Russia “stops us from the sky”, recognized Volodymyr Zelensky, Friday September 8. At a press conference in kyiv, the Ukrainian president estimated that Russian soldiers “stop[ai]ent [la] counteroffensive”. The head of state also regretted processes that had become more complicated and slower, concerning sanctions targeting Moscow and Western arms supplies. Follow our live.
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A new series of strikes leaves at least 4 dead. On his Telegram account, the Ukrainian Minister of the Interior deplored the dropping of a bomb, by plane, on the town of Odradokamianka: three people died and four were injured, specifies Igor Klymenko. A little further north, Kryvyï Rih, the hometown of Volodymyr Zelensky, was also hit by a strike on an administrative building which left one dead, three people in serious condition and around sixty injured, estimate the emergency services. In northern Ukraine, a residential district of Sumy was struck, causing three minor injuries and damaging around twenty buildings, according to the Interior Ministry.
Elon Musk claims to have prevented a Ukrainian attack last year. The American billionaire told Thursday, on his social networkthat kyiv, one day in September 2022, requested that the Starlink satellite be activated “to Sevastopol”. This city is home to the base of the Russian fleet positioned in the Black Sea on the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014. The billionaire says he refused: “The obvious intention was to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor.” “If I had accepted their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and an escalation of the conflict”, concluded Elon Musk, while a biography dedicated to him evokes his maneuvers in this war.
A Russian recruitment channel dismantled in Cuba. Seventeen people were arrested in Cuba for their alleged link to a trafficking network operating from Russia with the aim of recruiting men to wage war in Ukraine, the Cuban Interior Ministry announced.