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A Russian delegation has visited Iran at least twice
Russian officials have visited Iran at least twice this summer to inspect combat drones to be delivered by Tehran to Moscow, mired in its offensive in Ukraine, the White House national security adviser said on Saturday. , Jake Sullivan.
The Iranian military presented its drones to a Russian delegation on June 8 and July 5 at Kachan air base, 200 km south of Tehran, according to satellite images released by the US government, as Russia seeks to beef up its arsenal in the face of resistance from the Ukrainian army in the east of the country.
Disagreements over Ukraine: the big moneymakers of the G20 part without a press release
A meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Indonesia ended on Saturday without a joint statement due to lack of consensus among member countries after disagreements over the Russian offensive in Ukraine. They have sought answers to the global food and fuel crises and accelerating inflation, but a new confrontation between Westerners who decry the impact of the war in Ukraine on the economy and Russia who blame Western sanctions to be at the origin of the deterioration of the economic situation, made an agreement impossible.
A Russian delegation has visited Iran at least twice to inspect drones
Russian officials have visited Iran at least twice this summer to inspect combat drones to be delivered by Tehran to Moscow, mired in its offensive in Ukraine, the White House national security adviser said on Saturday. , Jake Sullivan.
The Iranian military presented its drones to a Russian delegation on June 8 and July 5 at Kachan air base, 200 km south of Tehran, according to satellite images released by the US government, as Russia seeks to beef up its arsenal in the face of resistance from the Ukrainian army in the east of the country.
Shootings also in the southern region of Ukraine
The southern region command center said at dawn that the situation was “tense but under control”. “The enemy continues to carry out offensives on formerly occupied territories but, lacking success on the ground, it is intensifying missile and air strikes,” he posted on Facebook, citing Russian actions in the regions. from Kherson (south) and Odessa (south) in particular.
Deadly strikes on the Dnipro region
The Ukrainian nuclear energy operator accused the Russian army overnight Friday to Saturday of deploying missile launchers at the site of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine to fire in particular on the regions of Dnipro and Nikopol, where deadly strikes were reported overnight and this Saturday morning.
The governor of the Dnipro region, Valentyn Reznichenko, denounced this Saturday “a deluge of fire in the morning” on the territory of Nikopol, with the firing of “Grad missiles on residential areas”, and 12 buildings, a school and a damaged university.
In Nikopol, “the rescuers found two dead people in the ruins”, he announced.
Biden to pledge $1 billion for Middle East/North Africa food security
Joe Biden will announce this Saturday a billion dollars in aid to improve food security in the Middle East and North Africa, threatened since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, according to a White House official. This amount will be committed “in the short and long term”, specified this official, who did not wish to be identified, when Joe Biden concludes in Saudi Arabia his tour of the Middle East.
The meeting of the big moneymakers of the G20 should end without a press release
A meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Indonesia is expected to end on Saturday without a joint statement, two sources in the delegations told AFP, due to lack of consensus after debates dominated by the Russian offensive. in Ukraine.
Russian missiles fired from Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
The Russian army has deployed missile launchers on the site of the Zaporijjia nuclear power plant (south), under Russian control since the beginning of March, thanks to which it is pounding the Nikopol region in particular, the boss of Energoatom said on Friday. the Ukrainian operator.
“The Russian occupiers have installed missile firing systems on the territory of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and are striking the Nikipol district from there,” Petro Kotin, chairman of Energoatom, said on Telegram after an interview. televised on the Ukrainian channel United News.
“The situation (at the plant) is extremely tense and the tension is increasing day by day,” 80 km southwest of Zaporizhia, he said.
According to him, up to 500 Russian soldiers are still on the site of the plant.
New Russian strikes in the East
Kramatorsk, a city in Donbass still under the control of Ukraine, suffered several bombardments on Friday evening when Vinnytsia, much further from the front, continued to count its dead after a deadly Russian strike the day before.
The strike on Kramatorsk’s central square, called Peace Square, left a two-meter crater and shattered the windows of surrounding buildings but did not cause any casualties because it occurred after curfew, an official says of the anti-aircraft defense of the 81st Ukrainian brigade, on condition of anonymity.
Vinnytsia counts its dead
“The identification of all those guilty” of this attack “has already begun”, said Friday evening Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, recalling the toll of 23 dead, but also four missing and more than 200 injured, including four in critical condition.
“Russian society, with so many murderers and executioners, will remain annihilated for generations, and this by its own fault”, he launched, affirming that almost all of Ukraine was under air alert Friday evening with strikes reported in Dnipro (east), Kremenchuk (southeast of Kyiv) and in the Kyiv region.
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