들기 전에 여전히 큰 돌파구가 올 수 있음을 암시했습니다.

반격 초기 단계에서 초기 손실을 입은 후 Aporizhzhia 지역.

젤렌스키 총리는 승리가 “내일이나 모레”에 오지 않을 것이라고 덧붙였습니다. 젤렌스키 총리는 러시아군이 “많은 사람”을 잃고 있다며 침공국은 우크라이나의 진격을 막기 위해 예비군을 재배치해야 했다고 덧붙였다.

“그것은 그들이 졌다는 것을 의미한다”고 그는 말했다.

젤렌스키는 군대가 남쪽으로 진군하고 동쪽으로 이동한다고 말했습니다.
04:17 , 아르판라이

볼로디미르 젤렌스키는 러시아 점령군에 대한 반격을 가하는 우크라이나군이 지난주 남부 전선으로 진군했으며 동부 바흐무트 근처에서도 움직임이 있었다고 말했습니다.

“지난 7일 동안 우리는 타브리아(남부) 부문에서 진전을 이루었습니다”라고 Zelensky 씨는 야간 비디오 연설에서 말했습니다.

“바흐무트 부문에 움직임이 있습니다. 예, 움직임이 있습니다.”

그는 우크라이나군이 러시아의 주요 공격 거점 근처에 있는 아브디프카(Avdiivka)와 마린카(Maryinka), 그리고 더 북쪽으로 진격하려는 러시아의 시도를 받고 있는 리만(Lyman)과 쿠피안스크(Kupiansk) 등 동쪽의 다른 전선에서 자신의 입지를 유지하고 있다고 덧붙였습니다.

전시 대통령의 최근 논평은 비록 미미하더라도 동부와 남부에서 성과가 있었다는 다른 관료들의 평가를 확증해 줍니다.

아브디브카(Avdiivka) 인근 지역 군 행정부 수장은 우크라이나군이 도시 남쪽 오피트네(Opytne) 마을 일부를 진격해 점령하기 위해 한 구역에 집중하는 러시아군을 이용했다고 말했습니다.

러시아 벨고로드 지역 근처에서 드론 2대가 격추됐다.
03:55 , 아르판라이

러시아 국방부는 오늘 새벽 벨고로드 지역 상공에서 두 대의 드론을 격추했다고 텔레그램 채널을 통해 밝혔으며, 우크라이나의 공격을 저지했다고 주장했다.

벨고로드 주지사 뱌체슬라프 글라드코프(Vyacheslav Gladkov)에 따르면 드론 잔해가 야코블레프스키(Yakovlevsky) 지역 도로에 떨어진 후 즉각적인 부상은 보고되지 않았다.

ICYMI: 러시아 공습으로 외국 구호요원 사망
03:00 , 리디아 패트릭

자선단체는 직원 4명이 바흐무트 지역에서 일제 사격을 당한 민간인에게 다가가려다가 러시아 포탄에 맞았음을 확인했습니다.

Road to Relief 대변인에 따르면 그들의 차량은 러시아의 공격을 받아 밴에 불이 붙고 뒤집어졌다고 합니다. 독일 의료 자원 봉사자 Ruben Mawick, 스웨덴 자원 봉사자 Johan Mathias Thyr, 캐나다 자원 봉사자 Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat, 스페인 자원 봉사자 및 Road to Relief 차량에는 구호 책임자 엠마 이구알(Emma Igual)이 모두 타고 있었다. 자선단체에 따르면 루벤과 요한은 파편 부상과 화상 등 중상을 입었지만 현재는 안정된 상태다.

안타깝게도 Tonko는 사망한 것으로 확인되었으며, Emma의 행방을 추적할 수 없기 때문에 Emma의 현재 상태는 아직 알려지지 않았습니다.

젤렌스키, 서방에 우크라이나 지원 유지 촉구
02:00 , 리디아 패트릭

우크라이나 대통령은 키예프가 반격에 돌입한 지 3개월 만에 ‘온건한’ 진전을 이루면서 유럽인들은 장기전을 준비해야 한다고 말했습니다.

The Economist와의 인터뷰에서 지도자는 키예프가 ‘적당한’ 이익을 얻음에 따라 서방 지도자들 사이에서 사기가 변화하는 것처럼 보인다고 표현했습니다.

젤렌스키는 서방이 우크라이나와의 연대를 지속할 것을 촉구했다(UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER)
젤렌스키는 서방이 우크라이나와의 연대를 지속할 것을 촉구했다(UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER)
The Economist와의 대화에서 그는 다음과 같이 말했습니다. 저는 그들의 눈을 읽고 듣고 보고 [그들이 말할 때] ‘우리는 항상 당신과 함께 있을 것입니다’라고 직관했습니다.

“하지만 그 사람은 여기 없고 우리와 함께 있는 것 같아요.”

전직 TV 배우는 서구 경제 지원의 중요성을 알고 있습니다.

젤렌스키 총리는 “우크라이나가 아니면 러시아가 되고, 러시아가 아니면 우크라이나가 된다”고 덧붙였다. 그리고 파트너가 우리를 돕지 않는다면 이는 그들이 러시아가 승리하도록 도울 것임을 의미합니다. 그게 다야.”

ICYMI: 러시아, 키예프에 밤새 드론 공격 실시
01:00 , 리디아 패트릭

러시아는 일요일 일찍 키예프에 공습을 가했으며 우크라이나 수도와 그 지역 전역에서 거의 2시간 동안 폭발이 울려 퍼지고 드론 잔해가 도시의 여러 중앙 지역에 떨어졌다고 우크라이나 관리들이 말했습니다.

우크라이나 육군은 우크라이나의 방공 시스템이 러시아가 발사한 이란산 샤헤드 드론 32대 중 25대를 파괴했다고 밝혔는데, 이들 드론 중 대부분은 키예프와 키예프 지역을 표적으로 삼았습니다.

로이터의 목격자들은 키예프 전역에서 최소 5번의 폭발음을 들었고 우크라이나 언론 영상에는 다수의 차량이 파손된 모습이 담겨 있었습니다.

키예프 시 군사청장인 세르히 포프코(Serhiy Popko)는 텔레그램 메시지 앱을 통해 “드론이 여러 방향에서 집단으로 수도에 상륙했다”고 말했다.

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푸틴의 드론이 키예프에 쏟아졌다(로이터)
푸틴의 드론이 키예프에 쏟아졌다(로이터)
키예프 파업에서 사망한 자원봉사자들을 위한 추모 물결
2023년 9월 11일 월요일 00:00 , Lydia Patrick

오늘 아침 포탄이 밴에 부딪쳐 불이 붙고 뒤집어지면서 두 명의 외국 구호요원이 사망했습니다.

Candian Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat는 공격으로 목숨을 잃은 자원봉사자 중 한 명이었습니다.

Paracrew Humanitarian Aid, 그가 조직한 조직

이전에는 Facebook에서 슬픔을 공유하기 위해 일했습니다.

“그분의 동정심, 공감, 강인함은 영원히 우리 모두에게 영감이 될 것입니다. 그리고 우리는 가능한 모든 방법으로 우크라이나를 돕기 위해 노력함으로써 그의 기억을 생생하게 유지할 것입니다. 사랑하는 친구여, 편히 쉬세요.”

러시아 공습으로 NGO 이사 사망
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 23:00 , Lydia Patrick

34세의 스페인 인도주의 활동가가 오늘 아침 키예프에서 발생한 러시아 공격의 희생자 중 한 명으로 지명되었습니다.

Emma Igual은 우크라이나 민간인을 돕기 위해 2022년 3월에 창설된 우크라이나 등록 인도주의 NGO인 Road to Relief의 이사였습니다.

자선단체의 주요 목적은 민간인을 대피시키고 인도주의적 지원과 이동 의료 서비스를 제공하는 것입니다.

허프 포스트에 따르면 그녀는 다른 사람들을 돕기 위해 평생을 바쳤으며 이전에는 모로코 케냐에서 자원 봉사 활동을 수행한 적이 있습니다. 그리스와 미얀마.

젤렌스키 “키예프가 승리하면 반격에 큰 돌파구가 있을 수 있다”
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 22:00 , Lydia Patrick

볼로디미르 젤렌스키 대통령은 우크라이나군이 남쪽 전선으로 진격해 동쪽 바흐무트 근처로 이동했다고 발표했다.

젤렌스키는 야간 영상 연설에서 “지난 7일 동안 우리는 타브리아(남부) 부문에서 진전을 이루었습니다”라고 말했습니다.

3개월 간의 반격 상태에 대한 Zelenskiy의 최근 발언은 동부와 남부(EPA)에서 비록 미미하더라도 이득에 대한 다른 관리들의 평가를 확인하는 것으로 보입니다.
3개월 간의 반격 상태에 대한 Zelenskiy의 최근 발언은 동부와 남부(EPA)에서 비록 미미하더라도 이득에 대한 다른 관리들의 평가를 확인하는 것으로 보입니다.
“바흐무트 부문에 움직임이 있습니다. 예, 움직임이 있습니다.”

젤렌스키는 우크라이나군이 동쪽의 다른 전선, 즉 러시아의 주요 공격 지점 근처에 있는 아브디프카와 마린카, 그리고 더 북쪽으로 진격하려는 러시아의 리만과 쿠피안스크 등 다른 전선에서 자신들의 입지를 유지하고 있다고 말했습니다.

아브디브카(Avdiivka) 인근 지역 군 행정부 수장은 우크라이나군이 도시 남쪽 오피트네(Opytne) 마을 일부를 진격해 점령하기 위해 한 구역에 집중하는 러시아군을 이용했다고 말했습니다.

Vitaliy Barabash는 국영 TV에 “제 생각에는 이것이 매우 중요합니다.”라고 말했습니다. “솔직히 적군은 이 남쪽 방향을 조금 간과했습니다.”

젤렌스키와 다른 관리들은 반격에는 시간이 필요하다고 말하면서 전술적 오류로 인해 너무 느리게 진행되고 있다는 서방 언론의 비판을 일축했다.

젤렌스키 총리는 일요일 발표된 이코노미스트와의 인터뷰에서 사기를 유지하려면 꾸준한 발전이 필수적이라고 말했다.

그는 앞으로 큰 돌파구가 있을 수 있다고 제안했습니다.

G20 정상회담은 ‘가족사진’으로 끝나지 않는다
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 21:00 , Lydia Patrick

이번 일요일 G20 정상회담은 일부 회원국들이 러시아의 누락과 성명서에 사용된 ‘신중한’ 언어에 대해 의문을 제기하면서 평소처럼 조화로운 방식으로 끝나지 않았습니다.

이전 선언문 초안에는 러시아에 관해 더 강한 표현이 포함된 것으로 알려졌으나, 협상에 참여한 유럽연합 고위 관리는 일요일 정상회담 장소에서 기자들에게 다음과 같이 말했습니다. 그들은 완화된 버전에 동의하지 않았습니다.

관계자는 “우크라이나가 가장 논란이 많은 문제였다. 합의를 찾기 위해 매우 다른 입장이 테이블 위에 있었지만 인도의 대통령이었고 우리는 합의를 믿었기 때문에 그것을 받아들여야 했습니다.”

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G20 정상회담은 ‘가족사진’ 없이 마무리, 완화된 선언 비판

러시아 장군 “우크라이나는 유럽 나머지 지역으로 가는 디딤돌”
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 20:00 , Lydia Patrick

안드레이 모르드비체프(Andrey Mordvichev) 장군은 러시아 국영 TV와의 TV 인터뷰에서 우크라이나가 나머지 동유럽의 시작일 뿐이라고 경고했습니다.

그는 또한 참석자에게 전쟁이 매우 오랫동안 지속될 것으로 예상한다고 말했습니다.

뉴스위크(Newsweek)에 보도된 바와 같이 모르드비체프는 이렇게 말했습니다. “아직 쓸 시간이 많이 있다고 생각합니다. 특정 기간에 대해 이야기하는 것은 의미가 없습니다. 물론 동유럽에 관해 이야기해야 한다면 시간이 더 길어질 것입니다.”

면접관은 우크라이나가 단지 디딤돌에 불과한지 물었습니다.

그는 이렇게 대답했습니다. “그렇습니다. 물론이죠. 이제 시작일 뿐입니다.”

미 국무장관, 비판에도 불구하고 G20 성명 수용 결정 옹호
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 19:30 , 리디아 패트릭

앤서니 블링켄(Anthony Blinken)은 우크라이나가 그 성명이 러시아를 비난하기에 충분하지 않다는 불만 속에서 정상회담 선언에 동의하기로 한 미국의 결정을 옹호했습니다.

ABC의 이번 주 인터뷰에서 그는 이렇게 말했습니다. “오늘 모든 지도자들이 바이든 대통령과 대화를 나눌 때 나는 그 방에 있었는데 그들이 말한 모든 것에서 그들은 이 전쟁이 끝나기를 원할 뿐만 아니라 그들이 원하는 것이 매우 분명했습니다. 정의롭고 지속 가능한 조건으로 그것이 끝나는 것을 볼 수 있었고 러시아의 침략의 결과가 매우 심각하다는 것도 매우 분명했습니다.

G20 국가와 개발도상국 전체에 걸쳐요.”

Blinken은 “G20이 하나가 되어 말하는 것이 매우 중요하다고 생각합니다.”라고 덧붙였습니다.

우크라이나 외무부 장관 올렉 니콜른코(Oleg Nikolnko)는 성명에서 사용된 언어가 러시아를 비난할 만큼 충분하지 않다고 말했습니다.

Blinken은 정기적으로 소셜 미디어에서 우크라이나에 대한 지원을 약속합니다.

러시아가 우크라이나의 군사 전술에 능숙해지고 있다고 군사정보국장이 밝혔습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 18:30 , 리디아 패트릭

우크라이나 군사정보국장 키릴로 부다노프(Kyrylo Budanov)는 어젯밤 키예프에서 열린 얄타 유럽 전략 포럼에서 연설했습니다.

우크라이나와 국제 정책 입안자들이 모여 전쟁의 진행 상황을 논의했습니다.

The Guardian에 보고된 바와 같이 Budanov는 다음과 같이 말했습니다.

창의성과 유연성 측면에서 우리는 여전히 우위를 점하고 있으며 다소 구식입니다. 그러나 그들은 적응하고 있고, 전술을 바꾸고, 힘을 사용하는 방식을 바꾸려고 노력하고 있습니다. 그들은 비참하게 전략에 실패했지만, 그들의 전술은 어느 정도 개선되었습니다.

그들은 드론의 대량 사용으로 전환했습니다. 전쟁 전에는 드론의 중요성을 이해하지 못했지만 이제는 우리를 많이 적응시키고 모방하고 있습니다.

키릴로 부다노프

ICYMI: 우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인, 양손이 묶인 채 물 속에서 숨진 채 발견
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 18:00 , Lydia Patrick

우크라이나에서 싸운 영국 남성이 양손이 뒤로 묶인 채 수역에서 숨진 채 발견됐다고 그의 가족이 밝혔다.

2022년 10월 초 우크라이나를 여행한 조던 채드윅(31세)은 국제군단에서 싸우고 있었다.

Joe로 알려진 Chadwick 씨는 Lancashire의 Burnley 출신이었습니다. 그는 2011년부터 2015년까지 영국군에서 스코틀랜드 근위대로 복무했습니다.

그의 어머니 브렌다 채드윅은 BBC에 아들의 죽음으로 가족이 “완전히 망연자실했다”고 말했다.

그녀는 “우리는 그의 흔들리지 않는 용기와 회복력을 매우 자랑스럽게 생각하지만 그의 죽음은 충격적이었다”고 말했다.

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우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인이 양손이 묶인 채 물에 빠져 숨진 채 발견됐다.

ICYMI: 우크라이나는 G20 정상회담 선언에 ‘자랑할 것이 없다’고 말했습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 17:00 , Lydia Patrick

우크라이나 외무부는 G20 공동선언에서 러시아에 대한 언급을 생략한 것에 대해 강력히 비난하고 자체적으로 수정된 버전을 내놓았습니다.

G20 회원국들은 토요일 합의에 이르렀지만 러시아-우크라이나 분쟁에 대해서는 지난해 문서와 비교해 언어에 눈에 띄는 차이가 있었다.

모스크바의 침공을 비난하기 위해 강한 언어를 사용하기를 열망하는 유럽 국가들 사이에는 의견 차이가 있었지만 러시아와 중국은 전쟁에 대한 어떠한 언급도 받아들이지 않았습니다.

니콜렌코는 이렇게 말했습니다.

모스크바, 우크라이나 점령지역에서 지방선거 실시
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 16:15 , 리디아 패트릭

러시아 당국은 우크라이나 점령 지역에서 진행되는 지방 선거에서 투표를 방해하려는 여러 시도를 보고했습니다.

이번 주말 러시아의 79개 지역에서 주지사, 지역 입법부, 시의회, 시의회 투표가 포함되어 있으며 지난해 모스크바가 불법 합병한 우크라이나 4개 지역인 도네츠크, 헤르손, 루한스크, 자포리자 지역에서도 투표가 진행됩니다. 2014년 크렘린이 합병한 크림반도.

키예프와 서방은 우크라이나 점령 지역에서 투표하는 것은 국제법을 위반하는 것이라고 말했습니다.

일요일 러시아 선거 관리들은 키예프에 충성하는 게릴라 세력이 이전에 친 모스크바 관리들을 살해하고 다리를 폭파했으며 주요 목표를 식별하여 우크라이나 군대를 도왔던 점령 지역에서 투표를 방해하려는 시도를 보고했습니다.

일요일 이른 시간에 드론 공격으로 자포리지아 지방의 한 투표소가 파괴되었다고 러시아 중앙선거관리위원회 니콜라이 불라예프 부위원장이 기자들에게 말했습니다. 그는 공격 당시 역에 직원이 없었다고 말했습니다.

러시아가 임명한 이웃 헤르손 지역의 한 관리는 토요일 그곳 투표소 근처에서 실제 수류탄이 발견되었다고 말했습니다. 마리나 자카로바(Marina Zakharova)는 수류탄이 역 밖의 덤불 속에 숨겨져 있었으며 긴급 구조대가 수류탄을 처리하는 동안 투표를 중단해야 했다고 말했습니다.

지역 주민들과 우크라이나 활동가들은 러시아 여론 조사원들이 무장 군인들과 함께 두 지방 모두에서 집에 전화를 걸어 투표를 거부하는 사람들을 구금하고 형사 사건의 근거로 사용될 수 있는 “설명문”을 작성하도록 압력을 가하고 있다고 주장했습니다.

러시아 모스크바에서 열린 모스크바 시장 선거 중 한 노인 여성이 투표소에서 투표하고 있다(모스크바 통신)
러시아 모스크바에서 열린 모스크바 시장 선거 중 한 노인 여성이 투표소에서 투표하고 있다(모스크바 통신)
ICYMI: 러시아는 탄약 보충을 위해 오랜 동맹국인 북한으로 눈을 돌렸습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 15:42 , 리디아 패트릭

러시아의 보급품은 우크라이나에서 1년 반 동안 전투를 벌인 끝에 고갈되고 있으며, 그들은 김정은에게 눈을 돌리고 있습니다.

고립된 아시아 국가는 수천만 개의 대포를 보유하고 있는 것으로 알려져 있습니다.

러시아 군대를 도울 수 있는 엘과 로켓.

미국 관리들은 북한 지도자 김정은이 앞으로 며칠 안에 러시아를 방문해 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령과 군수품 이전에 관한 협상을 성사시킬 것으로 예상하고 있습니다.

카네기 러시아 유라시아 센터의 알렉산드르 가부에프 소장은 “우리는 최근 세르게이 쇼이구 러시아 국방장관이 주로 포탄을 위해 방문한 것으로 알고 있으며 이는 푸틴 대통령과 김정은 사이에 논의될 가능성이 높다”고 말했다.

2023년 7월 세르게이 쇼이구 러시아 국방장관이 북한을 방문했는데, 이는 1991년 소련 붕괴 이후 처음으로 북한을 방문한 러시아 국방장관이다.

크렘린궁은 무기 거래의 성격에 대해 논평을 거부했지만 드미트리 페스코프 대변인은 두 사람의 긴밀한 유대관계를 밝혔습니다.

그는 “북한은 우리의 이웃”이라며 “다른 나라의 의견을 돌아보지 않고 관계를 더욱 발전시켜 나가겠다”고 말했다.

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러시아는 우크라이나 전쟁에 필요한 무기고를 재보급하기 위해 오랜 동맹국인 북한에 눈을 돌리고 있다.

러시아 “모든 조건 충족되면 곡물 거래 재개할 것”
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 15:02 , Tara Cobham

러시아는 자체 곡물과 비료를 세계 시장에 수출하기 위한 모스크바의 조건이 충족되면 “같은 날” 흑해 곡물 거래에 복귀할 것이라고 세르게이 라브로프 외무장관이 일요일 기자들에게 말했습니다.

러시아는 유엔과 터키의 중재를 받은 지 1년 뒤인 7월 자국의 식량과 비료 수출이 장애물에 직면했고, 부족한 우크라이나 곡물이 도움이 필요한 국가에 전달되지 않는다고 불평하며 협정을 종료했습니다.

“곡물과 비료 수출에 대한 장애물을 제거하기 위해 필요한 모든 조치가 이행되면 같은 날 우리는 ‘흑해 이니셔티브’의 우크라이나 부분을 공동으로 이행할 것입니다.”라고 Lavrov는 두 차례 회의에 참석한 후 브리핑에서 말했습니다. 뉴델리에서 G20 정상회담이 열렸습니다.

미 육군 참모총장 “키예프 공세 30일밖에 남지 않았다”
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 14:34 , Tara Cobham

키예프가 모스크바에 대한 반격을 30일밖에 남길 수 없다고 미군 수뇌부는 우려하고 있습니다.

마크 밀리 장군은 우크라이나의 악천후로 인해 공격이 방해되기까지 약 30~45일밖에 남지 않았으며, BBC의 Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg에 비가 오면 “기동하기가 매우 어려워질 것”이라고 말했습니다.

루크 오라일리는 다음과 같이 보고합니다.

우크라이나, 날씨로 인해 공격이 어려워질 때까지 약 45일 남았습니다 – 미 육군 참모총장

요약: 머스크는 우크라이나 드론 공격을 저지했다고 인정해 분노를 촉발했습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 13:30 , Tara Cobham

일론 머스크(Elon Musk)는 우크라이나의 스타링크 위성 네트워크 사용 허가를 거부한 것이 러시아 해군 함대에 대한 드론 공격을 막으려는 시도였다고 인정했습니다. 큰 자아”.

기술 억만장자의 SpaceX 회사가 운영하는 Starlink 위성 인터넷 서비스는 우크라이나 군대와 러시아의 침공으로 인프라가 황폐화되거나 마비된 지역의 민간인 모두에게 디지털 생명줄 역할을 해왔습니다.

목요일 CNN이 발표한 머스크의 새로운 전기에서 발췌한 내용에 따르면, 머스크가 엔지니어들에게 네트워크를 끄라고 명령한 후 작년에 좌절된 공격 중에 폭발물로 가득 찬 드론이 “연결이 끊어지고 무사히 해변으로 떠내려왔다”고 합니다. 머스크는 러시아가 점령한 크림반도 항구에 대한 공습이 ‘작은 진주만’이 될 것을 우려한 것으로 전해진다. 머스크는 크림 반도에 대한 공격이 핵 대응을 촉발할 것이라고 말한 것으로 알려진 미국 주재 러시아 대사와 통화한 후 그의 엔지니어들에게 크림 반도 100km 이내에서 스타링크 방송을 끄라고 명령했다고 합니다. 해안”.

크리스 스티븐슨은 다음과 같이 보고합니다.

엘론 머스크는 러시아 선박에 대한 우크라이나 드론 공격을 저지했다고 인정해 분노를 촉발했다.

러시아, 미국이 공급한 우크라이나 쾌속정을 파괴했다고 주장
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 13:00 , Tara Cobham

러시아 국방부는 일요일 이른 시간에 모스크바군이 앞서 크림반도로 향하던 미국이 공급한 우크라이나 쾌속정 3척을 파괴했다고 밝혔습니다.

해당 주장은 독립적으로 검증될 수 없습니다.

미군 수장은 우크라이나의 여름 공세를 실패로 판단하기에는 너무 이르다고 말했다
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 12:20 , Tara Cobham

우크라이나의 여름 공세가 실패했는지 여부를 말하기에는 너무 이르다고 미군 사령관이 말했습니다.

Mark Milley 장군은 BBC의 Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg와의 인터뷰에서 다음과 같이 말했습니다. “그 공세는 약 90일 전에 시작되었습니다. 계획자들이 예상했던 것보다 느리게 진행되었습니다. 그러나 이것이 클라우제비츠가 종이 위의 전쟁이라고 불렀던 것과 실제 전쟁 사이의 차이입니다.

“그래서 이들은 실제 지뢰밭에서 싸우는 실제 차량에 탄 실제 사람들이고 실제 죽음과 파괴가 있으며 실제 마찰이 있습니다.

“아직 합리적인 시간이 남아 있습니다. 대략 30~45일 정도입니다.

f 전투 날씨가 남았습니다.

“그래서 우크라이나인들은 아직 끝나지 않았습니다. 이 전투는 끝나지 않았습니다. 그들은 그들이 달성하려는 전투 부분을 끝내지 않았습니다. 따라서 우리는 이것이 어떻게 끝날지 말하기에는 너무 이르다는 것을 알게 될 것입니다. 그들은 적어도 그들이 계획한 일에서 부분적인 성공을 거두었고 그것이 중요합니다.그리고 나서 비가 올 것입니다.

“그 시점에서는 기동하기가 매우 어려울 것이며 깊은 겨울을 맞이하게 될 것입니다. 그리고 그 시점에서 상황이 어디로 가는지 보게 될 것입니다. 그러나 지금으로서는 이것이라고 말하기에는 너무 이르습니다. 공격은 실패했거나 실패하지 않았습니다.”

사진: 러시아 드론이 밤새 몇 시간 동안 키예프에 쏟아진다
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 12:18 , Tara Cobham

러시아 드론이 밤새 2시간 동안 키예프에 공습을 가했다(로이터)
러시아 드론이 밤새 2시간 동안 키예프에 공습을 가했다(로이터)
일요일 오전 러시아 드론 공격 중 도시 상공에서 드론 폭발이 목격되고 있다(로이터)
일요일 오전 러시아 드론 공격 중 도시 상공에서 드론 폭발이 목격되고 있다(로이터)
러시아의 우크라이나 미사일 공격으로 외국 구호요원 사망
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 10:56 , Tara Cobham

일요일 우크라이나 동부에서 우크라이나 NGO에서 일하는 4명의 팀을 태운 밴에 러시아의 포격이 가해 두 명의 외국 구호요원이 사망한 것으로 알려졌습니다.

최전방 지역에서 부상자들을 대피시키는 데 도움을 주는 Road to Relief NGO의 자원봉사자 4명은 차시브 야르(Chasiv Yar) 마을 근처에서 포탄에 맞아 밴이 뒤집히면서 밴 안에 갇혀 불이 붙었다고 이 단체는 밝혔습니다. 인스타그램 페이지.

Road to Relief는 이번 공격으로 캐나다인 Anthony Ihnat가 사망했으며 독일인 의료 자원봉사자인 Ruben Mawick과 스웨덴 자원봉사자인 Johan Mathias Tyr가 심각한 부상을 입었다고 말했습니다.

조직은 밴의 네 번째 승객이자 조직의 이사였던 스페인 국적의 Emma Igual의 행방을 추적할 수 없다고 덧붙였습니다. 몇 시간 후, 호세 마누엘 알바레스 스페인 외무장관 대행은 스페인 언론에 마드리드 당국이 32세의 이구알의 사망에 대해 ‘구두 확인’을 받았다고 말했습니다.

자원봉사자들은 지난 5월 모스크바에 함락되기 전 전쟁에서 가장 길고 가장 치열한 전투를 벌였던 동부 마을과 관련하여 바흐무트 외곽의 민간인의 필요를 평가하기 위해 가고 있었다고 Road to Relief는 말했습니다. 우크라이나군은 바흐무트 서부 교외 지역을 장악하고 해당 지역에서 반격을 가하고 있습니다.

해당 조직의 이사였던 스페인 국적의 엠마 이구알(Emma Igual)이 러시아의 미사일 공격으로 사망했다고 한다 (사프린 시카제 / Road to Relief)
해당 조직의 이사였던 스페인 국적의 엠마 이구알(Emma Igual)이 러시아의 미사일 공격으로 사망했다고 한다 (사프린 시카제 / Road to Relief)
4명의 자원봉사자들은 최전선에서 부상자들을 대피시키는 일을 돕는 NGO인 Road to Relief 소속이었습니다. (Saphryn Shikaze / Road to Relief)
4명의 자원봉사자들은 최전선에서 부상자들을 대피시키는 일을 돕는 NGO인 Road to Relief 소속이었습니다. (Saphryn Shikaze / Road to Relief)
러시아 전역에서 지방선거가 실시되지만 우크라이나는 ‘의제에 포함되지 않음’
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 10:12 , Tara Cobham

러시아에서는 이번 주말 79개 지역에서 지방선거가 시작됐으며, 유권자들은 주지사, 지방의회, 시의회, 시의회에 투표하고 있다.

러시아 당국은 지난해 모스크바가 불법 합병한 우크라이나 4개 지역(도네츠크, 헤르손, 루한스크, 자포리지아 주)에서도 지방선거를 실시하고 있다. 연방 및 지방 의원을 선출하는 투표는 크렘린이 2014년에 합병한 크림 반도에서도 진행되고 있습니다. 우크라이나 점령 지역에서 투표하는 것은 키예프와 서방에 의해 가짜이며 국제법 위반이라고 비난되었습니다.

모스크바에서는 세르게이 소뱌닌 시장의 자리가 공석이지만 그는 다시 재선에 출마하고 있으며 모든 경쟁자가 크렘린이 지원하는 정당에서 나오는 경주에서 패할 가능성은 낮습니다. 소비야닌은 2010년 시장으로 임명된 후 두 차례 시장 선거에서 승리했습니다. 2013년에는 현재 투옥된 야당 지도자 알렉세이 나발니(Alexei Navalny)가 자신에 맞서 출마했음에도 불구하고, 2018년에는 시장 선거에서 승리했습니다. 올해에는 다른 20개 러시아 지역의 주지사들도 공직 경쟁을 벌이고 있습니다.

러시아 전역에서 지방선거가 실시되지만 우크라이나는 ‘의제에 포함되지 않는다’

한국, 우크라이나에 20억 달러 추가 지원 약속
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 09:26, Tara Cobham

윤석열 대통령은 20일(현지시간) 우크라이나에 내년에 약속한 3억 달러에 이어 2025년부터 장기적으로 20억 달러를 추가 지원하겠다고 밝혔다고 연합뉴스가 보도했다.

윤 위원장은 인도 뉴델리에서 열린 G20 정상회의에서 이같이 밝혔습니다.

우크라이나, 러시아가 키예프에 밤새 드론 공격 개시
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 08:03 , Tara Cobham

러시아는 일요일 오전 키예프에 공습을 가했고 폭발음이 들렸다.

우크라이나 수도와 그 지역을 거의 2시간 동안 횡단했고 드론 잔해가 도시의 여러 중앙 지역에 떨어졌다고 우크라이나 관리들이 말했습니다.

우크라이나 육군은 우크라이나의 방공 시스템이 러시아가 발사한 이란산 샤헤드 드론 32대 중 25대를 파괴했다고 밝혔는데, 이들 중 대부분은 키예프와 키예프 지역을 표적으로 삼았습니다.

로이터의 목격자들은 키예프 전역에서 최소 5번의 폭발음을 들었고 우크라이나 언론 영상에는 다수의 차량이 파손된 모습이 담겨 있었습니다.

키예프시 군사행정청장인 세르히 포프코(Serhiy Popko)는 텔레그램 메시지 앱을 통해 “드론이 여러 방향에서 집단으로 수도에 상륙했다”고 말했다.

키예프 시장 비탈리 클리츠코는 역사적인 포딜 지역에서 한 명이 부상을 입었고 도시의 공원 중 한 곳 근처에서 화재가 발생했다고 말했습니다.

추락한 드론의 잔해가 Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi 및 Podil 지역에 떨어졌다고 Klitschko와 시 군사 행정부가 말했습니다.

셰브첸키브스키(Shevchenkivskyi) 지역의 한 아파트에서 드론 잔해로 인해 화재가 발생했으나 화재는 빠르게 진화됐다. Popko는 Telegram 메시징 앱을 통해 부상에 대한 즉각적인 보고는 없다고 말했습니다.

이번 공격에 대해 러시아는 즉각적인 언급을 하지 않았다. 모스크바는 우크라이나 영토에 대해 거의 야간 공격을 가해 왔습니다. 우크라이나 관리들은 수요일 동부 코스티안티니프카에서 러시아의 공격으로 17명이 사망했다고 밝혔습니다.

일요일 러시아의 공격 가운데 키예프에서 러시아의 드론 공격 중에 드론의 폭발이 목격되었습니다 (로이터)
일요일 러시아의 공격 가운데 키예프에서 러시아의 드론 공격 중에 드론의 폭발이 목격되었습니다 (로이터)
러시아가 군수품 보충을 위해 고립된 북한으로 눈을 돌리고 있음을 나타내는 징후
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 07:12 , Anuj Pant

러시아의 군사 무기고는 이제 1년 반 동안 우크라이나를 침공하는 가운데 고립된 북한에 의지할 만큼 고갈되었습니다.

보도에 따르면 장갑열차를 타고 북한에 도착할 수 있는 북한 독재자 김정은의 참석을 볼 수 있는 지역 정상회담이 일요일에 한국에서 개최될 예정입니다.

이번 방문은 러시아가 침공으로 인해 자원이 고갈된 상황에서 의미가 크다. 그리고 AP통신이 인용한 추정에 따르면 북한은 러시아군에 엄청난 전력을 공급할 수 있는 수천만 발의 포탄과 로켓을 보유하고 있는 것으로 나타났습니다.

미국 관리들은 1950년대 한국전쟁 당시 소련이 북한에 무기를 공급했던 것과는 현저하게 반전되어 김 위원장이 며칠 안에 러시아에 군수품을 이전하는 계약을 체결할 것으로 예상했다고 말했습니다.

알렉산더 가부에프 카네기 러시아 유라시아 센터 소장은 “우리는 최근 세르게이 쇼이구 러시아 국방장관이 포탄을 주로 방문했다는 것을 알고 있으며 이는 푸틴 대통령과 김정은 사이에 논의될 가능성이 높다”고 말했다고 로이터통신이 전했다. AP 통신.

ICYMI: Elon Musk는 푸틴 해군 함대에 대한 우크라이나 드론 공격을 저지했다고 인정하여 분노를 촉발했습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 06:58, Anuj Pant

일론 머스크(Elon Musk)는 우크라이나의 스타링크 위성 네트워크 사용 허가를 거부한 것이 러시아 해군 함대에 대한 드론 공격을 막으려는 시도였다고 인정했습니다. 큰 자아”.

기술 억만장자의 SpaceX 회사가 운영하는 Starlink 위성 인터넷 서비스는 우크라이나 군대와 러시아의 침공으로 인프라가 황폐화되거나 마비된 지역의 민간인 모두에게 디지털 생명줄 역할을 해왔습니다.

목요일 CNN이 발표한 머스크의 새로운 전기에서 발췌한 내용에 따르면, 머스크가 엔지니어들에게 네트워크를 끄라고 명령한 후 작년에 좌절된 공격 중에 폭발물로 가득 찬 드론이 “연결이 끊어지고 무사히 해변으로 떠내려왔다”고 합니다.

머스크는 러시아가 점령한 크림반도 항구에 대한 공습이 ‘작은 진주만’이 될 것을 우려한 것으로 전해진다.

머스크는 크림 반도에 대한 공격이 핵 대응을 촉발할 것이라고 말한 것으로 알려진 미국 주재 러시아 대사와 통화한 후 그의 엔지니어들에게 크림 반도 100km 이내에서 스타링크 방송을 끄라고 명령했다고 합니다. 해안”.

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엘론 머스크는 러시아 선박에 대한 우크라이나 드론 공격을 저지했다고 인정해 분노를 촉발했다.

러시아, 미얀마 군사정부에 Su-30 전투기 공급
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 06:08, Anuj Pant

미얀마 군부 정부는 러시아 Su-30 전투기의 첫 번째 선적을 받았다고 미얀마 무역 장관이 러시아 국영 언론에 말했습니다.

러시아 국영 RIA에 따르면 러시아와 미얀마는 작년에 Su-30SME 전투기 6대를 납품하는 계약을 체결했습니다.

미얀마 무역부 장관 찰리 탄(Charlie Than)은 국영 통신사에 “이미 두 대의 항공기가 인도됐다”고 말했다.

