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The fact of the day
Sunk touchdowns. Russia claimed on Tuesday to have “destroyed” two Ukrainian military ships, the latest maritime skirmishes since it slammed the door on an agreement to export Ukrainian cereals. The Russian Defense Ministry said it sank a Ukrainian naval vessel in an area under its control and an American-made Ukrainian launch off Serpents’ Island, liberated last year from Kiev.
For almost a year, attacks in the Black Sea had become rarer, allowing the implementation of an agreement for Ukraine to export its agricultural production. But Moscow withdrew from it in July, multiplying since the bombardments of Ukrainian port infrastructures.
The number of the day
More than 200. This is the number of military enlistment centers that have been raided in Ukraine to eradicate a system of corruption allowing conscripts to escape the army, the prosecution announced on Tuesday, in the midst of a Ukrainian counter-offensive. “Law enforcement has uncovered large-scale corruption schemes in almost all regions of the country (…) Currently, more than 200 simultaneous searches are being carried out,” the prosecution said on Telegram.
Investigators suspect “the involvement of officials from military enlistment offices, those in charge of medical and social examinations”, he said. According to the investigation, in exchange for bribes, “officials helped citizens to obtain disability certificates or to be recognized as temporarily unfit for service. This allowed them to delay or avoid military service,” the prosecution added.
sentence of the day
The Wagner group carries out a reconnaissance mission, makes Russia even greater on all continents and Africa even more free”
Evgueni Prigozhin is back. The boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner appeared Monday evening for the first time in video facing the camera since abandoning his rebellion against the Kremlin in June, speaking in a desert landscape, dressed in camouflage and showing a rifle by assault. He claimed to be with fighters of his in Africa, where he works across Russia, calling for volunteers to join him.
Presenting himself now as the “nightmare” of the jihadists of the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda, the boss of Wagner called on volunteers to join him to “fulfill the tasks which have been designated and which we have promised to fulfill”. He does not say in which country he is, while Wagner has a significant presence in Mali and the Central African Republic.
The trend of the day
Moscow also claimed to have repelled a new armed incursion from Ukraine into the border region of Bryansk and destroyed drones near the capital. And once again, Moscow says it repelled an armed incursion from Ukraine into the border region of Bryansk from its territory on Tuesday.
According to the governor, Alexandre Bogomaz, the authorities are “busy taking measures to ensure the safety of the inhabitants”. The Russian border regions have been targeted on several occasions by incursions, generally claimed by units calling themselves Russian, opposed to the Kremlin and installed in Ukraine.