Cover image: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Military Intelligence Day of Ukraine, September 7, 2023. HANDOUT / AFP
- Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko said that exports of Ukrainian grain could be made from Croatian ports. On the other hand, according to Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Vasyl Bodnar, kyiv submitted a proposal to Ankara aimed at operating a “grain corridor” in the Black Sea without the participation of Russia.
- According to a forthcoming biography, Elon Musk avoided a “mini-Pearl Harbor” to the Russian Crimean fleet. The CNN channel, which had access to an extract from the biography of Elon Musk by American journalist Walter Isaacson, reports that the boss of SpaceX, Tesla and that Ukraine was preparing a drone attack against the Russian fleet.
- The United States announced Thursday new military aid of $600 million to Ukraine (approximately 560 million euros), including in particular mine clearance equipment and different types of ammunition. This announcement comes the day after that of a billion-dollar program including anti-tank munitions containing depleted uranium, in order to give “new impetus” to the Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces
- Sergei Ryabkov, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, believes that sending munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine is a “criminal act”, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Thursday. “This is not just an escalation, it is a reflection of Washington’s outrageous disregard for the environmental consequences of using this type of munitions in a combat zone”declared the diplomat.
- The United States and Great Britain announced that they had sanctioned eleven other members of a network of Russian hackers, specializing in malware and ransomware programs.
- Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, calls for ” to strenghten “ relations with the United Arab Emirates. From the start of the war in Ukraine, Western countries criticized the Gulf states for maintaining close relations with Russia despite the invasion.
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