장관은 블라디보스토크에서 열린 러시아 경제 정상회담과 별도로 연설을 하고 있었습니다. 그는 또한 동부 경제에서 다수의 양자간 협정이 체결될 것이라고 말했습니다.

양국 간 관광 개발을 포함한 포럼.

미얀마에서는 2021년 군사 쿠데타를 일으킨 이후 군부가 국가에 대한 지배력을 강화해 왔습니다.

미국은 또한 러시아에게 미얀마 군부 통치자를 지원하지 말라고 경고했으며 러시아의 러시아 무기 공급이 분쟁을 촉발하고 있으며 이는 미얀마에 재앙이 됐다고 말했습니다.

방금 들어옴: 우크라이나는 일요일 일찍 러시아가 발사한 드론 25대를 격추했다고 밝혔습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:47 , Anuj Pant

블라디미르 푸틴 대통령이 일요일 오전 발사한 드론 32대 중 최소 25대가 익사했다고 우크라이나 육군이 밝혔다.

이번 발표는 키예프가 하룻밤 사이에 공습을 받았고 목격자들이 무려 5번의 폭발음을 들었다고 로이터 통신이 보도한 가운데 나온 것입니다. 공격 규모는 아직 확인되지 않았다.

인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:36 , Anuj Pant

인도는 러시아의 우크라이나 침공에 대한 의미 있는 비난을 대가로 치르면서 이번 주말 G20 정상회담에서 모든 국가의 지지를 받는 뉴델리 선언문을 작성하겠다는 기대를 무시했습니다.

인도 총리 나렌드라 모디(Narendra Modi)는 델리에서 열린 G20 정상회담 첫날 현지 시간 16시 직전에 “좋은 소식”을 발표했습니다. 이는 우크라이나 문제가 초기 성명은 말할 것도 없고, 공동 성명에 대한 합의를 방해하는 것은 더더욱 아닙니다.

우크라이나는 “G20은 우크라이나에 대한 러시아의 공격에 대해 자랑스러워할 것이 없다”며 공동성명을 거부했다.

지난 토요일 인도 외무부가 발표한 37페이지 분량의 선언문 전체에는 우크라이나가 포함되어 있는데, 이 선언문에는 지도자들이 러시아를 직접적으로 언급하지 않은 채 “우크라이나 전쟁이 인간의 고통과 부정적인 부가적 영향을 강조했다”고 적혀 있습니다.

“상황에 대해 서로 다른 견해와 평가가 있었습니다.”라고 절제된 표현으로 덧붙였습니다.

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인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성

ICYMI: 열화우라늄 껍질이란 무엇입니까?
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:30, Anuj Pant

곧 우크라이나의 군비축으로 비축될 열화 우라늄 대전차탄은 계속되는 러시아 침공에서의 사용에 대한 논쟁을 불러일으켰습니다.

미 국방부가 수요일 최신 군사 트렌치에서 발표한 논란의 여지가 있는 이번 라운드는 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령의 장관들 사이에서 다시 한번 확대에 대해 경고한 경각심을 불러일으켰습니다.

영국은 이미 3월에 우크라이나에 열화우라늄이 포함된 철갑탄을 제공하겠다고 약속했습니다. 리시 수낙 총리는 궁극적으로 “주로 러시아의 공격을 저하시키고 억제하기 위해” 영국군 비축물에서 탄약을 꺼내는 것을 지지했습니다.

그러면 이 열화우라늄 탄약은 무엇입니까?

아래에서 자세히 알아보세요.

우크라이나: 열화우라늄탄이란 무엇이며 왜 논란이 됩니까?

러시아, 크림 반도 상공에서 드론 8대 격추 주장
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:15 , Anuj Pant

블라디미르 푸틴 대통령의 국방부는 수도 키예프에서 밤새 드론 공격이 시작됐음에도 불구하고 일요일 이른 시간에 크림 반도 근처 흑해 상공에서 드론 8대를 파괴했다고 주장했습니다.

로이터가 보도한 이 사건은 독립적으로 확인할 수 없었다. 러시아는 우크라이나가 드론을 발사했다고 비난했다.

러시아 국방부는 사상자 발생 여부도 밝히지 않았다. 우크라이나 관리들은 이번 사건에 대해 아직 논평하지 않았다.

푸틴, 밤새 키예프 공습 개시
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 04:48 , Anuj Pant

일요일 아침 키예프에서 공습이 시작되었고 수도 전역에서 폭발음이 들렸습니다. 드론 잔해가 중앙 지역에 떨어졌으며 공격 규모는 아직 확인되지 않았습니다.

키예프 시장 비탈리 클리츠코는 포딜 지역에서 한 명이 부상을 입었고 도시의 공원 중 한 곳 근처에서 화재가 발생했다고 말했습니다.

시 군청과 클리치코 씨에 따르면, 추락한 드론의 잔해는 다르니츠키(Darnytskyi), 솔로미안스키(Solomianskyi), 셰브첸키프스키(Shevchenkivskyi), 스비아토쉰스키(Sviatoshynskyi) 및 포딜(Podil) 지역에 떨어졌다.

이 잔해는 셰브첸키프스키(Shevchenkivskyi) 지역에서도 화재를 촉발시켰으나 당국에 따르면 화재는 즉시 진압됐다.

로이터 통신은 목격자들의 말을 인용해 적어도 5번의 폭발음을 들었다고 말했습니다.

인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 03:00 , Joe Middleton

인도는 러시아의 우크라이나 침공에 대한 의미 있는 비난을 대가로 이번 주말 G20 정상회담에서 모든 국가의 지지를 받는 뉴델리 선언문을 작성하겠다는 기대를 무시했습니다.

인도 총리 나렌드라 모디(Narendra Modi)는 델리에서 열린 G20 정상회담 첫날 현지 시간 16시 직전에 “좋은 소식”을 발표했습니다. 이는 우크라이나 문제가 초기 성명은 말할 것도 없고, 공동 성명에 대한 합의를 방해하는 것은 더더욱 아닙니다.

양국 간 관광 개발을 포함한 포럼.

미얀마에서는 2021년 군사 쿠데타를 일으킨 이후 군부가 국가에 대한 지배력을 강화해 왔습니다.

미국은 또한 러시아에게 미얀마 군부 통치자를 지원하지 말라고 경고했으며 러시아의 러시아 무기 공급이 분쟁을 촉발하고 있으며 이는 미얀마에 재앙이 됐다고 말했습니다.

방금 들어옴: 우크라이나는 일요일 일찍 러시아가 발사한 드론 25대를 격추했다고 밝혔습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:47 , Anuj Pant

블라디미르 푸틴 대통령이 일요일 오전 발사한 드론 32대 중 최소 25대가 익사했다고 우크라이나 육군이 밝혔다.

이번 발표는 키예프가 하룻밤 사이에 공습을 받았고 목격자들이 무려 5번의 폭발음을 들었다고 로이터 통신이 보도한 가운데 나온 것입니다. 공격 규모는 아직 확인되지 않았다.

인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:36 , Anuj Pant

인도는 러시아의 우크라이나 침공에 대한 의미 있는 비난을 대가로 치르면서 이번 주말 G20 정상회담에서 모든 국가의 지지를 받는 뉴델리 선언문을 작성하겠다는 기대를 무시했습니다.

인도 총리 나렌드라 모디(Narendra Modi)는 델리에서 열린 G20 정상회담 첫날 현지 시간 16시 직전에 “좋은 소식”을 발표했습니다. 이는 우크라이나 문제가 초기 성명은 말할 것도 없고, 공동 성명에 대한 합의를 방해하는 것은 더더욱 아닙니다.

우크라이나는 “G20은 우크라이나에 대한 러시아의 공격에 대해 자랑스러워할 것이 없다”며 공동성명을 거부했다.

지난 토요일 인도 외무부가 발표한 37페이지 분량의 선언문 전체에는 우크라이나가 포함되어 있는데, 이 선언문에는 지도자들이 러시아를 직접적으로 언급하지 않은 채 “우크라이나 전쟁이 인간의 고통과 부정적인 부가적 영향을 강조했다”고 적혀 있습니다.

“상황에 대해 서로 다른 견해와 평가가 있었습니다.”라고 절제된 표현으로 덧붙였습니다.

아래에서 자세히 알아보세요.

인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성

ICYMI: 열화우라늄 껍질이란 무엇입니까?
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:30, Anuj Pant

곧 우크라이나의 군비축으로 비축될 열화 우라늄 대전차탄은 계속되는 러시아 침공에서의 사용에 대한 논쟁을 불러일으켰습니다.

미 국방부가 수요일 최신 군사 트렌치에서 발표한 논란의 여지가 있는 이번 라운드는 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령의 장관들 사이에서 다시 한번 확대에 대해 경고한 경각심을 불러일으켰습니다.

영국은 이미 3월에 우크라이나에 열화우라늄이 포함된 철갑탄을 제공하겠다고 약속했습니다. 리시 수낙 총리는 궁극적으로 “주로 러시아의 공격을 저하시키고 억제하기 위해” 영국군 비축물에서 탄약을 꺼내는 것을 지지했습니다.

그러면 이 열화우라늄 탄약은 무엇입니까?

아래에서 자세히 알아보세요.

우크라이나: 열화우라늄탄이란 무엇이며 왜 논란이 됩니까?

러시아, 크림 반도 상공에서 드론 8대 격추 주장
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 05:15 , Anuj Pant

블라디미르 푸틴 대통령의 국방부는 수도 키예프에서 밤새 드론 공격이 시작됐음에도 불구하고 일요일 이른 시간에 크림 반도 근처 흑해 상공에서 드론 8대를 파괴했다고 주장했습니다.

로이터가 보도한 이 사건은 독립적으로 확인할 수 없었다. 러시아는 우크라이나가 드론을 발사했다고 비난했다.

러시아 국방부는 사상자 발생 여부도 밝히지 않았다. 우크라이나 관리들은 이번 사건에 대해 아직 논평하지 않았다.

푸틴, 밤새 키예프 공습 개시
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 04:48 , Anuj Pant

일요일 아침 키예프에서 공습이 시작되었고 수도 전역에서 폭발음이 들렸습니다. 드론 잔해가 중앙 지역에 떨어졌으며 공격 규모는 아직 확인되지 않았습니다.

키예프 시장 비탈리 클리츠코는 포딜 지역에서 한 명이 부상을 입었고 도시의 공원 중 한 곳 근처에서 화재가 발생했다고 말했습니다.

시 군청과 클리치코 씨에 따르면, 추락한 드론의 잔해는 다르니츠키(Darnytskyi), 솔로미안스키(Solomianskyi), 셰브첸키프스키(Shevchenkivskyi), 스비아토쉰스키(Sviatoshynskyi) 및 포딜(Podil) 지역에 떨어졌다.

이 잔해는 셰브첸키프스키(Shevchenkivskyi) 지역에서도 화재를 촉발시켰으나 당국에 따르면 화재는 즉시 진압됐다.

로이터 통신은 목격자들의 말을 인용해 적어도 5번의 폭발음을 들었다고 말했습니다.

인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 03:00 , Joe Middleton

인도는 러시아의 우크라이나 침공에 대한 의미 있는 비난을 대가로 이번 주말 G20 정상회담에서 모든 국가의 지지를 받는 뉴델리 선언문을 작성하겠다는 기대를 무시했습니다.

인도 총리 나렌드라 모디(Narendra Modi)는 델리에서 열린 G20 정상회담 첫날 현지 시간 16시 직전에 “좋은 소식”을 발표했습니다. 이는 우크라이나 문제가 초기 성명은 말할 것도 없고, 공동 성명에 대한 합의를 방해하는 것은 더더욱 아닙니다.

지도자들은 러시아를 직접 언급하지 않고 “우크라이나 전쟁이 인간의 고통과 부정적 영향을 강조했다”고 토요일에 시도했습니다. “상황에 대해 서로 다른 견해와 평가가 있었습니다.”라고 절제된 표현으로 덧붙였습니다.

인도, 러시아에 대한 비난을 피하고 G20 통합 선언문 작성

우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인이 양손이 묶인 채 물에 빠져 숨진 채 발견됐다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 02:00 , Joe Middleton

우크라이나에서 싸운 영국 남성이 양손이 뒤로 묶인 채 수역에서 숨진 채 발견됐다고 그의 가족이 밝혔다.

2022년 10월 초 우크라이나를 여행한 조던 채드윅(31세)은 국제군단에서 싸우고 있었다.

그의 어머니 브렌다 채드윅은 BBC에 아들의 죽음으로 가족이 “완전히 망연자실했다”고 말했다.

Joe로 알려진 Chadwick 씨는 Lancashire의 Burnley 출신이었습니다. 그는 2011년부터 2015년까지 영국군에서 스코틀랜드 근위대로 복무했습니다.

우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인이 양손이 묶인 채 물에 빠져 숨진 채 발견됐다.

엘론 머스크는 푸틴 해군 함대에 대한 우크라이나 드론 공격을 저지했다고 인정해 분노를 촉발했다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 01:09 , 리디아 패트릭

Elon Musk는 우크라이나의 Starlink 위성 네트워크 사용 허가를 거부한 것이 러시아 해군 함대에 대한 드론 공격을 방지하려는 시도였다고 인정했습니다.

기술 억만장자의 SpaceX 회사가 운영하는 Starlink 위성 인터넷 서비스는 우크라이나 군대와 민간인 모두에게 디지털 생명선이었습니다.

Elon Musk는 키예프가 자신의 위성 네트워크를 사용하는 것을 거부한 것은 ‘전쟁 행위’에 대한 공모를 피하기 위한 시도라고 말했습니다(Getty Images).
Elon Musk는 키예프가 자신의 위성 네트워크를 사용하는 것을 거부한 것은 ‘전쟁 행위’에 대한 공모를 피하기 위한 시도라고 말했습니다(Getty Images).
억만장자는 이전에 트위터로 알려졌던 소셜 미디어 플랫폼 X의 게시물에서 자신이 해당 지역의 스타링크 네트워크를 껐다는 비난을 부인했지만 크림 반도까지 네트워크를 활성화해 달라는 우크라이나의 요청에는 동의하지 않았다고 말했습니다. 항구 도시 세바스토폴은 현재(당시와 마찬가지로) 러시아가 점령하고 있으며 흑해 함대의 본거지입니다.

“문제의 스타링크 지역이 활성화되지 않았습니다. SpaceX는 아무것도 비활성화하지 않았습니다.”라고 Musk는 말했습니다.

“정부 당국으로부터 세바스토폴까지 스타링크를 활성화해 달라는 긴급 요청이 있었습니다.” 그는 덧붙였습니다. “명백한 의도는 대부분의 러시아 함대를 정박시키려는 것이었습니다. 내가 그들의 요청에 동의했다면 SpaceX는 주요 전쟁 행위와 갈등 확대에 명시적으로 연루되었을 것입니다.”

여기에서 전체 내용을 읽어보세요.

인기 메시징 서비스는 러시아의 ‘가짜 뉴스’에 맞서 싸울 것이라고 밝혔습니다.
2023년 9월 10일 일요일 00:09 , Lydia Patrick

일본 기술 기업인 라쿠텐 그룹(Rakuten Group)의 창업자는 메시징 서비스인 바이버(Viber)가 ‘다른 소셜 미디어와는 달리’ 러시아 선전 시도를 차단할 것이라고 말했습니다.

미키아니 히로시(Hiroshi Mikiani)는 로이터 통신과의 인터뷰에서 “다른 소셜 미디어와 달리 우리는 러시아의 가짜 뉴스와 선전을 모두 차단할 것임을 분명히 했다”고 말했다.

Viber는 2014년에 라쿠텐 그룹이 인수한 인기 메시징 앱입니다(Getty Images)
Viber는 2014년에 라쿠텐 그룹이 인수한 인기 메시징 앱입니다(Getty Images)
2010년 출시돼 2014년 라쿠텐에 인수된 바이버(Viber)는 우크라이나에서 시장 침투율이 98%에 달하며 러시아에서도 인기가 높다.

이 억만장자 기업가는 이전에 우크라이나를 지지하는 목소리를 냈으며 침공이 시작될 때 우크라이나 정부에 10억 엔(677만 달러)을 기부했습니다.

라쿠텐은 우크라이나 최대 이동통신사인 Kyivstar와 협력하여 소프트웨어를 사용하여 클라우드에서 네트워크 기능을 실행하는 개방형 무선 액세스 네트워크(Open RAN) 통신 기술을 제공할 계획을 발표했습니다. 이는 Mikitani가 미래 기술로 선전한 것입니다.

우크라이나의 반격은 혹독한 겨울 조건을 견딜 수 있을 것이라고 정보국장이 밝혔습니다.
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 22:18 , 리디아 패트릭

러시아군에 대한 키예프의 반격은 혹독한 추위 속에서도 계속될 것이라고 키예프 정보국장이 토요일 말했습니다.

Kyrylo Budanov는 다음과 같이 말했습니다. “전투 활동은 어떤 식으로든 계속될 것입니다. 춥고, 습하고, 진흙에서는 싸우기가 더 어렵습니다. 싸움은 계속될 것이다. 반격은 계속될 것”이라고 말했다.

F-35 전투기에 손수건을 들고 있는 키릴로 부다노프(AP)
F-35 전투기에 손수건을 들고 있는 키릴로 부다노프(AP)
Victor Pinchuk 재단이 주최한 키예프 회의에서 나온 논평은 우크라이나가 올해 말 날씨가 악화되더라도 추진을 중단할 계획이 없음을 나타냅니다.

우크라이나 군사 정보 기관의 관리인 바딤 스키비츠키(Vadym Skibytskyi)는 토요일 오전 러시아가 현재 우크라이나 내에 42만 명의 군인을 보유하고 있다고 말했습니다.

현재 Robotyne과 Verbove 마을을 중심으로 한 남동부 Zaporizhzhia 지역에서의 공격은 러시아 점령군을 남쪽에서 절반으로 나누려는 작전의 중요한 부분으로 간주되지만 그 목표에는 아직 멀었습니다.

“우리 친구

여러 방향에서 공격이 일어나고 있습니다.”라고 Budanov는 말했습니다. 그는 자신이 원했던 것보다 진전이 더디었다는 점을 인정하고 상황이 어렵다고 설명했습니다.

2022년 2월 본격적인 우크라이나 침공을 개시한 러시아는 우크라이나의 반격이 실패했다고 밝혔다.

러시아, 크림반도서 드론 3대 격추
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 20:18 , 리디아 패트릭

러시아가 점령한 영토와 러시아 내부에 대한 드론 공격은 여름 내내 급격히 증가했으며, 키예프는 모스크바를 최대한 방해함으로써 우크라이나 지상군 블라디미르 푸틴 군대에 대한 반격을 지원하려고 합니다.

가장 최근의 공습은 러시아 방공군이 크림반도 북서부에서 러시아가 임명한 반도 행정부 수장인 세르게이 악쇼노프(Sergei Aksyonov)의 적 드론 3대를 격추한 토요일에 이루어졌습니다.

리시 수낙(Rishi Sunak)은 G20 지도자들이 러시아의 우크라이나 침공에 대해 “매우 강력한” 공동 메시지를 보내기로 합의했다고 말했습니다.
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 19:20 , Lydia Patrick

영국 총리는 정상회담에서 모든 국가의 지지를 받는 뉴델리 선언에 대한 지지를 표명했습니다.

인도는 역경을 이겨내고 37페이지에 달하는 선언문을 통해 모든 G20 회원국들이 “핵무기 사용이나 사용 위협은 용인될 수 없다”는 점에 동의하도록 할 수 있었습니다.

로이터 통신에 따르면 수낙 씨는 방송사에 다음과 같이 말했습니다. “방금 우리가 공유하게 되어 기쁘게 생각하는 소식은 모디 총리와 인도 대통령 임기 중 G20이 매우 강력한 언어로 공동 성명에 합의했다는 것입니다. 러시아의 우크라이나 불법전쟁.

Rishi Sunak이 행사 중 언론과 인터뷰했습니다(PA).
Rishi Sunak이 행사 중 언론과 인터뷰했습니다(PA).
“성명에서 볼 수 있는 것은 전쟁이 식량 가격과 식량 안보에 미치는 영향을 강조하는 강력한 언어이며, 러시아가 흑해 곡물 이니셔티브에 다시 참여하여 수출이 세계의 일부 지역을 떠나도록 허용하고 도움을 줄 것을 촉구합니다. 수백만 명의 가장 취약한 사람들에게 식량을 공급하고 영토 보전을 존중하는 유엔 헌장의 원칙을 인정하는 성명을 발표합니다.

“그래서 나는 그것이 좋고 강력한 결과라고 생각합니다. 그리고 이번 정상회담에서 볼 수 있듯이 러시아는 완전히 고립돼 있다”고 말했다.

젤렌스키, 일본 외무장관 만나 우크라이나 재건 지지 서약
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 17:00, Rachel Flynn

일본 외무성은 하야시 요시마사 일본 외무상과 볼로디미르 젤렌스키 우크라이나 대통령이 토요일 회담을 갖고 안전 보장에 대한 논의를 시작하고 우크라이나 경제 재건을 위해 협력하기로 합의했다고 일본 외무부가 밝혔습니다.

이번 안보보장 논의는 일본이 회원국인 G7 국가들이 지난 7월 우크라이나와 양자간 안보보장 회담을 시작할 것이라고 밝힌 이후 이뤄졌다.

하야시 요시마사 일본 외무상(왼쪽)이 키예프에서 열린 공동기자회견에서 드미트로 쿨레바 우크라이나 외무상과 악수하고 있다. (Getty Images를 통한 POOL/AFP)
하야시 요시마사 일본 외무상(왼쪽)이 키예프에서 열린 공동기자회견에서 드미트로 쿨레바 우크라이나 외무상과 악수하고 있다. (Getty Images를 통한 POOL/AFP)
하야시 총리는 또 미키타니 히로시 라쿠텐그룹 창업자 겸 최고경영자(CEO) 등 일본 기업 임원들이 동행한 이번 전격 우크라이나 방문에서 우크라이나 경제 재건을 위한 일본 내 공공 및 민간 부문의 지원을 약속했다고 외교부가 밝혔다.

일본은 내년 초 우크라이나 경제재건을 위한 회의를 개최할 예정이다.

하야시 총리는 드미트로 쿨레바 우크라이나 외무장관과의 회담에서 우크라이나에 대한 일본의 확고한 지지와 국제사회의 도움으로 러시아 침공을 종식시키는 것이 시급하다는 점을 거듭 강조할 예정이라고 외무부는 밝혔습니다.

기시다 후미오 일본 총리는 지난 3월 볼로도미르 젤렌스키 우크라이나 대통령을 만나기 위해 키예프를 전격 방문했다.

루마니아, 자국 영토에서 러시아 드론의 새로운 파편 발견
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 16:30 , Rachel Flynn

러시아군이 사용하는 것과 유사한 새로운 드론 파편이 루마니아 땅에서 발견됐다고 국방부가 토요일 밝혔습니다.

루마니아 대통령 클라우스 이오하니스(Klaus Iohannis)는 이는 루마니아 영공에 대한 용납할 수 없는 침해가 발생했음을 의미한다고 말했습니다.

이오하니스는 성명을 통해 옌스 스톨텐베르크 NATO 사무총장에게 이번 주 루마니아 영토에서 두 번째로 추락한 드론 조각에 대해 알렸으며 스톨텐베르크는 루마니아와의 동맹의 완전한 연대를 거듭 강조했다고 말했습니다.

“루마니아 당국이 우크라이나 국경 근처 루마니아 영토에서 새로운 드론 파편을 식별한 것은 나토 국가인 루마니아 영공에 용납할 수 없는 침해가 발생했으며 해당 지역의 루마니아 시민의 안전에 실질적인 위험이 있음을 나타냅니다. “요하니스가 말했다.

나는 우크라이나의 도나우 강 항구에 대한 러시아의 공격으로 인해 발생한 이번 사건을 단호히 규탄합니다.”

루마니아 국경에서 불과 수백 미터 떨어진 우크라이나의 하항에 대한 공격으로 NA의 보안 위험이 증가했습니다.

TO에는 구성원이 상호 방어 의무를 가지고 있습니다.

미국 국무부는 이번 주 초 루마니아에서 NATO의 항공 치안 임무를 강화하기 위해 미국 F-16 전투기를 추가로 순환 배치할 것이라고 밝혔습니다.

우크라이나, G20 정상회담 선언은 ‘자랑할 일 없다’
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 15:45 , Rachel Flynn

우크라이나 외무부는 토요일 G20의 공동 선언이 “자랑스러울 일이 아니다”라고 말하며 러시아를 언급하지 않았다고 비난했습니다.

외무부 대변인 올렉 니콜렌코는 공동 선언문의 관련 부분 스크린샷을 게시했는데, 일부 텍스트에는 빨간색으로 줄이 그어져 있고, 우크라이나는 도발되지 않은 러시아 침략의 희생자라는 우크라이나의 입장을 반영하는 문구로 수정되었습니다.

올렉 니콜렌코 외교부 대변인은 자신의 페이스북에 해당 부분의 스크린샷을 올렸다. (올렉 니콜렌코)
올렉 니콜렌코 외교부 대변인은 자신의 페이스북에 해당 부분의 스크린샷을 올렸다. (올렉 니콜렌코)
그는 페이스북에 “(G20 회의에) 우크라이나 측이 참여했다면 참가자들이 상황을 더 잘 이해할 수 있었을 것이 분명하다”고 썼다.

“텍스트의 주요 요소가 현실에 더 가까워 보일 수 있는 부분은 다음과 같습니다.”라고 그는 덧붙였습니다.

G20 문안 전체에 대한 실망에도 불구하고 니콜렌코는 선언문에서 우크라이나의 입장을 발전시키기 위해 그들의 역할을 다한 우크라이나 동맹국들에게 감사를 표했습니다.

“우크라이나는 본문에 강력한 표현을 포함시키려고 노력한 파트너들에게 감사합니다.”라고 그는 말했습니다.

G20 정상회담 성명은 평화를 촉구하지만 러시아의 우크라이나 전쟁 비난은 피한다
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 14:24, Tara Cobham

G20 국가는 토요일 정상회담에서 우크라이나 전쟁에 대한 러시아의 비난을 피하면서도 모든 국가에 영토 점령을 위한 무력 사용을 자제할 것을 촉구하는 합의 선언을 채택했습니다.

주최국 인도의 나렌드라 모디 총리는 주말 정상회담 첫날 지도자 선언문이 채택됐다고 발표했습니다.

서방 국가들은 앞서 지도자 선언에서 러시아에 대한 강력한 비난을 추진한 반면, 다른 국가들은 보다 광범위한 경제 문제에 초점을 맞출 것을 요구하는 등 우크라이나 전쟁을 두고 그룹이 크게 분열되어 있는 가운데 이러한 합의는 놀라운 일이었습니다.

대부분의 다른 회원들은 즉각적인 반응을 보이지 않았습니다.

선언문은 “우리는 모든 국가가 영토 보전과 주권, 국제인도법, 평화와 안정을 수호하는 다자체제 등 국제법의 원칙을 지킬 것을 촉구한다”고 밝혔다.

“우리는 우크라이나의 포괄적이고 정의로우며 지속적인 평화를 지원하는 모든 관련 있고 건설적인 계획을 환영합니다.

성명은 “핵무기 사용이나 사용 위협은 용인될 수 없다”고 덧붙였다.

러시아, 흑해 곡물 거래 요구 계속 고수
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 11:27 , Tara Cobham

러시아는 지난 7월 중단한 흑해 곡물 거래에 복귀하기 위한 조건을 고수하고 있다고 토요일 밝혔습니다.

특히 크렘린궁 대변인 드미트리 페스코프는 러시아가 국제 SWIFT 은행 결제 시스템에 다시 연결되려면 유엔이 제안한 대로 은행의 자회사가 아닌 국영 농업은행이 필요하다고 말했습니다.

“우리의 모든 조건은 완벽하게 잘 알려져 있습니다. 해석이 필요하지 않으며 완전히 구체적이며 이 모든 것이 절대적으로 달성 가능합니다.”라고 Peskov는 말했습니다. “따라서 러시아는 대통령이 반복적으로 표명한 책임감 있고 명확하며 일관된 입장을 유지하고 있습니다.”

흑해 협정은 전쟁에도 불구하고 우크라이나가 해상으로 곡물을 수출하고 세계 식량 위기를 완화하는 데 도움이 되도록 2022년 7월 터키와 유엔에 의해 중개되었습니다.

이 합의에는 러시아 자체의 식량 및 비료 수출을 촉진하기 위한 합의가 동반되었지만 모스크바는 이행되지 않았다고 밝혔습니다. 곡물 거래를 중단한 이후 러시아는 우크라이나 항구와 곡물 상점을 반복적으로 폭격했으며 키예프와 서방은 러시아가 식량을 무기로 사용하고 있다고 비난했습니다.

모스크바는 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령이 타이이프 에르도안 터키 대통령과 만나 곡물 문제를 논의한 지 5일 만에 타협하지 않는 입장을 재천명했습니다.

러시아는 그 회의에서 우크라이나가 협정 부활을 위한 회담에서 “접근 방식을 완화”하고 유럽보다는 아프리카에 더 많은 곡물을 수출해야 한다는 에르도안의 발언을 통해 격려를 받은 것으로 보입니다. 우크라이나는 자신의 입장을 바꾸지 않을 것이며 “러시아 협박”의 인질이 되지 않을 것이라고 말했습니다.

우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인이 양손이 묶인 채 물에 빠져 숨진 채 발견됐다.
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 10:45 , Tara Cobham

우크라이나에서 싸운 영국 남성이 양손이 뒤로 묶인 채 수역에서 숨진 채 발견됐다고 그의 가족이 밝혔다.

2022년 10월 초 우크라이나를 여행한 조던 채드윅(31세)은 국제군단에서 싸우고 있었다.

그의 어머니 브렌다 채드윅은 BBC에 아들의 죽음으로 가족이 “완전히 망연자실했다”고 말했다.

Joe로 알려진 Chadwick 씨는 Lancashire의 Burnley 출신이었습니다. 그는 역임했다

2011년부터 2015년까지 영국군 스코틀랜드 근위대에서 복무했습니다.

레이첼 플린(Rachel Flynn)은 다음과 같이 보고합니다.

우크라이나에서 전투를 벌인 영국인이 양손이 묶인 채 물에 빠져 숨진 채 발견됐다.

당 본부가 파괴돼 ‘푸틴군 하루 만에 600명 사망’
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 10:32 , Tara Cobham

키예프에 따르면 블라디미르 푸틴 러시아 대통령은 하루 만에 병력 600명을 잃었고 우크라이나에 있는 그의 보수당 본부는 금요일 파괴됐다.

우크라이나군 참모부는 금요일 모스크바 군인 중 600명이 사망해 2022년 2월 이후 총 268,140명의 사망자가 발생한 것으로 추산하고 있다.

한편, 멜리토폴 시장에 따르면, 같은 날 러시아가 점령한 우크라이나 도시 폴로히에 있는 통합 러시아 정당 본부가 공격으로 파괴됐다고 키예프 인디펜던트가 보도했습니다.

이반 페도로프는 텔레그램 메시지 앱을 통해 지역 주민들이 “지옥같은 의사선거”로 인해 러시아인들이 본부에 “지쳐버렸다”고 묘사했다고 말했다. 그는 사상자를 언급하며 “일부는 병원으로 갔지만 일부는 곧바로 영안실로 갔다”고 말했다.

IAEA, 자포리자(Zaporizhzhya) 원전 주변의 ‘군사 활동 증가’에 ‘심각한 우려’
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 09:26, Tara Cobham

전문가들은 우크라이나 자포리지야 원자력발전소 주변 지역에서 ‘군사 활동이 증가하는 것’을 ‘깊이 우려’하고 있다.

국제원자력기구(IAEA)는 금요일 “지난 주 동안 수많은 폭발이 발생했다”고 보고했는데, 이는 “현장의 핵 안전과 보안에 잠재적인 위협이 될 수 있다”고 밝혔습니다.

지난 토요일부터 3일 동안 IAEA 팀은 약 20여 차례의 폭발음을 들었고 최근 며칠 동안 여러 차례의 폭발음이 들렸습니다. 하지만 러시아가 점령한 시설 자체에는 피해가 없었습니다.

라파엘 마리아노 그로시 사무총장은 유럽 최대 원자력발전소의 상황이 “아직 매우 위태롭다”고 말했다.

“내가 우리 전문가들로부터 받은 보고서에 따르면 폭발은 Zaporizhzhya 원자력 발전소에서 어느 정도 떨어진 곳에서 발생했다고 합니다.”라고 그는 말했습니다. “그럼에도 불구하고 나는 이 지역의 군사적 긴장이 고조되는 이 시기에 공장이 직면할 수 있는 위험에 대해 여전히 깊은 우려를 갖고 있습니다.

“분쟁 지역에서 무슨 일이 일어나든, 어디서든 모두가 핵사고로 손해를 입게 될 것입니다. 저는 그런 일이 일어나지 않도록 필요한 모든 예방 조치를 취해야 한다고 촉구합니다.”

우크라이나에 참전하러 갔던 영국인이 숨진 채 발견됐다.
2023년 9월 9일 토요일 07:19, Vishwam Sankaran

우크라이나에 참전하러 갔던 31세 영국 남성이 수역에서 숨진 채 발견됐다.

BBC는 랭커셔주 번리 출신 조던 채드윅으로 알려진 이 남성이 우크라이나에서 외국군단의 일원으로 싸웠으며 알 수 없는 상황에서 사망했다고 보도했다.

채드윅의 사망 원인에 대한 조사는 2월에 열릴 것으로 알려졌다.

그의 어머니는 BBC에 “자유를 지지하고 자신의 기술로 다른 사람들을 도우려는 그의 열정으로 인해 그는 2022년 10월 초 영국을 떠나 우크라이나로 여행했습니다.”라고 말했습니다.

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업데이트 8 – 북한 김 위원장, 푸틴 대통령과 회담 위해 러시아로 향 중
최수향, 박주민
2023년 9월 11일 월요일 오후 11시 37분(AEST)에 업데이트됨
(1항, 6~7항에 한국 당국자의 발언, 16항에 배경 추가)

최수향, 박주민 지음

서울/모스크바 9월11일(로이터) – 러시아의 고립이 심화되는 가운데 북한과 러시아가 블라디미르 푸틴 대통령과의 정상회담을 월요일 확정한 가운데, 김정은 북한 국무위원장이 특수열차를 타고 러시아로 출발했다고 한국 소식통이 11일 밝혔다. 우크라이나 전쟁.

크렘린궁은 김 위원장이 푸틴 대통령의 초청으로 며칠 안에 러시아를 방문할 것이라고 밝혔고, 북한 관영 통신사인 KCNA는 두 사람이 “만나 대화를 나눌 것”이라고 밝혔습니다.

미국 관리들은 두 사람이 러시아의 우크라이나 전쟁을 지원하고 북한에 절실히 필요한 경제적, 정치적 생명선을 제공하기 위해 가능한 무기 거래를 논의할 것이라고 말했습니다.

미국과 동맹국들은 최근 러시아와 핵무장한 북한 사이의 긴밀한 군사 협력 조짐에 대해 우려를 표명해 왔습니다. 김 위원장과 푸틴 대통령의 정상회담은 2019년 회담에 이어 두 번째다.

북한과 모스크바 모두의 부인에도 불구하고, 미국은 북한이 18개월이 넘는 전쟁 기간 동안 막대한 무기 비축량을 소비한 러시아에 무기를 공급하기 위한 회담이 활발히 진행되고 있다고 밝혔습니다.

한국 정부 고위 관계자는 로이터 통신에 북한 지도자가 일요일 늦게 열차를 타고 떠났다고 말했습니다.

익명을 요구한 이 관계자는 “특수열차는 김 위원장을 러시아와 북한의 북동쪽 국경으로 데려갈 것이며 정상회담은 이르면 화요일 열릴 수 있다”고 정보당국의 우려를 언급하며 세부 사항은 현지 상황에 따라 변경될 수 있다고 덧붙였습니다. .

러시아와 평양 모두 정확한 방문 일정을 즉각 확정하지 않았다.

북한은 우크라이나 침공 이후 공개적으로 러시아를 지원한 몇 안 되는 국가 중 하나이다.

지난해 푸틴 대통령은 지난주 “공동 노력을 통해 계획된 방식으로 모든 측면에서 양국 관계를 확대하겠다”고 약속했다.

김 위원장의 2019년 마지막 해외 순방은 도널드 트럼프 전 미국 대통령과의 북핵 군축 회담 결렬 이후 푸틴 대통령과의 첫 정상회담을 위해 블라디보스토크를 방문한 것이기도 하다.

비밀과 보안

일본 언론은 김 위원장이 러시아에 입국할 것으로 예상되는 러시아 국경 도시 하산의 주요 기차역에서 보안이 강화되고 보수 공사가 진행되고 있다고 보도했습니다.

