Romania evokes Russian drone attacks near its border

• Russian defenses shot down three aerial drones in the western regions of Moscow, Kaluga and Tver, announced the authorities on Tuesday, September 5. Damage was observed following the fall of debris in the district of Istrin, said the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin.
• North Korean leader Kim Jong-un plans to visit Russia to discuss arms sales with President Vladimir Putin from Pyongyang to Moscow, the White House said on Monday. “As we have already said, negotiations on the supply of arms between Russia and North Korea are actively progressing”said Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council.
• Mr. Putin is ready to relaunch the grain agreement only in the event of “lifting of restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products”. “We will do this as soon as all agreements regarding the lifting of restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products are fully implemented”he said at a press conference in Sochi, southern Russia, alongside his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• On Monday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was near the front line in the east. “Donetsk region. We visit the combat brigades defending Ukraine, which are part of the Donetsk tactical operational group”said Mr. Zelensky, while a video showed him meeting soldiers.
• Russia said on Monday morning that it had destroyed four fast military patrol boats in the Black Sea. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the boats were carrying “ landing parties of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which were traveling in the direction of » from Cape Tarkhankout, located in the west of the annexed Crimean peninsula.
• For its part, Ukraine claimed to have destroyed, in the night from Sunday to Monday, 23 explosive drones launched by Russia on the South, about ten having touched its ground, without however making victims. Odessa Governor Oleh Kiper lamented that “warehouses, production buildings, agricultural machinery and equipment of industrial enterprises” were damaged in the district of Izmail.
• The Cuban government said on Monday that it had identified “traffic network” aimed at recruiting Cubans for “military operations in Ukraine”, and have initiated criminal proceedings against those involved.
• Ukrainian President announced on Sunday evening the forthcoming replacement of its defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, by Rustem Umerov. Mr. Reznikov, implicated in a corruption case, “has gone through more than five hundred and fifty days of war. I believe the ministry needs new approaches”explained the Ukrainian president.

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