Cover image: Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, Wednesday, September 13, 2023. Mikhail Metzel / AP
- Russian drones targeted the south of Ukraine’s Odessa region overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, damaging port infrastructure in the district of the port city of Izmail and injuring six people., reported the local governor, Oleh Kiper. Three injured people are in serious condition, the official added.
- A shipyard in the city of Sevastopol, Crimea, was hit by a Ukrainian missile, injuring 24 people, according to Russian-backed governor Mikhail Razvojaev. The attack caused a fire, he said, specifying after going to the scene that the health of four people remained in a ” stable state “.
- Kim Jong-un and Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Alexander Kozlov met in Russia. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian presidency, said Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un would meet after the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East.
- Warsaw announces the maintenance of import restrictions on Ukrainian grain. “Poland will not allow Ukrainian grain to flood it, whatever the decision of the Brussels authorities”, declared Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. kyiv says it is ready to take the matter to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to demand compensation from Poland.
- The delivery of F-16 aircraft and cluster munitions to Ukraine will only “prolong the conflict”said Vladimir Putin. “They are going to deliver F-16s. Will this change anything? I do not think so. This will only prolong the conflict”he declared at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
- The G7 condemned the organization of “fake elections” in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia. Four annexed regions are affected by these elections, aimed at appointing municipal councilors and governors: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson.
- Denmark to release additional aid to Ukraine amounting to 777 million eurosmainly intended to finance air defense equipment, ammunition and tanks, the Ministry of Defense announced.
- Romania builds air raid shelters on the border with Ukraine. The army has started work to build two concrete shelters in order to “protect the population” in the locality of Plauru, wrote the Ministry of Defense in a press release.
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