2023-09-09 21:42:57
Cover image: Roustem Oumerov, the new Ukrainian defense minister, at an international conference in kyiv, September 8, 2023. Efrem Lukatsky / AP
Questioned on the American channel CNN, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected any possibility of an agreement with Vladimir Putin on Friday. “When you want to compromise or talk to someone, you can’t do it with a liar”he said about the Russian president. According to a statement from Downing Street, British planes fly over the Black Sea to “deter Russia from carrying out illegal strikes against civilian ships carrying grain”. After withdrawing from the grain deal in July, Russia said it would consider all ships sailing to Ukrainian ports to be military targets, and Russian strikes have targeted Ukrainian ports.Volodymyr Zelensky recognized on Friday that Russia, with its air superiority, was stopping the Ukrainian counter-offensivecomplaining about slowdown in Western military aid and sanctions targeting Moscow due to “processes that become more complicated and slower”.The Ukrainian president declared himself on Friday ” ready “ to organize elections in his country in time of war “if the people need it”. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, kyiv had planned to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in 2024.
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