2023-09-28 09:12:00
11:12
The United States has frozen $8 billion in Russian assets
These 8 billion in blocked Russian assets are in the European Union and Japan. This money should be used for post-war reconstruction in Ukraine, according to Penny Pritzker, US President Joe Biden’s special representative.
11:06
Iran could sell missiles to Russia after UN restrictions expire in October, US War Institute says
Iran could sell drones and missiles to Russia after UN ballistics restrictions expire on October 18, according to the US Institute of Warfare (ISW).
During a visit by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to Tehran, he discussed this expiration of ballistic restrictions imposed by United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231. This resolution ratified the 2015 agreement providing for the supervision of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in exchange for a gradual lifting of international sanctions. According to the ISW, “The October expiration of Resolution 2231’s missile restrictions will allow Iran to export them without international control, allowing it to meet Russia’s needs.”
10:56
Meeting between Zelensky and the British Defense Minister
The British Ministry of Defense published on social networks the visit of Defense Minister Grant Shapps to kyiv. “We stand with Ukraine in its fight against Putin’s illegal invasion,” the minister said. Discussions took place on the means that can be provided to Ukraine by the United Kingdom on anti-aircraft defense.
10:43
Sebastien Lecornu arrived in kyiv
The French Minister of Defense arrived in kyiv with around twenty defense industrialists.
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10:10
France asks Turkey and Hungary to “implement their commitment” for Sweden’s entry into NATO
France has asked Turkey and Hungary to “implement their commitment” to allow Sweden to join NATO, according to French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna. “We would like to see Sweden in NATO and we would like to see Turkey and Hungary implement their commitment,” she explained during a press conference with her Finnish counterpart Elina Valtonen in Helsinki.
09:50
Russia ready to negotiate if its interests and security are taken into account, says Russian foreign minister
For Sergei Lavrov, “Russia is ready to negotiate, provided that its interests and security are taken into account and without a prior ceasefire,” he said in a statement. interview at the TASS agency. “We are ready to negotiate, but to negotiate taking into account the realities that have emerged on the ground and taking into account our position, well known to all, taking into account our interests, the interests of our security, the interest to prevent the creation on the borders of Russia of a hostile Nazi regime, which openly declared its intention to exterminate everything Russian on these lands which, both in Crimea and in Novorossia were developed, colonized by the Russian people for centuries. That’s probably the crux of the problem,” he explained. Before adding: “However, we see no serious sign from the Western side and the Kiev regime continues to act and behave as if it were setting the tone.” According to the Russian Foreign Minister, his government was ready for a negotiated settlement of the conflict in April 2022, “but the option proposed by Ukraine of stopping hostilities and resolving the situation on the basis of mutual security guarantees and reliable was withdrawn at the request of Washington and London.
08:50
12,000 tons of fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide Ukrainian agricultural companies with 12,000 tons of fertilizer for the autumn planting season. This $5 million in aid will help approximately 12,000 businesses.
08:11
Greenpeace warns about safety of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Greenpeace says international regulators are unable to properly monitor the Russian-owned Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, according to a report sent to Western leaders. According to the NGO, the International Atomic Energy Agency has too few inspectors in Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and that their access is subject to too many restrictions.
The IAEA declined to comment directly on the Greenpeace report but stressed that it has had inspectors on site since September 2022 and that without their presence “the world would not have an independent source of information on the largest nuclear power plant of Europe”.
07:47
Massive Russian drone attack overnight
According to the Ukrainian army, Russia launched a “massive” drone attack overnight. Around thirty Russian drones were destroyed out of around forty launched, particularly in the coastal regions of the Black Sea and also further inland. In the Kherson region, a man was killed.
07:20
Aid to Ukraine has become a bargaining chip for Republicans in the US Congress
As U.S. lawmakers negotiate a bill to extend government funding beyond the end of the month to avoid a budget shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is pushing hard. He said he wouldn’t support the part of the bill dealing with funding Ukraine if there wasn’t also something that would address the immigration crisis at the Mexican border. The bill under consideration includes $6.1 billion in additional funding for Ukraine, including $4.5 billion for defense equipment and $1.6 billion for budget support. A budgetary paralysis could complicate the delivery of aid to Ukraine.
