On Wednesday, September 3, 2018, this is how things are going.
Fighting
- In the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, Governor Serhiy Lysak wrote on Telegram that Russian drone attacks and shelling had caused the deaths of three people and injured five others.
- According to Governor Ivan Fedorov, two people were killed in the Polohivskyi district’s attack by Russian forces, which attacked 578 of the country’s Zaporizhia region’s 18 settlements.
- According to local officials, one person was killed in separate Russian attacks in Kherson, one more person was killed in the Kyiv region, and one more person was killed in Donetsk, according to the Kyiv Independent news outlet.
- Three people were hurt by a Ukrainian drone in the Belgorod village of Proletarsky, according to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
- According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian forces seized the Ukrainian settlement of Fedorivka in the Donetsk region, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
- Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador at large, claimed 12 people were killed and almost 100 were hurt in recent Ukrainian attacks on Russia.
- According to TASS, Russia’s defense ministry reported that its forces shot down 158 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour period.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, claimed that Russia is deploying new troops along some front line lines. In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy stated that “Putin refuses to be forced into peace.”
- The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the only way to guarantee safety at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is to allow the country to withdraw its troops right away.
diplomacy and politics
- Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, claimed that Moscow and Washington had come to terms with the conflict by listening to Russia’s justifications for the invasion of Ukraine.
- In an interview, US President Donald Trump stated, “We will be doing something to help people live,” and I am deeply disappointed in President Putin.
- Recep Tayyip Erdoan, the president of Turkey, claimed that Zelenskyy and Putin “are not yet prepared” for a leaders’ meeting to discuss the possibility of a solution to the war.
- Putin stated at Chinese talks that Russia has “never objected” to Ukraine’s membership in the European Union, telling Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico. This is another issue for NATO, according to Putin, who stated, “We consider this unacceptable for ourselves.”
Energy
- Gazprom, a gas giant owned by the Kremlin, reported that Russia and China had agreed to advance a new pipeline to supply China with gas from Eastern Siberia. In response to Russia’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine, the EU has announced its intention to stop purchasing Russian gas until 2027.
- Following a meeting with Putin on Tuesday, Fico announced that Russian gas supplies to Slovakia via the TurkStream pipeline are gradually increasing to 4 billion cubic meters.
Source: Aljazeera
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