Details on Washington’s support for kyiv. In a note published Thursday, September 7, the Pentagon provides a summary of the new military aid package granted to Ukraine as part of that country’s Security Assistance Initiative (USAI). To counter the Russian invasion, Ukrainian troops will soon receive reinforcements for air defense systems, additional ammunition for HIMARS rocket launchers and even mine clearance equipment. The amount of this aid is estimated at 600 million dollars, according to the Pentagon. Follow our live.
The Kremlin criticizes the new arms delivery to Ukraine. The decision, announced Wednesday by Washington, to supply depleted uranium munitions to kyiv was “perceived in a completely negative way in Moscow”says the spokesperson for Kremlin Thursday. These weapons are able to pierce armor, but their use is controversial, due to toxic risks. Their use has “resulted in an unbridled rise” cancers in the past, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. It is for him a “very bad news”, of which the “responsibility will lie with the United States”, he concluded. Follow our live.
Antony Blinken visits “death cellars” in Ukraine. The American Secretary of State visited Yaguidne, in the Chernihiv region, where the villagers were locked up by Russian soldiers in the basement of a school. Eleven people died. “Through this, we also see something incredibly powerful, namely the extraordinary resilience of the Ukrainian people,” said Antony Blinken during his fourth visit since the beginning of the Russian invasion in the country.
The counter-offensive advances “100 meters a day”. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this Thursday during his hearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. Faced with numerous mines, the Ukrainians “were able to break through the defense lines of the Russian forces”hammered Jens Stoltenberg, who welcomed “the importance of support” of NATO brought to kyiv.
Kamala Harris and Sergei Lavrov reunited in Jakarta. The American vice-president and the head of Russian diplomacy are alongside the Chinese Prime Minister on Thursday at the Southeast Asia summit. The day before, the latter warned the powers against their growing rivalries, at the risk of provoking a “New Cold War”.
The drone war continues. On Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that three drones had been shot down by air defenses, two over the Rostov region (southwest) and another in the Ramensky district, just southeast of Moscow. The day before, a Russian explosive drone killed one in the Odessa region (south-west Ukraine), where port infrastructure necessary for wheat exports is regularly hit.