김씨는 해외여행을 자주 하지 않으며, 여행을 가도 비밀과 보안이 보장되는 경우가 많다. 그는 장갑과 통신 시스템을 갖춘 시그니처 올리브 그린 객차와 김 위원장이 일하고 보좌관들과 협의할 수 있는 개인실을 갖춘 특수 열차를 타고 여행합니다.

한미 관리들과 분석가들은 김 위원장과 푸틴 대통령의 정상회담에서 군사 협력과 무기 공급 협상에 초점이 맞춰질 가능성이 높다고 말했습니다.

북한은 러시아 무기와 호환되고 우크라이나 전선에서 빠르게 사용되는 보급품을 보충하는 데 도움이 될 수 있는 대규모 포탄 비축량을 보유하고 있는 것으로 알려져 있습니다.

미국은 북한이 우크라이나에 사용할 무기를 러시아에 공급하는 것은 ‘큰 실수’가 될 것이며 북한이 ‘대가를 치를 것’이라고 경고했다.

브뤼셀 거버넌스 학교의 라몬 파체코 파르도 한국 석좌교수는 김 위원장과 푸틴 대통령의 관계 심화는 전쟁을 둘러싼 전 세계적 분열이 심화되고 있음을 의미한다고 말했습니다.

그는 “북한의 지원으로 푸틴 대통령이 더 오랫동안 전쟁을 벌일 수 있게 될 것”이라며 “이는 유럽에 나쁜 소식”이라고 말했다. 그는 “세계 대부분이 미국이나 유럽처럼 우크라이나를 지지하지 않으며, 북한과 같은 일부 국가는 실제 결과에 대한 두려움 없이 공개적으로 러시아를 지지할 것이라는 추가적인 증거”라고 덧붙였다.

블라디보스토크에서는 평소보다 더 많은 경찰이 거리에 배치됐지만, 김 위원장의 이전 여행을 앞두고 도시가 북한 국기를 장식하는 붉은색 다섯개 별들로 장식된 것과는 달리 북한 국기는 게양되지 않았습니다. (취재자: 서울: 최수향, 박주민, 조쉬 스미스, 신현희, 잭 김, 블라디보스토크에서는 Guy Falconbridge 및 Reuters 직원, 편집: Himani Sarkar, Simon Cameron-Moore, Nick Macfie 및 Alex Richardson)

Ukraine-Russia war – live: Zelensky aims to put Putin’s forces ‘on run’ in push for frontline breakthrough

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Arpan Rai,Tara Cobham and Matt Mathers

Tue, 12 September 2023 at 1:07 am AEST

Ukraine has made gains on the frontline in the east and south, Kyiv has claimed as it seeks to put Russia’s forces on the run.

Ukrainian troops near the frontline town of Avdiivka took advantage of Russian forces focusing on to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne to the south, the head of the local military administration said.

“In my opinion, this is very significant,” Vitaliy Barabash told national television. “To be frank, the enemy overlooked this southern direction a bit.”

He called the advance a “thunderous assault operation” and said fighting was underway in the settlement.

Earlier, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said his country could still achieve a major breakthrough in its counteroffensive before changing weather conditions make it harder to advance,

Mr Zelensky’s forces have broken through the first of three main Russian defensive lines in Zaporizhzhia and could make more gains in the weeks to come, he said, though a breakthrough will not be “tomorrow or the day after tomorrow”.

“If we push them [Russia] from the south, they will run,” he told The Economist in an interview.

Key Points

• Putin’s troops pushed back in ‘thunderous assault operation’ in Donetsk
• Zelensky suggests Ukraine could be set for big breakthrough: ‘They will run’
• Ukrainian military makes ‘thunderous assault operation’
• Ukraine says Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv
• ‘600 members of Putin’s forces killed in one day’ as party HQ destroyed
• British man who went to fight in Ukraine found dead

UK says Russia targeted civilian cargo ship in Black Sea port on 24 Aug

20:00 , Eleanor Noyce

Britain on Monday accused Russia of targeting a civilian cargo ship at port in the Black Sea on 24 August in a previously unconfirmed missile attack it said was successfully thwarted by Ukrainian defences.

Ukraine has been making efforts to allow vessels stranded in Odesa port since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict to sail into open waters after the collapse of the UN-backed Black Sea grains corridor.

The remarks, made in Britain’s parliament by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, are the first time an official has commented on a ship being targeted since those Ukrainian efforts began. Since Aug. 18, four cargo ships have sailed from Odesa.

“Thanks to declassified intelligence, we know the Russian military targeted a civilian cargo ship in the Black Sea with multiple missiles on the 24th of August,” Sunak said in an update to parliament on the G20 summit he attended in New Delhi.

The missiles had targeted a Liberian-flagged cargo ship berthed in port and were successfully shot down, Britain’s foreign office said in a statement. The missiles included two “Kalibr” missiles fired from a Black Sea Fleet missile carrier, it added.

Russia’s defence ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for a comment.

Since Russia quit a U.N.-brokered deal allowing Ukraine to safely export its grain via the Black Sea in July, Moscow has been accused by Ukraine of threatening civilian vessels in the Black Sea.

Both the United States and Britain had warned in July that Russia might expand its targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities to include attacks on civilian shipping in the Black Sea.

“Putin is trying to win a war he will not win, and these attacks show just how desperate he is,” Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in a statement.

“In targeting cargo ships and Ukrainian infrastructure, Russia is hurting the rest of the world.”

US and UK holding UN screening of documentary on Russia’s siege of Ukrainian city of Mariupol

19:07 , Sam Rkaina

The United States and Britain are hosting a U.N. screening of the award-winning documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” which follows a trio of journalists during Russia’s relentless siege of the Ukrainian port city in the early days of the war.

UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward said the Monday evening showing at U.N. headquarters is important because “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens what the U.N. stands for: an international order where the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries is fundamental.”

The screening comes at the start of the 78th session of the U.N. General Assembly and a week before world leaders arrive for their annual meeting, where the more than 18-month war in Ukraine is expected to be in the spotlight — especially with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky scheduled to speak in person for the first time.

The harrowing documentary, which was produced by the AP and the PBS series “Frontline,” is culled from 30 hours of footage AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his colleagues shot in Mariupol following Russia’s Feb. 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine and its siege of the city.

‘Desperate’ Putin attacked civilian cargo ship, Sunak reveals after G20 summit

18:10 , Sam Rkaina

Sunak accuses Russia of targeting civilian cargo ship

17:40 , Sam Rkaina

Rishi Sunak has accused the Russian military of targeting a civilian cargo ship in the Black Sea with “multiple missiles” on 24 August.

“Thanks to declassified intelligence, we know the Russian military targeted a civilian cargo ship in the Black Sea with multiple missiles on the 24th of August,” Mr Sunak said in an update to parliament on the G20 summit he attended in New Delhi.

Since Russia quit a U.N.-brokered deal allowing Ukraine to safely export its grain via the Black Sea in July, Moscow has been accused by Ukraine of threatening civilian vessels in the Black Sea.

Both the United States and Britain had warned in July that Russia might expand its targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities to include attacks against civilian shipping in the Black Sea.

White House urges North Korea not to sell arms to Putin

16:50 , Sam Rkaina

With North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly on a trip to Russia, the White House on Monday urged North Korea not to sell arms to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.

“As we have warned publicly, arms discussions between Russia and the DPRK are expected to continue during Kim Jong Un’s trip to Russia.

“We urge the DPRK to abide by the public commitments that Pyongyang has made to not provide or sell arms to Russia,” said Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council.

German minister says Ukraine’s place is in EU, hears calls for arms during Kyiv visit

16:20 , Eleanor Noyce

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said during a visit to Kyiv on Monday that Ukraine‘s place was in the European Union, but urged it do more to fight corruption.

On her fourth visit to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion over 18 months ago, she said Germany would provide an additional 20 million euros ($21.44 million) in humanitarian aid, bringing the amount provided by Berlin to 380 million euros this year.

At meetings with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian leaders, she also heard calls for Western partners to provide Kyiv with more weapons including long-range missiles to fight Russian forces.

“Ukraine is defending the freedom of us all with great courage and determination,” Baerbock was quoted by her ministry as saying on arrival in the Ukrainian capital.

“Just as Ukraine is standing up for us, it can also rely on us and on our understanding of EU enlargement as a necessary geopolitical consequence of Russia’s war. And on our firm support for Ukraine on its path towards the European Union.”

Despite Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is trying to carry out reforms requested by the EU before it can join the 28-country bloc, a process that usually takes years.

“Reform results in the areas of judicial reform and media legislation are already impressive. But there is still a long way to go in the implementation of the anti-oligarch law and the fight against corruption,” Baerbock said.

She also warned that Russia would target Ukraine‘s energy facilities in air strikes this autumn and winter.

“Russia’s perfidious goal is to starve the people again this winter and to let them freeze to death,” she said.

Ukraine claims to recapture Black Sea oil platforms seized during Crimea’s annexation

16:06 , Eleanor Noyce

The Ukrainian military said Monday that it recaptured strategic gas and oil drilling platforms from Russia in the Black Sea and claimed gains in occupied areas near Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine left in ruins after the war’s longest and deadliest fighting.

The recapture of the so-called Boyko Towers platforms provides an energy source and takes back an asset that Russia seized in 2015 and used to launch helicopters, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said.

“Russia has been deprived of the ability to fully control the waters of the Black Sea, and this makes Ukraine many steps closer to regaining Crimea,” the Main Intelligence Directorate said.

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Ukraine claims to recapture Black Sea oil platforms seized during Crimea’s annexation

Lula rows back from comments that Brazil would not arrest Putin

15:50 , Eleanor Noyce

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva rowed back on Monday from saying Brazil would ignore a war crimes arrest warrant for Russian leader Vladimir Putin, while saying he would review Brazil’s membership in the International Criminal Court.

On Saturday, while in India for a Group of 20 nations meeting, Lula told a local interviewer that there was “no way” Putin would be arrested if he attended next year’s summit, which is due to be held in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil is a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which obliges members to comply with its arrest warrants. The court issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest in March, accusing him of the war crime of deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.

Russia has denied its forces have engaged in war crimes or forcibly taken Ukrainian children.

Putin has yet to travel abroad since the ICC sought his arrest, notably missing a summit of the BRICS group in South Africa last month as well as this month’s G20 summit in India. He also skipped the G20 summit in Bali last year.

“If Putin decides to join (next year’s summit), it is the judiciary’s power to decide (on a possible arrest) and not my government,” Lula said at a press conference on Monday, rowing back from his earlier remarks.

He would review why Brazil had signed up to the ICC treaty, he said: “I want to know why the U.S, India and China didn’t sign the ICC treaty and why our country signed it.”

Lula’s earlier comments that Putin would not be arrested had drawn criticism in Brazil.

Oliver Stuenkel, a professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, said on social media site X that the comments were “damaging and unnecessary”.

“Rather than projecting himself as the elder statesman, Lula came across as inexperienced and ignorant,” Stuenkel wrote.

Lula has sought unsuccessfully to mediate peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and has said that U.S. President Joe Biden could have done more to prevent the conflict.

Russia invaded Ukraine last year and claims to have annexed around a sixth of its territory. Ukraine says any peace agreement that would leave Russian troops on Ukrainian soil would reward Putin for his decision to invade. Moscow says there can be no peace unless Ukraine accepts its territorial claims.

Sweden adds another SEK 700 mln to its 2024 defence spending

15:35 , Eleanor Noyce

Sweden has again boosted its planned defence budget for 2024, taking the total planned increase for the year to 27 billion crowns ($2.44 billion) and exceeding the NATO threshold of 2% of GDP, the government said on Monday.

The defence minister announced that Sweden would add 700 million to the defence in its upcoming autumn budget, lifting the overall defence spending to 119 billion crowns in 2024, almost double that of 2020.

The spending is expected to be equivalent to 2.1% of Swedish GDP, he said.

“We are in the most serious security policy situation since the end of the Second World War,” Minister of Defence Pal Jonson told a news conference.

Sweden is scrambling to boost its defence following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.

Sweden was invited to join NATO in 2023 but is waiting for Turkey and Hungary to approve its application.

Russia’s largest untapped copper deposit starts concentrate production

15:20 , Eleanor Noyce

Copper concentrate production started at Russia’s largest undeveloped copper deposit on Monday following a ceremony overseen by President Vladimir Putin via video link.

The long-awaited Udokan project in Russia’s far east is coming on stream at a challenging time. The United States imposed sanctions on its operator – Udokan Copper LLC – in April as part of a wave of restrictions placed on Russia due to its activities in Ukraine.

Copper prices also fell 14% in 2022 and are flat so far this year due to weaker than expected demand.

The project, however, relies on its proximity to top metals consumer China and on demand there, as well as future demand from the global green energy transition.

“Go ahead,” Putin said during the ceremony, broadcast by state TV.

The processing plant at Udokan will produce sulphide copper concentrate with 40-45% metal content, the company said. It plans commercial sales this year, but has not disclosed potential buyers yet.

Once the first stage of the metallurgical plant is launched in 2024, Udokan will be able to handle up to 15 million metric tons of ore per year, with annual production of up to 150,000 tons of copper in the form of copper cathode and concentrate.

The deposit is the largest in Russia with an estimated 26.7 million tons of copper resources. It has been untapped since its discovery in 1949 because the technology didn’t exist to exploit its unique and difficult-to-extract ore.

In the 1970s, a student at the Moscow Mining Institute researched the idea of a “clean” nuclear blast to extract Udokan’s ore, but that remained on paper.

Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov bought the right to develop Udokan for $500 million from the government just before the 2008 financial crisis. It took 10 years to solve the technical challenges of the project, create a new geological model and start construction.

By 2028, Udokan plans to build the second stage of its mining and metallurgical complex, increasing annual capacity to 24–28 million tons of ore and up to 450,000 tons of copper.

North Korea’s Kim en route to Russia for talks with Putin

15:05 , Eleanor Noyce

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has set off for Russia aboard a special train, a South Korean source said, as Pyongyang and Moscow on Monday confirmed a summit with President Vladimir Putin amid Russia’s deepening isolation over the war in Ukraine.

Kim would visit Russia in the coming days at the invitation of Putin, the Kremlin said, while North Korean state news agency KCNA said the two would “meet and have a talk”, without elaborating.

U.S. officials have said the pair would discuss possible arms deals to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine and provide North Korea with a much-needed economic and political lifeline.

Washington and its allies have been voicing concern at recent signs of closer military cooperation between Russia and the nuclear-armed North. It will be Kim’s second summit with Putin, after the pair met in 2019.

Despite denials by both Pyongyang and Moscow, the United States has said talks are advancing actively for North Korea to supply arms to Russia, which has expended vast stocks of weapons in more than 18 months of war.

The North Korean leader left aboard his train late on Sunday, a senior South Korean government official told Reuters.

The special train would take Kim to North Korea’s northeastern border with Russia and the summit could take place as early as Tuesday, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing intelligence concerns, and added that details could change depending on the situation there.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang immediately confirmed an exact schedule for the visit.

North Korea is one of the few countries to have openly supported Russia since the invasion of Ukraine last year, and Putin pledged last week to “expand bilateral ties in all respects in a planned way by pooling efforts”.

Kim’s last trip abroad in 2019 was also to Vladivostok for his first summit with Putin after the collapse of North Korea’s nuclear disarmament talks with former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Red Cross cuts 2024 budget as donations fall

14:50 , Eleanor Noyce

The International Committee of the Red Cross will cut its budget next year by about 13%, its director-general said on Monday, as major donors including the United States have reduced funding.

Surging humanitarian needs amid a deepening set of crises around the world including wars in Ukraine and Sudan have strained aid budgets, forcing governments to rethink decisions about who to help and how.

“This reduced ICRC budget forecast which is the consequence of shrinking aid budgets globally is taking place at a time where global humanitarian needs have never been higher,” Robert Mardini told journalists, saying he was concerned about he impact of the cuts.

“This trend comes at a significant human cost,” he added.

The humanitarian body is present in more than 90 countries and its activities range from providing basic humanitarian aid to visiting prisoners of war.

The 2024 budget would be 2.1 billion CHF ($2.36 billion), resulting in 270 further job cuts in its Geneva headquarters, he said.

The ICRC’s website says it is funded by voluntary contributions from states party to the Geneva Conventions, Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, supranational organisations such as the European Commission, and public and private donors.

At the end of March, its governing board approved a plan to reduce 430 million CHF in global costs over 2023 and early 2024, having revised its overall budget down to 2.4 billion CHF.

Asked about U.S. funding, Mardini said that the United States was the organisation’s biggest donor and had cut back its 2023 contributions versus the previous year, without giving details of the amounts.

“We need to rethink the humanitarian system,” said Mardini. “The whole system relies on a handful of countries and donors and I think this is by design a big problem and a big risk,” he added.

‘No risk’ that NATO member Romania will be dragged into war, senior alliance official says

14:35 , Eleanor Noyce

NATO Deputy-General Secretary Mircea Geoana said on Monday there is “no risk” that Alliance member Romania will be dragged into a war following the recent discovery of drone fragments on its territory near the border with war-torn Ukraine.

“The most important thing is to re-confirm the fact that there is no indication of a deliberate action (by Russia) to strike Romanian territory and therefore NATO territory,” Geoana told journalists during a visit to a school near Romania’s capital, Bucharest.

The NATO deputy chief’s comments come days after Romanian authorities have twice confirmed the discovery of drone fragments on the country’s soil amid sustained attacks by Russian forces on Ukraine’s Danube River ports across the river from NATO member Romania.

Stephen McGrath and Vadim Ghirda report:

‘No risk’ that NATO member Romania will be dragged into war, senior alliance official says

Just 14 UK tanks for Ukraine? We must do better than that

14:15 , Eleanor Noyce

Complacency could be the enemy of success in Ukraine. It is 564 days since Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine shook to the core assumptions about our UK and European security. War in Europe is a brutal reminder that to be secure at home, we must be strong abroad – and that our allies are the UK’s great strategic strength. Defence of the UK starts in Ukraine.

Despite deeply-dug and heavily mined Russian defences, the Ukrainians are gradually getting the upper hand on the battlefield in the South, as well as diversifying the ways it is hitting the enemy – from airfields at depth in Russia, to targets in Crimea, to Russian ships in the Black Sea.

Some have criticised the slow pace of Ukraine’s counter-offensive. Yet its forces are making a similar rate of progress as British troops advancing into Normandy after the D-Day landings. Now is the time for Ukraine’s allies to double down on our support.

Britain’s military backing of Zelensky has been dwarfed by our EU allies, writes shadow defence secretary John Healey. If we are serious about defeating Putin – and defending Britain – we must double down on our support:

Just 14 UK tanks for Ukraine? We must do better than that | John Healey

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 2 foreign aid workers and target Kyiv

14:00 , Matt Mathers

Two foreign aid workers were reportedly killed in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Russian shelling hit a van carrying a team of four working with a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization, while dozens of Russian drones targeted Kyiv and wounded at least one civilian.

The four volunteers from the Road to Relief group, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside the van as it flipped over and caught fire after being struck by shells near the town of Chasiv Yar, the organization said on its Instagram page.

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 2 foreign aid workers and target Kyiv

Ukraine says Russia may soon launch big mobilisation drive

13:47 , Eleanor Noyce

Ukraine‘s military said on Monday Russia could launch a big mobilisation campaign soon to try to recruit hundreds of thousands of soldiers from inside Russia and occupied Ukraine.

The Ukrainian General Staff provided no evidence in a statement to support its assertion. Russian officials have said there are no current plans for a new wave of mobilisation and that Moscow is focused on recruiting professional soldiers.

“A mass forced mobilisation of the population is expected soon in the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine due to the occupiers’ catastrophic losses,” the General Staff said in a battlefield roundup.

The mobilisation campaign could target between 400,000 and 700,000 recruits, it said, citing different estimates.

It said the number of Russians recruited in Moscow and St Petersburg would remain “minimal”, while Russians would be drawn heavily from the regions outside the two big Russian cities.

The General Staff issued its statement days after a senior Ukrainian military spy official said there were 420,000 Russian servicemen currently inside Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine both treat their losses on the battlefield as a state secret.

Last month, the New York Times cited unnamed U.S. officials who said nearly 500,000 Ukrainian and Russian troops had been killed or wounded in the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

ICYMI: G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down Ukraine declaration

13:40 , Matt Mathers

The G20 summit in India has ended without the usual “family photo”, as some members questioned the watered-down language used in the joint declaration issued by leaders in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Most of the leaders departed from Delhi earlier in the day, having paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial on the banks of the Yamuna River. The absence of the customary group photograph – intended to signify unity between the world’s largest economies – exemplified the fact that deep divisions still remain over the Ukraine war.

Shweta Sharma reports:

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down declaration

Germany to provide Ukraine additional €20 mln in aid – Baerbock in Kyiv

13:23 , Eleanor Noyce

Germany will provide an additional €20 million ($21.44 million) in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Monday during a visit to Kyiv.

The additional aid will bring Germany’s total to 380 million euros this year, the minister said.

Baerbock also warned that Russia would again target Ukraine‘s energy facilities this autumn and winter: “Russia’s perfidious goal is to starve the people again this winter and to let them freeze to death.”

Ukraine needs more air defences to protect ports – FM

13:20 , Matt Mathers

Ukraine’s foreign minister said he discussed air defence supplies with his German counterpart in Kyiv on Monday and that Ukraine needed more systems to protect its ports from Russian air strikes to ensure grain could be exported.

Dmytro Kuleba also urged Berlin to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine as soon as possible.

“You will do it anyway, its just a matter of time, and I don’t understand why we are wasting time,” he said in response to a question at a news conference in Kyiv.

Russia says ban on Russians bringing cars, some goods into EU is racist

12:46 , Matt Mathers

Russia said on Monday that a European Union ban on Russians bringing their cars and some personal goods into the bloc was racist, and one ally of president Vladimir Putin suggested that all diplomatic relations should be severed in response.

In an explanatory note to its rules on sanctions imposed over the Ukraine war, the European Commission said Russians were temporarily barred from bringing some personal goods or vehicles into the 27-nation EU.

The annex referred to in the advice also appears to ban the import of a host of items which could be dual use alongside more mundane items such as make-up, toothpaste, deodorants, toilet paper and mobile phones.

“It’s just racism,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said of the Commission’s advice. “This is racism pure and simple.”

Kremlin and North Korea confirm Kim Jong-Un visit

12:28 , Matt Mathers

Russia and North Korea confirmed Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia.

A brief statement on the Kremlin’s website said Kim’s visit is at the invitation of president Vladimir Putin and would take place “in the coming days.”

The visit also was reported by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency, saying he would meet with Putin.

11:56 , Matt Mathers

Ukraine soldiers search ‘road of death’ for fallen Russians in hope of exchange

Ukrainian soldiers have told the harrowing details of how they search for the bodies of dead Russian troops who they hope to exchange for their own fallen comrades.

Wearing face masks, the Ukrainian soldiers poked sticks into the undergrowth along a deserted country lane, which they have named the “road of death” after a number of Russian soldiers were killed there when Ukrainian forces retook the southeastern village of Blahodatne at the start of their counteroffensive in June.

Three months on, the frontline had shifted south and it was finally safe enough for the three-man team of Ukrainian soldiers to start their operation in this liberated part of Donetsk region.

“We’re going to search,” said Volodymyr, a 50-year-old marine, as artillery fire boomed in the distance. “Search with our eyes. And using smell.”

Russia pulling out of Black Sea grain deal risks ‘many people’ going hungry

11:34 , Matt Mathers

Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea grain initiative has put “many more” people at risk from hunger, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights has said,

Volker Türk spoke at the opening of the Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday.

“A year and a half of horrific warfare has ravaged Ukraine, with a heart-wrenching toll on its people, and damage to vast areas of agricultural land,” he said.

“The Russian Federation’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative in July, and attacks on grain facilities in Odesa and elsewhere, have again forced prices sky-high in many developing countries – taking the right to food far out of reach for many people.”

Putin arrives in Vladivostock for Eastern Economic Forum – state TV

10:59 , Matt Mathers

Vladimir Putin has arrived in Vladivostock for a meeting of the Eastern Economic Forum, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, according to Russian state TV.

Russia has hosted the forum since 2015 as it tries to drum up investment from the far east. China, Myanmar, Mongolia, India, Armenia and South Korea are among the countries that send delegates to the forum.

This year’s event is taking place at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) campus.

“The Eastern Economic Forum is a “key international platform for establishing and strengthening ties within the Russian and global investment communities, and for comprehensive expert evaluation of the economic potential of the Russian Far East, the investment opportunities it offers, and business conditions within advanced special economic zones,” it website says.

Ukraine retakes offshore drilling platforms near Crimea – military intelligence

10:27 , Matt Mathers

Ukraine’s military intelligence service said on Monday its forces had regained control of several offshore drilling platforms close to Crimea.

It said on the Telegram messaging app that Kyiv’s forces had retaken the drilling platforms known as the ‘Boiko Towers’ in a “unique operation”.

It said the platforms had been occupied since 2015 by Russia, which seized and annexed Crimea in 2014, and had been used by Moscow for military purposes since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022.

Up to judiciary if Putin should be arrested when visiting Brazil for G20 – Lula

10:01 , Matt Mathers

Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said it is up to the country’s judiciary whether or not to arrest Vladimir Putin if he visits for the G20 summit next year.

“If Putin decides to join, it is the judiciary’s power to decide and not my government,” Lula told reporters in New Delhi, where he was attending this year’s G20 summit.

“I believe that Putin can go easily to Brazil,” he said in an on-camera interview with Indian news outlet Firstpost.

“What I can say to you is that if I’m president of Brazil, and he comes to Brazil, there’s no way he will be arrested.”

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ‘on way to Russia’

09:27 , Matt Mathers

A North Korean train presumably carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has departed for Russia for a possible meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin, South Korean media said Monday.

Citing unidentified South Korean government sources, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that the train likely left the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on Sunday evening and that a Kim-Putin meeting is possible as early as Tuesday.

The Yonhap news agency and some other media published similar reports. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service didn’t immediately confirm those details.

US officials released intelligence last week that North Korea and Russia were arranging a meeting between their leaders that would take place within this month as they expand their cooperation in the face of deepening confrontations with the United States.

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down Ukraine declaration

09:03 , Matt Mathers

The G20 summit in India has ended without the usual “family photo”, as some members questioned the watered-down language used in the joint declaration issued by leaders in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Most of the leaders departed from Delhi earlier in the day, having paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial on the banks of the Yamuna River. The absence of the customary group photograph – intended to signify unity between the world’s largest economies – exemplified the fact that deep divisions still remain over the Ukraine war.

Shweta Sharma reports:

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down declaration

Zelensky pays tribute to aid workers killed in Donetsk

08:41 , Matt Mathers

Volodymyr Zelensky has paid tribute to aid workers after a Russian anti-tank missile struck a volunteer van in Donetsk yesterday.

Canadian Anthony Ignat was killed in the incident and it is likely Emma Igual of Spain also died, the Ukraine president said.

German citizen Mawick Ruben and Swedish citizen Johan Mathias, two other volunteers, were seriously injured and are being treated in hospitals in Dnipro.

“This Russian shelling once again confirms how close the war against Ukraine is to everyone in the world who truly values human life and who believes it is the common moral duty of humanity to stop terror and defeat evil,” Zelensky said in a Telegram post.

Ukraine’s place is in the EU, says German foreign minister in Kyiv

08:22 , Maryam Zakir-Hussain

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stressed that Ukraine‘s place is in the European Union during a visit to the embattled country’s capital, Kyiv, on Monday morning.

Ukraine can “rely on us and on our understanding of EU enlargement as a necessary geopolitical consequence of Russia‘s war,” said Baerbock upon arrival, according to a statement.

Ukraine already has candidate status, said Baerbock. “And now we are preparing to take a decision on opening EU accession talks.”

On judicial reform and media legislation, Ukraine‘s reform results are already impressive, she said.

But there is still a long way to go in the implementation of the anti-oligarch law and the fight against corruption, added the foreign minister.

The visit is Baerbock’s fourth since the war in Ukraine broke out in February 2022.

Putin to recruit 420,000 by year end in blow to industrial workforce – UK MoD

08:03 , Arpan Rai

The Russian military intends to recruit 420,000 contract personnel by the end of 2023, Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said today, warning of the negative effect this would have on its industrial workforce.

On 3 September, Russian Security Council deputy chairman Dimitry Medvedev stated that so far 280,000 personnel had been recruited, the ministry said, adding that the numbers cannot be verified.

“Russia’s conscription continues to have negative effects on its industry workforce. The Yegor Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy found that Russia’s industry shortage of workers reached a new high of 42% for July 2023, 7% higher from April 2023,” the MoD said.

It added that in contrast to conscription efforts elsewhere, the IT sector Russia has taken steps to preserve the workforce. “This likely highlights the particularly acute shortages in the sector after about 100,000 IT workers left Russia in 2022,” it said.

“This equates to 10% of the IT sector workforce. On 4 September 2023, President Putin signed a decree to increase the exemption age of military recruitment for IT professionals from 27 to 30.”

“This shows that mobilisation and conscription within Russia has worsened non-defence workforce shortages. In the run-up to the Russian presidential elections scheduled for March 2024, Russian authorities will likely seek to avoid further unpopular mobilisations,” the MoD said in its latest intelligence update.

Ukrainian military makes ‘thunderous assault operation’ amid advances in Donetsk and south

07:21 , Arpan Rai

Ukraine’s armed forces have made gains in different parts of eastern Donetsk region, the focal point of Russia’s continuing invasion of the country, and in the south, officials said yesterday.

Ukrainian troops near the frontline town of Avdiivka took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city, the head of the local military administration said.

“In my opinion, this is very significant,” Vitaliy Barabash told national television. “To be frank, the enemy overlooked this southern direction a bit.”

He called the advance a “thunderous assault operation” and said fighting was underway in the settlement.

Avdiivka, site of a major coking plant, has been under near-constant Russian attack for many months.

The General Staff of Ukraine‘s armed forces reported successes near Bakhmut.

In its evening report, the General Staff reported “partial success as a result of assault operations” near Klishchiivka, a village on heights south of Bakhmut, seen as critical to recapturing the town.

The report also described a measure of success near Robotyne – a settlement it captured late last month – as part of its drive southward through Russian-held areas to the Sea of Azov.

US treasury secretary denies G20 watered down statement on Ukraine

06:56 , Arpan Rai

The US treasury secretary Janet Yellen has denied the G20 toned down its stance on Ukraine in the Delhi Declaration released over the weekend, which did not mention Russian aggression in Ukraine directly.

Calling the statement “substantively very strong”, Ms Yellen said: “The US does not see this language as in any way weakening the G20’s stance on Ukraine.”

“Clearly it was hard to find language that would satisfy the US and other countries but we felt we wanted strong language, and substantively strong language, and this was substantively very strong,” she told the Financial Times.

Ukraine rejected the joint statement, saying “the G20 has nothing to be proud of in the part about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”.

Zelensky suggests Ukraine could be set for big breakthrough: ‘They will run’

05:21 , Arpan Rai

In an interview with The Economist published yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky said steady progress was essential to maintaining Ukrainian morale.

“Keeping morale high is crucial. This is why even limited progress on the frontline is essential,” Mr Zelensky told the publication.

“Now we have movement. It’s important,” the publication quoted him as saying.

“If we push them from the south, they will run,” he said, hinting that a big breakthrough can still come before the onset of Ukraine’s infamously wet autumn weather makes battlefield movement more difficult.

Ukraine has had some success in dismantling the first of Russia’s three main defensive lines in the Zaporizhzhia region after facing initial losses in the early stages of the counteroffensive.

Mr Zelensky added that victory will not come “tomorrow or the day after tomorrow”. The Russian army is losing “lots of people”, Mr Zelensky said, adding that the invading country has had to redeploy its reserves to stop the Ukrainian advance.

“It means they lose,” he said.

Zelensky says troops advancing in south, movement in east

04:17 , Arpan Rai

Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian troops pressing a counteroffensive against Russian occupying forces have advanced on the southern front in the past week while there had also been movement near Bakhmut in the east.

“Over the past seven days we have made an advance in the Tavria (southern) sector,” Mr Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

“There is movement in the Bakhmut sector. Yes, there is movement.”

He added that Ukrainian forces were holding their ground on other fronts in the east – Avdiivka and Maryinka near the focus of Russia’s main attacks, and Lyman and Kupiansk, also subject to Russian attempts to advance further north.

The war-time president’s latest comments confirm assessments by other officials of gains, however modest, in the east and south.

Near Avdiivka, the head of the local military administration said Ukrainian troops took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city.

Two drones downed near Russia’s Belgorod region

03:55 , Arpan Rai

Russia’s air defence systems destroyed two drones over the Belgorod region in the early hours today, the Russian defence ministry said on its Telegram channel, claiming to have thwarted an attack by Ukraine.

No immediate injuries have been reported after drone debris fell on a road in the Yakovlevsky district, according to Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

ICYMI: Foreign aid workers killed in Russian strikes

03:00 , Lydia Patrick

A charity confirmed four of their workers were hit by Russian shells in the Bakhmut region whilst trying to get to civilians who were caught in a crossfire.

Their vehicle came under Russian attack leading the van to catch on fire and flip, according to a Road to Relief spokesperson.German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick, Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr, Canadian volunteer Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat, and Spanish volunteer and Road to Relief Director Emma Igual were all in the vehicle.According to the charity, Ruben and Johan were badly injured with shrapnel wounds and burns but are now in a stable condition.

Tragically, Tonko has been confirmed dead, whilst Emma’s current status is still unknown as the organiation cannot trace her whereabouts.

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Zelensky urges the West to maintain support for Ukraine

02:00 , Lydia Patrick

The Ukranian president says Europeans must prepare for a long war as Kyiv make ‘modest’ progress three months into counter offensive.

In an interview with The Economist, the leader expresses a seeming change in morale amongst Western leaders as Kyiv make ‘modest’ gains.

In conversation with The Economist, he said: I have this intuition, reading, hearing and seeing their eyes [when they say] ‘we’ll be always with you.

“But I see that he or she is not here, not with us.”

The ex TV actor is aware of the importance of western economic support.

Mr Zelensky added: “If you are not with Ukraine, you are with Russia, and if you are not with Russia, you are with Ukraine. And if partners do not help us, it means they will help Russia to win. That is it.”

ICYMI: Russia carries out overnight drone attack on Kyiv

01:00 , Lydia Patrick

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city’s central districts, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s Land Forces said that the country’s air defence systems destroyed 25 out of 32 Russia-launched Iran-made Shahed drones, most of which targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged.

“Drones came onto the capital in groups and from different directions,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Read the full story here

Tributes pour in for the volunteers killed in Kyiv strike

Monday 11 September 2023 00:00 , Lydia Patrick

Two foreign aid workers were killed this morning as shells hit their van – causing it to catch fire and flip.

Candian Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat was one of the volunteers who lost their life in the attack.

Paracrew Humanitarian Aid, an organisation he had previously worked for shared their sadness on Facebook.

They wrote: “His compassion, empathy and strength will forever be an inspiration to all of us. And we will keep his memory alive by working on to help Ukraine in every possible way. Rest in peace dear friend.”

Director of NGO killed in Russian strike

Sunday 10 September 2023 23:00 , Lydia Patrick

A 34-year-old Spanish humanitarian worker has been named as one of the victims of a Russian attack in Kyiv this morning.

Emma Igual was the director of Road to Relief, a Ukrainian-registered humanitarian NGO created in March 2022 with the purpose of helping Ukranian civillians.

The charity’s main aims are to evacuate civillians, provide humanitarian aid and mobile healthcare.

According to the Huff Post she dedicated her life to help others and had previously carried out volunteer work in Kenya, Morocco. Greece and Myanmar.

Zelensky says a big breakthrough could lie ahead in counter offensive as Kyiv make gains

Sunday 10 September 2023 22:00 , Lydia Patrick

President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian troops had made advances on the southern front and made movements near Bakhmut in the east.

“Over the past seven days we have made an advance in the Tavria (southern) sector,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

“There is movement in the Bakhmut sector. Yes, there is movement.”

Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were holding their ground on other fronts in the east — Avdiivka and Maryinka near the focus of Russia’s main attacks, and Lyman and Kupiansk, also subject to Russian attempts to advance further north.

Near Avdiivka, the head of the local military administration said Ukrainian troops took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city.

“In my opinion, this is very significant,” Vitaliy Barabash told national television. “To be frank, the enemy overlooked this southern direction a bit.”

Zelensky and other officials have said the counter offensive requires time, dismissing criticism in the Western media that it is proceeding too slowly because of tactical errors.

In an interview with The Economist published on Sunday, Zelensky said making steady progress was essential to maintaining morale.

He suggested a big breakthrough could lie ahead.

G20 summit doesn’t end with ‘family photo’

Sunday 10 September 2023 21:00 , Lydia Patrick

The G20 summit did not end in the usual harmonious manner this Sunday as some members question the and omission of Russia and ‘careful’ language used in the communiqué.

