Two women, aged 72 and 56, were killed in Russia's “drone attack” on a civilian vehicle in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Monday:. There have been repeated reports that Russian drones are deliberately targeting civilians in Kherson. Meanwhile, Russian shelling of the port of Odessa killed one person and injured eight others, authorities said on Monday. Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said two civilian ships were damaged, including a Palauan-flagged cargo ship that was hit “for the second time” in two weeks.
Germany's intelligence chiefs have warned parliament that Russia could possibly launch attacks on NATO countries by 2030 and is stepping up sabotage efforts against Western supporters in Ukraine.. “Whether we like it or not, we are in direct confrontation with Russia,” BND foreign intelligence chief Bruno Karl told a parliamentary hearing. Domestic Intelligence Director Thomas Haldenwang cited possible sabotage, including a near miss at Leipzig Airport where a luggage bomb exploded before being loaded onto a cargo plane. Germany's spy chiefs said Russia was spying on critical infrastructure, weapons activities and military transport supporting Ukraine, and was also seeking to recruit from the organized crime world.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Kiev forces were repelling Russian attempts to break through Ukrainian military lines in western Russia's Kursk region for the fifth day in a row.. Russia claimed to have captured the village of Levadne in southern Ukraine. Meanwhile, for the first time in nearly six weeks, there has been no nighttime Shahed drone attack, after Ukrainian authorities said they had blown up a Shahed storage facility in Russia's Krasnodar region five days ago, destroying up to 400 drones. reported.
Russia's shadow oil tanker fleet is expanding despite efforts to rein in Moscow's wartime energy revenues, writes Peter Sauer. The amount of Russian crude being transported in poorly maintained and underinsured tankers has nearly doubled in a year to 4.1 million barrels per day by June, the report says. published The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) announced on Monday. In December 2022, the UK, along with G7 countries, Australia and the EU, introduced a price cap of US$60 per barrel to restrict Western companies from transporting, servicing and brokering cargoes of Russian crude oil.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukraine had already procured one million drones and was supplying them to the front lines.. “And this is only from the oblast. There are also supplies from volunteers,” the Ukrainian president added. Zelenskiy said he had been briefed on North Korea's involvement in the war and Russia's plans for this fall and winter. His remarks came a day after he said North Korea had transferred personnel to the Russian military. Kyiv and its Western allies say North Korea supplies ballistic missiles and ammunition to Russia, which the Russian military used in the war in Ukraine.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte visited the alliance's Ukrainian mission in Wiesbaden, Germany, as he prepares to represent the United States in coordinating military aid to Ukraine.. The move is widely seen as an effort to protect the aid mechanism if NATO critic Donald Trump returns to the White House.
The European Union has imposed sanctions on prominent Iranian officials, airlines and other entities for their involvement in the transfer of missiles and drones for Russia to use against Ukraine. The companies sanctioned include Iran Air, Saha Air, and Mahan Air, and those involved include Deputy Defense Minister Seyyed Hamzeh Gharandari and leaders of the Revolutionary Guards Quds Force. Procurement companies accused of transferring and supplying Iranian drones, parts and technology to Russia will also be hit. Companies involved in the production of propellants used to launch rockets and missiles. Britain, France, Germany and the United States adopted similar sanctions last month.
A Russian court on Monday found a French researcher at a Swiss NGO guilty of violating the “foreign agents” law and sentenced him to three years in a penal colony. Laurent Vinatier, 48, was arrested in Moscow in June. The Frenchman had been working on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine for years before Russia launched a full-scale offensive in February 2022, according to people AFP spoke to. Vinatier said he had lived in Russia for many years. French President Emmanuel Macron had called for Vinatier's release, saying the “propaganda” against him was “not consistent with reality.” The city of Paris condemned the “extreme gravity” of the sentence and called for Mr. Vinatier's “immediate release.”
Ukraine's top prosecutor Andriy Kostin has called on Brazil to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian president attends the G20 summit next month.. President Putin is wanted on a warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the war crime of deporting children from Ukraine. “As a state party to the Rome Statute, we are obliged to arrest Brazilian authorities if they try to visit us,” Kostin said, referring to the treaty that established the ICC.
