The war between Russia and Ukraine reaches its day 939 since its beginning on February 24, 2022, when the Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” to free the pro-Russian population from Ukrainian region of Donbas.
Hoy Thursday, September 19, 2024, Vladimir Putin and Lula Da Silva discuss Brazil and China’s peace proposal in the Ukraine war.
While faced with the resistance of its partners to lift the ban on using its long-range missiles against Russian territory, Ukraine appealed once again to their own drones to strike the enemy rear with a massive attack which reached a missile, ammunition and aerial bomb depot in the city of Toporets from the region of Tver of western Russia.
According to Ukrainian intelligence sources who spoke to local media, the The attack was a joint operation of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), la kyiv military intelligence and the Army special forces and reached an ammunition depot in which Iskander missiles were stored y Tochka-Uin addition to aerial bombs and artillery ammunition.
According to Russian Telegram channel Astra, the warehouse in question, located in the town of Toporets in the Tver region, was hit by six Ukrainian kamikaze drones at around 3:30 a.m. local time.
The Ukrainian defense news portal Militarni has revealed that the unit attacked is unit 541690 of the Russian Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU), in a report that includes the coordinates of the attacked depot.
According to the report provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense, 54 drones were shot down in the Ukrainian attack last night throughout Russia, 27 of them over the region of Kurskthe scene of a military operation by kyiv since August 6.
Vladimir Putin approves proposal for strategic partnership agreement with Iran
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, signed On Wednesday a decree in which accepts the proposal of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairsof sign a strategic partnership agreement with Iran.
The document orders to “accept the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, agreed with the interested federal state bodies and organizations, to sign the Treaty of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
The President’s decree also states that it would be advisable to sign the treaty “at the highest level.”
In January of this year, the then ministers of Defense of Russia and Iran, Sergei Shoigú and Mohammad Reza Ashtianirespectively, They discussed the issue of military cooperation and regional security between the two countries..
During the telephone conversation, the parties stressed their commitment with the fundamental principles of the Russian-Iranian relationsincluding the unconditional respect for sovereignty and the territorial integrity on the other hand, pledging to confirm these principles in the next major interstate treaty between Russia and Iran.
It should be recalled that Shoigu, who currently holds the post of Secretary of the Russian Security Council, arrived on Tuesday on an unannounced visit to Iran, where he met with President Masoud Pezeshkian and the Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, Ali Akbar Ahmadian.
Pezeshkian said that relations between the two countries help to reduce “the effectiveness of unfair sanctions and measures” imposed against both. “Relations between Tehran and Moscow will develop permanently, continuously and in a lasting manner,” he added.
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Vladimir Putin admits that residents of Russian border regions are experiencing difficulties
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, recognized that the Residents of border areas are experiencing difficulties due to the Ukrainian army attackswhich partially controls the region of Kursk.
“People living in border regions have been given a difficult test. And authorities, whether federal, regional or local, are required to pay special attention to their needs and demands.”
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From the Constantine Palace in St. Petersburg, denounced los terrorist attacks and the attempts to destabilize the situation in the border areas, especially in Kursk and Belgorodthe most affected by the war.
Putin, who has rarely publicly addressed the uncertain situation of Russians living near the Ukrainian border since the start of the military campaign, said that “all problems must be resolved without delay or formalities.”
He also stressed that it is the “sacred duty” of the Armed Forces to “do everything possible” to protect the population from the enemy.
The Ukrainian border incursion demonstrated that the Federal Security Servicethe person in charge of border surveillance, is not able to guarantee the impermeability of the border.
A week ago the Kursk authorities ordered mandatory evacuation of border towns along a 25-kilometer strip in two other districts, amid the Russian counteroffensive to expel enemy troops from the region.
The Ministry of Defense reports daily that it has thwarted several Ukrainian attempts to cross the border, something kyiv managed to do at Kursk on August 6.
He Russian army launched a counteroffensive two weeks ago to expel Ukrainian troops from Kursk, which shares several hundred kilometers of border with the neighboring country.
According to Defense, the Russian troops have recaptured twelve townsalthough kyiv continues to launch counterattacks to prevent Moscow from creating a security belt in the north of the countryspecifically in the regions of Járkov and Sumi.
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Vladimir Putin and Lula Da Silva discuss Brazil and China’s peace proposal in Ukraine war
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, convert on Wednesday with the Russian president, Vladimir Putinon the Brazil and China’s peace proposal for the current conflict with Ukraineofficial sources reported.
In a telephone conversation, the Heads of state addressed this issue again what It had also been discussed previously in the June call, when the Russian called to express his sorrow for the victims of the floods in Rio Grande do Sul, the worst climate disaster the region has ever experienced.
The Peace proposal is born product of the joint declaration released in the month of May by the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yiand the Advisor for International Affairs to the Brazilian Presidency, Celso Amorim.
In this statement, both parties called for “de-escalating the conflict,” expand humanitarian assistancein addition to condemn the use of weapons of mass destruction.
In an interview, Ukrainian President, Volodímir Zelenski, He was against the Chinese-Brazilian peace proposalto which qualified as “destructive”.
At the beginning of September, Putin had proposed China, Brazil and India, three partners of the BRICS economic allianceas possible mediators in future peace negotiations with the Zelensky administration, saying they “respect their friends and partners who are sincerely interested in resolving” the conflict.
This statement was made during the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum held in the Russian port city of Vladivostok.
At that time, Russian government spokesman Dmitri Peskov said that the government still “does not see the conditions for holding negotiations” and again accused West of put pressure on kyiv to not to cease hostilities in the neighbouring country.
In the telephone conversation on Wednesday, Putin and Lula also addressed the issues to be discussed at the BRICS summitwhich will be held from October 22-24 in Kazan, southwest Russia.
In January of this year, the Russian government assumed the presidency of the economic group composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which represents more than 40% of the world’s population and 23% of global GDPwith the aim of building “a more equitable multipolar world order” and the possibility of adding new partners to the alliance.
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