Earlier drafts of the declaration reportedly featured stronger language when it comes to Russia, but a senior European Union official who was part of the negotiations told reporters here at the summit venue on Sunday that it would have spelled the end of the G20 as an organisation if they had not agreed to the watered-down version.

The official said: “Ukraine was the most contentious issue. Extremely different positions were on the table to find the consensus, but it was India’s presidency and we believe in consensus so we had to accept that.”

Read the full story here:

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down declaration

Russian general says Ukraine is a ‘stepping stone’ to the rest of Europe

Sunday 10 September 2023 20:00 , Lydia Patrick

General Andrey Mordvichev spoke out in a TV interview with Russia state TV warning Ukraine is just the beginning to the rest of Eastern Europe.

He also told the presente he expects the war to last a very long time.

As reported in Newsweek, Mordvichev said: “I think there’s still plenty of time to spend. It is pointless to talk about a specified period. If we are talking about Eastern Europe, which we will have to, of course then it will be longer.”

The interviewer then asked if Ukraine was merely a stepping stone.

He responded: “Yes, absolutely. It is only the beginning.”

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US Secretary of State defends decision to accept G20 statement – despite criticism

Sunday 10 September 2023 19:30 , Lydia Patrick

Anthony Blinken defended the United State’s decision to agree with the summit’s declaration amid Ukrainian complaints the statment doesn’t do enough to condemn Russia.

During an interview on ABC’s This Week he said:“I was in the room when all the leaders spoke today with President Biden and it was very clear from everything that they said that not only do they want to see this war end, but they want to see it end on just and durable terms and it was also very clear that the consequences of Russia’s aggression are being felt throughout the G20 countries and throughout the developing world.”

“I think it’s very important that the G20 spoke as one,” Blinken added.

Ukrainian foreign ministry Oleg Nikolnko hit out at the statement, saying the language used did not go far enough to condemn Russia.

Blinken routinely pledges his support for Ukraine on social media.

Russia are becoming savvy to Ukranian military tactics, says head of military intelligence

Sunday 10 September 2023 18:30 , Lydia Patrick

Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov spoke at the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv last night.

Ukranian and international policy makers gathered to dicuss the war’s progression.

As reported in The Guardian, Budanov said:

In terms of creativity and flexibility, we still have an edge over them, they are rather outdated. But they are adapting, they are trying to change tactics, to alter the way they use forces, they miserably fail with their strategy, but their tactics do have some improvements.

They switched to the mass use of drones, before the war they simply didn’t understand the importance of them, now they are adapting and copying us a lot.

Kyrylo Budanov

ICYMI: British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Sunday 10 September 2023 18:00 , Lydia Patrick

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

She said: “Although we are extremely proud of his unwavering courage and resilience, his death has been devastating.

Read the full story here

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

ICYMI: Ukraine says G20 summit declaration ‘nothing to be proud of’

Sunday 10 September 2023 17:00 , Lydia Patrick

The Ukrainian foreign ministry hit out at G20’s joint declaration for omitting the mention of Russia and put forward his own corrected version.

The G20 member country’s reached an agreement on Saturday but there was a notable difference in language regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict in comparison with last year’s document.

There were disagreements between European countries who were keen to use strong language to condemn Moscow’s invasion yet Russia and China wouldn’t accept any mention of war.

Nikolenko said:

Moscow hold local elections in occupied regions of Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 16:15 , Lydia Patrick

Russian authorities have reported multiple attempts to sabotage voting in local elections taking place in occupied areas of Ukraine.

Votes are taking place this weekend in 79 regions of Russia, with ballots for governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils, as well as in the four Ukrainian regions Moscow annexed illegally last year – the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia provinces – and on the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014.

Kyiv and the West have said balloting in the occupied areas of Ukraine is a violation of international law.

Russian electoral officials on Sunday reported attempts to sabotage voting in the occupied regions, where guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv had previously killed pro-Moscow officials, blown up bridges and helped the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets.

A drone strike in the early hours of Sunday destroyed one polling station in the Zaporizhzhia province, deputy chairman of Russia’s Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulaev told reporters. He said no staff were at the station at the time of the attack.

A Russian-appointed official in the neighbouring Kherson region said that a live grenade was discovered on Saturday near a polling station there. Marina Zakharova said the grenade was hidden in bushes outside the station, and that voting had to be halted while emergency services disposed of it.

Local residents and Ukrainian activists have alleged that Russian poll workers make house calls accompanied by armed soldiers in both provinces, detaining those who refuse to vote and pressuring them into writing “explanatory statements” that could be used as grounds for a criminal case.

ICYMI: Russia turning to old ally North Korea to replenish ammunition

Sunday 10 September 2023 15:42 , Lydia Patrick

Russia’s supplies are depleting after a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine – and they’re turning to Kim Jong Un.

It is believed the isolated Asian country has tens of millions artillery shells and rockets that could help the Russian army.

United States officials expect North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Russia in the coming days to seal a possible deal on munitions transfer with President Vladimir Putin.

Alexander Gabuev, head of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center said: ““We know that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited recently for artillery shells predominantly, and most likely that will be discussed between Putin and Kim Jong Un.”

Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, visited North Korea in July 2023, as the first Russian defence chief to visit the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Whilst the Kremlin have refused to comment about the nature of an arms deal, spokesperson Dmitry Peskov expressed their close ties.

He said: : “North Korea is our neighbor, and we will further develop our relations without looking back at other countries’ opinion.”

Read the full story here:

Russia is turning to old ally North Korea to resupply its arsenal for the war in Ukraine

Russia says will return to grain deal once all conditions met

Sunday 10 September 2023 15:02 , Tara Cobham

Russia will return to the Black Sea grain deal “the same day” as Moscow’s conditions for export of its own grain and fertilisers to the global markets are met, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Sunday.

Russia quit the deal in July, a year after it was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, complaining that its own food and fertiliser exports faced obstacles and that insufficient Ukrainian grain was going to countries in need.

“When all the necessary actions for removing obstacles for our grain and fertiliser exports are implemented, the same day we will return to the collective implementation of the Ukrainian part of the ‘Black Sea initiative’”, Lavrov told a briefing after attending a two-day G20 summit in New Delhi.

US army chief fears Kyiv has only 30 days left for offensive

Sunday 10 September 2023 14:34 , Tara Cobham

Kyiv could have as little as 30 days left for its counter-offensive against Moscow, fears the head of the US military.

General Mark Milley said Ukraine only has around 30 to 45 days left before poor weather conditions hinder its offensive, telling the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg it will become “very difficult to manoeuvre” once the rains come.

Luke O’Reilly reports:

Ukraine has around 45 days left before weather hinders offensive – US army chief

Recap: Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack

Sunday 10 September 2023 13:30 , Tara Cobham

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet – with one Ukrainian official saying that his country is paying “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego”.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians in areas where Russia’s invasion has left infrastructure devastated or jammed.

An extract of a new biography of Musk, published by CNN on Thursday, said that the drones – packed with explosives – “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly” during the thwarted assault last year, after Musk ordered his engineers to turn off the network. Musk is said to have feared that a strike on the ports of Russian-occupied Crimea would amount to a “mini Pearl Harbor”. Having apparently spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States – who is reported to have told him that an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response – Musk is then said to have ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100km of the Crimean coast”.

Chris Stevenson reports:

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukraine drone attack on Russian ships

Russia claims it destroyed US-supplied Ukrainian speedboats

Sunday 10 September 2023 13:00 , Tara Cobham

Russia’s defense ministry said in the early hours of Sunday that Moscow’s forces earlier destroyed three US-supplied Ukrainian speedboats that had been travelling toward Crimea.

The claim could not be independently verified.

Too early to judge Ukraine’s summer offensive as failure, says US military head

Sunday 10 September 2023 12:20 , Tara Cobham

It is too early to say whether Ukraine’s summer offensive has failed, the head of the US military has said.

Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, General Mark Milley said: “That offensive kicked off about 90 days ago. It has gone slower than the planners anticipated. But that is a difference between what Clausewitz called war on paper and real war.

“So these are real people in real vehicles that are fighting through real minefields, and there’s real death and destruction, and there’s real friction.

“And there’s still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days, worth of fighting weather left.

“So the Ukrainians aren’t done. This battle is not done. They haven’t finished the fighting part of what they’re trying to accomplish. So we’ll see, it’s too early to say how this is going to end. They at least have achieved partial success in what they set out to do, and that’s important. And then the rains will come in. It’ll become very muddy.

“It’ll be very difficult to manoeuvre at that point, and then you’ll get the deep winter. And then at that point, we’ll see where things go. But right now, it is way too early to say that this offensive has failed or not failed.”

In pictures: Russian drones rain down on Kyiv for hours overnight

Sunday 10 September 2023 12:18 , Tara Cobham

Foreign aid workers killed in Russian missile attack in Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 10:56 , Tara Cobham

Two foreign aid workers were reportedly killed in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Russian shelling hit a van carrying a team of four working with a Ukrainian NGO.

The four volunteers from the Road to Relief NGO, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside the van as it flipped over and caught fire after being struck by shells near the town of Chasiv Yar, the organization said on its Instagram page.

Road to Relief said Canadian Anthony Ihnat died in the attack, while German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick and Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr were seriously injured.

The organisation added that it could not trace the whereabouts of the van’s fourth passenger, Emma Igual, a Spanish national who was the organization’s director. Hours later, Spain’s acting foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares told Spanish media that authorities in Madrid had received “verbal confirmation” of the 32-year-old Igual’s death.

The volunteers were on their way to assess the needs of civilians on the outskirts of Bakhmut, Road to Relief said, in reference to the eastern town that saw the war’s longest and bloodiest battle before falling to Moscow in May. Ukrainian forces have held on to Bakhmut’s western suburbs and are pushing a counteroffensive in the area.

Local elections take place across Russia but Ukraine ‘not on agenda’

Sunday 10 September 2023 10:12 , Tara Cobham

Local elections kicked off in Russia this weekend in 79 regions, with voters are casting their ballots for governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils.

Russian authorities are also holding local elections in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed illegally last year — the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia provinces. Voting for federal and local legislators is also underway on the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014. Balloting in the occupied areas of Ukraine has been denounced by Kyiv and the West as a sham and a violation of international law.

In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin’s seat is up for grabs, although he is running for re-election again and is unlikely to lose a race in which all contenders come from Kremlin-backed parties. Sobyanin was appointed mayor in 2010 and has since won mayoral elections twice: in 2013, despite now-imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny running against him, and 2018. Governors in 20 other Russian regions are also vying for office this year.

Local elections take place across Russia, but Ukraine is ‘not on the agenda’

South Korea pledges additional $2 bln aid to Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 09:26 , Tara Cobham

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday the country will provide an additional $2 billion in aid to Ukraine starting in 2025 over the longer term, in addition to the $300 million previously pledged for next year, Yonhap news reported.

Yoon made the comment at a session of the G20 summit held in New Delhi, India, Yonhap said.

Ukraine says Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv

Sunday 10 September 2023 08:03 , Tara Cobham

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city’s central districts, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s Land Forces said that the country’s air defence systems destroyed 25 out of 32 Russia-launched Iran-made Shahed drones, most of which targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged.

“Drones came onto the capital in groups and from different directions,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that one person was injured in the historic Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city’s parks.

Debris from downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, Klitschko and the city’s military administration said.

In the Shevchenkivskyi district, drone debris sparked a fire in an apartment, which was quickly extinguished. There were no immediate reports of injuries, Popko said on the Telegram messaging app.

There was no immediate comment from Russia about the attacks. Moscow has been conducting near-nightly assaults on Ukraine’s territory. A Russian attack killed 17 on Wednesday in the eastern city of Kostiantynivka, according to Ukrainian officials.

Signs indicate Russia turning to isolated North Korea to replenish military supplies

Sunday 10 September 2023 07:12 , Anuj Pant

Russia’s military arsenal has been depleted enough for it to turn to isolated North Korea amid its now year-and-a-half-long invasion of Ukraine.

The country is set to host a regional summit on Sunday that could see the participation of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un who, reports said, could reach the country by armoured train.

The visit is significant as Russia faces depleted reserves due to its invasion. And estimates cited by The Associated Press have revealed that North Korea has tens of millions of artillery shells and rockets that could give a huge boost to the Russian army.

US officials have said they expected Mr Kim to seal a deal to transfer munitions to Russia in the coming days, in a marked reversal from the 1950s during the Korean war, when it was the Soviet Union that supplied weaponry to the North.

“We know that Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu has visited recently for artillery shells predominantly, and most likely that will be discussed between Putin and Kim Jong-un,” Alexander Gabuev, head of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.

ICYMI: Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s naval fleet

Sunday 10 September 2023 06:58 , Anuj Pant

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet – with one Ukrainian official saying that his country is paying “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego”.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians in areas where Russia’s invasion has left infrastructure devastated or jammed.

An extract of a new biography of Musk, published by CNN on Thursday, said that the drones – packed with explosives – “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly” during the thwarted assault last year, after Musk ordered his engineers to turn off the network.

Musk is said to have feared that a strike on the ports of Russian-occupied Crimea would amount to a “mini Pearl Harbor”.

Having apparently spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States – who is reported to have told him that an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response – Musk is then said to have ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100km of the Crimean coast”.

Read more below.

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukraine drone attack on Russian ships

Russia ships Su-30 fighter jets to Myanmar junta

Sunday 10 September 2023 06:08 , Anuj Pant

The Myanmar junta government has received its first shipment of Russian Su-30 fighter jets, the country’s trade minister told Russian state-run media.

Russia and Myanmar had signed a contract last year for the delivery of six Su-30SME fighter jets, according to Russian state-run RIA.

“Two aircraft have already been delivered,” Charlie Than, Myanmar’s trade minister, told the state-run news agency.

The minister was speaking on the sidelines of a Russian economic summit in Vladivostok. He also said a number of bilateral agreements will be signed at the East Economic Forum, including on developing tourism between the two countries.

Myanmar has seen the junta increase its grip on the country ever since it launched a military coup in 2021.

The US has also warned Russia against backing Myanmar’s military rulers and said its supply of weapons to the country is fueling a conflict that has become a catastrophe for Myanmar.

Just in: Ukraine says it downed 25 drones launched by Russia early on Sunday

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:47 , Anuj Pant

At least 25 of the 32 drones launched by Vladimir Putin’s forces early on Sunday have been drowned, Ukraine’s land forces said.

The announcement comes as Kyiv was subjected to aerial attacks overnight, with witnesses hearing as many as five blasts, reported Reuters. The scale of the attack has not yet been ascertained.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:36 , Anuj Pant

India has defied expectations to produce a New Delhi Declaration backed by all countries at this weekend’s G20 summit at the expense of any meaningful condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced “the good news” shortly before 1600 local time [1000 GMT] on the first day of the G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi – much to the surprise of many observers and analysts, who felt that the Ukraine issue would stand in the way of a consensus on any joint statement at all, much less an early one.

Ukraine rejected the joint statement, saying “the G20 has nothing to be proud of in the part about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”.

Ukraine does feature in the full 37-page declaration released by the Indian foreign ministry on Saturday, which says leaders “highlighted the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine” without directly mentioning Russia.

“There were different views and assessments of the situation,” it adds, in something of an understatement.

Read more below.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

ICYMI: What are depleted uranium shells?

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:30 , Anuj Pant

The depleted uranium anti-tank rounds soon to be in Ukraine’s military stockpiles have kicked up a debate over its use in the continuing Russian invasion.

Announced by the Pentagon in the latest military tranche on Wednesday, the controversial rounds have spread alarm among Vladimir Putin’s ministers who have warned against the escalation yet again.

Britain has already promised armour-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium to Ukraine in March. Prime minister Rishi Sunak had backed drawing out the rounds from the UK military’s stockpiles ultimately “to degrade and deter – primarily – Russian aggression”.

But what are these depleted uranium munitions?

Read more below.

Ukraine: What are depleted uranium shells and why are they controversial?

Russia claims to have downed eight drones over Crimea

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:15 , Anuj Pant

Vladimir Putin’s defence ministry has claimed it destroyed eight drones over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula in the early hours of Sunday even as overnight drone attacks were launched on capital Kyiv.

The incident, reported by Reuters, could not be independently verified. Russia accused Ukraine of launching the drones.

The Russian defence ministry has also not said if there were any casualties. Ukraine’s officials have not commented on the incident yet.

Putin launches overnight aerial attacks on Kyiv

Sunday 10 September 2023 04:48 , Anuj Pant

Air attacks were launched on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts heard across the capital. Drone debris fell on its central districts and the scale of the attack has not been ascertained yet.

Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person was injured in the Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city’s parks.

The debris from the downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, according to the city’s military administration and Mr Klitschko.

The debris also sparked a fire in the Shevchenkivskyi district, but this was immediately put out, according to officials.

Reuters cited its witnesses as saying they heard at least five blasts.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

Sunday 10 September 2023 03:00 , Joe Middleton

India has defied expectations to produce a New Delhi Declaration backed by all countries at this weekend’s G20 summit, at the expense of any meaningful condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced “the good news” shortly before 1600 local time [1000 GMT] on the first day of the G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi – much to the surprise of many observers and analysts, who felt that the Ukraine issue would stand in the way of a consensus on any joint statement at all, much less an early one.

Ukraine does feature in the full 37-page declaration released by the Indian foreign ministry on Saturday, which says leaders “highlighted the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine” without directly mentioning Russia. “There were different views and assessments of the situation,” it adds, in something of an understatement.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Sunday 10 September 2023 02:00 , Joe Middleton

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s naval fleet

Sunday 10 September 2023 01:09 , Lydia Patrick

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians.

In posts on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the billionaire denied accusations that he had turned off the Starlink network in the area, but said that he had not agreed to a request from Ukraine to activate it all the way to the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, which is currently (as it was at the time) occupied by Russia and home to its Black Sea fleet.

“The Starlink regions in question were not activated. SpaceX did not deactivate anything,” Musk said.

“There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” he added, “the obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”

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Popular messaging service says it will combat Russian ‘fake news’

Sunday 10 September 2023 00:09 , Lydia Patrick

The founder of Japanese technnology enterprise Rakuten Group says messaging service Viber will block any attempt at Russian propaganda ‘unlike other social media’.

Hiroshi Mikiani told Reuters: “Unlike other social media, we’ve made it crystal clear we’re going to block all these fake news and propaganda of Russia.”

Viber, which launched in 2010 and was acquired by Rakuten in 2014, has a 98% market penetration rate in Ukraine and is also popular in Russia.

The billionaire entrepreneur has previously been vocal in his support for Ukraine and made a 1 billion yen ($6.77 million) donation to its government at the start of the invasion.

Rakuten has announced plans to work with Ukraine‘s largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, to provide Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) telecommunications technology that uses software to run network functions on the cloud, something Mikitani has touted as a technology of the future.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive will withstand severe Winter conditions, says intelligence chief

Saturday 9 September 2023 22:18 , Lydia Patrick

Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russian forces will continue to fight throughout harsh cold conditions, Kyiv’s intelligence chief said on Saturday.

Kyrylo Budanov said: “Combat actions will continue in one way or another. In the cold, wet and mud, it is more difficult to fight. Fighting will continue. The counteroffensive will continue.”

The comments, made at a conference in Kyiv hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, inidicate Ukraine does not plan to halt its push when the weather worsens later this year.

Vadym Skibytskyi, an official from Ukraine‘s military spy agency, said earlier on Saturday that Russia currently had 420,000 servicemen inside Ukraine.

The push in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, now centred around the villages of Robotyne and Verbove, is seen as a crucial part of an operation that seeks to split Russia’s occupying forces in half in the south, but remains far from that goal.

“Our counteroffensive is happening in several directions,” Budanov said, acknowledging that progress had been slower than he had wanted and describing the situation as difficult.

Russia, which launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed.

Russia shoots down three drones in Crimea

Saturday 9 September 2023 20:18 , Lydia Patrick

Drone attacks on Russian-occupied territory and inside Russia itself have increased sharply across the summer, with Kyiv seeking to back-up its counteroffensive against Vladimir Putin’s forces on the ground in Ukraine by disrupting Moscow as much as it can.

The latest such strike came on Saturday when Russian air defence shot down three enemy drones in northwestern Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of the peninsula’s administration.

Rishi Sunak said that G20 leaders have agreed to a “very strong” joint message about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Saturday 9 September 2023 19:20 , Lydia Patrick

The British prime minister expresses his support of a New Delhi declaration backed by all countries at the summit.

Defying the odds, India was able to get all G20 members to agree that “the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissable” in a 37-page declaration.

Mr Sunak told broadcasters, as reported by Reuters: “The news that we’ve just had, which I’m happy to share, is that under Prime Minister Modi and India’s presidency, the G20 have agreed a joint communique with very strong language about Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine.

“What you’ll see in the communique is strong language, highlighting the impact of the war on food prices and food security, calling on Russia to re-enter the Black Sea grain initiative to allow exports to leave that part of the world and help feed millions of the most vulnerable people as well as the communique recognising the principles of the UN Charter respecting territorial integrity.

“So I think that is a good and strong outcome. And as you can see from this summit, Russia is completely isolated.”

Zelensky meets with Japanese foreign minister who vows support for reconstruction of Ukraine

Saturday 9 September 2023 17:00 , Rachel Flynn

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met on Saturday and agreed to begin discussions on security guarantees and cooperate on reconstructing Ukraine’s economy, the Japanese foreign ministry said.

The security guarantee discussions come after the G7 group of countries, of which Japan is a member, said in July that its members would begin bilateral security guarantee talks with Ukraine.

Hayashi also pledged support from both the public and private sectors in Japan to reconstruct Ukraine’s economy in the surprise visit to Ukraine, where he was accompanied by executives of Japanese firms, including Hiroshi Mikitani, founder and chief executive Rakuten Group, the ministry said.

Japan is planning to host a meeting on the economic reconstruction of Ukraine early next year.

In talks with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Hayashi was set to reiterate Japan’s firm support for Ukraine and the urgency of ending the Russian invasion with the help of the international community, the ministry said.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy in March.

Romania finds new possible fragments of Russian drone on its territory

Saturday 9 September 2023 16:30 , Rachel Flynn

New fragments of a drone similar to those used by the Russian military were found on Romanian soil, the defence ministry said on Saturday.

Romania’s president, President Klaus Iohannis, said this indicated an unacceptable breach of Romania’s air space had occurred.

In a statement, Iohannis said he had informed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about the pieces of drone – the second to crash in Romanian territory this week – and that Stoltenberg reiterated the alliance’s complete solidarity with Romania.

“The identification by Romanian authorities on Romanian territory near the border with Ukraine of new drone fragments … indicates an unacceptable breach occurred of the air space of Romania, a NATO state, with real risks to the security of Romanian citizens in the area,” Iohannis said.

“I firmly condemn this incident caused by Russian attacks on Ukrainian Danube river ports.”

The attacks on Ukraine’s river ports, just hundreds of metres from the Romanian border, have increased security risks for NATO whose members have a mutual defence commitment.

The U.S. State Department said earlier this week it would rotate additional U.S. F-16 fighter jets to bolster NATO’s air policing mission in Romania.

Ukraine says G20 summit declaration is ‘nothing to be proud of’

Saturday 9 September 2023 15:45 , Rachel Flynn

The Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Saturday the G20’s joint declaration was “nothing to be proud of” and criticised it for not mentioning Russia.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko posted a screenshot of the relevant section of the joint declaration, with several pieces of the text crossed out in red and corrected with wording which reflects Ukraine’s position that it is a victim of unprovoked Russian aggression.

“It is clear that the participation of the Ukrainian side (in the G20 meeting) would have allowed the participants to better understand the situation,” he wrote on Facebook.

“Here’s what the main elements of the text could look like to be closer to reality,” he added.

Despite his disappointment with the overall G20 text, Nikolenko thanked Ukraine’s allies for doing their part to advance Ukraine’s position in the declaration.

“Ukraine is grateful to the partners who tried to include strong formulations in the text,” he said.

G20 summit statement calls for peace but avoids condemning Russia for Ukraine war

Saturday 9 September 2023 14:24 , Tara Cobham

The Group of 20 nations adopted a consensus declaration at a summit on Saturday that avoided condemnation of Russia for the war in Ukraine but called on all states to refrain from the use of force to seize territory.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of host India announced that the Leaders’ Declaration had been adopted on the first day of the weekend summit.

The consensus came as a surprise as the group is deeply divided over the war in Ukraine, with Western nations earlier pushing for strong condemnation of Russia in the Leaders’ Declaration, while other countries demanded a focus on broader economic issues.

There was no immediate reaction from most other members.

“We call on all states to uphold the principles of international law including territorial integrity and sovereignty, international humanitarian law, and the multilateral system that safeguards peace and stability,” the declaration said.

“We … welcome all relevant and constructive initiatives that support a comprehensive, just, and durable peace in Ukraine.

“The use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible,” the statement added.

Russia sticks to demands on Black Sea grain deal

Saturday 9 September 2023 11:27 , Tara Cobham

Russia said on Saturday it was sticking to its conditions for a return to the Black Sea grain deal which it quit in July.

In particular, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed its state agricultural bank – and not a subsidiary of the bank, as proposed by the United Nations – to be reconnected to the international SWIFT bank payments system.

“All our conditions are perfectly well known. They do not need interpretation, they are absolutely concrete and all this is absolutely achievable,” Peskov said. “Therefore Russia maintains its responsible, clear and consistent position, which has been repeatedly voiced by the president.”

The Black Sea deal was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations in July 2022 to enable Ukraine to export grain by sea despite the war and help ease a global food crisis.

It was accompanied by an agreement to facilitate Russia’s own exports of food and fertiliser, which Moscow says has not been fulfilled. Since quitting the grain deal, Russia has repeatedly bombed Ukrainian ports and grain stores, prompting Kyiv and the West to accuse it of using food as a weapon.

Moscow’s uncompromising restatement of its position came five days after President Vladimir Putin met his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan and discussed the grain issue.

Russia appears to have drawn encouragement from Erdogan’s statement at that meeting that Ukraine should “soften its approaches” in talks over reviving the deal, and export more grain to Africa rather than Europe. Ukraine said it would not alter its stand and would not be hostage to “Russian blackmail”.

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Saturday 9 September 2023 10:45 , Tara Cobham

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

Rachel Flynn reports:

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

‘600 members of Putin’s forces killed in one day’ as party HQ destroyed

Saturday 9 September 2023 10:32 , Tara Cobham

Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost 600 of his troops in one day, according to Kyiv, while his conservative party’s headquarters in Ukraine was destroyed on Friday.

The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces is estimating that 600 of Moscow’s personnel were killed on Friday, bringing the total lost since February 2022 to 268,140.

Meanwhile, the headquarters of the United Russia political party in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Polohy was destroyed in an attack on the same day, according to the mayor of Melitopol, reported the Kyiv Independent.

Ivan Fedorov said on the Telegram messaging app that local residents described Russians as “burned out” of the headquarters amid the “hellish pseudo-elections”. Alluding to casualties, he said: “Some went to the hospital, and some went straight to the morgue.”

IAEA ‘deeply concerned’ by ‘increased military activity’ around Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant

Saturday 9 September 2023 09:26 , Tara Cobham

Experts are “deeply concerned” by “increased military activity” in the region around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wrote on Friday of reports of “numerous explosions over the past week”, which could “pose a potential threat to nuclear safety and security at the site”.

Over the three days from last Saturday, the IAEA team heard around two dozen explosions, followed by several more in recent days – although there was no damage to the Russian-occupied facility itself.

Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said the situation at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant “remains highly precarious”.

“The reports I receive from our experts indicate that the explosions occurred some distance away from the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant,” he said. “Nevertheless, I remain deeply concerned about the possible dangers facing the plant at this time of heightened military tension in the region.

“Whatever happens in a conflict zone, wherever it may be, everybody would stand to lose from a nuclear accident, and I urge that all necessary precautions must be taken to avoid it happening.”

British man who went to fight in Ukraine found dead

Saturday 9 September 2023 07:19 , Vishwam Sankaran

A 31-year-old British man who went to fight in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water.

The man, recognised as Jordan Chadwick from Burnley in Lancashire, fought as part of the foreign legion in Ukraine, and was killed under unknown circumstances, BBC reported.

An inquest into the possible cause of Mr Chadwick’s death will reportedly be held in February.

“His passion to support freedom and assist others with his skills led him to leave the UK and travel to the Ukraine in early October 2022,” his mother told BBC.

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Kyiv could have as little as 30 days left for its counter-offensive against Moscow, fears the head of the US military, while foreign aid workers have been killed in a Russian attack in Ukraine.

General Mark Milley said Ukraine only has around 30 to 45 days left before poor weather conditions hinder its offensive, telling the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg it will become “very difficult to manoeuvre” once the rains come.

Meanwhile, four volunteers from the Road to Relief NGO, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside a van as it flipped over and caught fire after being struck by Russian shells in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, the organisation said on its Instagram page.

Road to Relief said Canadian Anthony Ihnat died in the attack, while German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick and Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr were seriously injured. Spanish authorities later confirmed the death of the van’s fourth passenger, 32-year-old Emma Igual, a Spanish national who was the organisation’s director.

This comes after dozens of Russian drones rained down on Kyiv in an aerial attack that lasted two hours in the early hours of Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, injuring a civilian.

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• Foreign aid workers killed in Russian missile attack in Ukraine
• Ukraine says Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv
• ‘600 members of Putin’s forces killed in one day’ as party HQ destroyed
• British man who went to fight in Ukraine found dead
• IAEA ‘deeply concerned’ by ‘increased military activity’ around Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant

Putin arrives in Vladivostock for Eastern Economic Forum – state TV

10:59 , Matt Mathers

Vladimir Putin has arrived in Vladivostock for a meeting of the Eastern Economic Forum, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, according to Russian state TV.

Russia has hosted the forum since 2015 as it tries to drum up investment from the far east. China, Myanmar, Mongolia, India, Armenia and South Korea are among the countries that send delegates to the forum.

This year’s event is taking place at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) campus.

“The Eastern Economic Forum is a “key international platform for establishing and strengthening ties within the Russian and global investment communities, and for comprehensive expert evaluation of the economic potential of the Russian Far East, the investment opportunities it offers, and business conditions within advanced special economic zones,” it website says.

Ukraine retakes offshore drilling platforms near Crimea – military intelligence

10:27 , Matt Mathers

Ukraine’s military intelligence service said on Monday its forces had regained control of several offshore drilling platforms close to Crimea.

It said on the Telegram messaging app that Kyiv’s forces had retaken the drilling platforms known as the ‘Boiko Towers’ in a “unique operation”.

It said the platforms had been occupied since 2015 by Russia, which seized and annexed Crimea in 2014, and had been used by Moscow for military purposes since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022.

Up to judiciary if Putin should be arrested when visiting Brazil for G20 – Lula

10:01 , Matt Mathers

Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said it is up to the country’s judiciary whether or not to arrest Vladimir Putin if he visits for the G20 summit next year.

“If Putin decides to join, it is the judiciary’s power to decide and not my government,” Lula told reporters in New Delhi, where he was attending this year’s G20 summit.

“I believe that Putin can go easily to Brazil,” he said in an on-camera interview with Indian news outlet Firstpost.

“What I can say to you is that if I’m president of Brazil, and he comes to Brazil, there’s no way he will be arrested.”

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ‘on way to Russia’

09:27 , Matt Mathers

A North Korean train presumably carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has departed for Russia for a possible meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin, South Korean media said Monday.

Citing unidentified South Korean government sources, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that the train likely left the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on Sunday evening and that a Kim-Putin meeting is possible as early as Tuesday.

The Yonhap news agency and some other media published similar reports. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service didn’t immediately confirm those details.

US officials released intelligence last week that North Korea and Russia were arranging a meeting between their leaders that would take place within this month as they expand their cooperation in the face of deepening confrontations with the United States.

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down Ukraine declaration

09:03 , Matt Mathers

The G20 summit in India has ended without the usual “family photo”, as some members questioned the watered-down language used in the joint declaration issued by leaders in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Most of the leaders departed from Delhi earlier in the day, having paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial on the banks of the Yamuna River. The absence of the customary group photograph – intended to signify unity between the world’s largest economies – exemplified the fact that deep divisions still remain over the Ukraine war.

Shweta Sharma reports:

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down declaration

Zelensky pays tribute to aid workers killed in Donetsk

08:41 , Matt Mathers

Volodymyr Zelensky has paid tribute to aid workers after a Russian anti-tank missile struck a volunteer van in Donetsk yesterday.

Canadian Anthony Ignat was killed in the incident and it is likely Emma Igual of Spain also died, the Ukraine president said.

German citizen Mawick Ruben and Swedish citizen Johan Mathias, two other volunteers, were seriously injured and are being treated in hospitals in Dnipro.

“This Russian shelling once again confirms how close the war against Ukraine is to everyone in the world who truly values human life and who believes it is the common moral duty of humanity to stop terror and defeat evil,” Zelensky said in a Telegram post.

Ukraine’s place is in the EU, says German foreign minister in Kyiv

08:22 , Maryam Zakir-Hussain

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stressed that Ukraine‘s place is in the European Union during a visit to the embattled country’s capital, Kyiv, on Monday morning.

Ukraine can “rely on us and on our understanding of EU enlargement as a necessary geopolitical consequence of Russia‘s war,” said Baerbock upon arrival, according to a statement.

Ukraine already has candidate status, said Baerbock. “And now we are preparing to take a decision on opening EU accession talks.”

On judicial reform and media legislation, Ukraine‘s reform results are already impressive, she said.

But there is still a long way to go in the implementation of the anti-oligarch law and the fight against corruption, added the foreign minister.

The visit is Baerbock’s fourth since the war in Ukraine broke out in February 2022.

Putin to recruit 420,000 by year end in blow to industrial workforce – UK MoD

08:03 , Arpan Rai

The Russian military intends to recruit 420,000 contract personnel by the end of 2023, Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said today, warning of the negative effect this would have on its industrial workforce.

On 3 September, Russian Security Council deputy chairman Dimitry Medvedev stated that so far 280,000 personnel had been recruited, the ministry said, adding that the numbers cannot be verified.

“Russia’s conscription continues to have negative effects on its industry workforce. The Yegor Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy found that Russia’s industry shortage of workers reached a new high of 42% for July 2023, 7% higher from April 2023,” the MoD said.

It added that in contrast to conscription efforts elsewhere, the IT sector Russia has taken steps to preserve the workforce. “This likely highlights the particularly acute shortages in the sector after about 100,000 IT workers left Russia in 2022,” it said.

“This equates to 10% of the IT sector workforce. On 4 September 2023, President Putin signed a decree to increase the exemption age of military recruitment for IT professionals from 27 to 30.”

“This shows that mobilisation and conscription within Russia has worsened non-defence workforce shortages. In the run-up to the Russian presidential elections scheduled for March 2024, Russian authorities will likely seek to avoid further unpopular mobilisations,” the MoD said in its latest intelligence update.

Ukrainian military makes ‘thunderous assault operation’ amid advances in Donetsk and south

07:21 , Arpan Rai

Ukraine’s armed forces have made gains in different parts of eastern Donetsk region, the focal point of Russia’s continuing invasion of the country, and in the south, officials said yesterday.

Ukrainian troops near the frontline town of Avdiivka took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city, the head of the local military administration said.

“In my opinion, this is very significant,” Vitaliy Barabash told national television. “To be frank, the enemy overlooked this southern direction a bit.”

He called the advance a “thunderous assault operation” and said fighting was underway in the settlement.

Avdiivka, site of a major coking plant, has been under near-constant Russian attack for many months.

The General Staff of Ukraine‘s armed forces reported successes near Bakhmut.

In its evening report, the General Staff reported “partial success as a result of assault operations” near Klishchiivka, a village on heights south of Bakhmut, seen as critical to recapturing the town.

The report also described a measure of success near Robotyne – a settlement it captured late last month – as part of its drive southward through Russian-held areas to the Sea of Azov.

US treasury secretary denies G20 watered down statement on Ukraine

06:56 , Arpan Rai

The US treasury secretary Janet Yellen has denied the G20 toned down its stance on Ukraine in the Delhi Declaration released over the weekend, which did not mention Russian aggression in Ukraine directly.

Calling the statement “substantively very strong”, Ms Yellen said: “The US does not see this language as in any way weakening the G20’s stance on Ukraine.”

“Clearly it was hard to find language that would satisfy the US and other countries but we felt we wanted strong language, and substantively strong language, and this was substantively very strong,” she told the Financial Times.

Ukraine rejected the joint statement, saying “the G20 has nothing to be proud of in the part about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”.

Zelensky suggests Ukraine could be set for big breakthrough: ‘They will run’

05:21 , Arpan Rai

In an interview with The Economist published yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky said steady progress was essential to maintaining Ukrainian morale.

“Keeping morale high is crucial. This is why even limited progress on the frontline is essential,” Mr Zelensky told the publication.

“Now we have movement. It’s important,” the publication quoted him as saying.

