Joe Biden assures Ukrainians of US support

  • Ukraine’s air defense systems shot down 16 of 30 drones launched by Russia overnight from Saturday to Sundaythe Ukrainian air forces said.
  • According to Igor Tabourets, the head of the military administration of the Cherkasy region, in central Ukraine, the Russian drone attack which hit three civilian infrastructures in Uman on the night of Saturday to Sunday, was aimed in particular “an attic where sunflower seeds, approximately 90 tonnes, had just been harvested”. The total area of ​​​​the fire that broke out in the warehouses is approximately 3,600 square meters, according to Igor Tabourets, quoted by the media Suspilne.
  • Officials in several Russian oblasts announced that they had suffered attacks from Ukrainian drones and shells on Sunday morning. Since Ukraine launched its counter-offensive at the beginning of June, Moscow has accused Ukrainian forces almost every day of attacking civilian targets on Russian territory.
  • kyiv announced on Sunday ” to work “ with the United States, while the American Congress, which avoided the paralysis of the federal administration at the last minute, has not yet approved new aid to Ukraine. “The Ukrainian government is actively working with its U.S. partners to ensure that the new U.S. budget proposal […] will include new funding to help Ukraine »said Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko.
  • The rupture of an oil pipeline in western Ukraine on Saturday September 30 sparked a major fire and injured nine people, including four children, announced the governor of the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. The fire was brought under control and the flow of oil stopped, Svitlana Onyshchuk said on Telegram, adding that four of the injured were still in serious condition.
  • The Slovak populist party Smer-SD, opposed to aid to Ukraine, won the legislative vote in Slovakia, according to the count of almost all the votes. This vote is considered decisive in knowing whether Slovakia, a country of 5.4 million inhabitants, member of the European Union and NATO, can remain on its pro-Western course or turn more towards Russia.
  • Conscription for Russian military service, which begins on 1er October, includes for the first time the territories illegally annexed by Russia. These are the oblasts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia.

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