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The fact of the day
New victory in the Ukrainian counter-offensive. kyiv’s army claimed to have broken through the Russian defense line by retaking two villages near the devastated town of Bakhmut on the eastern front. Ukrainian forces have increased their pressure over the past two weeks, retaking the village of Robotyné in the south, then that of Andriïvka in the east.
On Sunday, the neighboring town of Andriïvka, Klichtchiïvka, fell after months of fighting. With these advances, “the enemy’s defense line has been breached,” said the commander of kyiv’s ground troops, General Oleksandr Syrsky. These localities were “important” for the Russian defense line around Bakhmout, he added, specifying that three Russian brigades had been “destroyed”, and assuring that the Ukrainians seized seven square kilometers in this area at the time. during the past week. The situation in the eastern zone remains “complicated” and “fierce fighting near Bakhmout continues,” admitted General Syrsky.
The number of the day
1. And that’s already enough to worry the Bulgarians. An explosive drone was found for the first time in the country, on the Black Sea coast. A team of specialized soldiers was sent to the site after a report the previous evening from a hotelier, who saw the machine stuck among rocks. “Checks showed that it was an 82 mm mortar shell attached to drone debris,” the Bulgarian Defense Ministry said in a statement. “Due to its poor condition, it was deemed impossible to transport the ammunition,” which was therefore destroyed on site after setting up a secure perimeter, according to the authorities.
The wreck, measuring around three meters, was discovered in the town of Tulenovo (north-east), near the border with Romania. “We can certainly assume that this drone is linked to the conflict in Ukraine,” Defense Minister Todor Tagarev told reporters. “This war inevitably carries risks for our security which continue to increase,” he lamented.
Sentence of the day
Discriminatory and blatantly Russophobic actions by representatives of the French authorities against RIA Novosti correspondents and the editor-in-chief of Russia-News at the G20 summit in New Delhi »
Russian diplomacy summoned the French ambassador in Moscow on Monday to denounce the discrimination which, according to it, Russian journalists are victims of, accusing Paris of having roughed up correspondents during the G20 summit in India. They “were brutally refused access to a press conference by the French president [Emmanuel] Macron,” according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Russian diplomacy accuses France of violating “the fundamental principle of freedom of the press” and accuses it of not having apologized to the Russian journalists excluded, says Moscow, from the press conference of September 10 and the French organizers of the event of having tried to seize the telephones of those concerned. “We had to refuse around thirty journalists of all nationalities due to lack of space in the room,” explained a member of the French delegation.
Today’s trend
Start of a tense face-to-face between kyiv and Moscow with legal blows (and no bombs this time) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The two countries face off in a procedure launched by Ukraine which accuses Russia of having wrongly used allegations of genocide to justify its invasion in 2022.
One of Moscow’s representatives, Gennady Kuzmin, the first Russian diplomat to address the court in the case, criticized Kiev for not being “further from the truth” in claiming that Russia had invoked the Convention of United Nations on genocide as a reason to launch its war against its neighbor. Mere “statements” about genocide cannot be upheld under international law, including the Genocide Convention, Gennady Kuzmin argued.
“As for the concerns expressed with regard to the threat of genocide, as I indicated, they should not be surprising given the policies pursued by the Kiev regime, firmly anchored in Nazi history, doctrines and practices “, declared Gennady Kuzmin, in front of the judges and separated by only a few meters from senior Ukrainian officials. He urged the court to dismiss the case, arguing that the U.N. Genocide Convention focuses on the “prevention and suppression” of genocide, which does not apply to Ukraine’s case.