2023-08-01 18:58:05
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The fact of the day
Moscow was again targeted by a drone attack in the morning. A drone “was neutralized by (means of) electronic warfare and, having lost control, crashed on the territory” of the business district of Moscow City, added the Russian Defense. He “hit the same tower of the City as the last time,” said the mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin on Telegram. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, several windows of two buildings in Moscow City, the city’s most important business district, were blown out after a Ukrainian drone attack.
Two other drones were destroyed by air defense over the territory of Odintsovo and Narofominsk districts in the Moscow region, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport was temporarily closed before returning to normal operation, state news agency TASS said, citing emergency services. It had also been briefly closed early Sunday during the previous drone attack reported by Moscow.
sentence of the day
It is now absolutely clear that Russia is behind the coup in Niger”
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhaïlo Podolyak denounced on Twitter the role of Russia in the coup in Niger. He points to a “standard Russian tactic: divert attention, seize the moment and expand the conflict”. Recalling the role of the Wagner group in Mali and Burkina Faso, he also argues that “Russia has a global scenario to cause instability”.
The number of the day
25 ans. A Russian court on Monday rejected an appeal by opponent Vladimir Kara-Mourza, maintaining his 25-year prison sentence for “treason”, a particularly harsh judgment in the midst of a crackdown on voices critical of the offensive in Ukraine. The opponent was sentenced in April for “high treason”, spreading “false information” about the Russian army and illegal work for an “undesirable” organization. This conviction of Vladimir Kara-Mourza had been denounced as “politically motivated” by the United States and as “scandalously harsh” by the European Union.
The trend of the day
The Black Sea remains at the heart of the recent issues of the conflict. Russia says it repelled an attack by three naval drones that targeted its patrol boats in the Black Sea last night. “During the night, the Ukrainian armed forces tried unsuccessfully to attack with three naval drones the “Sergei Kotov” and the “Vassili Bykov”, patrol boats of the Russian Black Sea Fleet”, indicated the Russian Ministry of Security. Defense in a press release.
Ukrainian cereals no longer take to the sea. While the possibility of an agreement with Croatia was raised to take out wheat and corn by the Danube, hundreds of trucks were queuing near the port of Izmail , on the river. Large volumes of cereals are now sent to small river ports in the Odessa region, bordering Romania. Once in little demand, Reni and Izmail are now critically important to the global food supply, so they struggle to absorb all the cargo, causing a truck bottleneck. These ports have also become targets: on July 24, that of Reni was attacked by Russia using drones.
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