2023-09-29 07:30:31
Friday September 29, 2023
08:16
UPDATE ON THE SITUATION
Russia announced on Thursday a historic increase in its military spending for 2024. During the night from Thursday to Friday, a Ukrainian drone dropped explosives across the border. Here are the highlights of the last 24 hours surrounding the war in Ukraine.
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Posted today at 8:13 a.m.
07:30
SEVERAL UKRAINIAN DRONES DESTROYED
“Eleven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense systems, […] including one over the territory of the Kaluga region and ten over the Kursk region,” said the Russian Defense Ministry on Telegram messaging. Kursk Governor Roman Starovoit previously declared that the region border with eastern Ukraine had been “massively attacked” by Ukrainian drones.
07:27
A FORMER LIEUTENANT OF PRIGOZHIN MISSIONED BY PUTIN
Vladimir Putin asked a former lieutenant of Yevgeni Prigojine, boss of the Wagner group who fell out of favor in the eyes of the Russian president and died in the crash of his plane at the end of August, to train volunteers to fight in Ukraine.
“At the last meeting, we discussed the fact that you will be involved in the training of volunteer units capable of carrying out various combat missions, mainly, of course, in the zone of the ‘special military operation’ “, in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin declared Thursday to Andreï Trochev, according to a Kremlin press release published this Friday.
06:57
UKRAINIAN DRONE DAMAGES POWER SUBSTATION IN RUSSIA
A Ukrainian drone dropped explosives on a power station in a Russian village. In Belaya, less than 25 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, “a Ukrainian drone dropped two explosive devices on an electrical substation,” Roman Starovoit, governor of the Kursk region, said on Telegram. “One of the transformers caught fire. Five localities and a hospital were deprived of electricity. Firefighting teams went to the scene,” he said, adding that power would be “restored as soon as “it will be possible to do so safely.”
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had destroyed two Ukrainian drones over the neighboring Belgorod region. The ministry assured that a first device was destroyed around 5 p.m. Thursday, around four hours before a second drone was shot down.
06:51
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