Putin promises to strengthen cooperation with North Korea “on all axes”

• Questioned on the American channel CNN, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected any possibility of an agreement with Vladimir Putin on Friday. “When you want to compromise or talk to someone, you can’t do it with a liar”he said about the Russian president.
• According to a Downing Street statement, British planes fly over the Black Sea to “deter Russia from carrying out illegal strikes against civilian ships carrying grain”. After withdrawing from the grain deal in July, Russia said it would consider all ships sailing to Ukrainian ports to be military targets, and Russian strikes have targeted Ukrainian ports.
• Volodymyr Zelensky recognized on Friday that Russia, with its air superiority, was stopping the Ukrainian counter-offensivecomplaining about slowdown in Western military aid and sanctions targeting Moscow due to “processes that become more complicated and slower”.
• The Ukrainian president declared himself on Friday ” ready “ to organize elections in his country in time of war “if the people need it”. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, kyiv had planned to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in 2024.
• At least four people were killed and dozens more injured on Friday in a series of Russian strikes and bombardments targeting towns and villages in Ukraineauthorities said. A Kryvy Rihin the south of the country, a bombing on administrative and residential buildings left at least one dead and sixty injured, while a bombing on Odradokamiankain the southern region of Kherson, left three dead and four injured, according to the Interior Ministry.
• The first Leopard 1 tanks have arrived in Ukraine, and more will follow, the Danish army announced on Friday. “The first ten tanks were sent to Ukraine. And more are on the way.”the Danish military said in a statement, noting that ” ten more were delivered by the factory ». The sending of around a hundred Leopard 1A5 tanks was announced by these three European countries at the beginning of February and announced for ” the next months “.
• Ukraine denounced the “fake elections” organized until this weekend in the territories occupied by Russia. “Russia’s “pseudo-elections” in the temporarily occupied territories have no value”, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday. Paris does not “will not recognize the “results” of the Russian “so-called elections” in occupied Ukrainian territories”, said French diplomacy. At the end of August, kyiv had already ordered citizens of the four partially occupied regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson – not to take part in the vote.

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