07:08
Ukraine needs mine clearance specialists
Currently, 174,000 km² remain potentially mined in Ukraine. More than $37 billion will be needed to clean up mined areas, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at the Demine Ukraine forum held in kyiv on September 27. Next year, Ukraine plans to train about a thousand people to work in this field. “We want to recruit around a thousand engineers over the next year… and train them. The training period is approximately six weeks,” according to the Interior Ministry.
07:04
Establishment of an emergency number, 112, in the kyiv region
The implementation of a single emergency number has started in the kyiv region. Already set up in the capital in July, this number has already received more than 167,000 calls in three months. Most of the calls were to the national police. The authorities’ objective is to “rapidly” extend this number to the whole of Ukraine.
06:57
NATO countries must increase ammunition production to avoid shortages in Ukraine but also in other countries of the alliance
US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith said the Alliance must increase munitions production both for Ukraine and for NATO member states that have donated munitions. a significant part of their weapons in Kiev. “We have seen cases where NATO allies provided the Ukrainians with whatever they could, bilaterally, which created some shortages in their own stocks. So NATO launched what we call the Defense Production Action Plan, focused on ammunition shortages, both for the Ukrainians and some NATO members who have provided aid to Ukraine, this which led to their own shortages,” she said.
06:49
Already more than a billion dollars to restore energy infrastructure in Ukraine
According to the operator Ukrenergo, Western partners have already contributed more than a billion dollars to restore Ukraine’s energy infrastructure after last winter’s bombings. But the operator could still need several hundred million dollars to fully restore the network, according to its CEO Volodymyr Kudrytskyi. “We have already funded most of our needs, I think it may take several hundred million more not only to restore the objects to their previous state but also to rebuild them in a more modern format,” he said. -He underlines. It remains to be seen whether the Russians will not resume bombing of energy infrastructure in the country as winter approaches?
06:42
Marginal progress around Bakhmut
According to the American War Institute (ISW), the Ukrainian army made a slight advance near Bakhmut, in the east of the country. “Geolocated images released on September 26 indicate that Ukrainian forces advanced near Orikhovo-Vasylivka” 10 km northwest of Bakhmut, according to the report.
Other images also show that further advances are possible in the Zaporizhia region of southern Ukraine, as “Russian forces are likely no longer in control of a line of trenches about a kilometer long west of Verbove.”
06:37
Sébastien Lecornu in kyiv to talk about arms
The French Minister of Defense is going to kyiv during the day. He will be accompanied by around twenty French defense industrialists. The opportunity to once again assure the Ukrainians of France’s support. Beyond that, the whole challenge for President Volodymyr Zelensky is to push industrialists from other countries to produce weapons on his territory. Read our article
06:28
Rebuilding Ukraine, a priority
The reconstruction of Ukraine cannot wait for the end of the conflict and must begin now, Penny Pritzker, Special Representative of the United States for the economic reconstruction of Ukraine, argued in Brussels on Wednesday.
“The long-term effort to revive Ukraine’s economy must happen now, must start now, even in the midst of an ongoing war and fighting,” Pritzker told reporters in Brussels.
06:28
Tribute to an ex-Nazi soldier: Trudeau presents his “most sincere apologies”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented his “deepest apologies” to Parliament on Wednesday after the scandal caused by the tribute paid, during Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit, to a Ukrainian veteran who fought with the Nazis during the Second World War. “I would like to offer my most sincere apologies for what happened on Friday and for the situation in which President Zelensky and the Ukrainian delegation were placed,” he told parliament.
On Friday, MPs from all parties, Justin Trudeau, his government and Volodymyr Zelensky, of Jewish faith, stood up to applaud Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian veteran accused of having fought in the SS, ignoring the details of his pass.
06:28
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