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The fact of the day
Good news for the counter-offensive. The Ukrainian army announced the liberation of the village of Robotyne after weeks of battle on the southern front. Russia continued its bombardments across the country, killing at least three people in a village in the center, in the Poltava region.
Since the launch of their counter-offensive in June, the Ukrainian forces have been advancing only slowly, as they are confronted with extremely dense fortified lines of defence. Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, claims to inflict considerable losses on its enemy, ensuring that the counter-offensive is a failure.
The number of the day
Two. Like the number of Ukrainian freighters that reached Istanbul, despite the end of the grain agreement. On Monday, the Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Primus skirted the coasts of NATO members Romania and Bulgaria after leaving Odessa on Sunday. Russia has been threatening to attack ships departing from Ukraine in the Black Sea since it ended in July the agreement by which Ukraine could export its cereals.
sentence of the day
Our president took the initiative (of talks for the resumption of the agreement) (…) to prevent the world from facing a food crisis. He will soon visit Sochi. We believe that new developments could take place after this visit”
These are the words of Omer Celik, the spokesperson for the AKP, Erdogan’s party. The Turkish president will go “soon” to Russia to visit Vladimir Putin and try to negotiate a resumption of the grain agreement between Moscow and kyiv.
No date has yet been communicated by the Turkish or Russian authorities concerning this visit. According to the Bloomberg agency, the Turkish head of state could visit Russia on September 8, before his departure for the G20 summit. Russia had terminated in July the agreement by which Ukraine could export its cereals and has since threatened to attack ships departing from Ukraine in the Black Sea.
The trend of the day
Ukrainian drones rain down in Russia. Russia thwarted overnight attacks by Ukrainian drones in the Moscow and Bryansk regions, Russian authorities claimed early Monday. “There were no casualties or damage, according to initial information,” he added, adding that the competent services were on site. During the night from Sunday to Monday, two other aircraft were “destroyed by air defense in service over the territory of the Briansk region”, bordering Ukraine, said the Russian Ministry of Defense. on Telegram.
Drone attacks against Russian territory and the Crimean peninsula annexed in 2014 have multiplied in recent weeks, targeting the Russian capital in particular, against the backdrop of a counter-offensive from Kiev that began in early June.