“If we push them from the south, they will run,” he said, hinting that a big breakthrough can still come before the onset of Ukraine’s infamously wet autumn weather makes battlefield movement more difficult.

Ukraine has had some success in dismantling the first of Russia’s three main defensive lines in the Zaporizhzhia region after facing initial losses in the early stages of the counteroffensive.

Mr Zelensky added that victory will not come “tomorrow or the day after tomorrow”. The Russian army is losing “lots of people”, Mr Zelensky said, adding that the invading country has had to redeploy its reserves to stop the Ukrainian advance.

“It means they lose,” he said.

Zelensky says troops advancing in south, movement in east

04:17 , Arpan Rai

Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian troops pressing a counteroffensive against Russian occupying forces have advanced on the southern front in the past week while there had also been movement near Bakhmut in the east.

“Over the past seven days we have made an advance in the Tavria (southern) sector,” Mr Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

“There is movement in the Bakhmut sector. Yes, there is movement.”

He added that Ukrainian forces were holding their ground on other fronts in the east – Avdiivka and Maryinka near the focus of Russia’s main attacks, and Lyman and Kupiansk, also subject to Russian attempts to advance further north.

The war-time president’s latest comments confirm assessments by other officials of gains, however modest, in the east and south.

Near Avdiivka, the head of the local military administration said Ukrainian troops took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city.

Two drones downed near Russia’s Belgorod region

03:55 , Arpan Rai

Russia’s air defence systems destroyed two drones over the Belgorod region in the early hours today, the Russian defence ministry said on its Telegram channel, claiming to have thwarted an attack by Ukraine.

No immediate injuries have been reported after drone debris fell on a road in the Yakovlevsky district, according to Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

ICYMI: Foreign aid workers killed in Russian strikes

03:00 , Lydia Patrick

A charity confirmed four of their workers were hit by Russian shells in the Bakhmut region whilst trying to get to civilians who were caught in a crossfire.

Their vehicle came under Russian attack leading the van to catch on fire and flip, according to a Road to Relief spokesperson.German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick, Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr, Canadian volunteer Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat, and Spanish volunteer and Road to Relief Director Emma Igual were all in the vehicle.According to the charity, Ruben and Johan were badly injured with shrapnel wounds and burns but are now in a stable condition.

Tragically, Tonko has been confirmed dead, whilst Emma’s current status is still unknown as the organiation cannot trace her whereabouts.

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Zelensky urges the West to maintain support for Ukraine

02:00 , Lydia Patrick

The Ukranian president says Europeans must prepare for a long war as Kyiv make ‘modest’ progress three months into counter offensive.

In an interview with The Economist, the leader expresses a seeming change in morale amongst Western leaders as Kyiv make ‘modest’ gains.

In conversation with The Economist, he said: I have this intuition, reading, hearing and seeing their eyes [when they say] ‘we’ll be always with you.

“But I see that he or she is not here, not with us.”

The ex TV actor is aware of the importance of western economic support.

Mr Zelensky added: “If you are not with Ukraine, you are with Russia, and if you are not with Russia, you are with Ukraine. And if partners do not help us, it means they will help Russia to win. That is it.”

ICYMI: Russia carries out overnight drone attack on Kyiv

01:00 , Lydia Patrick

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city’s central districts, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s Land Forces said that the country’s air defence systems destroyed 25 out of 32 Russia-launched Iran-made Shahed drones, most of which targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged.

“Drones came onto the capital in groups and from different directions,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.

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Tributes pour in for the volunteers killed in Kyiv strike

Monday 11 September 2023 00:00 , Lydia Patrick

Two foreign aid workers were killed this morning as shells hit their van – causing it to catch fire and flip.

Candian Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat was one of the volunteers who lost their life in the attack.

Paracrew Humanitarian Aid, an organisation he had previously worked for shared their sadness on Facebook.

They wrote: “His compassion, empathy and strength will forever be an inspiration to all of us. And we will keep his memory alive by working on to help Ukraine in every possible way. Rest in peace dear friend.”

Director of NGO killed in Russian strike

Sunday 10 September 2023 23:00 , Lydia Patrick

A 34-year-old Spanish humanitarian worker has been named as one of the victims of a Russian attack in Kyiv this morning.

Emma Igual was the director of Road to Relief, a Ukrainian-registered humanitarian NGO created in March 2022 with the purpose of helping Ukranian civillians.

The charity’s main aims are to evacuate civillians, provide humanitarian aid and mobile healthcare.

According to the Huff Post she dedicated her life to help others and had previously carried out volunteer work in Kenya, Morocco. Greece and Myanmar.

Zelensky says a big breakthrough could lie ahead in counter offensive as Kyiv make gains

Sunday 10 September 2023 22:00 , Lydia Patrick

President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian troops had made advances on the southern front and made movements near Bakhmut in the east.

“Over the past seven days we have made an advance in the Tavria (southern) sector,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

“There is movement in the Bakhmut sector. Yes, there is movement.”

Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were holding their ground on other fronts in the east — Avdiivka and Maryinka near the focus of Russia’s main attacks, and Lyman and Kupiansk, also subject to Russian attempts to advance further north.

Near Avdiivka, the head of the local military administration said Ukrainian troops took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city.

“In my opinion, this is very significant,” Vitaliy Barabash told national television. “To be frank, the enemy overlooked this southern direction a bit.”

Zelensky and other officials have said the counter offensive requires time, dismissing criticism in the Western media that it is proceeding too slowly because of tactical errors.

In an interview with The Economist published on Sunday, Zelensky said making steady progress was essential to maintaining morale.

He suggested a big breakthrough could lie ahead.

G20 summit doesn’t end with ‘family photo’

Sunday 10 September 2023 21:00 , Lydia Patrick

The G20 summit did not end in the usual harmonious manner this Sunday as some members question the and omission of Russia and ‘careful’ language used in the communiqué.

Earlier drafts of the declaration reportedly featured stronger language when it comes to Russia, but a senior European Union official who was part of the negotiations told reporters here at the summit venue on Sunday that it would have spelled the end of the G20 as an organisation if they had not agreed to the watered-down version.

The official said: “Ukraine was the most contentious issue. Extremely different positions were on the table to find the consensus, but it was India’s presidency and we believe in consensus so we had to accept that.”

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G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down declaration

Russian general says Ukraine is a ‘stepping stone’ to the rest of Europe

Sunday 10 September 2023 20:00 , Lydia Patrick

General Andrey Mordvichev spoke out in a TV interview with Russia state TV warning Ukraine is just the beginning to the rest of Eastern Europe.

He also told the presente he expects the war to last a very long time.

As reported in Newsweek, Mordvichev said: “I think there’s still plenty of time to spend. It is pointless to talk about a specified period. If we are talking about Eastern Europe, which we will have to, of course then it will be longer.”

The interviewer then asked if Ukraine was merely a stepping stone.

He responded: “Yes, absolutely. It is only the beginning.”

US Secretary of State defends decision to accept G20 statement – despite criticism

Sunday 10 September 2023 19:30 , Lydia Patrick

Anthony Blinken defended the United State’s decision to agree with the summit’s declaration amid Ukrainian complaints the statment doesn’t do enough to condemn Russia.

During an interview on ABC’s This Week he said:“I was in the room when all the leaders spoke today with President Biden and it was very clear from everything that they said that not only do they want to see this war end, but they want to see it end on just and durable terms and it was also very clear that the consequences of Russia’s aggression are being felt throughout the G20 countries and throughout the developing world.”

“I think it’s very important that the G20 spoke as one,” Blinken added.

Ukrainian foreign ministry Oleg Nikolnko hit out at the statement, saying the language used did not go far enough to condemn Russia.

Blinken routinely pledges his support for Ukraine on social media.

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Russia are becoming savvy to Ukranian military tactics, says head of military intelligence

Sunday 10 September 2023 18:30 , Lydia Patrick

Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov spoke at the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv last night.

Ukranian and international policy makers gathered to dicuss the war’s progression.

As reported in The Guardian, Budanov said:

In terms of creativity and flexibility, we still have an edge over them, they are rather outdated. But they are adapting, they are trying to change tactics, to alter the way they use forces, they miserably fail with their strategy, but their tactics do have some improvements.

They switched to the mass use of drones, before the war they simply didn’t understand the importance of them, now they are adapting and copying us a lot.

Kyrylo Budanov

ICYMI: British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Sunday 10 September 2023 18:00 , Lydia Patrick

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

She said: “Although we are extremely proud of his unwavering courage and resilience, his death has been devastating.

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British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

ICYMI: Ukraine says G20 summit declaration ‘nothing to be proud of’

Sunday 10 September 2023 17:00 , Lydia Patrick

The Ukrainian foreign ministry hit out at G20’s joint declaration for omitting the mention of Russia and put forward his own corrected version.

The G20 member country’s reached an agreement on Saturday but there was a notable difference in language regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict in comparison with last year’s document.

There were disagreements between European countries who were keen to use strong language to condemn Moscow’s invasion yet Russia and China wouldn’t accept any mention of war.

Nikolenko said:

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Moscow hold local elections in occupied regions of Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 16:15 , Lydia Patrick

Russian authorities have reported multiple attempts to sabotage voting in local elections taking place in occupied areas of Ukraine.

Votes are taking place this weekend in 79 regions of Russia, with ballots for governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils, as well as in the four Ukrainian regions Moscow annexed illegally last year – the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia provinces – and on the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014.

Kyiv and the West have said balloting in the occupied areas of Ukraine is a violation of international law.

Russian electoral officials on Sunday reported attempts to sabotage voting in the occupied regions, where guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv had previously killed pro-Moscow officials, blown up bridges and helped the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets.

A drone strike in the early hours of Sunday destroyed one polling station in the Zaporizhzhia province, deputy chairman of Russia’s Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulaev told reporters. He said no staff were at the station at the time of the attack.

A Russian-appointed official in the neighbouring Kherson region said that a live grenade was discovered on Saturday near a polling station there. Marina Zakharova said the grenade was hidden in bushes outside the station, and that voting had to be halted while emergency services disposed of it.

Local residents and Ukrainian activists have alleged that Russian poll workers make house calls accompanied by armed soldiers in both provinces, detaining those who refuse to vote and pressuring them into writing “explanatory statements” that could be used as grounds for a criminal case.

ICYMI: Russia turning to old ally North Korea to replenish ammunition

Sunday 10 September 2023 15:42 , Lydia Patrick

Russia’s supplies are depleting after a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine – and they’re turning to Kim Jong Un.

It is believed the isolated Asian country has tens of millions artillery shells and rockets that could help the Russian army.

United States officials expect North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Russia in the coming days to seal a possible deal on munitions transfer with President Vladimir Putin.

Alexander Gabuev, head of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center said: ““We know that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited recently for artillery shells predominantly, and most likely that will be discussed between Putin and Kim Jong Un.”

Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, visited North Korea in July 2023, as the first Russian defence chief to visit the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Whilst the Kremlin have refused to comment about the nature of an arms deal, spokesperson Dmitry Peskov expressed their close ties.

He said: : “North Korea is our neighbor, and we will further develop our relations without looking back at other countries’ opinion.”

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Russia is turning to old ally North Korea to resupply its arsenal for the war in Ukraine

Russia says will return to grain deal once all conditions met

Sunday 10 September 2023 15:02 , Tara Cobham

Russia will return to the Black Sea grain deal “the same day” as Moscow’s conditions for export of its own grain and fertilisers to the global markets are met, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Sunday.

Russia quit the deal in July, a year after it was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, complaining that its own food and fertiliser exports faced obstacles and that insufficient Ukrainian grain was going to countries in need.

“When all the necessary actions for removing obstacles for our grain and fertiliser exports are implemented, the same day we will return to the collective implementation of the Ukrainian part of the ‘Black Sea initiative’”, Lavrov told a briefing after attending a two-day G20 summit in New Delhi.

US army chief fears Kyiv has only 30 days left for offensive

Sunday 10 September 2023 14:34 , Tara Cobham

Kyiv could have as little as 30 days left for its counter-offensive against Moscow, fears the head of the US military.

General Mark Milley said Ukraine only has around 30 to 45 days left before poor weather conditions hinder its offensive, telling the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg it will become “very difficult to manoeuvre” once the rains come.

Luke O’Reilly reports:

Ukraine has around 45 days left before weather hinders offensive – US army chief

Recap: Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack

Sunday 10 September 2023 13:30 , Tara Cobham

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet – with one Ukrainian official saying that his country is paying “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego”.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians in areas where Russia’s invasion has left infrastructure devastated or jammed.

An extract of a new biography of Musk, published by CNN on Thursday, said that the drones – packed with explosives – “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly” during the thwarted assault last year, after Musk ordered his engineers to turn off the network. Musk is said to have feared that a strike on the ports of Russian-occupied Crimea would amount to a “mini Pearl Harbor”. Having apparently spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States – who is reported to have told him that an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response – Musk is then said to have ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100km of the Crimean coast”.

Chris Stevenson reports:

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukraine drone attack on Russian ships

Russia claims it destroyed US-supplied Ukrainian speedboats

Sunday 10 September 2023 13:00 , Tara Cobham

Russia’s defense ministry said in the early hours of Sunday that Moscow’s forces earlier destroyed three US-supplied Ukrainian speedboats that had been travelling toward Crimea.

The claim could not be independently verified.

Too early to judge Ukraine’s summer offensive as failure, says US military head

Sunday 10 September 2023 12:20 , Tara Cobham

It is too early to say whether Ukraine’s summer offensive has failed, the head of the US military has said.

Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, General Mark Milley said: “That offensive kicked off about 90 days ago. It has gone slower than the planners anticipated. But that is a difference between what Clausewitz called war on paper and real war.

“So these are real people in real vehicles that are fighting through real minefields, and there’s real death and destruction, and there’s real friction.

“And there’s still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days, worth of fighting weather left.

“So the Ukrainians aren’t done. This battle is not done. They haven’t finished the fighting part of what they’re trying to accomplish. So we’ll see, it’s too early to say how this is going to end. They at least have achieved partial success in what they set out to do, and that’s important. And then the rains will come in. It’ll become very muddy.

“It’ll be very difficult to manoeuvre at that point, and then you’ll get the deep winter. And then at that point, we’ll see where things go. But right now, it is way too early to say that this offensive has failed or not failed.”

In pictures: Russian drones rain down on Kyiv for hours overnight

Sunday 10 September 2023 12:18 , Tara Cobham

Foreign aid workers killed in Russian missile attack in Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 10:56 , Tara Cobham

Two foreign aid workers were reportedly killed in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Russian shelling hit a van carrying a team of four working with a Ukrainian NGO.

The four volunteers from the Road to Relief NGO, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside the van as it flipped over and caught fire after being struck by shells near the town of Chasiv Yar, the organization said on its Instagram page.

Road to Relief said Canadian Anthony Ihnat died in the attack, while German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick and Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr were seriously injured.

The organisation added that it could not trace the whereabouts of the van’s fourth passenger, Emma Igual, a Spanish national who was the organization’s director. Hours later, Spain’s acting foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares told Spanish media that authorities in Madrid had received “verbal confirmation” of the 32-year-old Igual’s death.

The volunteers were on their way to assess the needs of civilians on the outskirts of Bakhmut, Road to Relief said, in reference to the eastern town that saw the war’s longest and bloodiest battle before falling to Moscow in May. Ukrainian forces have held on to Bakhmut’s western suburbs and are pushing a counteroffensive in the area.

Local elections take place across Russia but Ukraine ‘not on agenda’

Sunday 10 September 2023 10:12 , Tara Cobham

Local elections kicked off in Russia this weekend in 79 regions, with voters are casting their ballots for governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils.

Russian authorities are also holding local elections in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed illegally last year — the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia provinces. Voting for federal and local legislators is also underway on the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014. Balloting in the occupied areas of Ukraine has been denounced by Kyiv and the West as a sham and a violation of international law.

In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin’s seat is up for grabs, although he is running for re-election again and is unlikely to lose a race in which all contenders come from Kremlin-backed parties. Sobyanin was appointed mayor in 2010 and has since won mayoral elections twice: in 2013, despite now-imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny running against him, and 2018. Governors in 20 other Russian regions are also vying for office this year.

Local elections take place across Russia, but Ukraine is ‘not on the agenda’

South Korea pledges additional $2 bln aid to Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 09:26 , Tara Cobham

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday the country will provide an additional $2 billion in aid to Ukraine starting in 2025 over the longer term, in addition to the $300 million previously pledged for next year, Yonhap news reported.

Yoon made the comment at a session of the G20 summit held in New Delhi, India, Yonhap said.

Ukraine says Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv

Sunday 10 September 2023 08:03 , Tara Cobham

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city’s central districts, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s Land Forces said that the country’s air defence systems destroyed 25 out of 32 Russia-launched Iran-made Shahed drones, most of which targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged.

“Drones came onto the capital in groups and from different directions,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that one person was injured in the historic Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city’s parks.

Debris from downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, Klitschko and the city’s military administration said.

In the Shevchenkivskyi district, drone debris sparked a fire in an apartment, which was quickly extinguished. There were no immediate reports of injuries, Popko said on the Telegram messaging app.

There was no immediate comment from Russia about the attacks. Moscow has been conducting near-nightly assaults on Ukraine’s territory. A Russian attack killed 17 on Wednesday in the eastern city of Kostiantynivka, according to Ukrainian officials.

Signs indicate Russia turning to isolated North Korea to replenish military supplies

Sunday 10 September 2023 07:12 , Anuj Pant

Russia’s military arsenal has been depleted enough for it to turn to isolated North Korea amid its now year-and-a-half-long invasion of Ukraine.

The country is set to host a regional summit on Sunday that could see the participation of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un who, reports said, could reach the country by armoured train.

The visit is significant as Russia faces depleted reserves due to its invasion. And estimates cited by The Associated Press have revealed that North Korea has tens of millions of artillery shells and rockets that could give a huge boost to the Russian army.

US officials have said they expected Mr Kim to seal a deal to transfer munitions to Russia in the coming days, in a marked reversal from the 1950s during the Korean war, when it was the Soviet Union that supplied weaponry to the North.

“We know that Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu has visited recently for artillery shells predominantly, and most likely that will be discussed between Putin and Kim Jong-un,” Alexander Gabuev, head of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.

ICYMI: Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s naval fleet

Sunday 10 September 2023 06:58 , Anuj Pant

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet – with one Ukrainian official saying that his country is paying “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego”.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians in areas where Russia’s invasion has left infrastructure devastated or jammed.

An extract of a new biography of Musk, published by CNN on Thursday, said that the drones – packed with explosives – “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly” during the thwarted assault last year, after Musk ordered his engineers to turn off the network.

Musk is said to have feared that a strike on the ports of Russian-occupied Crimea would amount to a “mini Pearl Harbor”.

Having apparently spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States – who is reported to have told him that an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response – Musk is then said to have ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100km of the Crimean coast”.

Read more below.

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukraine drone attack on Russian ships

Russia ships Su-30 fighter jets to Myanmar junta

Sunday 10 September 2023 06:08 , Anuj Pant

The Myanmar junta government has received its first shipment of Russian Su-30 fighter jets, the country’s trade minister told Russian state-run media.

Russia and Myanmar had signed a contract last year for the delivery of six Su-30SME fighter jets, according to Russian state-run RIA.

“Two aircraft have already been delivered,” Charlie Than, Myanmar’s trade minister, told the state-run news agency.

The minister was speaking on the sidelines of a Russian economic summit in Vladivostok. He also said a number of bilateral agreements will be signed at the East Economic Forum, including on developing tourism between the two countries.

Myanmar has seen the junta increase its grip on the country ever since it launched a military coup in 2021.

The US has also warned Russia against backing Myanmar’s military rulers and said its supply of weapons to the country is fueling a conflict that has become a catastrophe for Myanmar.

Just in: Ukraine says it downed 25 drones launched by Russia early on Sunday

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:47 , Anuj Pant

At least 25 of the 32 drones launched by Vladimir Putin’s forces early on Sunday have been drowned, Ukraine’s land forces said.

The announcement comes as Kyiv was subjected to aerial attacks overnight, with witnesses hearing as many as five blasts, reported Reuters. The scale of the attack has not yet been ascertained.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:36 , Anuj Pant

India has defied expectations to produce a New Delhi Declaration backed by all countries at this weekend’s G20 summit at the expense of any meaningful condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced “the good news” shortly before 1600 local time [1000 GMT] on the first day of the G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi – much to the surprise of many observers and analysts, who felt that the Ukraine issue would stand in the way of a consensus on any joint statement at all, much less an early one.

Ukraine rejected the joint statement, saying “the G20 has nothing to be proud of in the part about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”.

Ukraine does feature in the full 37-page declaration released by the Indian foreign ministry on Saturday, which says leaders “highlighted the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine” without directly mentioning Russia.

“There were different views and assessments of the situation,” it adds, in something of an understatement.

Read more below.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

ICYMI: What are depleted uranium shells?

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:30 , Anuj Pant

The depleted uranium anti-tank rounds soon to be in Ukraine’s military stockpiles have kicked up a debate over its use in the continuing Russian invasion.

Announced by the Pentagon in the latest military tranche on Wednesday, the controversial rounds have spread alarm among Vladimir Putin’s ministers who have warned against the escalation yet again.

Britain has already promised armour-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium to Ukraine in March. Prime minister Rishi Sunak had backed drawing out the rounds from the UK military’s stockpiles ultimately “to degrade and deter – primarily – Russian aggression”.

But what are these depleted uranium munitions?

Read more below.

Ukraine: What are depleted uranium shells and why are they controversial?

Russia claims to have downed eight drones over Crimea

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:15 , Anuj Pant

Vladimir Putin’s defence ministry has claimed it destroyed eight drones over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula in the early hours of Sunday even as overnight drone attacks were launched on capital Kyiv.

The incident, reported by Reuters, could not be independently verified. Russia accused Ukraine of launching the drones.

The Russian defence ministry has also not said if there were any casualties. Ukraine’s officials have not commented on the incident yet.

Putin launches overnight aerial attacks on Kyiv

Sunday 10 September 2023 04:48 , Anuj Pant

Air attacks were launched on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts heard across the capital. Drone debris fell on its central districts and the scale of the attack has not been ascertained yet.

Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person was injured in the Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city’s parks.

The debris from the downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, according to the city’s military administration and Mr Klitschko.

The debris also sparked a fire in the Shevchenkivskyi district, but this was immediately put out, according to officials.

Reuters cited its witnesses as saying they heard at least five blasts.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

Sunday 10 September 2023 03:00 , Joe Middleton

India has defied expectations to produce a New Delhi Declaration backed by all countries at this weekend’s G20 summit, at the expense of any meaningful condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced “the good news” shortly before 1600 local time [1000 GMT] on the first day of the G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi – much to the surprise of many observers and analysts, who felt that the Ukraine issue would stand in the way of a consensus on any joint statement at all, much less an early one.

Ukraine does feature in the full 37-page declaration released by the Indian foreign ministry on Saturday, which says leaders “highlighted the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine” without directly mentioning Russia. “There were different views and assessments of the situation,” it adds, in something of an understatement.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Sunday 10 September 2023 02:00 , Joe Middleton

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s naval fleet

Sunday 10 September 2023 01:09 , Lydia Patrick

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians.

In posts on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the billionaire denied accusations that he had turned off the Starlink network in the area, but said that he had not agreed to a request from Ukraine to activate it all the way to the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, which is currently (as it was at the time) occupied by Russia and home to its Black Sea fleet.

“The Starlink regions in question were not activated. SpaceX did not deactivate anything,” Musk said.

“There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” he added, “the obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”

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Popular messaging service says it will combat Russian ‘fake news’

Sunday 10 September 2023 00:09 , Lydia Patrick

The founder of Japanese technnology enterprise Rakuten Group says messaging service Viber will block any attempt at Russian propaganda ‘unlike other social media’.

Hiroshi Mikiani told Reuters: “Unlike other social media, we’ve made it crystal clear we’re going to block all these fake news and propaganda of Russia.”

Viber, which launched in 2010 and was acquired by Rakuten in 2014, has a 98% market penetration rate in Ukraine and is also popular in Russia.

The billionaire entrepreneur has previously been vocal in his support for Ukraine and made a 1 billion yen ($6.77 million) donation to its government at the start of the invasion.

Rakuten has announced plans to work with Ukraine‘s largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, to provide Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) telecommunications technology that uses software to run network functions on the cloud, something Mikitani has touted as a technology of the future.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive will withstand severe Winter conditions, says intelligence chief

Saturday 9 September 2023 22:18 , Lydia Patrick

Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russian forces will continue to fight throughout harsh cold conditions, Kyiv’s intelligence chief said on Saturday.

Kyrylo Budanov said: “Combat actions will continue in one way or another. In the cold, wet and mud, it is more difficult to fight. Fighting will continue. The counteroffensive will continue.”

The comments, made at a conference in Kyiv hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, inidicate Ukraine does not plan to halt its push when the weather worsens later this year.

Vadym Skibytskyi, an official from Ukraine‘s military spy agency, said earlier on Saturday that Russia currently had 420,000 servicemen inside Ukraine.

The push in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, now centred around the villages of Robotyne and Verbove, is seen as a crucial part of an operation that seeks to split Russia’s occupying forces in half in the south, but remains far from that goal.

“Our counteroffensive is happening in several directions,” Budanov said, acknowledging that progress had been slower than he had wanted and describing the situation as difficult.

Russia, which launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed.

Russia shoots down three drones in Crimea

Saturday 9 September 2023 20:18 , Lydia Patrick

Drone attacks on Russian-occupied territory and inside Russia itself have increased sharply across the summer, with Kyiv seeking to back-up its counteroffensive against Vladimir Putin’s forces on the ground in Ukraine by disrupting Moscow as much as it can.

The latest such strike came on Saturday when Russian air defence shot down three enemy drones in northwestern Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of the peninsula’s administration.

Rishi Sunak said that G20 leaders have agreed to a “very strong” joint message about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Saturday 9 September 2023 19:20 , Lydia Patrick

The British prime minister expresses his support of a New Delhi declaration backed by all countries at the summit.

Defying the odds, India was able to get all G20 members to agree that “the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissable” in a 37-page declaration.

Mr Sunak told broadcasters, as reported by Reuters: “The news that we’ve just had, which I’m happy to share, is that under Prime Minister Modi and India’s presidency, the G20 have agreed a joint communique with very strong language about Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine.

“What you’ll see in the communique is strong language, highlighting the impact of the war on food prices and food security, calling on Russia to re-enter the Black Sea grain initiative to allow exports to leave that part of the world and help feed millions of the most vulnerable people as well as the communique recognising the principles of the UN Charter respecting territorial integrity.

“So I think that is a good and strong outcome. And as you can see from this summit, Russia is completely isolated.”

Zelensky meets with Japanese foreign minister who vows support for reconstruction of Ukraine

Saturday 9 September 2023 17:00 , Rachel Flynn

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met on Saturday and agreed to begin discussions on security guarantees and cooperate on reconstructing Ukraine’s economy, the Japanese foreign ministry said.

The security guarantee discussions come after the G7 group of countries, of which Japan is a member, said in July that its members would begin bilateral security guarantee talks with Ukraine.

Hayashi also pledged support from both the public and private sectors in Japan to reconstruct Ukraine’s economy in the surprise visit to Ukraine, where he was accompanied by executives of Japanese firms, including Hiroshi Mikitani, founder and chief executive Rakuten Group, the ministry said.

Japan is planning to host a meeting on the economic reconstruction of Ukraine early next year.

In talks with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Hayashi was set to reiterate Japan’s firm support for Ukraine and the urgency of ending the Russian invasion with the help of the international community, the ministry said.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy in March.

Romania finds new possible fragments of Russian drone on its territory

Saturday 9 September 2023 16:30 , Rachel Flynn

New fragments of a drone similar to those used by the Russian military were found on Romanian soil, the defence ministry said on Saturday.

Romania’s president, President Klaus Iohannis, said this indicated an unacceptable breach of Romania’s air space had occurred.

In a statement, Iohannis said he had informed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about the pieces of drone – the second to crash in Romanian territory this week – and that Stoltenberg reiterated the alliance’s complete solidarity with Romania.

“The identification by Romanian authorities on Romanian territory near the border with Ukraine of new drone fragments … indicates an unacceptable breach occurred of the air space of Romania, a NATO state, with real risks to the security of Romanian citizens in the area,” Iohannis said.

“I firmly condemn this incident caused by Russian attacks on Ukrainian Danube river ports.”

The attacks on Ukraine’s river ports, just hundreds of metres from the Romanian border, have increased security risks for NATO whose members have a mutual defence commitment.

The U.S. State Department said earlier this week it would rotate additional U.S. F-16 fighter jets to bolster NATO’s air policing mission in Romania.

Ukraine says G20 summit declaration is ‘nothing to be proud of’

Saturday 9 September 2023 15:45 , Rachel Flynn

The Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Saturday the G20’s joint declaration was “nothing to be proud of” and criticised it for not mentioning Russia.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko posted a screenshot of the relevant section of the joint declaration, with several pieces of the text crossed out in red and corrected with wording which reflects Ukraine’s position that it is a victim of unprovoked Russian aggression.

“It is clear that the participation of the Ukrainian side (in the G20 meeting) would have allowed the participants to better understand the situation,” he wrote on Facebook.

“Here’s what the main elements of the text could look like to be closer to reality,” he added.

Despite his disappointment with the overall G20 text, Nikolenko thanked Ukraine’s allies for doing their part to advance Ukraine’s position in the declaration.

“Ukraine is grateful to the partners who tried to include strong formulations in the text,” he said.

G20 summit statement calls for peace but avoids condemning Russia for Ukraine war

Saturday 9 September 2023 14:24 , Tara Cobham

The Group of 20 nations adopted a consensus declaration at a summit on Saturday that avoided condemnation of Russia for the war in Ukraine but called on all states to refrain from the use of force to seize territory.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of host India announced that the Leaders’ Declaration had been adopted on the first day of the weekend summit.

The consensus came as a surprise as the group is deeply divided over the war in Ukraine, with Western nations earlier pushing for strong condemnation of Russia in the Leaders’ Declaration, while other countries demanded a focus on broader economic issues.

There was no immediate reaction from most other members.

“We call on all states to uphold the principles of international law including territorial integrity and sovereignty, international humanitarian law, and the multilateral system that safeguards peace and stability,” the declaration said.

“We … welcome all relevant and constructive initiatives that support a comprehensive, just, and durable peace in Ukraine.

“The use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible,” the statement added.

Russia sticks to demands on Black Sea grain deal

Saturday 9 September 2023 11:27 , Tara Cobham

Russia said on Saturday it was sticking to its conditions for a return to the Black Sea grain deal which it quit in July.

In particular, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed its state agricultural bank – and not a subsidiary of the bank, as proposed by the United Nations – to be reconnected to the international SWIFT bank payments system.

“All our conditions are perfectly well known. They do not need interpretation, they are absolutely concrete and all this is absolutely achievable,” Peskov said. “Therefore Russia maintains its responsible, clear and consistent position, which has been repeatedly voiced by the president.”

The Black Sea deal was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations in July 2022 to enable Ukraine to export grain by sea despite the war and help ease a global food crisis.

It was accompanied by an agreement to facilitate Russia’s own exports of food and fertiliser, which Moscow says has not been fulfilled. Since quitting the grain deal, Russia has repeatedly bombed Ukrainian ports and grain stores, prompting Kyiv and the West to accuse it of using food as a weapon.

Moscow’s uncompromising restatement of its position came five days after President Vladimir Putin met his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan and discussed the grain issue.

Russia appears to have drawn encouragement from Erdogan’s statement at that meeting that Ukraine should “soften its approaches” in talks over reviving the deal, and export more grain to Africa rather than Europe. Ukraine said it would not alter its stand and would not be hostage to “Russian blackmail”.

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Saturday 9 September 2023 10:45 , Tara Cobham

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

Rachel Flynn reports:

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

‘600 members of Putin’s forces killed in one day’ as party HQ destroyed

Saturday 9 September 2023 10:32 , Tara Cobham

Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost 600 of his troops in one day, according to Kyiv, while his conservative party’s headquarters in Ukraine was destroyed on Friday.

The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces is estimating that 600 of Moscow’s personnel were killed on Friday, bringing the total lost since February 2022 to 268,140.

Meanwhile, the headquarters of the United Russia political party in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Polohy was destroyed in an attack on the same day, according to the mayor of Melitopol, reported the Kyiv Independent.

Ivan Fedorov said on the Telegram messaging app that local residents described Russians as “burned out” of the headquarters amid the “hellish pseudo-elections”. Alluding to casualties, he said: “Some went to the hospital, and some went straight to the morgue.”

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IAEA ‘deeply concerned’ by ‘increased military activity’ around Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant

Saturday 9 September 2023 09:26 , Tara Cobham

Experts are “deeply concerned” by “increased military activity” in the region around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wrote on Friday of reports of “numerous explosions over the past week”, which could “pose a potential threat to nuclear safety and security at the site”.

Over the three days from last Saturday, the IAEA team heard around two dozen explosions, followed by several more in recent days – although there was no damage to the Russian-occupied facility itself.

Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said the situation at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant “remains highly precarious”.

“The reports I receive from our experts indicate that the explosions occurred some distance away from the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant,” he said. “Nevertheless, I remain deeply concerned about the possible dangers facing the plant at this time of heightened military tension in the region.

“Whatever happens in a conflict zone, wherever it may be, everybody would stand to lose from a nuclear accident, and I urge that all necessary precautions must be taken to avoid it happening.”

British man who went to fight in Ukraine found dead

Saturday 9 September 2023 07:19 , Vishwam Sankaran

A 31-year-old British man who went to fight in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water.

The man, recognised as Jordan Chadwick from Burnley in Lancashire, fought as part of the foreign legion in Ukraine, and was killed under unknown circumstances, BBC reported.

An inquest into the possible cause of Mr Chadwick’s death will reportedly be held in February.

“His passion to support freedom and assist others with his skills led him to leave the UK and travel to the Ukraine in early October 2022,” his mother told BBC.

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UPDATE 8-North Korea’s Kim en route to Russia for talks with Putin

Soo-hyang Choi and Ju-min Park

Updated Mon, 11 September 2023 at 11:37 pm AEST

(Adds South Korean official’s comments in paragraphs 1, 6-7, background in paragraph 16)

By Soo-hyang Choi and Ju-min Park

SEOUL/MOSCOW Sept 11 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has set off for Russia aboard a special train, a South Korean source said, as Pyongyang and Moscow on Monday confirmed a summit with President Vladimir Putin amid Russia’s deepening isolation over the war in Ukraine.

Kim would visit Russia in the coming days at the invitation of Putin, the Kremlin said, while North Korean state news agency KCNA said the two would “meet and have a talk”, without elaborating.

U.S. officials have said the pair would discuss possible arms deals to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine and provide North Korea with a much-needed economic and political lifeline.

Washington and its allies have been voicing concern at recent signs of closer military cooperation between Russia and the nuclear-armed North. It will be Kim’s second summit with Putin, after the pair met in 2019.

Despite denials by both Pyongyang and Moscow, the United States has said talks are advancing actively for North Korea to supply arms to Russia, which has expended vast stocks of weapons in more than 18 months of war.

The North Korean leader left aboard his train late on Sunday, a senior South Korean government official told Reuters.

The special train would take Kim to North Korea’s northeastern border with Russia and the summit could take place as early as Tuesday, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing intelligence concerns, and added that details could change depending on the situation there.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang immediately confirmed an exact schedule for the visit.

North Korea is one of the few countries to have openly supported Russia since the invasion of Ukraine last year, and Putin pledged last week to “expand bilateral ties in all respects in a planned way by pooling efforts”.

Kim’s last trip abroad in 2019 was also to Vladivostok for his first summit with Putin after the collapse of North Korea’s nuclear disarmament talks with former U.S. President Donald Trump.

SECRECY AND SECURITY

Japanese media reported security was being stepped up and refurbishment was taking place at the main train station in the Russian border city of Khasan, where Kim is expected to enter Russia.

Kim does not travel abroad often and, when he does, it is often shrouded in secrecy and security. He travels by a special train with its signature olive green carriages that are said to be armoured and equipped with communications systems and a personal suite for Kim to work and confer with aides.

A summit between Kim and Putin would likely focus on military cooperation and possibly a deal to supply arms, U.S. and South Korean officials and analysts have said.

North Korea is believed to have a large stockpile of artillery ammunition that would be compatible with Russian weapons and could help supplement the supplies being rapidly used on the Ukrainian frontlines.

The United States has said it would be a “huge mistake” for North Korea to supply Russia with weapons to use in Ukraine and warned Pyongyang would “pay a price”.

The deepening relationship between Kim and Putin signals a further global split over the war, said Ramon Pacheco Pardo, the Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance.

“North Korea’s support will allow Putin to wage his war for longer, which is bad news for Europe,” he said. “It is further proof that much of the world doesn’t support Ukraine in the way the U.S. and Europe do, and some countries such as North Korea will openly support Russia without fear of any real consequences.”

