Cover image: Hakan Fidan, Turkish Foreign Minister, in Baghdad, August 22, 2023. THAIER AL-SUDANI / REUTERS
- 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.
- The head of Turkish diplomacy in Moscow on Thursday, according to Russian diplomacy. Hakan Fidan, the Turkish foreign minister, will be received in Moscow on Thursday by his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, announced Wednesday Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy, while a meeting between Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin is expected soon.
- 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.
- According to Moscow, a vast Ukrainian drone attack targeted Russian territory overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday. Among the targets, Pskov airport, in northwestern Russia, regional governor Mikhail Vedernikov said. According to the official TASS news agency, citing the rescue services, four IL-76 heavy cargo planes were damaged.
- Ukraine says it destroyed 28 missiles and 15 explosive drones. According to the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armythe defense systems destroyed 43 air targets out of the 44 that were launched by Russian forces during the night of August 29-30.
- 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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