2023-09-04 07:58:17
10:41
According to Ukraine, Russian explosive drones fell overnight in Romania
Kiev says Russian explosive drones fell overnight in Romania, its neighbor and NATO member, in a new wave of “massive” night attacks against southern Ukraine.
An Iranian-made Shahed-136 drone. — © STRINGER / REUTERS
“According to information from the border guards of Ukraine, during a massive Russian-led attack in the area of the (Ukrainian) port of Izmail, Russian “Shahed” (drones) fell and exploded on the territory of Romania tonight,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko posted on Facebook.
09:58
Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov tenders his resignation to the Ukrainian parliament
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiï Reznikov announces that he has submitted his resignation to parliament, the day after the announcement of his replacement by Volodymyr Zelensky, after several corruption scandals within the ministry against the backdrop of the Russian invasion.
I have submitted my letter of resignation to Ruslan Stefanchuk @r_stefanchukChairman of the Parliament of Ukraine @verkhovna_rada
It was an honor to serve the Ukrainian people and work for the #UAarmy for the last 22 months, the toughest period of Ukraine’s modern history.
???????? pic.twitter.com/x4rXXcrr7i— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) September 4, 2023
“I submitted my resignation letter to Rouslan Stefantchouk, President of the Ukrainian Parliament”, declared on the social network X (ex-Twitter) Oleksiï Reznikov, in office since November 2021.
09:42
Ukraine claims limited gains on southern front and near Bakhmout
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense claims “success” in its difficult counter-offensive on the southern front, and having retaken three square kilometers from Russian forces near Bakhmout (east).
Ukrainian forces “continue their offensive operations in the Melitopol sector” and “have achieved success near Novodanylivka and Novoprokopivka” in the south, Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Maliar told state television. the Kiev army also recaptured three square kilometers near the city of Bakhmout (east).
08:52
A new bomb threat in all schools in kyiv
The authorities received this morning a new bomb alert in all the schools of kyiv, three days after the first, indicates the military administration of the Ukrainian capital.
“Kyiv police again received a message about the mining of all schools” from Kyiv, the administration said on Telegram. The previous alert, which ultimately turned out to be false, dated September 1, the day of the start of the school year in Ukraine.
07:00
Ukraine claims to have shot down 17 drones in Odessa region
Ukrainian forces shot down 17 Russian drones in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa, the local governor said, and buildings were damaged in the district of the port city of Izmail.
“Seventeen drones were shot down by our air defense forces (…) In several localities of Izmail district, warehouses and production buildings, agricultural machinery and equipment of industrial enterprises were damaged,” said statement Oleg Kiper on Telegram.
05:47
Moscow announces it has destroyed four Ukrainian speedboats in the Black Sea
During the night from Sunday to Monday, “in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, (…) the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed four American-made ‘Willard Sea Force’ military speedboats (carrying) landing parties of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which were traveling in the direction of “Cape Tarkhankut located in the west of the annexed Crimean peninsula, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram.
04:53
Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Russia to try to find an agreement on cereals
Turkey’s president is expected in Sochi, southwestern Russia, today to discuss with Vladimir Putin the resumption of the deal on Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea in time for the EU harvest. autumn. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is meeting his Russian counterpart for the first time since last October, hopes to make these talks on the transport of Ukrainian cereals a springboard for broader peace negotiations between Kiev and Moscow. He is one of the few NATO leaders to maintain good relations with Vladimir Putin.
Russia withdrew in July from the agreement that allowed the maritime transport of Ukrainian grain, crucial for the world’s food supply, criticizing the fact that the sending to the international market of its own agricultural products and fertilizers was hampered by Western sanctions. Russia has since threatened to attack ships leaving Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea. It has also intensified its bombardments of Ukrainian port infrastructure.
03:51
Ukrainian drones shot down by Russia
Moscow claimed to have shot down a Ukrainian drone off Crimea, as well as a second device in the Russian region of Kursk, bordering Ukraine. On Monday around 1 a.m. local time (midnight in Switzerland), “Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the air over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula and over the territory of the Kursk region by systems of air defense in service”, communicated the Russian Ministry of Defense on Telegram, which counted two machines in total. Drone attacks on Russian territory and the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, have increased in recent weeks.
03:19
Who is Roustem Oumerov, future Ukrainian Defense Minister?
Aged 41, he was born in what was then the Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, where his family had been exiled under Stalin, and was a child when his family resettled in Crimea when the Tatars were allowed to return there, in the 80s and 90s. He started in the telecom industry in 2004, and has been an MP since 2019.
In parliament, he was co-chairman of the Crimean Platform, which coordinated international diplomatic efforts to reverse the annexation of the peninsula by Russia in 2014. For many years he was an adviser to the historical leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemilev. After the annexation of Crimea, as after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Roustem Oumerov has, on several occasions, participated in discreet negotiations with Moscow, in particular on exchanges of prisoners and evacuations of civilians. He was part of the Ukrainian delegation to the negotiations with Moscow, under the aegis of Turkey and the UN, which allowed the establishment of a maritime corridor allowing the transport of Ukrainian cereals by the Black Sea.
In September 2022 Roustem Oumerov was appointed head of the State Property Fund, a prominent position in a country where the privatization process is plagued by corruption.
02:50
Volodymyr Zelensky announces replacement of Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov
Oleksiï Reznikov last February. — © IMAGO/STR / IMAGO/NurPhoto
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the forthcoming replacement of his Defense Minister Oleksiï Reznikov by Roustem Oumerov, the head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine. “Rustem Oumerov should become the head of the (Defence) Ministry,” said the Ukrainian president. “I expect Parliament to support this candidate.” “I have decided to replace the Defense Minister of Ukraine,” he said. in his daily video address. “Oleksiï Reznikov went through more than 550 days of war. I believe that the ministry needs new approaches and new ways of interacting with the military as well as with civil society at large”.
This change at the head of the Ministry of Defense comes at the height of the Ukrainian counter-offensive and when Volodymyr Zelensky has promised to strengthen the fight against corruption, which is endemic in Ukraine, in response in particular to the conditions laid down by the European Union to maintain in Kyiv its status as a candidate for membership. Several corruption scandals have recently come to light in the country. One of them involves the Ministry of Defense which, according to Ukrainian media, signed a contract in the fall of 2022 with a Turkish company for the supply of winter uniforms, the price of which tripled after Signature. At the end of August, Oleksiï Reznikov had assured that the prices invoiced corresponded to what was offered by the manufacturers in Turkey.
Appointed Minister of Defense three months before the Russian invasion, Oleksiï Reznikov had become the face of the Ukrainian war effort, working in particular to convince the Western allies to equip the Kiev army with heavy tanks, howitzers or systems Patriot air defense.
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