Cover image: Police officers equip children with bulletproof vests before the evacuation of their village located on the front line in Stepnohirsk, Zaporizhia region, on August 31, 2023. STRINGER / REUTERS
- Ukraine is developing a missile capable of hitting Russia in depth. Oleksi Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, and President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday (August 31) that Ukraine had developed a weapon capable of hitting a target hundreds of kilometers away.
- Turkey asks for the resumption of the agreement on the export of Ukrainian cereals by the Black Sea. Visiting Moscow, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan ruled on Thursday “essential” reinstatement of this agreement. But his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, asked as a prerequisite for “guarantees” regarding its own exports.
- Sumy Oblast shelled by Russian armed forces on Thursday. According to the regional military administration, the Russian army shelled this region near the front line in eastern Ukraine 27 times, causing 167 explosions.
- Two people died following a missile attack in kyiv and several were injured, reported Wednesday morning, August 30, the head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital, Serhi Popko. This is the largest attack on the capital since the spring, according to military authorities.
- Capture of Robotyne paves way for Ukrainian offensive into Crimeasaid Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, on Tuesday, according to a speech made public on Wednesday.
- Negotiations on future arms deliveries from North Korea to Russia “actively progressing”, assured John Kirby, spokesman for the American National Security Council, on Wednesday, who called on the North Korean regime to ” cease “ these talks.
- Russia claims to have destroyed four Ukrainian military vessels in the Black Sea. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the four speedboats hit early Wednesday were carrying up to fifty members of Ukrainian special forces.
- No international investigation into the death of Yevgeny Prigojine. The crash of the plane carrying the head of the Wagner Group could be a deliberate criminal act, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a conversation with reporters.
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