Category World News

On Tuesday, September 2, 2018, the situation is as follows:

Fighting

• A 73-year-old man was killed when Russian forces shelled Bilozerka in the Ukrainian province of Kherson, according to a post on Telegram on Monday.
• According to Viacheslav Chaus, the governor of the Chernihiv region, a Russian drone attack on the city of Horodnia caused injuries to two people, including a 14-year-old girl.
• According to Sumy Governor Oleh Hryhorov, Russian forces “intensively attacked” the Sumy region of Ukraine, causing injuries to seven people and property damage.
• According to the local utility agency, the attacks on Sumy also caused disruption to the region’s water and energy supplies, according to Ukrinform’s online news site.
• According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Russia’s occupation of Crimea has resulted in the deaths of 15 children who were “tragically killed,” and dozens more were injured as a result of their parents’ murder and forced disappearance.
• Around 17, 000 students are enrolled in underground schools in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, a frequent target of Russian attacks, for the new academic year.
• According to the Russian government’s TASS news agency, 260 Ukrainian drones and three rockets launched by Russia’s forces were shot down in a 24-hour period.

Regional security

A plane carrying European Commission Chairman Ursula von der Leyen was reportedly hit by GPS jamming as it made its way to Bulgaria, according to a spokesperson for the European Union on Monday.
• After the incident, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius announced that the EU would set up additional satellites in low Earth orbit to improve its ability to deal with incoming GPS interference.
• Top military commander of Germany, Carsten Breuer, stated that German and NATO forces will continue to “be on our guard” under the pretext of Moscow’s scheduled two-week military exercises.

diplomacy and politics

• Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, made the remarks during a speech at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, in which he blamed Western nations for the war that erupted in Ukraine.
• German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius made a critical observation about the EU’s von der Leyen’s recent comments regarding plans to send European troops to Ukraine, saying, “Those are things you don’t discuss before you sit down at the negotiating table with many parties that have a say in the matter.”
• In a speech on Monday, European Council President Antonio Costa stated that the EU “opted diplomacy over escalation” in relation to tariffs that were partially imposed by US President Donald Trump due to security concerns.
• “We certainly don’t celebrate the return of tariffs,” he added. Our Eastern border is in danger, Costa said, so raising tensions with a key ally over tariffs would have been a foolish choice.
• According to the French presidency, France will host a meeting of the “Coalition of the Willing,” a group of nations supporting Ukraine.

Giuliani is referred to as a “great patriot” by Trump in a post on his social media site Truth Social on Monday, promising to give him the country’s highest civilian award.

The PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, our nation’s highest civilian award, will be presented to Rudy Giuliani, the greatest mayor in New York City’s history, and an equally outstanding American Patriot, according to Trump, president of the United States of America.

Giuliani gained popularity in US politics after leading New York City during the attacks and their aftermath. He later joined Trump’s legal team and helped spread Trump’s false accusations of significant fraud, despite his loss in the 2020 election.

A pair of Georgia election workers who claimed they received death threats after being falsely accused of helping to rig the voting process won a $ 48 million defamation judgment against him for those actions.

Following a car crash in New Hampshire on Saturday, Giuliani, 81, was taken to the hospital.

His security advisor, Michael Ragusa, who said on Monday that he would be released “soon,” claimed that he had a fractured thoracic vertebra, multiple lacerations, contusions, and injuries to his left arm and leg.

As part of its larger-than-life assault on Gaza City, the Israeli military carried out several strikes that targeted civilians, killing a pregnant woman and her unborn child close to the Shati refugee camp.

According to the Wafa news agency, another child was also killed in the attack on a house close to the camp on Monday, according to medical sources at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.

Ten people died on Monday in the south of the city’s Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods, which the military razed and destroyed on Monday. More than 1, 000 buildings have been leveled since Israel’s push to control the city center began last month.

Locals scurrying in all directions amid the debris after an Israeli attack that left at least four people dead and dozens of others injured earlier in the day at a crowded market in Gaza City’s Nasser Street, with chaos erupting from there.

