2023-09-09 00:02:10
He is the first head of state to directly charge Vladimir Putin. At a conference in Kiev on Friday, September 8, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused his Russian counterpart of having assassinated the boss of the Wagner mercenary group, Evgeny Prigojine, who died in a plane crash on August 23. “He killed Prigozhin, at least this is information that we all have, we have no other”, declared President Zelensky, contradicting the Kremlin’s version, which has supported the accident theory from the start. This live is now over.
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kyiv admits that Russian troops are slowing down its counter-offensive. Russia “stops us from the sky”, recognized Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. At a press conference in kyiv, the Ukrainian president estimated that Russian soldiers “Stop[ai]ent [la] counteroffensive”. The Head of State also regretted the processes that had become more complicated and slower, concerning the sanctions targeting Moscow and the Western supply of weapons.
A new series of strikes leaves at least 4 dead. On his Telegram account, the Ukrainian Minister of the Interior deplored the dropping of a bomb, by plane, on the town of Odradokamianka: three people died and four were injured, specifies Igor Klymenko. A little further north, Kryvyï Rih, the hometown of Volodymyr Zelensky, was also hit by a strike on an administrative building which left one dead, three people in serious condition and around sixty injured, estimate the emergency services. In northern Ukraine, a residential district of Sumy was struck, causing three minor injuries and damaging around twenty buildings, according to the Interior Ministry.
President Zelensky “ready” to hold elections despite the war. The head of state indicated that he would organize this election, scheduled for 2024, if necessary. “I am ready for elections. We are ready” and “our people need it”he said at a conference in kyiv.
Elon Musk claims to have prevented a Ukrainian attack in 2022. The American billionaire told Thursday, on his social networkthat kyiv, one day in September 2022, requested that the Starlink satellite be activated “to Sevastopol”. This city is home to the base of the Russian fleet positioned in the Black Sea on the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014. The billionaire says he refused: “The obvious intention was to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor.” “If I had accepted their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and an escalation of the conflict”, concluded Elon Musk, while a biography dedicated to him evokes his maneuvers in this war.
A Russian recruitment channel dismantled in Cuba. Seventeen people were arrested in Cuba for their alleged link to a trafficking network operating from Russia with the aim of recruiting men to wage war in Ukraine, the Cuban Interior Ministry announced.
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