In Vladivostok, there was a higher police presence than usual on the streets but no North Korean flags had been put up – unlike ahead of Kim’s previous trip when the city was adorned with the red five pointed stars that grace the North’s flag. (Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi, Ju-min Park, Josh Smith, Hyonhee Shin and Jack Kim in Seoul, Guy Falconbridge and Reuters staff in Vladivostok; Editing Himani Sarkar, Simon Cameron-Moore, Nick Macfie and Alex Richardson)

Arpan Rai,Tara Cobham and Matt Mathers

Tue, 12 September 2023 at 1:07 am AEST

Ukraine has made gains on the frontline in the east and south, Kyiv has claimed as it seeks to put Russia’s forces on the run.

Ukrainian troops near the frontline town of Avdiivka took advantage of Russian forces focusing on to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne to the south, the head of the local military administration said.

“In my opinion, this is very significant,” Vitaliy Barabash told national television. “To be frank, the enemy overlooked this southern direction a bit.”

He called the advance a “thunderous assault operation” and said fighting was underway in the settlement.

Earlier, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said his country could still achieve a major breakthrough in its counteroffensive before changing weather conditions make it harder to advance,

Mr Zelensky’s forces have broken through the first of three main Russian defensive lines in Zaporizhzhia and could make more gains in the weeks to come, he said, though a breakthrough will not be “tomorrow or the day after tomorrow”.

“If we push them [Russia] from the south, they will run,” he told The Economist in an interview.

Key Points

• Putin’s troops pushed back in ‘thunderous assault operation’ in Donetsk
• Zelensky suggests Ukraine could be set for big breakthrough: ‘They will run’
• Ukrainian military makes ‘thunderous assault operation’
• Ukraine says Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv
• ‘600 members of Putin’s forces killed in one day’ as party HQ destroyed
• British man who went to fight in Ukraine found dead

UK says Russia targeted civilian cargo ship in Black Sea port on 24 Aug

20:00 , Eleanor Noyce

Britain on Monday accused Russia of targeting a civilian cargo ship at port in the Black Sea on 24 August in a previously unconfirmed missile attack it said was successfully thwarted by Ukrainian defences.

Ukraine has been making efforts to allow vessels stranded in Odesa port since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict to sail into open waters after the collapse of the UN-backed Black Sea grains corridor.

The remarks, made in Britain’s parliament by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, are the first time an official has commented on a ship being targeted since those Ukrainian efforts began. Since Aug. 18, four cargo ships have sailed from Odesa.

“Thanks to declassified intelligence, we know the Russian military targeted a civilian cargo ship in the Black Sea with multiple missiles on the 24th of August,” Sunak said in an update to parliament on the G20 summit he attended in New Delhi.

The missiles had targeted a Liberian-flagged cargo ship berthed in port and were successfully shot down, Britain’s foreign office said in a statement. The missiles included two “Kalibr” missiles fired from a Black Sea Fleet missile carrier, it added.

Russia’s defence ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for a comment.

Since Russia quit a U.N.-brokered deal allowing Ukraine to safely export its grain via the Black Sea in July, Moscow has been accused by Ukraine of threatening civilian vessels in the Black Sea.

Both the United States and Britain had warned in July that Russia might expand its targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities to include attacks on civilian shipping in the Black Sea.

“Putin is trying to win a war he will not win, and these attacks show just how desperate he is,” Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in a statement.

“In targeting cargo ships and Ukrainian infrastructure, Russia is hurting the rest of the world.”

US and UK holding UN screening of documentary on Russia’s siege of Ukrainian city of Mariupol

19:07 , Sam Rkaina

The United States and Britain are hosting a U.N. screening of the award-winning documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” which follows a trio of journalists during Russia’s relentless siege of the Ukrainian port city in the early days of the war.

UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward said the Monday evening showing at U.N. headquarters is important because “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens what the U.N. stands for: an international order where the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries is fundamental.”

The screening comes at the start of the 78th session of the U.N. General Assembly and a week before world leaders arrive for their annual meeting, where the more than 18-month war in Ukraine is expected to be in the spotlight — especially with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky scheduled to speak in person for the first time.

The harrowing documentary, which was produced by the AP and the PBS series “Frontline,” is culled from 30 hours of footage AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his colleagues shot in Mariupol following Russia’s Feb. 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine and its siege of the city.

‘Desperate’ Putin attacked civilian cargo ship, Sunak reveals after G20 summit

18:10 , Sam Rkaina

Sunak accuses Russia of targeting civilian cargo ship

17:40 , Sam Rkaina

Rishi Sunak has accused the Russian military of targeting a civilian cargo ship in the Black Sea with “multiple missiles” on 24 August.

“Thanks to declassified intelligence, we know the Russian military targeted a civilian cargo ship in the Black Sea with multiple missiles on the 24th of August,” Mr Sunak said in an update to parliament on the G20 summit he attended in New Delhi.

Since Russia quit a U.N.-brokered deal allowing Ukraine to safely export its grain via the Black Sea in July, Moscow has been accused by Ukraine of threatening civilian vessels in the Black Sea.

Both the United States and Britain had warned in July that Russia might expand its targeting of Ukrainian grain facilities to include attacks against civilian shipping in the Black Sea.

White House urges North Korea not to sell arms to Putin

16:50 , Sam Rkaina

With North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reportedly on a trip to Russia, the White House on Monday urged North Korea not to sell arms to Russia for use in the Ukraine war.

“As we have warned publicly, arms discussions between Russia and the DPRK are expected to continue during Kim Jong Un’s trip to Russia.

“We urge the DPRK to abide by the public commitments that Pyongyang has made to not provide or sell arms to Russia,” said Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council.

German minister says Ukraine’s place is in EU, hears calls for arms during Kyiv visit

16:20 , Eleanor Noyce

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said during a visit to Kyiv on Monday that Ukraine‘s place was in the European Union, but urged it do more to fight corruption.

On her fourth visit to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion over 18 months ago, she said Germany would provide an additional 20 million euros ($21.44 million) in humanitarian aid, bringing the amount provided by Berlin to 380 million euros this year.

At meetings with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian leaders, she also heard calls for Western partners to provide Kyiv with more weapons including long-range missiles to fight Russian forces.

“Ukraine is defending the freedom of us all with great courage and determination,” Baerbock was quoted by her ministry as saying on arrival in the Ukrainian capital.

“Just as Ukraine is standing up for us, it can also rely on us and on our understanding of EU enlargement as a necessary geopolitical consequence of Russia’s war. And on our firm support for Ukraine on its path towards the European Union.”

Despite Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is trying to carry out reforms requested by the EU before it can join the 28-country bloc, a process that usually takes years.

“Reform results in the areas of judicial reform and media legislation are already impressive. But there is still a long way to go in the implementation of the anti-oligarch law and the fight against corruption,” Baerbock said.

She also warned that Russia would target Ukraine‘s energy facilities in air strikes this autumn and winter.

“Russia’s perfidious goal is to starve the people again this winter and to let them freeze to death,” she said.

Ukraine claims to recapture Black Sea oil platforms seized during Crimea’s annexation

16:06 , Eleanor Noyce

The Ukrainian military said Monday that it recaptured strategic gas and oil drilling platforms from Russia in the Black Sea and claimed gains in occupied areas near Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine left in ruins after the war’s longest and deadliest fighting.

The recapture of the so-called Boyko Towers platforms provides an energy source and takes back an asset that Russia seized in 2015 and used to launch helicopters, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said.

“Russia has been deprived of the ability to fully control the waters of the Black Sea, and this makes Ukraine many steps closer to regaining Crimea,” the Main Intelligence Directorate said.

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Ukraine claims to recapture Black Sea oil platforms seized during Crimea’s annexation

Lula rows back from comments that Brazil would not arrest Putin

15:50 , Eleanor Noyce

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva rowed back on Monday from saying Brazil would ignore a war crimes arrest warrant for Russian leader Vladimir Putin, while saying he would review Brazil’s membership in the International Criminal Court.

On Saturday, while in India for a Group of 20 nations meeting, Lula told a local interviewer that there was “no way” Putin would be arrested if he attended next year’s summit, which is due to be held in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil is a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which obliges members to comply with its arrest warrants. The court issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest in March, accusing him of the war crime of deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.

Russia has denied its forces have engaged in war crimes or forcibly taken Ukrainian children.

Putin has yet to travel abroad since the ICC sought his arrest, notably missing a summit of the BRICS group in South Africa last month as well as this month’s G20 summit in India. He also skipped the G20 summit in Bali last year.

“If Putin decides to join (next year’s summit), it is the judiciary’s power to decide (on a possible arrest) and not my government,” Lula said at a press conference on Monday, rowing back from his earlier remarks.

He would review why Brazil had signed up to the ICC treaty, he said: “I want to know why the U.S, India and China didn’t sign the ICC treaty and why our country signed it.”

Lula’s earlier comments that Putin would not be arrested had drawn criticism in Brazil.

Oliver Stuenkel, a professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo, said on social media site X that the comments were “damaging and unnecessary”.

“Rather than projecting himself as the elder statesman, Lula came across as inexperienced and ignorant,” Stuenkel wrote.

Lula has sought unsuccessfully to mediate peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and has said that U.S. President Joe Biden could have done more to prevent the conflict.

Russia invaded Ukraine last year and claims to have annexed around a sixth of its territory. Ukraine says any peace agreement that would leave Russian troops on Ukrainian soil would reward Putin for his decision to invade. Moscow says there can be no peace unless Ukraine accepts its territorial claims.

Sweden adds another SEK 700 mln to its 2024 defence spending

15:35 , Eleanor Noyce

Sweden has again boosted its planned defence budget for 2024, taking the total planned increase for the year to 27 billion crowns ($2.44 billion) and exceeding the NATO threshold of 2% of GDP, the government said on Monday.

The defence minister announced that Sweden would add 700 million to the defence in its upcoming autumn budget, lifting the overall defence spending to 119 billion crowns in 2024, almost double that of 2020.

The spending is expected to be equivalent to 2.1% of Swedish GDP, he said.

“We are in the most serious security policy situation since the end of the Second World War,” Minister of Defence Pal Jonson told a news conference.

Sweden is scrambling to boost its defence following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.

Sweden was invited to join NATO in 2023 but is waiting for Turkey and Hungary to approve its application.

Russia’s largest untapped copper deposit starts concentrate production

15:20 , Eleanor Noyce

Copper concentrate production started at Russia’s largest undeveloped copper deposit on Monday following a ceremony overseen by President Vladimir Putin via video link.

The long-awaited Udokan project in Russia’s far east is coming on stream at a challenging time. The United States imposed sanctions on its operator – Udokan Copper LLC – in April as part of a wave of restrictions placed on Russia due to its activities in Ukraine.

Copper prices also fell 14% in 2022 and are flat so far this year due to weaker than expected demand.

The project, however, relies on its proximity to top metals consumer China and on demand there, as well as future demand from the global green energy transition.

“Go ahead,” Putin said during the ceremony, broadcast by state TV.

The processing plant at Udokan will produce sulphide copper concentrate with 40-45% metal content, the company said. It plans commercial sales this year, but has not disclosed potential buyers yet.

Once the first stage of the metallurgical plant is launched in 2024, Udokan will be able to handle up to 15 million metric tons of ore per year, with annual production of up to 150,000 tons of copper in the form of copper cathode and concentrate.

The deposit is the largest in Russia with an estimated 26.7 million tons of copper resources. It has been untapped since its discovery in 1949 because the technology didn’t exist to exploit its unique and difficult-to-extract ore.

In the 1970s, a student at the Moscow Mining Institute researched the idea of a “clean” nuclear blast to extract Udokan’s ore, but that remained on paper.

Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov bought the right to develop Udokan for $500 million from the government just before the 2008 financial crisis. It took 10 years to solve the technical challenges of the project, create a new geological model and start construction.

By 2028, Udokan plans to build the second stage of its mining and metallurgical complex, increasing annual capacity to 24–28 million tons of ore and up to 450,000 tons of copper.

North Korea’s Kim en route to Russia for talks with Putin

15:05 , Eleanor Noyce

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has set off for Russia aboard a special train, a South Korean source said, as Pyongyang and Moscow on Monday confirmed a summit with President Vladimir Putin amid Russia’s deepening isolation over the war in Ukraine.

Kim would visit Russia in the coming days at the invitation of Putin, the Kremlin said, while North Korean state news agency KCNA said the two would “meet and have a talk”, without elaborating.

U.S. officials have said the pair would discuss possible arms deals to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine and provide North Korea with a much-needed economic and political lifeline.

Washington and its allies have been voicing concern at recent signs of closer military cooperation between Russia and the nuclear-armed North. It will be Kim’s second summit with Putin, after the pair met in 2019.

Despite denials by both Pyongyang and Moscow, the United States has said talks are advancing actively for North Korea to supply arms to Russia, which has expended vast stocks of weapons in more than 18 months of war.

The North Korean leader left aboard his train late on Sunday, a senior South Korean government official told Reuters.

The special train would take Kim to North Korea’s northeastern border with Russia and the summit could take place as early as Tuesday, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing intelligence concerns, and added that details could change depending on the situation there.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang immediately confirmed an exact schedule for the visit.

North Korea is one of the few countries to have openly supported Russia since the invasion of Ukraine last year, and Putin pledged last week to “expand bilateral ties in all respects in a planned way by pooling efforts”.

Kim’s last trip abroad in 2019 was also to Vladivostok for his first summit with Putin after the collapse of North Korea’s nuclear disarmament talks with former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Red Cross cuts 2024 budget as donations fall

14:50 , Eleanor Noyce

The International Committee of the Red Cross will cut its budget next year by about 13%, its director-general said on Monday, as major donors including the United States have reduced funding.

Surging humanitarian needs amid a deepening set of crises around the world including wars in Ukraine and Sudan have strained aid budgets, forcing governments to rethink decisions about who to help and how.

“This reduced ICRC budget forecast which is the consequence of shrinking aid budgets globally is taking place at a time where global humanitarian needs have never been higher,” Robert Mardini told journalists, saying he was concerned about he impact of the cuts.

“This trend comes at a significant human cost,” he added.

The humanitarian body is present in more than 90 countries and its activities range from providing basic humanitarian aid to visiting prisoners of war.

The 2024 budget would be 2.1 billion CHF ($2.36 billion), resulting in 270 further job cuts in its Geneva headquarters, he said.

The ICRC’s website says it is funded by voluntary contributions from states party to the Geneva Conventions, Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, supranational organisations such as the European Commission, and public and private donors.

At the end of March, its governing board approved a plan to reduce 430 million CHF in global costs over 2023 and early 2024, having revised its overall budget down to 2.4 billion CHF.

Asked about U.S. funding, Mardini said that the United States was the organisation’s biggest donor and had cut back its 2023 contributions versus the previous year, without giving details of the amounts.

“We need to rethink the humanitarian system,” said Mardini. “The whole system relies on a handful of countries and donors and I think this is by design a big problem and a big risk,” he added.

‘No risk’ that NATO member Romania will be dragged into war, senior alliance official says

14:35 , Eleanor Noyce

NATO Deputy-General Secretary Mircea Geoana said on Monday there is “no risk” that Alliance member Romania will be dragged into a war following the recent discovery of drone fragments on its territory near the border with war-torn Ukraine.

“The most important thing is to re-confirm the fact that there is no indication of a deliberate action (by Russia) to strike Romanian territory and therefore NATO territory,” Geoana told journalists during a visit to a school near Romania’s capital, Bucharest.

The NATO deputy chief’s comments come days after Romanian authorities have twice confirmed the discovery of drone fragments on the country’s soil amid sustained attacks by Russian forces on Ukraine’s Danube River ports across the river from NATO member Romania.

Stephen McGrath and Vadim Ghirda report:

‘No risk’ that NATO member Romania will be dragged into war, senior alliance official says

Just 14 UK tanks for Ukraine? We must do better than that

14:15 , Eleanor Noyce

Complacency could be the enemy of success in Ukraine. It is 564 days since Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine shook to the core assumptions about our UK and European security. War in Europe is a brutal reminder that to be secure at home, we must be strong abroad – and that our allies are the UK’s great strategic strength. Defence of the UK starts in Ukraine.

Despite deeply-dug and heavily mined Russian defences, the Ukrainians are gradually getting the upper hand on the battlefield in the South, as well as diversifying the ways it is hitting the enemy – from airfields at depth in Russia, to targets in Crimea, to Russian ships in the Black Sea.

Some have criticised the slow pace of Ukraine’s counter-offensive. Yet its forces are making a similar rate of progress as British troops advancing into Normandy after the D-Day landings. Now is the time for Ukraine’s allies to double down on our support.

Britain’s military backing of Zelensky has been dwarfed by our EU allies, writes shadow defence secretary John Healey. If we are serious about defeating Putin – and defending Britain – we must double down on our support:

Just 14 UK tanks for Ukraine? We must do better than that | John Healey

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 2 foreign aid workers and target Kyiv

14:00 , Matt Mathers

Two foreign aid workers were reportedly killed in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Russian shelling hit a van carrying a team of four working with a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization, while dozens of Russian drones targeted Kyiv and wounded at least one civilian.

The four volunteers from the Road to Relief group, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside the van as it flipped over and caught fire after being struck by shells near the town of Chasiv Yar, the organization said on its Instagram page.

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 2 foreign aid workers and target Kyiv

Ukraine says Russia may soon launch big mobilisation drive

13:47 , Eleanor Noyce

Ukraine‘s military said on Monday Russia could launch a big mobilisation campaign soon to try to recruit hundreds of thousands of soldiers from inside Russia and occupied Ukraine.

The Ukrainian General Staff provided no evidence in a statement to support its assertion. Russian officials have said there are no current plans for a new wave of mobilisation and that Moscow is focused on recruiting professional soldiers.

“A mass forced mobilisation of the population is expected soon in the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine due to the occupiers’ catastrophic losses,” the General Staff said in a battlefield roundup.

The mobilisation campaign could target between 400,000 and 700,000 recruits, it said, citing different estimates.

It said the number of Russians recruited in Moscow and St Petersburg would remain “minimal”, while Russians would be drawn heavily from the regions outside the two big Russian cities.

The General Staff issued its statement days after a senior Ukrainian military spy official said there were 420,000 Russian servicemen currently inside Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine both treat their losses on the battlefield as a state secret.

Last month, the New York Times cited unnamed U.S. officials who said nearly 500,000 Ukrainian and Russian troops had been killed or wounded in the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

ICYMI: G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down Ukraine declaration

13:40 , Matt Mathers

The G20 summit in India has ended without the usual “family photo”, as some members questioned the watered-down language used in the joint declaration issued by leaders in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Most of the leaders departed from Delhi earlier in the day, having paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial on the banks of the Yamuna River. The absence of the customary group photograph – intended to signify unity between the world’s largest economies – exemplified the fact that deep divisions still remain over the Ukraine war.

Shweta Sharma reports:

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down declaration

Germany to provide Ukraine additional €20 mln in aid – Baerbock in Kyiv

13:23 , Eleanor Noyce

Germany will provide an additional €20 million ($21.44 million) in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Monday during a visit to Kyiv.

The additional aid will bring Germany’s total to 380 million euros this year, the minister said.

Baerbock also warned that Russia would again target Ukraine‘s energy facilities this autumn and winter: “Russia’s perfidious goal is to starve the people again this winter and to let them freeze to death.”

Ukraine needs more air defences to protect ports – FM

13:20 , Matt Mathers

Ukraine’s foreign minister said he discussed air defence supplies with his German counterpart in Kyiv on Monday and that Ukraine needed more systems to protect its ports from Russian air strikes to ensure grain could be exported.

Dmytro Kuleba also urged Berlin to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine as soon as possible.

“You will do it anyway, its just a matter of time, and I don’t understand why we are wasting time,” he said in response to a question at a news conference in Kyiv.

Russia says ban on Russians bringing cars, some goods into EU is racist

12:46 , Matt Mathers

Russia said on Monday that a European Union ban on Russians bringing their cars and some personal goods into the bloc was racist, and one ally of president Vladimir Putin suggested that all diplomatic relations should be severed in response.

In an explanatory note to its rules on sanctions imposed over the Ukraine war, the European Commission said Russians were temporarily barred from bringing some personal goods or vehicles into the 27-nation EU.

The annex referred to in the advice also appears to ban the import of a host of items which could be dual use alongside more mundane items such as make-up, toothpaste, deodorants, toilet paper and mobile phones.

“It’s just racism,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said of the Commission’s advice. “This is racism pure and simple.”

Kremlin and North Korea confirm Kim Jong-Un visit

12:28 , Matt Mathers

Russia and North Korea confirmed Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia.

A brief statement on the Kremlin’s website said Kim’s visit is at the invitation of president Vladimir Putin and would take place “in the coming days.”

The visit also was reported by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency, saying he would meet with Putin.

11:56 , Matt Mathers

Ukraine soldiers search ‘road of death’ for fallen Russians in hope of exchange

Ukrainian soldiers have told the harrowing details of how they search for the bodies of dead Russian troops who they hope to exchange for their own fallen comrades.

Wearing face masks, the Ukrainian soldiers poked sticks into the undergrowth along a deserted country lane, which they have named the “road of death” after a number of Russian soldiers were killed there when Ukrainian forces retook the southeastern village of Blahodatne at the start of their counteroffensive in June.

Three months on, the frontline had shifted south and it was finally safe enough for the three-man team of Ukrainian soldiers to start their operation in this liberated part of Donetsk region.

“We’re going to search,” said Volodymyr, a 50-year-old marine, as artillery fire boomed in the distance. “Search with our eyes. And using smell.”

Russia pulling out of Black Sea grain deal risks ‘many people’ going hungry

11:34 , Matt Mathers

Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea grain initiative has put “many more” people at risk from hunger, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights has said,

Volker Türk spoke at the opening of the Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday.

“A year and a half of horrific warfare has ravaged Ukraine, with a heart-wrenching toll on its people, and damage to vast areas of agricultural land,” he said.

“The Russian Federation’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative in July, and attacks on grain facilities in Odesa and elsewhere, have again forced prices sky-high in many developing countries – taking the right to food far out of reach for many people.”

Putin arrives in Vladivostock for Eastern Economic Forum – state TV

10:59 , Matt Mathers

Vladimir Putin has arrived in Vladivostock for a meeting of the Eastern Economic Forum, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, according to Russian state TV.

Russia has hosted the forum since 2015 as it tries to drum up investment from the far east. China, Myanmar, Mongolia, India, Armenia and South Korea are among the countries that send delegates to the forum.

This year’s event is taking place at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) campus.

“The Eastern Economic Forum is a “key international platform for establishing and strengthening ties within the Russian and global investment communities, and for comprehensive expert evaluation of the economic potential of the Russian Far East, the investment opportunities it offers, and business conditions within advanced special economic zones,” it website says.

Ukraine retakes offshore drilling platforms near Crimea – military intelligence

10:27 , Matt Mathers

Ukraine’s military intelligence service said on Monday its forces had regained control of several offshore drilling platforms close to Crimea.

It said on the Telegram messaging app that Kyiv’s forces had retaken the drilling platforms known as the ‘Boiko Towers’ in a “unique operation”.

It said the platforms had been occupied since 2015 by Russia, which seized and annexed Crimea in 2014, and had been used by Moscow for military purposes since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022.

Up to judiciary if Putin should be arrested when visiting Brazil for G20 – Lula

10:01 , Matt Mathers

Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said it is up to the country’s judiciary whether or not to arrest Vladimir Putin if he visits for the G20 summit next year.

“If Putin decides to join, it is the judiciary’s power to decide and not my government,” Lula told reporters in New Delhi, where he was attending this year’s G20 summit.

“I believe that Putin can go easily to Brazil,” he said in an on-camera interview with Indian news outlet Firstpost.

“What I can say to you is that if I’m president of Brazil, and he comes to Brazil, there’s no way he will be arrested.”

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ‘on way to Russia’

09:27 , Matt Mathers

A North Korean train presumably carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has departed for Russia for a possible meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin, South Korean media said Monday.

Citing unidentified South Korean government sources, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that the train likely left the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on Sunday evening and that a Kim-Putin meeting is possible as early as Tuesday.

The Yonhap news agency and some other media published similar reports. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service didn’t immediately confirm those details.

US officials released intelligence last week that North Korea and Russia were arranging a meeting between their leaders that would take place within this month as they expand their cooperation in the face of deepening confrontations with the United States.

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down Ukraine declaration

09:03 , Matt Mathers

The G20 summit in India has ended without the usual “family photo”, as some members questioned the watered-down language used in the joint declaration issued by leaders in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Most of the leaders departed from Delhi earlier in the day, having paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial on the banks of the Yamuna River. The absence of the customary group photograph – intended to signify unity between the world’s largest economies – exemplified the fact that deep divisions still remain over the Ukraine war.

Shweta Sharma reports:

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down declaration

Zelensky pays tribute to aid workers killed in Donetsk

08:41 , Matt Mathers

Volodymyr Zelensky has paid tribute to aid workers after a Russian anti-tank missile struck a volunteer van in Donetsk yesterday.

Canadian Anthony Ignat was killed in the incident and it is likely Emma Igual of Spain also died, the Ukraine president said.

German citizen Mawick Ruben and Swedish citizen Johan Mathias, two other volunteers, were seriously injured and are being treated in hospitals in Dnipro.

“This Russian shelling once again confirms how close the war against Ukraine is to everyone in the world who truly values human life and who believes it is the common moral duty of humanity to stop terror and defeat evil,” Zelensky said in a Telegram post.

Ukraine’s place is in the EU, says German foreign minister in Kyiv

08:22 , Maryam Zakir-Hussain

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stressed that Ukraine‘s place is in the European Union during a visit to the embattled country’s capital, Kyiv, on Monday morning.

Ukraine can “rely on us and on our understanding of EU enlargement as a necessary geopolitical consequence of Russia‘s war,” said Baerbock upon arrival, according to a statement.

Ukraine already has candidate status, said Baerbock. “And now we are preparing to take a decision on opening EU accession talks.”

On judicial reform and media legislation, Ukraine‘s reform results are already impressive, she said.

But there is still a long way to go in the implementation of the anti-oligarch law and the fight against corruption, added the foreign minister.

The visit is Baerbock’s fourth since the war in Ukraine broke out in February 2022.

Putin to recruit 420,000 by year end in blow to industrial workforce – UK MoD

08:03 , Arpan Rai

The Russian military intends to recruit 420,000 contract personnel by the end of 2023, Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said today, warning of the negative effect this would have on its industrial workforce.

On 3 September, Russian Security Council deputy chairman Dimitry Medvedev stated that so far 280,000 personnel had been recruited, the ministry said, adding that the numbers cannot be verified.

“Russia’s conscription continues to have negative effects on its industry workforce. The Yegor Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy found that Russia’s industry shortage of workers reached a new high of 42% for July 2023, 7% higher from April 2023,” the MoD said.

It added that in contrast to conscription efforts elsewhere, the IT sector Russia has taken steps to preserve the workforce. “This likely highlights the particularly acute shortages in the sector after about 100,000 IT workers left Russia in 2022,” it said.

“This equates to 10% of the IT sector workforce. On 4 September 2023, President Putin signed a decree to increase the exemption age of military recruitment for IT professionals from 27 to 30.”

“This shows that mobilisation and conscription within Russia has worsened non-defence workforce shortages. In the run-up to the Russian presidential elections scheduled for March 2024, Russian authorities will likely seek to avoid further unpopular mobilisations,” the MoD said in its latest intelligence update.

Ukrainian military makes ‘thunderous assault operation’ amid advances in Donetsk and south

07:21 , Arpan Rai

Ukraine’s armed forces have made gains in different parts of eastern Donetsk region, the focal point of Russia’s continuing invasion of the country, and in the south, officials said yesterday.

Ukrainian troops near the frontline town of Avdiivka took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city, the head of the local military administration said.

“In my opinion, this is very significant,” Vitaliy Barabash told national television. “To be frank, the enemy overlooked this southern direction a bit.”

He called the advance a “thunderous assault operation” and said fighting was underway in the settlement.

Avdiivka, site of a major coking plant, has been under near-constant Russian attack for many months.

The General Staff of Ukraine‘s armed forces reported successes near Bakhmut.

In its evening report, the General Staff reported “partial success as a result of assault operations” near Klishchiivka, a village on heights south of Bakhmut, seen as critical to recapturing the town.

The report also described a measure of success near Robotyne – a settlement it captured late last month – as part of its drive southward through Russian-held areas to the Sea of Azov.

US treasury secretary denies G20 watered down statement on Ukraine

06:56 , Arpan Rai

The US treasury secretary Janet Yellen has denied the G20 toned down its stance on Ukraine in the Delhi Declaration released over the weekend, which did not mention Russian aggression in Ukraine directly.

Calling the statement “substantively very strong”, Ms Yellen said: “The US does not see this language as in any way weakening the G20’s stance on Ukraine.”

“Clearly it was hard to find language that would satisfy the US and other countries but we felt we wanted strong language, and substantively strong language, and this was substantively very strong,” she told the Financial Times.

Ukraine rejected the joint statement, saying “the G20 has nothing to be proud of in the part about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”.

Zelensky suggests Ukraine could be set for big breakthrough: ‘They will run’

05:21 , Arpan Rai

In an interview with The Economist published yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky said steady progress was essential to maintaining Ukrainian morale.

“Keeping morale high is crucial. This is why even limited progress on the frontline is essential,” Mr Zelensky told the publication.

“Now we have movement. It’s important,” the publication quoted him as saying.

“If we push them from the south, they will run,” he said, hinting that a big breakthrough can still come before the onset of Ukraine’s infamously wet autumn weather makes battlefield movement more difficult.

Ukraine has had some success in dismantling the first of Russia’s three main defensive lines in the Zaporizhzhia region after facing initial losses in the early stages of the counteroffensive.

Mr Zelensky added that victory will not come “tomorrow or the day after tomorrow”. The Russian army is losing “lots of people”, Mr Zelensky said, adding that the invading country has had to redeploy its reserves to stop the Ukrainian advance.

“It means they lose,” he said.

Zelensky says troops advancing in south, movement in east

04:17 , Arpan Rai

Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian troops pressing a counteroffensive against Russian occupying forces have advanced on the southern front in the past week while there had also been movement near Bakhmut in the east.

“Over the past seven days we have made an advance in the Tavria (southern) sector,” Mr Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

“There is movement in the Bakhmut sector. Yes, there is movement.”

He added that Ukrainian forces were holding their ground on other fronts in the east – Avdiivka and Maryinka near the focus of Russia’s main attacks, and Lyman and Kupiansk, also subject to Russian attempts to advance further north.

The war-time president’s latest comments confirm assessments by other officials of gains, however modest, in the east and south.

Near Avdiivka, the head of the local military administration said Ukrainian troops took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city.

Two drones downed near Russia’s Belgorod region

03:55 , Arpan Rai

Russia’s air defence systems destroyed two drones over the Belgorod region in the early hours today, the Russian defence ministry said on its Telegram channel, claiming to have thwarted an attack by Ukraine.

No immediate injuries have been reported after drone debris fell on a road in the Yakovlevsky district, according to Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

ICYMI: Foreign aid workers killed in Russian strikes

03:00 , Lydia Patrick

A charity confirmed four of their workers were hit by Russian shells in the Bakhmut region whilst trying to get to civilians who were caught in a crossfire.

Their vehicle came under Russian attack leading the van to catch on fire and flip, according to a Road to Relief spokesperson.German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick, Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr, Canadian volunteer Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat, and Spanish volunteer and Road to Relief Director Emma Igual were all in the vehicle.According to the charity, Ruben and Johan were badly injured with shrapnel wounds and burns but are now in a stable condition.

Tragically, Tonko has been confirmed dead, whilst Emma’s current status is still unknown as the organiation cannot trace her whereabouts.

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Zelensky urges the West to maintain support for Ukraine

02:00 , Lydia Patrick

The Ukranian president says Europeans must prepare for a long war as Kyiv make ‘modest’ progress three months into counter offensive.

In an interview with The Economist, the leader expresses a seeming change in morale amongst Western leaders as Kyiv make ‘modest’ gains.

In conversation with The Economist, he said: I have this intuition, reading, hearing and seeing their eyes [when they say] ‘we’ll be always with you.

“But I see that he or she is not here, not with us.”

The ex TV actor is aware of the importance of western economic support.

Mr Zelensky added: “If you are not with Ukraine, you are with Russia, and if you are not with Russia, you are with Ukraine. And if partners do not help us, it means they will help Russia to win. That is it.”

ICYMI: Russia carries out overnight drone attack on Kyiv

01:00 , Lydia Patrick

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city’s central districts, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s Land Forces said that the country’s air defence systems destroyed 25 out of 32 Russia-launched Iran-made Shahed drones, most of which targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged.

“Drones came onto the capital in groups and from different directions,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Read the full story here

Tributes pour in for the volunteers killed in Kyiv strike

Monday 11 September 2023 00:00 , Lydia Patrick

Two foreign aid workers were killed this morning as shells hit their van – causing it to catch fire and flip.

Candian Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat was one of the volunteers who lost their life in the attack.

Paracrew Humanitarian Aid, an organisation he had previously worked for shared their sadness on Facebook.

They wrote: “His compassion, empathy and strength will forever be an inspiration to all of us. And we will keep his memory alive by working on to help Ukraine in every possible way. Rest in peace dear friend.”

Director of NGO killed in Russian strike

Sunday 10 September 2023 23:00 , Lydia Patrick

A 34-year-old Spanish humanitarian worker has been named as one of the victims of a Russian attack in Kyiv this morning.

Emma Igual was the director of Road to Relief, a Ukrainian-registered humanitarian NGO created in March 2022 with the purpose of helping Ukranian civillians.

The charity’s main aims are to evacuate civillians, provide humanitarian aid and mobile healthcare.

According to the Huff Post she dedicated her life to help others and had previously carried out volunteer work in Kenya, Morocco. Greece and Myanmar.

Zelensky says a big breakthrough could lie ahead in counter offensive as Kyiv make gains

Sunday 10 September 2023 22:00 , Lydia Patrick

President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian troops had made advances on the southern front and made movements near Bakhmut in the east.

“Over the past seven days we have made an advance in the Tavria (southern) sector,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

“There is movement in the Bakhmut sector. Yes, there is movement.”

Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were holding their ground on other fronts in the east — Avdiivka and Maryinka near the focus of Russia’s main attacks, and Lyman and Kupiansk, also subject to Russian attempts to advance further north.

Near Avdiivka, the head of the local military administration said Ukrainian troops took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city.

“In my opinion, this is very significant,” Vitaliy Barabash told national television. “To be frank, the enemy overlooked this southern direction a bit.”

Zelensky and other officials have said the counter offensive requires time, dismissing criticism in the Western media that it is proceeding too slowly because of tactical errors.

In an interview with The Economist published on Sunday, Zelensky said making steady progress was essential to maintaining morale.

He suggested a big breakthrough could lie ahead.

G20 summit doesn’t end with ‘family photo’

Sunday 10 September 2023 21:00 , Lydia Patrick

The G20 summit did not end in the usual harmonious manner this Sunday as some members question the and omission of Russia and ‘careful’ language used in the communiqué.

Earlier drafts of the declaration reportedly featured stronger language when it comes to Russia, but a senior European Union official who was part of the negotiations told reporters here at the summit venue on Sunday that it would have spelled the end of the G20 as an organisation if they had not agreed to the watered-down version.

The official said: “Ukraine was the most contentious issue. Extremely different positions were on the table to find the consensus, but it was India’s presidency and we believe in consensus so we had to accept that.”

Read the full story here:

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down declaration

Russian general says Ukraine is a ‘stepping stone’ to the rest of Europe

Sunday 10 September 2023 20:00 , Lydia Patrick

General Andrey Mordvichev spoke out in a TV interview with Russia state TV warning Ukraine is just the beginning to the rest of Eastern Europe.

He also told the presente he expects the war to last a very long time.

As reported in Newsweek, Mordvichev said: “I think there’s still plenty of time to spend. It is pointless to talk about a specified period. If we are talking about Eastern Europe, which we will have to, of course then it will be longer.”

The interviewer then asked if Ukraine was merely a stepping stone.

He responded: “Yes, absolutely. It is only the beginning.”

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US Secretary of State defends decision to accept G20 statement – despite criticism

Sunday 10 September 2023 19:30 , Lydia Patrick

Anthony Blinken defended the United State’s decision to agree with the summit’s declaration amid Ukrainian complaints the statment doesn’t do enough to condemn Russia.

During an interview on ABC’s This Week he said:“I was in the room when all the leaders spoke today with President Biden and it was very clear from everything that they said that not only do they want to see this war end, but they want to see it end on just and durable terms and it was also very clear that the consequences of Russia’s aggression are being felt throughout the G20 countries and throughout the developing world.”

“I think it’s very important that the G20 spoke as one,” Blinken added.

