Cover image: View of the Black Sea, September 1, 2023. STRINGER / AFP
- Russia said on Monday morning that it had destroyed four fast military patrol boats in the Black Sea. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the boats were carrying ” landing parties of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which were traveling in the direction of » from Cape Tarkhankout located in the west of the annexed Crimean peninsula.
- Moscow also announced that it had shot down, overnight from Sunday to Monday, a Ukrainian drone off the annexed peninsula of Crimea, as well as a second device in the Russian region of Kursk.bordering Ukraine.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan travels to Sochi in southwestern Russia on Monday to discuss with his counterpart Vladimir Putin the resumption of the deal on Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea in time for the fall harvest.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday evening the upcoming replacement of his Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov by Roustem Oumerov. Oleksii Reznikov, implicated in a corruption case, “has gone through more than 550 days of war. I believe the ministry needs new approaches”explained the Ukrainian president.
- Russian and Belarusian athletes will ultimately not participate in the Asian Games which will be held in China from September 23 to October 8, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced.
- Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. The President of Ukraine reports that they discussed the “ways to ensure the functioning of the maritime grain corridor”, established by kyiv in the Black Sea in order to ensure the safety of navigation after the withdrawal of Moscow from the agreement on grain exports.
- The Ukrainian army has made a major breakthrough in the Russian defense lines in southern Ukraine, says one of his senior generals to the British daily The Guardian. “We are now between the first and the second line of defence” Russians, says General Oleksandr Tarnavsky, in charge of the counter-offensive in the South.
- Russian drones attacked sites “civil industrialists” at night on the Danube, in southwestern Ukraine, says kyiv. For its part, Russia claims to have struck the port of Reni in this border region of Romania, a member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Moldovan President Maia Sandu and the Romanian Defense Ministry condemned the attacks.
- Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev assures that Russia has recruited around 280,000 troops since the start of the year50,000 more than the previous figures dating from the beginning of August.
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