The Westerners “fight directly” Russia in Ukraine, accused the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saturday September 23, at the UN, at a time when Kiev claims to have killed Russian military leaders in the strategic Crimean peninsula. “You can call it what you want but they are fighting us, they are fighting us directly”declared Sergei Lavrov, referring to financial aid, armaments and “mercenaries” from Western countries. Follow our live stream.
A second cargo of Ukrainian wheat has arrived in Türkiye. A Ukraine’s second cargo of wheat arrived in Istanbul via the Black Sea on Sunday, despite threats from Moscow to attack boats entering and leaving Ukraine. This is the second ship to use a maritime corridor set up by Kiev, along the western coast of the Black Sea, to circumvent Russia’s blockade after the expiration of the agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain .
Volodymyr Zelensky met with Sudanese general Abdel Fattah al-Burhane. The Ukrainian president announced on Saturday that he had met during a stopover in Ireland with the head of the Sudanese army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, at war for five months against paramilitaries. Volodymyr Zelensky said he spoke with him “common security challenges, including the activities of illegal armed groups financed by Russia”.
The former boss of the Russian space agency becomes senator from an occupied region. The former boss of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and nationalist figure, Dmitri Rogozin, has been appointed senator for the Zaporizhia region, occupied by Moscow in southern Ukraine, the regional governor announced on Saturday. According to the Russian public agency, its priority will be “continued liberation of the region”.