Ukrainian foreign ministry Oleg Nikolnko hit out at the statement, saying the language used did not go far enough to condemn Russia.

Blinken routinely pledges his support for Ukraine on social media.

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Russia are becoming savvy to Ukranian military tactics, says head of military intelligence

Sunday 10 September 2023 18:30 , Lydia Patrick

Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov spoke at the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv last night.

Ukranian and international policy makers gathered to dicuss the war’s progression.

As reported in The Guardian, Budanov said:

In terms of creativity and flexibility, we still have an edge over them, they are rather outdated. But they are adapting, they are trying to change tactics, to alter the way they use forces, they miserably fail with their strategy, but their tactics do have some improvements.

They switched to the mass use of drones, before the war they simply didn’t understand the importance of them, now they are adapting and copying us a lot.

Kyrylo Budanov

ICYMI: British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Sunday 10 September 2023 18:00 , Lydia Patrick

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

She said: “Although we are extremely proud of his unwavering courage and resilience, his death has been devastating.

Read the full story here

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

ICYMI: Ukraine says G20 summit declaration ‘nothing to be proud of’

Sunday 10 September 2023 17:00 , Lydia Patrick

The Ukrainian foreign ministry hit out at G20’s joint declaration for omitting the mention of Russia and put forward his own corrected version.

The G20 member country’s reached an agreement on Saturday but there was a notable difference in language regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict in comparison with last year’s document.

There were disagreements between European countries who were keen to use strong language to condemn Moscow’s invasion yet Russia and China wouldn’t accept any mention of war.

Nikolenko said:

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Moscow hold local elections in occupied regions of Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 16:15 , Lydia Patrick

Russian authorities have reported multiple attempts to sabotage voting in local elections taking place in occupied areas of Ukraine.

Votes are taking place this weekend in 79 regions of Russia, with ballots for governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils, as well as in the four Ukrainian regions Moscow annexed illegally last year – the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia provinces – and on the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014.

Kyiv and the West have said balloting in the occupied areas of Ukraine is a violation of international law.

Russian electoral officials on Sunday reported attempts to sabotage voting in the occupied regions, where guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv had previously killed pro-Moscow officials, blown up bridges and helped the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets.

A drone strike in the early hours of Sunday destroyed one polling station in the Zaporizhzhia province, deputy chairman of Russia’s Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulaev told reporters. He said no staff were at the station at the time of the attack.

A Russian-appointed official in the neighbouring Kherson region said that a live grenade was discovered on Saturday near a polling station there. Marina Zakharova said the grenade was hidden in bushes outside the station, and that voting had to be halted while emergency services disposed of it.

Local residents and Ukrainian activists have alleged that Russian poll workers make house calls accompanied by armed soldiers in both provinces, detaining those who refuse to vote and pressuring them into writing “explanatory statements” that could be used as grounds for a criminal case.

ICYMI: Russia turning to old ally North Korea to replenish ammunition

Sunday 10 September 2023 15:42 , Lydia Patrick

Russia’s supplies are depleting after a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine – and they’re turning to Kim Jong Un.

It is believed the isolated Asian country has tens of millions artillery shells and rockets that could help the Russian army.

United States officials expect North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Russia in the coming days to seal a possible deal on munitions transfer with President Vladimir Putin.

Alexander Gabuev, head of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center said: ““We know that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited recently for artillery shells predominantly, and most likely that will be discussed between Putin and Kim Jong Un.”

Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, visited North Korea in July 2023, as the first Russian defence chief to visit the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Whilst the Kremlin have refused to comment about the nature of an arms deal, spokesperson Dmitry Peskov expressed their close ties.

He said: : “North Korea is our neighbor, and we will further develop our relations without looking back at other countries’ opinion.”

Read the full story here:

Russia is turning to old ally North Korea to resupply its arsenal for the war in Ukraine

Russia says will return to grain deal once all conditions met

Sunday 10 September 2023 15:02 , Tara Cobham

Russia will return to the Black Sea grain deal “the same day” as Moscow’s conditions for export of its own grain and fertilisers to the global markets are met, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Sunday.

Russia quit the deal in July, a year after it was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, complaining that its own food and fertiliser exports faced obstacles and that insufficient Ukrainian grain was going to countries in need.

“When all the necessary actions for removing obstacles for our grain and fertiliser exports are implemented, the same day we will return to the collective implementation of the Ukrainian part of the ‘Black Sea initiative’”, Lavrov told a briefing after attending a two-day G20 summit in New Delhi.

US army chief fears Kyiv has only 30 days left for offensive

Sunday 10 September 2023 14:34 , Tara Cobham

Kyiv could have as little as 30 days left for its counter-offensive against Moscow, fears the head of the US military.

General Mark Milley said Ukraine only has around 30 to 45 days left before poor weather conditions hinder its offensive, telling the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg it will become “very difficult to manoeuvre” once the rains come.

Luke O’Reilly reports:

Ukraine has around 45 days left before weather hinders offensive – US army chief

Recap: Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack

Sunday 10 September 2023 13:30 , Tara Cobham

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet – with one Ukrainian official saying that his country is paying “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego”.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians in areas where Russia’s invasion has left infrastructure devastated or jammed.

An extract of a new biography of Musk, published by CNN on Thursday, said that the drones – packed with explosives – “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly” during the thwarted assault last year, after Musk ordered his engineers to turn off the network. Musk is said to have feared that a strike on the ports of Russian-occupied Crimea would amount to a “mini Pearl Harbor”. Having apparently spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States – who is reported to have told him that an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response – Musk is then said to have ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100km of the Crimean coast”.

Chris Stevenson reports:

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukraine drone attack on Russian ships

Russia claims it destroyed US-supplied Ukrainian speedboats

Sunday 10 September 2023 13:00 , Tara Cobham

Russia’s defense ministry said in the early hours of Sunday that Moscow’s forces earlier destroyed three US-supplied Ukrainian speedboats that had been travelling toward Crimea.

The claim could not be independently verified.

Too early to judge Ukraine’s summer offensive as failure, says US military head

Sunday 10 September 2023 12:20 , Tara Cobham

It is too early to say whether Ukraine’s summer offensive has failed, the head of the US military has said.

Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, General Mark Milley said: “That offensive kicked off about 90 days ago. It has gone slower than the planners anticipated. But that is a difference between what Clausewitz called war on paper and real war.

“So these are real people in real vehicles that are fighting through real minefields, and there’s real death and destruction, and there’s real friction.

“And there’s still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days, worth of fighting weather left.

“So the Ukrainians aren’t done. This battle is not done. They haven’t finished the fighting part of what they’re trying to accomplish. So we’ll see, it’s too early to say how this is going to end. They at least have achieved partial success in what they set out to do, and that’s important. And then the rains will come in. It’ll become very muddy.

“It’ll be very difficult to manoeuvre at that point, and then you’ll get the deep winter. And then at that point, we’ll see where things go. But right now, it is way too early to say that this offensive has failed or not failed.”

In pictures: Russian drones rain down on Kyiv for hours overnight

Sunday 10 September 2023 12:18 , Tara Cobham

Foreign aid workers killed in Russian missile attack in Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 10:56 , Tara Cobham

Two foreign aid workers were reportedly killed in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Russian shelling hit a van carrying a team of four working with a Ukrainian NGO.

The four volunteers from the Road to Relief NGO, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside the van as it flipped over and caught fire after being struck by shells near the town of Chasiv Yar, the organization said on its Instagram page.

Road to Relief said Canadian Anthony Ihnat died in the attack, while German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick and Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr were seriously injured.

The organisation added that it could not trace the whereabouts of the van’s fourth passenger, Emma Igual, a Spanish national who was the organization’s director. Hours later, Spain’s acting foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares told Spanish media that authorities in Madrid had received “verbal confirmation” of the 32-year-old Igual’s death.

The volunteers were on their way to assess the needs of civilians on the outskirts of Bakhmut, Road to Relief said, in reference to the eastern town that saw the war’s longest and bloodiest battle before falling to Moscow in May. Ukrainian forces have held on to Bakhmut’s western suburbs and are pushing a counteroffensive in the area.

Local elections take place across Russia but Ukraine ‘not on agenda’

Sunday 10 September 2023 10:12 , Tara Cobham

Local elections kicked off in Russia this weekend in 79 regions, with voters are casting their ballots for governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils.

Russian authorities are also holding local elections in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed illegally last year — the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia provinces. Voting for federal and local legislators is also underway on the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014. Balloting in the occupied areas of Ukraine has been denounced by Kyiv and the West as a sham and a violation of international law.

In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin’s seat is up for grabs, although he is running for re-election again and is unlikely to lose a race in which all contenders come from Kremlin-backed parties. Sobyanin was appointed mayor in 2010 and has since won mayoral elections twice: in 2013, despite now-imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny running against him, and 2018. Governors in 20 other Russian regions are also vying for office this year.

Local elections take place across Russia, but Ukraine is ‘not on the agenda’

South Korea pledges additional $2 bln aid to Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 09:26 , Tara Cobham

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday the country will provide an additional $2 billion in aid to Ukraine starting in 2025 over the longer term, in addition to the $300 million previously pledged for next year, Yonhap news reported.

Yoon made the comment at a session of the G20 summit held in New Delhi, India, Yonhap said.

Ukraine says Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv

Sunday 10 September 2023 08:03 , Tara Cobham

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city’s central districts, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s Land Forces said that the country’s air defence systems destroyed 25 out of 32 Russia-launched Iran-made Shahed drones, most of which targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged.

“Drones came onto the capital in groups and from different directions,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that one person was injured in the historic Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city’s parks.

Debris from downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, Klitschko and the city’s military administration said.

In the Shevchenkivskyi district, drone debris sparked a fire in an apartment, which was quickly extinguished. There were no immediate reports of injuries, Popko said on the Telegram messaging app.

There was no immediate comment from Russia about the attacks. Moscow has been conducting near-nightly assaults on Ukraine’s territory. A Russian attack killed 17 on Wednesday in the eastern city of Kostiantynivka, according to Ukrainian officials.

Signs indicate Russia turning to isolated North Korea to replenish military supplies

Sunday 10 September 2023 07:12 , Anuj Pant

Russia’s military arsenal has been depleted enough for it to turn to isolated North Korea amid its now year-and-a-half-long invasion of Ukraine.

The country is set to host a regional summit on Sunday that could see the participation of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un who, reports said, could reach the country by armoured train.

The visit is significant as Russia faces depleted reserves due to its invasion. And estimates cited by The Associated Press have revealed that North Korea has tens of millions of artillery shells and rockets that could give a huge boost to the Russian army.

US officials have said they expected Mr Kim to seal a deal to transfer munitions to Russia in the coming days, in a marked reversal from the 1950s during the Korean war, when it was the Soviet Union that supplied weaponry to the North.

“We know that Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu has visited recently for artillery shells predominantly, and most likely that will be discussed between Putin and Kim Jong-un,” Alexander Gabuev, head of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.

ICYMI: Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s naval fleet

Sunday 10 September 2023 06:58 , Anuj Pant

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet – with one Ukrainian official saying that his country is paying “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego”.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians in areas where Russia’s invasion has left infrastructure devastated or jammed.

An extract of a new biography of Musk, published by CNN on Thursday, said that the drones – packed with explosives – “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly” during the thwarted assault last year, after Musk ordered his engineers to turn off the network.

Musk is said to have feared that a strike on the ports of Russian-occupied Crimea would amount to a “mini Pearl Harbor”.

Having apparently spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States – who is reported to have told him that an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response – Musk is then said to have ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100km of the Crimean coast”.

Read more below.

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukraine drone attack on Russian ships

Russia ships Su-30 fighter jets to Myanmar junta

Sunday 10 September 2023 06:08 , Anuj Pant

The Myanmar junta government has received its first shipment of Russian Su-30 fighter jets, the country’s trade minister told Russian state-run media.

Russia and Myanmar had signed a contract last year for the delivery of six Su-30SME fighter jets, according to Russian state-run RIA.

“Two aircraft have already been delivered,” Charlie Than, Myanmar’s trade minister, told the state-run news agency.

The minister was speaking on the sidelines of a Russian economic summit in Vladivostok. He also said a number of bilateral agreements will be signed at the East Economic Forum, including on developing tourism between the two countries.

Myanmar has seen the junta increase its grip on the country ever since it launched a military coup in 2021.

The US has also warned Russia against backing Myanmar’s military rulers and said its supply of weapons to the country is fueling a conflict that has become a catastrophe for Myanmar.

Just in: Ukraine says it downed 25 drones launched by Russia early on Sunday

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:47 , Anuj Pant

At least 25 of the 32 drones launched by Vladimir Putin’s forces early on Sunday have been drowned, Ukraine’s land forces said.

The announcement comes as Kyiv was subjected to aerial attacks overnight, with witnesses hearing as many as five blasts, reported Reuters. The scale of the attack has not yet been ascertained.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:36 , Anuj Pant

India has defied expectations to produce a New Delhi Declaration backed by all countries at this weekend’s G20 summit at the expense of any meaningful condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced “the good news” shortly before 1600 local time [1000 GMT] on the first day of the G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi – much to the surprise of many observers and analysts, who felt that the Ukraine issue would stand in the way of a consensus on any joint statement at all, much less an early one.

Ukraine rejected the joint statement, saying “the G20 has nothing to be proud of in the part about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”.

Ukraine does feature in the full 37-page declaration released by the Indian foreign ministry on Saturday, which says leaders “highlighted the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine” without directly mentioning Russia.

“There were different views and assessments of the situation,” it adds, in something of an understatement.

Read more below.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

ICYMI: What are depleted uranium shells?

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:30 , Anuj Pant

The depleted uranium anti-tank rounds soon to be in Ukraine’s military stockpiles have kicked up a debate over its use in the continuing Russian invasion.

Announced by the Pentagon in the latest military tranche on Wednesday, the controversial rounds have spread alarm among Vladimir Putin’s ministers who have warned against the escalation yet again.

Britain has already promised armour-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium to Ukraine in March. Prime minister Rishi Sunak had backed drawing out the rounds from the UK military’s stockpiles ultimately “to degrade and deter – primarily – Russian aggression”.

But what are these depleted uranium munitions?

Read more below.

Ukraine: What are depleted uranium shells and why are they controversial?

Russia claims to have downed eight drones over Crimea

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:15 , Anuj Pant

Vladimir Putin’s defence ministry has claimed it destroyed eight drones over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula in the early hours of Sunday even as overnight drone attacks were launched on capital Kyiv.

The incident, reported by Reuters, could not be independently verified. Russia accused Ukraine of launching the drones.

The Russian defence ministry has also not said if there were any casualties. Ukraine’s officials have not commented on the incident yet.

Putin launches overnight aerial attacks on Kyiv

Sunday 10 September 2023 04:48 , Anuj Pant

Air attacks were launched on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts heard across the capital. Drone debris fell on its central districts and the scale of the attack has not been ascertained yet.

Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person was injured in the Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city’s parks.

The debris from the downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, according to the city’s military administration and Mr Klitschko.

The debris also sparked a fire in the Shevchenkivskyi district, but this was immediately put out, according to officials.

Reuters cited its witnesses as saying they heard at least five blasts.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

Sunday 10 September 2023 03:00 , Joe Middleton

India has defied expectations to produce a New Delhi Declaration backed by all countries at this weekend’s G20 summit, at the expense of any meaningful condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced “the good news” shortly before 1600 local time [1000 GMT] on the first day of the G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi – much to the surprise of many observers and analysts, who felt that the Ukraine issue would stand in the way of a consensus on any joint statement at all, much less an early one.

Ukraine does feature in the full 37-page declaration released by the Indian foreign ministry on Saturday, which says leaders “highlighted the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine” without directly mentioning Russia. “There were different views and assessments of the situation,” it adds, in something of an understatement.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Sunday 10 September 2023 02:00 , Joe Middleton

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s naval fleet

Sunday 10 September 2023 01:09 , Lydia Patrick

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians.

In posts on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the billionaire denied accusations that he had turned off the Starlink network in the area, but said that he had not agreed to a request from Ukraine to activate it all the way to the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, which is currently (as it was at the time) occupied by Russia and home to its Black Sea fleet.

“The Starlink regions in question were not activated. SpaceX did not deactivate anything,” Musk said.

“There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” he added, “the obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”

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Popular messaging service says it will combat Russian ‘fake news’

Sunday 10 September 2023 00:09 , Lydia Patrick

The founder of Japanese technnology enterprise Rakuten Group says messaging service Viber will block any attempt at Russian propaganda ‘unlike other social media’.

Hiroshi Mikiani told Reuters: “Unlike other social media, we’ve made it crystal clear we’re going to block all these fake news and propaganda of Russia.”

Viber, which launched in 2010 and was acquired by Rakuten in 2014, has a 98% market penetration rate in Ukraine and is also popular in Russia.

The billionaire entrepreneur has previously been vocal in his support for Ukraine and made a 1 billion yen ($6.77 million) donation to its government at the start of the invasion.

Rakuten has announced plans to work with Ukraine‘s largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, to provide Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) telecommunications technology that uses software to run network functions on the cloud, something Mikitani has touted as a technology of the future.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive will withstand severe Winter conditions, says intelligence chief

Saturday 9 September 2023 22:18 , Lydia Patrick

Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russian forces will continue to fight throughout harsh cold conditions, Kyiv’s intelligence chief said on Saturday.

Kyrylo Budanov said: “Combat actions will continue in one way or another. In the cold, wet and mud, it is more difficult to fight. Fighting will continue. The counteroffensive will continue.”

The comments, made at a conference in Kyiv hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, inidicate Ukraine does not plan to halt its push when the weather worsens later this year.

Vadym Skibytskyi, an official from Ukraine‘s military spy agency, said earlier on Saturday that Russia currently had 420,000 servicemen inside Ukraine.

The push in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, now centred around the villages of Robotyne and Verbove, is seen as a crucial part of an operation that seeks to split Russia’s occupying forces in half in the south, but remains far from that goal.

“Our counteroffensive is happening in several directions,” Budanov said, acknowledging that progress had been slower than he had wanted and describing the situation as difficult.

Russia, which launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed.

Russia shoots down three drones in Crimea

Saturday 9 September 2023 20:18 , Lydia Patrick

Drone attacks on Russian-occupied territory and inside Russia itself have increased sharply across the summer, with Kyiv seeking to back-up its counteroffensive against Vladimir Putin’s forces on the ground in Ukraine by disrupting Moscow as much as it can.

The latest such strike came on Saturday when Russian air defence shot down three enemy drones in northwestern Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of the peninsula’s administration.

Rishi Sunak said that G20 leaders have agreed to a “very strong” joint message about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Saturday 9 September 2023 19:20 , Lydia Patrick

The British prime minister expresses his support of a New Delhi declaration backed by all countries at the summit.

Defying the odds, India was able to get all G20 members to agree that “the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissable” in a 37-page declaration.

Mr Sunak told broadcasters, as reported by Reuters: “The news that we’ve just had, which I’m happy to share, is that under Prime Minister Modi and India’s presidency, the G20 have agreed a joint communique with very strong language about Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine.

“What you’ll see in the communique is strong language, highlighting the impact of the war on food prices and food security, calling on Russia to re-enter the Black Sea grain initiative to allow exports to leave that part of the world and help feed millions of the most vulnerable people as well as the communique recognising the principles of the UN Charter respecting territorial integrity.

“So I think that is a good and strong outcome. And as you can see from this summit, Russia is completely isolated.”

Zelensky meets with Japanese foreign minister who vows support for reconstruction of Ukraine

Saturday 9 September 2023 17:00 , Rachel Flynn

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met on Saturday and agreed to begin discussions on security guarantees and cooperate on reconstructing Ukraine’s economy, the Japanese foreign ministry said.

The security guarantee discussions come after the G7 group of countries, of which Japan is a member, said in July that its members would begin bilateral security guarantee talks with Ukraine.

Hayashi also pledged support from both the public and private sectors in Japan to reconstruct Ukraine’s economy in the surprise visit to Ukraine, where he was accompanied by executives of Japanese firms, including Hiroshi Mikitani, founder and chief executive Rakuten Group, the ministry said.

Japan is planning to host a meeting on the economic reconstruction of Ukraine early next year.

In talks with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Hayashi was set to reiterate Japan’s firm support for Ukraine and the urgency of ending the Russian invasion with the help of the international community, the ministry said.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy in March.

Romania finds new possible fragments of Russian drone on its territory

Saturday 9 September 2023 16:30 , Rachel Flynn

New fragments of a drone similar to those used by the Russian military were found on Romanian soil, the defence ministry said on Saturday.

Romania’s president, President Klaus Iohannis, said this indicated an unacceptable breach of Romania’s air space had occurred.

In a statement, Iohannis said he had informed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about the pieces of drone – the second to crash in Romanian territory this week – and that Stoltenberg reiterated the alliance’s complete solidarity with Romania.

“The identification by Romanian authorities on Romanian territory near the border with Ukraine of new drone fragments … indicates an unacceptable breach occurred of the air space of Romania, a NATO state, with real risks to the security of Romanian citizens in the area,” Iohannis said.

“I firmly condemn this incident caused by Russian attacks on Ukrainian Danube river ports.”

The attacks on Ukraine’s river ports, just hundreds of metres from the Romanian border, have increased security risks for NATO whose members have a mutual defence commitment.

The U.S. State Department said earlier this week it would rotate additional U.S. F-16 fighter jets to bolster NATO’s air policing mission in Romania.

Ukraine says G20 summit declaration is ‘nothing to be proud of’

Saturday 9 September 2023 15:45 , Rachel Flynn

The Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Saturday the G20’s joint declaration was “nothing to be proud of” and criticised it for not mentioning Russia.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko posted a screenshot of the relevant section of the joint declaration, with several pieces of the text crossed out in red and corrected with wording which reflects Ukraine’s position that it is a victim of unprovoked Russian aggression.

“It is clear that the participation of the Ukrainian side (in the G20 meeting) would have allowed the participants to better understand the situation,” he wrote on Facebook.

“Here’s what the main elements of the text could look like to be closer to reality,” he added.

Despite his disappointment with the overall G20 text, Nikolenko thanked Ukraine’s allies for doing their part to advance Ukraine’s position in the declaration.

“Ukraine is grateful to the partners who tried to include strong formulations in the text,” he said.

G20 summit statement calls for peace but avoids condemning Russia for Ukraine war

Saturday 9 September 2023 14:24 , Tara Cobham

The Group of 20 nations adopted a consensus declaration at a summit on Saturday that avoided condemnation of Russia for the war in Ukraine but called on all states to refrain from the use of force to seize territory.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of host India announced that the Leaders’ Declaration had been adopted on the first day of the weekend summit.

The consensus came as a surprise as the group is deeply divided over the war in Ukraine, with Western nations earlier pushing for strong condemnation of Russia in the Leaders’ Declaration, while other countries demanded a focus on broader economic issues.

There was no immediate reaction from most other members.

“We call on all states to uphold the principles of international law including territorial integrity and sovereignty, international humanitarian law, and the multilateral system that safeguards peace and stability,” the declaration said.

“We … welcome all relevant and constructive initiatives that support a comprehensive, just, and durable peace in Ukraine.

“The use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible,” the statement added.

Russia sticks to demands on Black Sea grain deal

Saturday 9 September 2023 11:27 , Tara Cobham

Russia said on Saturday it was sticking to its conditions for a return to the Black Sea grain deal which it quit in July.

In particular, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed its state agricultural bank – and not a subsidiary of the bank, as proposed by the United Nations – to be reconnected to the international SWIFT bank payments system.

“All our conditions are perfectly well known. They do not need interpretation, they are absolutely concrete and all this is absolutely achievable,” Peskov said. “Therefore Russia maintains its responsible, clear and consistent position, which has been repeatedly voiced by the president.”

The Black Sea deal was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations in July 2022 to enable Ukraine to export grain by sea despite the war and help ease a global food crisis.

It was accompanied by an agreement to facilitate Russia’s own exports of food and fertiliser, which Moscow says has not been fulfilled. Since quitting the grain deal, Russia has repeatedly bombed Ukrainian ports and grain stores, prompting Kyiv and the West to accuse it of using food as a weapon.

Moscow’s uncompromising restatement of its position came five days after President Vladimir Putin met his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan and discussed the grain issue.

Russia appears to have drawn encouragement from Erdogan’s statement at that meeting that Ukraine should “soften its approaches” in talks over reviving the deal, and export more grain to Africa rather than Europe. Ukraine said it would not alter its stand and would not be hostage to “Russian blackmail”.

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Saturday 9 September 2023 10:45 , Tara Cobham

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

Rachel Flynn reports:

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

‘600 members of Putin’s forces killed in one day’ as party HQ destroyed

Saturday 9 September 2023 10:32 , Tara Cobham

Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost 600 of his troops in one day, according to Kyiv, while his conservative party’s headquarters in Ukraine was destroyed on Friday.

The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces is estimating that 600 of Moscow’s personnel were killed on Friday, bringing the total lost since February 2022 to 268,140.

Meanwhile, the headquarters of the United Russia political party in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Polohy was destroyed in an attack on the same day, according to the mayor of Melitopol, reported the Kyiv Independent.

Ivan Fedorov said on the Telegram messaging app that local residents described Russians as “burned out” of the headquarters amid the “hellish pseudo-elections”. Alluding to casualties, he said: “Some went to the hospital, and some went straight to the morgue.”

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IAEA ‘deeply concerned’ by ‘increased military activity’ around Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant

Saturday 9 September 2023 09:26 , Tara Cobham

Experts are “deeply concerned” by “increased military activity” in the region around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wrote on Friday of reports of “numerous explosions over the past week”, which could “pose a potential threat to nuclear safety and security at the site”.

Over the three days from last Saturday, the IAEA team heard around two dozen explosions, followed by several more in recent days – although there was no damage to the Russian-occupied facility itself.

Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said the situation at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant “remains highly precarious”.

“The reports I receive from our experts indicate that the explosions occurred some distance away from the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant,” he said. “Nevertheless, I remain deeply concerned about the possible dangers facing the plant at this time of heightened military tension in the region.

“Whatever happens in a conflict zone, wherever it may be, everybody would stand to lose from a nuclear accident, and I urge that all necessary precautions must be taken to avoid it happening.”

British man who went to fight in Ukraine found dead

Saturday 9 September 2023 07:19 , Vishwam Sankaran

A 31-year-old British man who went to fight in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water.

The man, recognised as Jordan Chadwick from Burnley in Lancashire, fought as part of the foreign legion in Ukraine, and was killed under unknown circumstances, BBC reported.

An inquest into the possible cause of Mr Chadwick’s death will reportedly be held in February.

“His passion to support freedom and assist others with his skills led him to leave the UK and travel to the Ukraine in early October 2022,” his mother told BBC.

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Kyiv could have as little as 30 days left for its counter-offensive against Moscow, fears the head of the US military, while foreign aid workers have been killed in a Russian attack in Ukraine.

General Mark Milley said Ukraine only has around 30 to 45 days left before poor weather conditions hinder its offensive, telling the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg it will become “very difficult to manoeuvre” once the rains come.

Meanwhile, four volunteers from the Road to Relief NGO, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside a van as it flipped over and caught fire after being struck by Russian shells in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, the organisation said on its Instagram page.

Road to Relief said Canadian Anthony Ihnat died in the attack, while German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick and Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr were seriously injured. Spanish authorities later confirmed the death of the van’s fourth passenger, 32-year-old Emma Igual, a Spanish national who was the organisation’s director.

This comes after dozens of Russian drones rained down on Kyiv in an aerial attack that lasted two hours in the early hours of Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, injuring a civilian.

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• Foreign aid workers killed in Russian missile attack in Ukraine
• Ukraine says Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv
• ‘600 members of Putin’s forces killed in one day’ as party HQ destroyed
• British man who went to fight in Ukraine found dead
• IAEA ‘deeply concerned’ by ‘increased military activity’ around Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant

Putin arrives in Vladivostock for Eastern Economic Forum – state TV

10:59 , Matt Mathers

Vladimir Putin has arrived in Vladivostock for a meeting of the Eastern Economic Forum, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, according to Russian state TV.

Russia has hosted the forum since 2015 as it tries to drum up investment from the far east. China, Myanmar, Mongolia, India, Armenia and South Korea are among the countries that send delegates to the forum.

This year’s event is taking place at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) campus.

“The Eastern Economic Forum is a “key international platform for establishing and strengthening ties within the Russian and global investment communities, and for comprehensive expert evaluation of the economic potential of the Russian Far East, the investment opportunities it offers, and business conditions within advanced special economic zones,” it website says.

Ukraine retakes offshore drilling platforms near Crimea – military intelligence

10:27 , Matt Mathers

Ukraine’s military intelligence service said on Monday its forces had regained control of several offshore drilling platforms close to Crimea.

It said on the Telegram messaging app that Kyiv’s forces had retaken the drilling platforms known as the ‘Boiko Towers’ in a “unique operation”.

It said the platforms had been occupied since 2015 by Russia, which seized and annexed Crimea in 2014, and had been used by Moscow for military purposes since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022.

Up to judiciary if Putin should be arrested when visiting Brazil for G20 – Lula

10:01 , Matt Mathers

Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said it is up to the country’s judiciary whether or not to arrest Vladimir Putin if he visits for the G20 summit next year.

“If Putin decides to join, it is the judiciary’s power to decide and not my government,” Lula told reporters in New Delhi, where he was attending this year’s G20 summit.

“I believe that Putin can go easily to Brazil,” he said in an on-camera interview with Indian news outlet Firstpost.

“What I can say to you is that if I’m president of Brazil, and he comes to Brazil, there’s no way he will be arrested.”

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ‘on way to Russia’

09:27 , Matt Mathers

A North Korean train presumably carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has departed for Russia for a possible meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin, South Korean media said Monday.

Citing unidentified South Korean government sources, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that the train likely left the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on Sunday evening and that a Kim-Putin meeting is possible as early as Tuesday.

The Yonhap news agency and some other media published similar reports. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service didn’t immediately confirm those details.

US officials released intelligence last week that North Korea and Russia were arranging a meeting between their leaders that would take place within this month as they expand their cooperation in the face of deepening confrontations with the United States.

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down Ukraine declaration

09:03 , Matt Mathers

The G20 summit in India has ended without the usual “family photo”, as some members questioned the watered-down language used in the joint declaration issued by leaders in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Most of the leaders departed from Delhi earlier in the day, having paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial on the banks of the Yamuna River. The absence of the customary group photograph – intended to signify unity between the world’s largest economies – exemplified the fact that deep divisions still remain over the Ukraine war.

Shweta Sharma reports:

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down declaration

Zelensky pays tribute to aid workers killed in Donetsk

08:41 , Matt Mathers

Volodymyr Zelensky has paid tribute to aid workers after a Russian anti-tank missile struck a volunteer van in Donetsk yesterday.

Canadian Anthony Ignat was killed in the incident and it is likely Emma Igual of Spain also died, the Ukraine president said.

German citizen Mawick Ruben and Swedish citizen Johan Mathias, two other volunteers, were seriously injured and are being treated in hospitals in Dnipro.

“This Russian shelling once again confirms how close the war against Ukraine is to everyone in the world who truly values human life and who believes it is the common moral duty of humanity to stop terror and defeat evil,” Zelensky said in a Telegram post.

Ukraine’s place is in the EU, says German foreign minister in Kyiv

08:22 , Maryam Zakir-Hussain

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stressed that Ukraine‘s place is in the European Union during a visit to the embattled country’s capital, Kyiv, on Monday morning.

Ukraine can “rely on us and on our understanding of EU enlargement as a necessary geopolitical consequence of Russia‘s war,” said Baerbock upon arrival, according to a statement.

Ukraine already has candidate status, said Baerbock. “And now we are preparing to take a decision on opening EU accession talks.”

On judicial reform and media legislation, Ukraine‘s reform results are already impressive, she said.

But there is still a long way to go in the implementation of the anti-oligarch law and the fight against corruption, added the foreign minister.

The visit is Baerbock’s fourth since the war in Ukraine broke out in February 2022.

Putin to recruit 420,000 by year end in blow to industrial workforce – UK MoD

08:03 , Arpan Rai

The Russian military intends to recruit 420,000 contract personnel by the end of 2023, Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said today, warning of the negative effect this would have on its industrial workforce.

On 3 September, Russian Security Council deputy chairman Dimitry Medvedev stated that so far 280,000 personnel had been recruited, the ministry said, adding that the numbers cannot be verified.

“Russia’s conscription continues to have negative effects on its industry workforce. The Yegor Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy found that Russia’s industry shortage of workers reached a new high of 42% for July 2023, 7% higher from April 2023,” the MoD said.

It added that in contrast to conscription efforts elsewhere, the IT sector Russia has taken steps to preserve the workforce. “This likely highlights the particularly acute shortages in the sector after about 100,000 IT workers left Russia in 2022,” it said.

“This equates to 10% of the IT sector workforce. On 4 September 2023, President Putin signed a decree to increase the exemption age of military recruitment for IT professionals from 27 to 30.”

“This shows that mobilisation and conscription within Russia has worsened non-defence workforce shortages. In the run-up to the Russian presidential elections scheduled for March 2024, Russian authorities will likely seek to avoid further unpopular mobilisations,” the MoD said in its latest intelligence update.

Ukrainian military makes ‘thunderous assault operation’ amid advances in Donetsk and south

07:21 , Arpan Rai

Ukraine’s armed forces have made gains in different parts of eastern Donetsk region, the focal point of Russia’s continuing invasion of the country, and in the south, officials said yesterday.

Ukrainian troops near the frontline town of Avdiivka took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city, the head of the local military administration said.

“In my opinion, this is very significant,” Vitaliy Barabash told national television. “To be frank, the enemy overlooked this southern direction a bit.”

He called the advance a “thunderous assault operation” and said fighting was underway in the settlement.

Avdiivka, site of a major coking plant, has been under near-constant Russian attack for many months.

The General Staff of Ukraine‘s armed forces reported successes near Bakhmut.

In its evening report, the General Staff reported “partial success as a result of assault operations” near Klishchiivka, a village on heights south of Bakhmut, seen as critical to recapturing the town.

The report also described a measure of success near Robotyne – a settlement it captured late last month – as part of its drive southward through Russian-held areas to the Sea of Azov.

US treasury secretary denies G20 watered down statement on Ukraine

06:56 , Arpan Rai

The US treasury secretary Janet Yellen has denied the G20 toned down its stance on Ukraine in the Delhi Declaration released over the weekend, which did not mention Russian aggression in Ukraine directly.

Calling the statement “substantively very strong”, Ms Yellen said: “The US does not see this language as in any way weakening the G20’s stance on Ukraine.”

“Clearly it was hard to find language that would satisfy the US and other countries but we felt we wanted strong language, and substantively strong language, and this was substantively very strong,” she told the Financial Times.

Ukraine rejected the joint statement, saying “the G20 has nothing to be proud of in the part about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”.

Zelensky suggests Ukraine could be set for big breakthrough: ‘They will run’

05:21 , Arpan Rai

In an interview with The Economist published yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky said steady progress was essential to maintaining Ukrainian morale.

“Keeping morale high is crucial. This is why even limited progress on the frontline is essential,” Mr Zelensky told the publication.

“Now we have movement. It’s important,” the publication quoted him as saying.

“If we push them from the south, they will run,” he said, hinting that a big breakthrough can still come before the onset of Ukraine’s infamously wet autumn weather makes battlefield movement more difficult.

Ukraine has had some success in dismantling the first of Russia’s three main defensive lines in the Zaporizhzhia region after facing initial losses in the early stages of the counteroffensive.

Mr Zelensky added that victory will not come “tomorrow or the day after tomorrow”. The Russian army is losing “lots of people”, Mr Zelensky said, adding that the invading country has had to redeploy its reserves to stop the Ukrainian advance.

“It means they lose,” he said.

Zelensky says troops advancing in south, movement in east

04:17 , Arpan Rai

Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian troops pressing a counteroffensive against Russian occupying forces have advanced on the southern front in the past week while there had also been movement near Bakhmut in the east.

“Over the past seven days we have made an advance in the Tavria (southern) sector,” Mr Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

“There is movement in the Bakhmut sector. Yes, there is movement.”

He added that Ukrainian forces were holding their ground on other fronts in the east – Avdiivka and Maryinka near the focus of Russia’s main attacks, and Lyman and Kupiansk, also subject to Russian attempts to advance further north.

The war-time president’s latest comments confirm assessments by other officials of gains, however modest, in the east and south.

Near Avdiivka, the head of the local military administration said Ukrainian troops took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city.

Two drones downed near Russia’s Belgorod region

03:55 , Arpan Rai

Russia’s air defence systems destroyed two drones over the Belgorod region in the early hours today, the Russian defence ministry said on its Telegram channel, claiming to have thwarted an attack by Ukraine.

No immediate injuries have been reported after drone debris fell on a road in the Yakovlevsky district, according to Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

ICYMI: Foreign aid workers killed in Russian strikes

03:00 , Lydia Patrick

A charity confirmed four of their workers were hit by Russian shells in the Bakhmut region whilst trying to get to civilians who were caught in a crossfire.

