Cover image: On a road coming from Mykolaiv, a Ukrainian tank drives towards a combat zone in the direction of the city of Kherson, on August 31, 2022. Laurent Van der Stockt for “The World”
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday evening reported territorial gains for the Ukrainian army in the south and east of the countrywithout specifying which territories would have been conquered or when.
- In Ukraine, local authorities announced on Sunday that the Russian forces had continued since the day before to bombard the region of Mykolaiv (south), causing in particular the death of a child following the collapse of his house, and a womanand causing 6 injuries.
- Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmyga on Sunday called on Germany to strengthen its military support for Ukrainewhile acknowledging the efforts already made, during a trip to Berlin which turns the page on recent tensions between the two countries.
- The former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday accused Germany of carrying out a “hybrid warfare” against Russiajustifying the stoppage of gas deliveries to Berlin by his behavior “unfriendly” in the midst of conflict in Ukraine.
- On the front of agricultural exportshalted by the war and which recently resumed after an agreement including the belligerents to avoid shortages in the rest of the world, Thirteen ships loaded with a total of 282,500 tonnes of food left Ukrainian ports on Sunday heading for eight countriesannounced the government of kyiv.
- The head of the standing committee of the national people’s congress, Li Zhanshu, will visit Russia next weekthe official agency announced on Sunday, becoming the highest political official of the Communist Party to visit this country since the invasion of Ukraine by Moscow.
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