Cover image: A satellite image shows smoke billowing from the Russian Fleet Command HQ in the Crimean city of Sevastopol after a missile strike claimed by Ukraine, September 22, 2023. HANDOUT / via REUTERS
- Ukraine claimed, on Friday, “a successful strike against the headquarters of the command of the Russian Black Sea Fleet” in Sevastopolin the Crimean peninsula, a Ukrainian region annexed by Moscow since 2014. A soldier is missing, and no other official report has yet been announced.
- Crimea hit by cyber attack ” unprecedented “a Russian official announced on Friday, a few hours after the Ukrainian strike which damaged the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
- Strikes on city of Kremenchuk in east-central Ukraine leave one dead, 31 injuredincluding three children, Dmytro Lunin, the head of the Poltava regional military administration, announced on Telegram.
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday, during Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Ottawa, a new package of aid to Ukraine amounting to 650 million Canadian dollars, or 452 million euros. These aid measures, over three years, will include the delivery to kyiv of some 50 armored vehicles and the training of Ukrainian pilots in F-16 combat planes.
- Joe Biden tells Volodymyr Zelensky that the United States will provide a small number of long-range ATACMS missiles to help Ukraine resist Russiadeclared Friday to NBC News three US officials and one Congressional official.
- The first ships loaded with wheat leave the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk. The bulk carrier Aroyatloaded with more than 17,000 tonnes of wheat, crossed the Black Sea via a “temporary humanitarian corridor”, Friday, towards Egypt. Three other cargo ships are due to load, in the ports of Chornomorsk and Pivdenny, “127,000 tonnes of agricultural products and iron ore for China, Egypt and Spain”according to Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukrainian infrastructure minister.
- Russian bombings have resumed on Ukrainian infrastructure, disrupting water and electricity supplies. “The phase of energy terror has already begun”declared Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmyhal on Friday.
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