Their vehicle came under Russian attack leading the van to catch on fire and flip, according to a Road to Relief spokesperson.German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick, Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr, Canadian volunteer Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat, and Spanish volunteer and Road to Relief Director Emma Igual were all in the vehicle.According to the charity, Ruben and Johan were badly injured with shrapnel wounds and burns but are now in a stable condition.

Tragically, Tonko has been confirmed dead, whilst Emma’s current status is still unknown as the organiation cannot trace her whereabouts.

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Zelensky urges the West to maintain support for Ukraine

02:00 , Lydia Patrick

The Ukranian president says Europeans must prepare for a long war as Kyiv make ‘modest’ progress three months into counter offensive.

In an interview with The Economist, the leader expresses a seeming change in morale amongst Western leaders as Kyiv make ‘modest’ gains.

In conversation with The Economist, he said: I have this intuition, reading, hearing and seeing their eyes [when they say] ‘we’ll be always with you.

“But I see that he or she is not here, not with us.”

The ex TV actor is aware of the importance of western economic support.

Mr Zelensky added: “If you are not with Ukraine, you are with Russia, and if you are not with Russia, you are with Ukraine. And if partners do not help us, it means they will help Russia to win. That is it.”

ICYMI: Russia carries out overnight drone attack on Kyiv

01:00 , Lydia Patrick

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city’s central districts, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s Land Forces said that the country’s air defence systems destroyed 25 out of 32 Russia-launched Iran-made Shahed drones, most of which targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged.

“Drones came onto the capital in groups and from different directions,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Read the full story here

Tributes pour in for the volunteers killed in Kyiv strike

Monday 11 September 2023 00:00 , Lydia Patrick

Two foreign aid workers were killed this morning as shells hit their van – causing it to catch fire and flip.

Candian Anthony “Tonko” Ihnat was one of the volunteers who lost their life in the attack.

Paracrew Humanitarian Aid, an organisation he had previously worked for shared their sadness on Facebook.

They wrote: “His compassion, empathy and strength will forever be an inspiration to all of us. And we will keep his memory alive by working on to help Ukraine in every possible way. Rest in peace dear friend.”

Director of NGO killed in Russian strike

Sunday 10 September 2023 23:00 , Lydia Patrick

A 34-year-old Spanish humanitarian worker has been named as one of the victims of a Russian attack in Kyiv this morning.

Emma Igual was the director of Road to Relief, a Ukrainian-registered humanitarian NGO created in March 2022 with the purpose of helping Ukranian civillians.

The charity’s main aims are to evacuate civillians, provide humanitarian aid and mobile healthcare.

According to the Huff Post she dedicated her life to help others and had previously carried out volunteer work in Kenya, Morocco. Greece and Myanmar.

Zelensky says a big breakthrough could lie ahead in counter offensive as Kyiv make gains

Sunday 10 September 2023 22:00 , Lydia Patrick

President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian troops had made advances on the southern front and made movements near Bakhmut in the east.

“Over the past seven days we have made an advance in the Tavria (southern) sector,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address.

“There is movement in the Bakhmut sector. Yes, there is movement.”

Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were holding their ground on other fronts in the east — Avdiivka and Maryinka near the focus of Russia’s main attacks, and Lyman and Kupiansk, also subject to Russian attempts to advance further north.

Near Avdiivka, the head of the local military administration said Ukrainian troops took advantage of Russian forces focusing on one sector to advance and capture part of the village of Opytne south of the city.

“In my opinion, this is very significant,” Vitaliy Barabash told national television. “To be frank, the enemy overlooked this southern direction a bit.”

Zelensky and other officials have said the counter offensive requires time, dismissing criticism in the Western media that it is proceeding too slowly because of tactical errors.

In an interview with The Economist published on Sunday, Zelensky said making steady progress was essential to maintaining morale.

He suggested a big breakthrough could lie ahead.

G20 summit doesn’t end with ‘family photo’

Sunday 10 September 2023 21:00 , Lydia Patrick

The G20 summit did not end in the usual harmonious manner this Sunday as some members question the and omission of Russia and ‘careful’ language used in the communiqué.

Earlier drafts of the declaration reportedly featured stronger language when it comes to Russia, but a senior European Union official who was part of the negotiations told reporters here at the summit venue on Sunday that it would have spelled the end of the G20 as an organisation if they had not agreed to the watered-down version.

The official said: “Ukraine was the most contentious issue. Extremely different positions were on the table to find the consensus, but it was India’s presidency and we believe in consensus so we had to accept that.”

Read the full story here:

G20 summit ends with no ‘family photo’ and criticism of watered-down declaration

Russian general says Ukraine is a ‘stepping stone’ to the rest of Europe

Sunday 10 September 2023 20:00 , Lydia Patrick

General Andrey Mordvichev spoke out in a TV interview with Russia state TV warning Ukraine is just the beginning to the rest of Eastern Europe.

He also told the presente he expects the war to last a very long time.

As reported in Newsweek, Mordvichev said: “I think there’s still plenty of time to spend. It is pointless to talk about a specified period. If we are talking about Eastern Europe, which we will have to, of course then it will be longer.”

The interviewer then asked if Ukraine was merely a stepping stone.

He responded: “Yes, absolutely. It is only the beginning.”

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US Secretary of State defends decision to accept G20 statement – despite criticism

Sunday 10 September 2023 19:30 , Lydia Patrick

Anthony Blinken defended the United State’s decision to agree with the summit’s declaration amid Ukrainian complaints the statment doesn’t do enough to condemn Russia.

During an interview on ABC’s This Week he said:“I was in the room when all the leaders spoke today with President Biden and it was very clear from everything that they said that not only do they want to see this war end, but they want to see it end on just and durable terms and it was also very clear that the consequences of Russia’s aggression are being felt throughout the G20 countries and throughout the developing world.”

“I think it’s very important that the G20 spoke as one,” Blinken added.

Ukrainian foreign ministry Oleg Nikolnko hit out at the statement, saying the language used did not go far enough to condemn Russia.

Blinken routinely pledges his support for Ukraine on social media.

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Russia are becoming savvy to Ukranian military tactics, says head of military intelligence

Sunday 10 September 2023 18:30 , Lydia Patrick

Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov spoke at the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv last night.

Ukranian and international policy makers gathered to dicuss the war’s progression.

As reported in The Guardian, Budanov said:

In terms of creativity and flexibility, we still have an edge over them, they are rather outdated. But they are adapting, they are trying to change tactics, to alter the way they use forces, they miserably fail with their strategy, but their tactics do have some improvements.

They switched to the mass use of drones, before the war they simply didn’t understand the importance of them, now they are adapting and copying us a lot.

Kyrylo Budanov

ICYMI: British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Sunday 10 September 2023 18:00 , Lydia Patrick

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

She said: “Although we are extremely proud of his unwavering courage and resilience, his death has been devastating.

Read the full story here

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

ICYMI: Ukraine says G20 summit declaration ‘nothing to be proud of’

Sunday 10 September 2023 17:00 , Lydia Patrick

The Ukrainian foreign ministry hit out at G20’s joint declaration for omitting the mention of Russia and put forward his own corrected version.

The G20 member country’s reached an agreement on Saturday but there was a notable difference in language regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict in comparison with last year’s document.

There were disagreements between European countries who were keen to use strong language to condemn Moscow’s invasion yet Russia and China wouldn’t accept any mention of war.

Nikolenko said:

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Moscow hold local elections in occupied regions of Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 16:15 , Lydia Patrick

Russian authorities have reported multiple attempts to sabotage voting in local elections taking place in occupied areas of Ukraine.

Votes are taking place this weekend in 79 regions of Russia, with ballots for governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils, as well as in the four Ukrainian regions Moscow annexed illegally last year – the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia provinces – and on the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014.

Kyiv and the West have said balloting in the occupied areas of Ukraine is a violation of international law.

Russian electoral officials on Sunday reported attempts to sabotage voting in the occupied regions, where guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv had previously killed pro-Moscow officials, blown up bridges and helped the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets.

A drone strike in the early hours of Sunday destroyed one polling station in the Zaporizhzhia province, deputy chairman of Russia’s Central Election Commission Nikolai Bulaev told reporters. He said no staff were at the station at the time of the attack.

A Russian-appointed official in the neighbouring Kherson region said that a live grenade was discovered on Saturday near a polling station there. Marina Zakharova said the grenade was hidden in bushes outside the station, and that voting had to be halted while emergency services disposed of it.

Local residents and Ukrainian activists have alleged that Russian poll workers make house calls accompanied by armed soldiers in both provinces, detaining those who refuse to vote and pressuring them into writing “explanatory statements” that could be used as grounds for a criminal case.

ICYMI: Russia turning to old ally North Korea to replenish ammunition

Sunday 10 September 2023 15:42 , Lydia Patrick

Russia’s supplies are depleting after a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine – and they’re turning to Kim Jong Un.

It is believed the isolated Asian country has tens of millions artillery shells and rockets that could help the Russian army.

United States officials expect North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Russia in the coming days to seal a possible deal on munitions transfer with President Vladimir Putin.

Alexander Gabuev, head of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center said: ““We know that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited recently for artillery shells predominantly, and most likely that will be discussed between Putin and Kim Jong Un.”

Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, visited North Korea in July 2023, as the first Russian defence chief to visit the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Whilst the Kremlin have refused to comment about the nature of an arms deal, spokesperson Dmitry Peskov expressed their close ties.

He said: : “North Korea is our neighbor, and we will further develop our relations without looking back at other countries’ opinion.”

Read the full story here:

Russia is turning to old ally North Korea to resupply its arsenal for the war in Ukraine

Russia says will return to grain deal once all conditions met

Sunday 10 September 2023 15:02 , Tara Cobham

Russia will return to the Black Sea grain deal “the same day” as Moscow’s conditions for export of its own grain and fertilisers to the global markets are met, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Sunday.

Russia quit the deal in July, a year after it was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, complaining that its own food and fertiliser exports faced obstacles and that insufficient Ukrainian grain was going to countries in need.

“When all the necessary actions for removing obstacles for our grain and fertiliser exports are implemented, the same day we will return to the collective implementation of the Ukrainian part of the ‘Black Sea initiative’”, Lavrov told a briefing after attending a two-day G20 summit in New Delhi.

US army chief fears Kyiv has only 30 days left for offensive

Sunday 10 September 2023 14:34 , Tara Cobham

Kyiv could have as little as 30 days left for its counter-offensive against Moscow, fears the head of the US military.

General Mark Milley said Ukraine only has around 30 to 45 days left before poor weather conditions hinder its offensive, telling the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg it will become “very difficult to manoeuvre” once the rains come.

Luke O’Reilly reports:

Ukraine has around 45 days left before weather hinders offensive – US army chief

Recap: Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack

Sunday 10 September 2023 13:30 , Tara Cobham

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet – with one Ukrainian official saying that his country is paying “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego”.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians in areas where Russia’s invasion has left infrastructure devastated or jammed.

An extract of a new biography of Musk, published by CNN on Thursday, said that the drones – packed with explosives – “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly” during the thwarted assault last year, after Musk ordered his engineers to turn off the network. Musk is said to have feared that a strike on the ports of Russian-occupied Crimea would amount to a “mini Pearl Harbor”. Having apparently spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States – who is reported to have told him that an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response – Musk is then said to have ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100km of the Crimean coast”.

Chris Stevenson reports:

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukraine drone attack on Russian ships

Russia claims it destroyed US-supplied Ukrainian speedboats

Sunday 10 September 2023 13:00 , Tara Cobham

Russia’s defense ministry said in the early hours of Sunday that Moscow’s forces earlier destroyed three US-supplied Ukrainian speedboats that had been travelling toward Crimea.

The claim could not be independently verified.

Too early to judge Ukraine’s summer offensive as failure, says US military head

Sunday 10 September 2023 12:20 , Tara Cobham

It is too early to say whether Ukraine’s summer offensive has failed, the head of the US military has said.

Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, General Mark Milley said: “That offensive kicked off about 90 days ago. It has gone slower than the planners anticipated. But that is a difference between what Clausewitz called war on paper and real war.

“So these are real people in real vehicles that are fighting through real minefields, and there’s real death and destruction, and there’s real friction.

“And there’s still a reasonable amount of time, probably about 30 to 45 days, worth of fighting weather left.

“So the Ukrainians aren’t done. This battle is not done. They haven’t finished the fighting part of what they’re trying to accomplish. So we’ll see, it’s too early to say how this is going to end. They at least have achieved partial success in what they set out to do, and that’s important. And then the rains will come in. It’ll become very muddy.

“It’ll be very difficult to manoeuvre at that point, and then you’ll get the deep winter. And then at that point, we’ll see where things go. But right now, it is way too early to say that this offensive has failed or not failed.”

In pictures: Russian drones rain down on Kyiv for hours overnight

Sunday 10 September 2023 12:18 , Tara Cobham

Foreign aid workers killed in Russian missile attack in Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 10:56 , Tara Cobham

Two foreign aid workers were reportedly killed in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Russian shelling hit a van carrying a team of four working with a Ukrainian NGO.

The four volunteers from the Road to Relief NGO, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside the van as it flipped over and caught fire after being struck by shells near the town of Chasiv Yar, the organization said on its Instagram page.

Road to Relief said Canadian Anthony Ihnat died in the attack, while German medical volunteer Ruben Mawick and Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Thyr were seriously injured.

The organisation added that it could not trace the whereabouts of the van’s fourth passenger, Emma Igual, a Spanish national who was the organization’s director. Hours later, Spain’s acting foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares told Spanish media that authorities in Madrid had received “verbal confirmation” of the 32-year-old Igual’s death.

The volunteers were on their way to assess the needs of civilians on the outskirts of Bakhmut, Road to Relief said, in reference to the eastern town that saw the war’s longest and bloodiest battle before falling to Moscow in May. Ukrainian forces have held on to Bakhmut’s western suburbs and are pushing a counteroffensive in the area.

Local elections take place across Russia but Ukraine ‘not on agenda’

Sunday 10 September 2023 10:12 , Tara Cobham

Local elections kicked off in Russia this weekend in 79 regions, with voters are casting their ballots for governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils.

Russian authorities are also holding local elections in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed illegally last year — the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia provinces. Voting for federal and local legislators is also underway on the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014. Balloting in the occupied areas of Ukraine has been denounced by Kyiv and the West as a sham and a violation of international law.

In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin’s seat is up for grabs, although he is running for re-election again and is unlikely to lose a race in which all contenders come from Kremlin-backed parties. Sobyanin was appointed mayor in 2010 and has since won mayoral elections twice: in 2013, despite now-imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny running against him, and 2018. Governors in 20 other Russian regions are also vying for office this year.

Local elections take place across Russia, but Ukraine is ‘not on the agenda’

South Korea pledges additional $2 bln aid to Ukraine

Sunday 10 September 2023 09:26 , Tara Cobham

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday the country will provide an additional $2 billion in aid to Ukraine starting in 2025 over the longer term, in addition to the $300 million previously pledged for next year, Yonhap news reported.

Yoon made the comment at a session of the G20 summit held in New Delhi, India, Yonhap said.

Ukraine says Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv

Sunday 10 September 2023 08:03 , Tara Cobham

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city’s central districts, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s Land Forces said that the country’s air defence systems destroyed 25 out of 32 Russia-launched Iran-made Shahed drones, most of which targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged.

“Drones came onto the capital in groups and from different directions,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that one person was injured in the historic Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city’s parks.

Debris from downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, Klitschko and the city’s military administration said.

In the Shevchenkivskyi district, drone debris sparked a fire in an apartment, which was quickly extinguished. There were no immediate reports of injuries, Popko said on the Telegram messaging app.

There was no immediate comment from Russia about the attacks. Moscow has been conducting near-nightly assaults on Ukraine’s territory. A Russian attack killed 17 on Wednesday in the eastern city of Kostiantynivka, according to Ukrainian officials.

Signs indicate Russia turning to isolated North Korea to replenish military supplies

Sunday 10 September 2023 07:12 , Anuj Pant

Russia’s military arsenal has been depleted enough for it to turn to isolated North Korea amid its now year-and-a-half-long invasion of Ukraine.

The country is set to host a regional summit on Sunday that could see the participation of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un who, reports said, could reach the country by armoured train.

The visit is significant as Russia faces depleted reserves due to its invasion. And estimates cited by The Associated Press have revealed that North Korea has tens of millions of artillery shells and rockets that could give a huge boost to the Russian army.

US officials have said they expected Mr Kim to seal a deal to transfer munitions to Russia in the coming days, in a marked reversal from the 1950s during the Korean war, when it was the Soviet Union that supplied weaponry to the North.

“We know that Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu has visited recently for artillery shells predominantly, and most likely that will be discussed between Putin and Kim Jong-un,” Alexander Gabuev, head of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.

ICYMI: Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s naval fleet

Sunday 10 September 2023 06:58 , Anuj Pant

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet – with one Ukrainian official saying that his country is paying “the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego”.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians in areas where Russia’s invasion has left infrastructure devastated or jammed.

An extract of a new biography of Musk, published by CNN on Thursday, said that the drones – packed with explosives – “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly” during the thwarted assault last year, after Musk ordered his engineers to turn off the network.

Musk is said to have feared that a strike on the ports of Russian-occupied Crimea would amount to a “mini Pearl Harbor”.

Having apparently spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States – who is reported to have told him that an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response – Musk is then said to have ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100km of the Crimean coast”.

Read more below.

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukraine drone attack on Russian ships

Russia ships Su-30 fighter jets to Myanmar junta

Sunday 10 September 2023 06:08 , Anuj Pant

The Myanmar junta government has received its first shipment of Russian Su-30 fighter jets, the country’s trade minister told Russian state-run media.

Russia and Myanmar had signed a contract last year for the delivery of six Su-30SME fighter jets, according to Russian state-run RIA.

“Two aircraft have already been delivered,” Charlie Than, Myanmar’s trade minister, told the state-run news agency.

The minister was speaking on the sidelines of a Russian economic summit in Vladivostok. He also said a number of bilateral agreements will be signed at the East Economic Forum, including on developing tourism between the two countries.

Myanmar has seen the junta increase its grip on the country ever since it launched a military coup in 2021.

The US has also warned Russia against backing Myanmar’s military rulers and said its supply of weapons to the country is fueling a conflict that has become a catastrophe for Myanmar.

Just in: Ukraine says it downed 25 drones launched by Russia early on Sunday

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:47 , Anuj Pant

At least 25 of the 32 drones launched by Vladimir Putin’s forces early on Sunday have been drowned, Ukraine’s land forces said.

The announcement comes as Kyiv was subjected to aerial attacks overnight, with witnesses hearing as many as five blasts, reported Reuters. The scale of the attack has not yet been ascertained.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:36 , Anuj Pant

India has defied expectations to produce a New Delhi Declaration backed by all countries at this weekend’s G20 summit at the expense of any meaningful condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced “the good news” shortly before 1600 local time [1000 GMT] on the first day of the G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi – much to the surprise of many observers and analysts, who felt that the Ukraine issue would stand in the way of a consensus on any joint statement at all, much less an early one.

Ukraine rejected the joint statement, saying “the G20 has nothing to be proud of in the part about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”.

Ukraine does feature in the full 37-page declaration released by the Indian foreign ministry on Saturday, which says leaders “highlighted the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine” without directly mentioning Russia.

“There were different views and assessments of the situation,” it adds, in something of an understatement.

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India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

ICYMI: What are depleted uranium shells?

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:30 , Anuj Pant

The depleted uranium anti-tank rounds soon to be in Ukraine’s military stockpiles have kicked up a debate over its use in the continuing Russian invasion.

Announced by the Pentagon in the latest military tranche on Wednesday, the controversial rounds have spread alarm among Vladimir Putin’s ministers who have warned against the escalation yet again.

Britain has already promised armour-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium to Ukraine in March. Prime minister Rishi Sunak had backed drawing out the rounds from the UK military’s stockpiles ultimately “to degrade and deter – primarily – Russian aggression”.

But what are these depleted uranium munitions?

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Ukraine: What are depleted uranium shells and why are they controversial?

Russia claims to have downed eight drones over Crimea

Sunday 10 September 2023 05:15 , Anuj Pant

Vladimir Putin’s defence ministry has claimed it destroyed eight drones over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula in the early hours of Sunday even as overnight drone attacks were launched on capital Kyiv.

The incident, reported by Reuters, could not be independently verified. Russia accused Ukraine of launching the drones.

The Russian defence ministry has also not said if there were any casualties. Ukraine’s officials have not commented on the incident yet.

Putin launches overnight aerial attacks on Kyiv

Sunday 10 September 2023 04:48 , Anuj Pant

Air attacks were launched on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts heard across the capital. Drone debris fell on its central districts and the scale of the attack has not been ascertained yet.

Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person was injured in the Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city’s parks.

The debris from the downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, according to the city’s military administration and Mr Klitschko.

The debris also sparked a fire in the Shevchenkivskyi district, but this was immediately put out, according to officials.

Reuters cited its witnesses as saying they heard at least five blasts.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

Sunday 10 September 2023 03:00 , Joe Middleton

India has defied expectations to produce a New Delhi Declaration backed by all countries at this weekend’s G20 summit, at the expense of any meaningful condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced “the good news” shortly before 1600 local time [1000 GMT] on the first day of the G20 leaders’ summit in Delhi – much to the surprise of many observers and analysts, who felt that the Ukraine issue would stand in the way of a consensus on any joint statement at all, much less an early one.

Ukraine does feature in the full 37-page declaration released by the Indian foreign ministry on Saturday, which says leaders “highlighted the human suffering and negative added impacts of the war in Ukraine” without directly mentioning Russia. “There were different views and assessments of the situation,” it adds, in something of an understatement.

India avoids condemnation of Russia to produce united G20 declaration

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Sunday 10 September 2023 02:00 , Joe Middleton

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Elon Musk sparks fury by admitting he thwarted Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s naval fleet

Sunday 10 September 2023 01:09 , Lydia Patrick

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet.

The Starlink satellite internet service, which is run by the technology billionaire’s SpaceX company, has been a digital lifeline both for Ukraine’s military and for civilians.

In posts on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the billionaire denied accusations that he had turned off the Starlink network in the area, but said that he had not agreed to a request from Ukraine to activate it all the way to the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, which is currently (as it was at the time) occupied by Russia and home to its Black Sea fleet.

“The Starlink regions in question were not activated. SpaceX did not deactivate anything,” Musk said.

“There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” he added, “the obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”

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Popular messaging service says it will combat Russian ‘fake news’

Sunday 10 September 2023 00:09 , Lydia Patrick

The founder of Japanese technnology enterprise Rakuten Group says messaging service Viber will block any attempt at Russian propaganda ‘unlike other social media’.

Hiroshi Mikiani told Reuters: “Unlike other social media, we’ve made it crystal clear we’re going to block all these fake news and propaganda of Russia.”

Viber, which launched in 2010 and was acquired by Rakuten in 2014, has a 98% market penetration rate in Ukraine and is also popular in Russia.

The billionaire entrepreneur has previously been vocal in his support for Ukraine and made a 1 billion yen ($6.77 million) donation to its government at the start of the invasion.

Rakuten has announced plans to work with Ukraine‘s largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, to provide Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) telecommunications technology that uses software to run network functions on the cloud, something Mikitani has touted as a technology of the future.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive will withstand severe Winter conditions, says intelligence chief

Saturday 9 September 2023 22:18 , Lydia Patrick

Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russian forces will continue to fight throughout harsh cold conditions, Kyiv’s intelligence chief said on Saturday.

Kyrylo Budanov said: “Combat actions will continue in one way or another. In the cold, wet and mud, it is more difficult to fight. Fighting will continue. The counteroffensive will continue.”

The comments, made at a conference in Kyiv hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, inidicate Ukraine does not plan to halt its push when the weather worsens later this year.

Vadym Skibytskyi, an official from Ukraine‘s military spy agency, said earlier on Saturday that Russia currently had 420,000 servicemen inside Ukraine.

The push in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, now centred around the villages of Robotyne and Verbove, is seen as a crucial part of an operation that seeks to split Russia’s occupying forces in half in the south, but remains far from that goal.

“Our counteroffensive is happening in several directions,” Budanov said, acknowledging that progress had been slower than he had wanted and describing the situation as difficult.

Russia, which launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed.

Russia shoots down three drones in Crimea

Saturday 9 September 2023 20:18 , Lydia Patrick

Drone attacks on Russian-occupied territory and inside Russia itself have increased sharply across the summer, with Kyiv seeking to back-up its counteroffensive against Vladimir Putin’s forces on the ground in Ukraine by disrupting Moscow as much as it can.

The latest such strike came on Saturday when Russian air defence shot down three enemy drones in northwestern Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of the peninsula’s administration.

Rishi Sunak said that G20 leaders have agreed to a “very strong” joint message about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Saturday 9 September 2023 19:20 , Lydia Patrick

The British prime minister expresses his support of a New Delhi declaration backed by all countries at the summit.

Defying the odds, India was able to get all G20 members to agree that “the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissable” in a 37-page declaration.

Mr Sunak told broadcasters, as reported by Reuters: “The news that we’ve just had, which I’m happy to share, is that under Prime Minister Modi and India’s presidency, the G20 have agreed a joint communique with very strong language about Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine.

“What you’ll see in the communique is strong language, highlighting the impact of the war on food prices and food security, calling on Russia to re-enter the Black Sea grain initiative to allow exports to leave that part of the world and help feed millions of the most vulnerable people as well as the communique recognising the principles of the UN Charter respecting territorial integrity.

“So I think that is a good and strong outcome. And as you can see from this summit, Russia is completely isolated.”

Zelensky meets with Japanese foreign minister who vows support for reconstruction of Ukraine

Saturday 9 September 2023 17:00 , Rachel Flynn

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met on Saturday and agreed to begin discussions on security guarantees and cooperate on reconstructing Ukraine’s economy, the Japanese foreign ministry said.

The security guarantee discussions come after the G7 group of countries, of which Japan is a member, said in July that its members would begin bilateral security guarantee talks with Ukraine.

Hayashi also pledged support from both the public and private sectors in Japan to reconstruct Ukraine’s economy in the surprise visit to Ukraine, where he was accompanied by executives of Japanese firms, including Hiroshi Mikitani, founder and chief executive Rakuten Group, the ministry said.

Japan is planning to host a meeting on the economic reconstruction of Ukraine early next year.

In talks with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Hayashi was set to reiterate Japan’s firm support for Ukraine and the urgency of ending the Russian invasion with the help of the international community, the ministry said.

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy in March.

Romania finds new possible fragments of Russian drone on its territory

Saturday 9 September 2023 16:30 , Rachel Flynn

New fragments of a drone similar to those used by the Russian military were found on Romanian soil, the defence ministry said on Saturday.

Romania’s president, President Klaus Iohannis, said this indicated an unacceptable breach of Romania’s air space had occurred.

In a statement, Iohannis said he had informed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about the pieces of drone – the second to crash in Romanian territory this week – and that Stoltenberg reiterated the alliance’s complete solidarity with Romania.

“The identification by Romanian authorities on Romanian territory near the border with Ukraine of new drone fragments … indicates an unacceptable breach occurred of the air space of Romania, a NATO state, with real risks to the security of Romanian citizens in the area,” Iohannis said.

“I firmly condemn this incident caused by Russian attacks on Ukrainian Danube river ports.”

The attacks on Ukraine’s river ports, just hundreds of metres from the Romanian border, have increased security risks for NATO whose members have a mutual defence commitment.

The U.S. State Department said earlier this week it would rotate additional U.S. F-16 fighter jets to bolster NATO’s air policing mission in Romania.

Ukraine says G20 summit declaration is ‘nothing to be proud of’

Saturday 9 September 2023 15:45 , Rachel Flynn

The Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Saturday the G20’s joint declaration was “nothing to be proud of” and criticised it for not mentioning Russia.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko posted a screenshot of the relevant section of the joint declaration, with several pieces of the text crossed out in red and corrected with wording which reflects Ukraine’s position that it is a victim of unprovoked Russian aggression.

“It is clear that the participation of the Ukrainian side (in the G20 meeting) would have allowed the participants to better understand the situation,” he wrote on Facebook.

“Here’s what the main elements of the text could look like to be closer to reality,” he added.

Despite his disappointment with the overall G20 text, Nikolenko thanked Ukraine’s allies for doing their part to advance Ukraine’s position in the declaration.

“Ukraine is grateful to the partners who tried to include strong formulations in the text,” he said.

G20 summit statement calls for peace but avoids condemning Russia for Ukraine war

Saturday 9 September 2023 14:24 , Tara Cobham

The Group of 20 nations adopted a consensus declaration at a summit on Saturday that avoided condemnation of Russia for the war in Ukraine but called on all states to refrain from the use of force to seize territory.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of host India announced that the Leaders’ Declaration had been adopted on the first day of the weekend summit.

The consensus came as a surprise as the group is deeply divided over the war in Ukraine, with Western nations earlier pushing for strong condemnation of Russia in the Leaders’ Declaration, while other countries demanded a focus on broader economic issues.

There was no immediate reaction from most other members.

“We call on all states to uphold the principles of international law including territorial integrity and sovereignty, international humanitarian law, and the multilateral system that safeguards peace and stability,” the declaration said.

“We … welcome all relevant and constructive initiatives that support a comprehensive, just, and durable peace in Ukraine.

“The use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible,” the statement added.

Russia sticks to demands on Black Sea grain deal

Saturday 9 September 2023 11:27 , Tara Cobham

Russia said on Saturday it was sticking to its conditions for a return to the Black Sea grain deal which it quit in July.

In particular, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed its state agricultural bank – and not a subsidiary of the bank, as proposed by the United Nations – to be reconnected to the international SWIFT bank payments system.

“All our conditions are perfectly well known. They do not need interpretation, they are absolutely concrete and all this is absolutely achievable,” Peskov said. “Therefore Russia maintains its responsible, clear and consistent position, which has been repeatedly voiced by the president.”

The Black Sea deal was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations in July 2022 to enable Ukraine to export grain by sea despite the war and help ease a global food crisis.

It was accompanied by an agreement to facilitate Russia’s own exports of food and fertiliser, which Moscow says has not been fulfilled. Since quitting the grain deal, Russia has repeatedly bombed Ukrainian ports and grain stores, prompting Kyiv and the West to accuse it of using food as a weapon.

Moscow’s uncompromising restatement of its position came five days after President Vladimir Putin met his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan and discussed the grain issue.

Russia appears to have drawn encouragement from Erdogan’s statement at that meeting that Ukraine should “soften its approaches” in talks over reviving the deal, and export more grain to Africa rather than Europe. Ukraine said it would not alter its stand and would not be hostage to “Russian blackmail”.

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

Saturday 9 September 2023 10:45 , Tara Cobham

A British man who fought in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water with his hands tied behind his back, his family have revealed.

Jordan Chadwick, 31, who travelled to Ukraine in early October 2022, was fighting in the International Legion.

His mother, Brenda Chadwick, told the BBC her family was “devastated” by her son’s death.

Mr Chadwick, known as Joe, was from Burnley in Lancashire. He served as a Scots Guard in the British Army from 2011 to 2015.

Rachel Flynn reports:

British man fighting in Ukraine found dead in water with his hands bound

‘600 members of Putin’s forces killed in one day’ as party HQ destroyed

Saturday 9 September 2023 10:32 , Tara Cobham

Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost 600 of his troops in one day, according to Kyiv, while his conservative party’s headquarters in Ukraine was destroyed on Friday.

The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces is estimating that 600 of Moscow’s personnel were killed on Friday, bringing the total lost since February 2022 to 268,140.

Meanwhile, the headquarters of the United Russia political party in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Polohy was destroyed in an attack on the same day, according to the mayor of Melitopol, reported the Kyiv Independent.

Ivan Fedorov said on the Telegram messaging app that local residents described Russians as “burned out” of the headquarters amid the “hellish pseudo-elections”. Alluding to casualties, he said: “Some went to the hospital, and some went straight to the morgue.”

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IAEA ‘deeply concerned’ by ‘increased military activity’ around Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant

Saturday 9 September 2023 09:26 , Tara Cobham

Experts are “deeply concerned” by “increased military activity” in the region around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wrote on Friday of reports of “numerous explosions over the past week”, which could “pose a potential threat to nuclear safety and security at the site”.

Over the three days from last Saturday, the IAEA team heard around two dozen explosions, followed by several more in recent days – although there was no damage to the Russian-occupied facility itself.

Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said the situation at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant “remains highly precarious”.

“The reports I receive from our experts indicate that the explosions occurred some distance away from the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant,” he said. “Nevertheless, I remain deeply concerned about the possible dangers facing the plant at this time of heightened military tension in the region.

“Whatever happens in a conflict zone, wherever it may be, everybody would stand to lose from a nuclear accident, and I urge that all necessary precautions must be taken to avoid it happening.”

British man who went to fight in Ukraine found dead

Saturday 9 September 2023 07:19 , Vishwam Sankaran

A 31-year-old British man who went to fight in Ukraine was found dead in a body of water.

The man, recognised as Jordan Chadwick from Burnley in Lancashire, fought as part of the foreign legion in Ukraine, and was killed under unknown circumstances, BBC reported.

An inquest into the possible cause of Mr Chadwick’s death will reportedly be held in February.

“His passion to support freedom and assist others with his skills led him to leave the UK and travel to the Ukraine in early October 2022,” his mother told BBC.

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UPDATE 8-North Korea’s Kim en route to Russia for talks with Putin

Soo-hyang Choi and Ju-min Park

Updated Mon, 11 September 2023 at 11:37 pm AEST

(Adds South Korean official’s comments in paragraphs 1, 6-7, background in paragraph 16)

By Soo-hyang Choi and Ju-min Park

SEOUL/MOSCOW Sept 11 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has set off for Russia aboard a special train, a South Korean source said, as Pyongyang and Moscow on Monday confirmed a summit with President Vladimir Putin amid Russia’s deepening isolation over the war in Ukraine.

Kim would visit Russia in the coming days at the invitation of Putin, the Kremlin said, while North Korean state news agency KCNA said the two would “meet and have a talk”, without elaborating.

U.S. officials have said the pair would discuss possible arms deals to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine and provide North Korea with a much-needed economic and political lifeline.

Washington and its allies have been voicing concern at recent signs of closer military cooperation between Russia and the nuclear-armed North. It will be Kim’s second summit with Putin, after the pair met in 2019.

Despite denials by both Pyongyang and Moscow, the United States has said talks are advancing actively for North Korea to supply arms to Russia, which has expended vast stocks of weapons in more than 18 months of war.

The North Korean leader left aboard his train late on Sunday, a senior South Korean government official told Reuters.

The special train would take Kim to North Korea’s northeastern border with Russia and the summit could take place as early as Tuesday, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing intelligence concerns, and added that details could change depending on the situation there.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang immediately confirmed an exact schedule for the visit.

North Korea is one of the few countries to have openly supported Russia since the invasion of Ukraine last year, and Putin pledged last week to “expand bilateral ties in all respects in a planned way by pooling efforts”.

Kim’s last trip abroad in 2019 was also to Vladivostok for his first summit with Putin after the collapse of North Korea’s nuclear disarmament talks with former U.S. President Donald Trump.

SECRECY AND SECURITY

Japanese media reported security was being stepped up and refurbishment was taking place at the main train station in the Russian border city of Khasan, where Kim is expected to enter Russia.

Kim does not travel abroad often and, when he does, it is often shrouded in secrecy and security. He travels by a special train with its signature olive green carriages that are said to be armoured and equipped with communications systems and a personal suite for Kim to work and confer with aides.

A summit between Kim and Putin would likely focus on military cooperation and possibly a deal to supply arms, U.S. and South Korean officials and analysts have said.

North Korea is believed to have a large stockpile of artillery ammunition that would be compatible with Russian weapons and could help supplement the supplies being rapidly used on the Ukrainian frontlines.

The United States has said it would be a “huge mistake” for North Korea to supply Russia with weapons to use in Ukraine and warned Pyongyang would “pay a price”.

The deepening relationship between Kim and Putin signals a further global split over the war, said Ramon Pacheco Pardo, the Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance.

“North Korea’s support will allow Putin to wage his war for longer, which is bad news for Europe,” he said. “It is further proof that much of the world doesn’t support Ukraine in the way the U.S. and Europe do, and some countries such as North Korea will openly support Russia without fear of any real consequences.”

In Vladivostok, there was a higher police presence than usual on the streets but no North Korean flags had been put up – unlike ahead of Kim’s previous trip when the city was adorned with the red five pointed stars that grace the North’s flag. (Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi, Ju-min Park, Josh Smith, Hyonhee Shin and Jack Kim in Seoul, Guy Falconbridge and Reuters staff in Vladivostok; Editing Himani Sarkar, Simon Cameron-Moore, Nick Macfie and Alex Richardson)