According to Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout, the victims were panic-stricken.

They are unsure of what to do or where to go. They are working so hard to find a safer location, he claimed, but the Israeli army continues to attack every street corner.

Further south, Israel targeted a group of students inside Al-Mazra’a School in Deir el-Balah. Wafe reported that later, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital announced Anas Saeed Abu Mughsib’s passing.

According to medical sources, at least 59 people were killed overall on Monday during Israeli attacks across the Strip.

The 21st Century’s “Man-made famine”

Residents of Gaza City are now threatened by war and famine, two things that have already happened.

Three infants died on Monday as a result of the months-long blockade by Israel. More than 350 people have died in the enclave from hunger and starvation since Israel’s war started in October 2023, more than a third of those deaths.

According to authorities, Israel’s recent arrival of humanitarian aid trucks into the Strip has only provided 15% of the population’s needs.

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refrained from reporting an “outright lie” from the Integrated Food Security Classification (PIC), the world’s top organization for food crises, in August.

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, David Lammy, acknowledged the UN-backed IPC declaration on Monday, calling Israel “outraged” by its inability to provide enough aid to Gaza.

He claimed that this is a man-made famine in the twenty-first century rather than a natural disaster.

“We need a massive, massive humanitarian response to stop more deaths,” according to the statement from NGOs, humanitarians, and health workers who are permitted to work in Gaza.

“Power-hungry ruler”

In Israel, mourners gathered for the separate funerals of Idan Shtivi and Ilan Weiss, who were both taken from Israel during the Hamas attack in October of last year. Their remains were found in an Israeli military operation in Gaza last week.

Some criticized the government for failing to reach a resolution with Hamas to put an end to the conflict and release the prisoners who were still at large.

Ruti Taro, a survivor, told The Associated Press that “it’s a horror, it’s profound sadness and grief and grief beyond words to express the anger, the hostages, the insult to the fallen, the insult to the soldiers sent once more to Gaza.”

“The power-hungry ruler alone knows why,” he said.

Eyal Zamir, the head of the Israeli army, was reportedly in a warning over Netanyahu’s intentions to occupy Gaza without making any post-war plans, according to an Ynet report from Monday.

During a meeting of the Israeli security cabinet late on Sunday, Zamir reportedly said, “You are heading to a military government.” Your direction is in our favor. Understand the implications.

In a number of uncommon remarks made on Monday, Maduro stated that Venezuela aspires to peace but that the military is prepared to respond to any attacks by US forces.

According to Maduro, “They are seeking a regime change through military threat.” The biggest threat to our continent has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years is facing Venezuela.

Maduro has reportedly expressed concern about a US naval expansion in the area to combat drug trafficking, which has sparked rumors about possible military intervention against Venezuela. The Venezuelan leader has called on people to join militias and has deployed troops along the country’s borders.

The US Navy also has the destroyer USS Sampson and the cruiser USS Lake Erie in the waters off Latin America, along with two Aegis guided-missile destroyers, the USS Gravely and the USS Jason Dunham, in the Caribbean.

With the addition of amphibious assault ships with 4, 000 sailors and US Marines, those forces may grow even further in the coming days, according to the news agency Associated Press. For its part, the US has not made any announcements regarding personnel deployments to Venezuela.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has accused Maduro of having ties to a number of organized crime and drug trafficking organizations in the area, allegations for which Maduro has so far provided no proof.

In August, the US increased its bounty for information leading to Maduro’s arrest over allegations of drug trafficking to $50 million.

A claim that Trump and his allies had been pushing the envelope was overturned by an internal intelligence memo released in May that an internal memo concluded there was no evidence linking Maduro to the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua. Additionally, that allegation had been a crucial component of the administration’s effort to quickly deport Venezuelans who had been accused of joining the illegally.

The Venezuelan leader had previously expressed an interest in working with the Trump administration in areas like immigration enforcement and accepting Venezuelans who have been deported from the US, despite his frequently used rhetoric to criticize the history of US intervention in Latin America.