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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:43 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Ukraine should be allowed to strike deep into Russia, despite Moscow's threats to drag NATO into a war with Russia.
21:35 The Red Cross will suspend operations of its office in Dnipro after the attack on the organization's mission in Donetsk Oblast, said Oleksandr Vlasenko, a representative of the ICRC delegation in Ukraine: "We have offices in Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Odessa, as well as a head office in Kyiv and an office in Lviv, and on the opposite side in Donetsk and Luhansk. For now, our Dnipro office has stopped operating for a while. We will conduct our own investigation of this situation and try to understand whether there were any mistakes on our part."
21:26 US President Joe Biden plans to meet with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer today. However, following their meeting, one should not expect Ukraine to be granted permission to carry out long-range strikes on Russian territory, said White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. "There is no change in our view on giving Ukraine the ability to carry out long-range strikes inside Russia. I would not expect any major announcement on that," he said.
According to Kirby, the United States took seriously Putin's warning that he would consider the West a direct participant in the conflict if such permission was granted to Kyiv. At the same time, Kirby added that this is not the first time Russia has used such talking points: "This is not rhetoric that we have not heard from him before. He has obviously proven himself capable of aggression... Yes, we take those comments seriously."
20:40 The Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft state budget for 2025, Shmyhal said. It is expected that defense spending will increase to at least UAH 2.22 trillion. In particular, it is planned to increase funding for the production of Ukrainian weapons, equipment, and drones.
20:34 Iran and Russia signed a contract for the delivery of missiles in the winter of 2023, and in the summer the Iranians taught the Russians how to use them, said US Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood. According to him, China and Russia maintain friendly ties, and Russia secretly receives raw materials, electronics, drones, and technology for the production of cruise missiles from China.
19:55 Ukraine currently has more Patriot systems in service than officially reported, but they are still few in number, as are the missiles for them, Zelensky said.
19:36 GUR cyber specialists attacked the Russian federal certification center Osnovanie, which issues electronic digital signatures. Among the center's clients are banking, military, and other state and private institutions involved in waging war against Ukraine, intelligence reported. As a result of the attack, terabytes of important data were destroyed, and a database of 1.5 million electronic digital signatures was obtained. The Ukrainian hackers intend to put the array of data they obtained up for sale, and transfer the proceeds to the needs of the Defense Forces.
18:32 Over the past few weeks, more than 70 Russian UAVs and more than 30 cruise missiles have flown near Ukrainian nuclear power plants, Energoatom reported.
18:21 Zelensky reproached NATO countries for the fact that so far only Belarus has decided to shoot down Russian drones: "So far only Belarus has distinguished itself by shooting down Russian 'shahids'. I didn't think it would be in this format. I think it is simply humiliating for a strong democratic world."
18:16 Kamala Harris's campaign ad has appeared in the US, which features assistance to Ukraine and the importance of confronting Putin in his aggression. The ads, in particular, quote Trump about his "good relations" with Putin, as well as the fact that he will not help Europe, and emphasize that the US cannot stand aside from Russian aggression.
18:08 The number of people wounded as a result of the enemy attack on Yampol in the Shostka district of the Sumy region has increased to nine, two people have died, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
18:03 Permission for Ukraine to carry out long-range strikes on Russian territory would mean a direct war between NATO and Russia, Russia's Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzya said at a UN Security Council meeting. According to him, this decision "will fundamentally change our relations with the Western camp," and Russia "will be forced to make appropriate decisions with all the ensuing consequences." He claims that only NATO military personnel can program long-range strikes on Russia.
17:57 The Second Peace Summit will be held in November, Russia will be invited to it, Zelensky said. According to him, the conference will define a vision for ending the war in Ukraine. "Such wars of conquest as Russia's war against Ukraine can end fairly in several ways: either the occupying army is driven out by force, or through diplomacy that guarantees the preservation of the country's real independence and its cleansing from occupation. In both cases, Ukraine needs a strong position. The United States can help with this," Zelensky said.
Zelensky also confirmed that he will meet with Biden in September to present a plan for Ukraine's victory. "This plan is about Ukraine, about our military. I cannot guarantee 100% that this will stop Putin, but it will definitely make Ukraine stronger," the head of state explained. After discussing with Biden, he will present the plan to US presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, as well as to Congress.
17:44 Zelensky said that the Russians have launched "rapid offensive actions" in the Kursk region, but have not yet achieved any serious results. According to the president, the Russian army plans to use about 60-70 thousand people, currently about 40 thousand are known to be there. "They wanted quick breakthroughs... They are doing this, we have not yet seen any serious successes. Our military is heroically holding on and doing everything necessary for our other steps, military and political ones," the head of state noted.
Zelensky also claims that the operation in the Kursk region has resulted in a decrease in the number of shellings in Donbass: "The situation in the Pokrovsk direction has been gradually leveling out over the past week. These are parallel things to the situation in Ukraine, or part of our operation in the Kursk region. These are related things. For example, we can see that the use of shells in Donbass, in the same Pokrovsk before the start of the Kursk operation was 1 to 12... today it is 1 to 2.5. This has not yet leveled out, we still need more weapons than the Russians."
16:37 As part of today's prisoner exchange, Russia, like last time, again applied for an exchange of those who surrendered in the Kursk region. All of them were in captivity for less than a month, while many "second-rate Russians" have remained in Ukrainian captivity for the third year, reports the state project I Want to Live .
"After the exchanges in 2022, when Russia returned its downed pilots, GRU officers, Kadyrovites and Putin's godfather Medvedchuk, it was precisely these second-rate soldiers who remained in captivity. The Kremlin's interest in holding exchanges has fallen sharply, which has led to months-long periods without any exchanges at all. The main reason is that for the Kremlin, prisoners of war are, first and foremost, a tool to put pressure on Ukraine," the report says. The project notes that much has changed after the Kursk operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, since conscripts whom Putin promised not to send to war died and surrendered.
16:12 Putin's threats about drawing NATO and European countries into a war in the event of the use of long-range missiles on Russian territory will not change the EU's position on the issue of supporting Ukraine, said European Commission spokesman Peter Stano.
15:24 The Netherlands has transferred a Patriot radar to Ukraine and will send three units of this air defense system. The country's Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans clarified that this is a complex that the Netherlands had previously promised to provide to Ukraine jointly with another country, but the ally recently announced that it would not fulfill this obligation. Other countries are looking for components to transfer the complete system to Kiev.
15:15 Head of the Azov patronage service Elena Tolkacheva reported that as part of the exchange, for the first time in a long time, it was possible to return 15 soldiers of the Azov regiment, who had spent more than two years in captivity - they are mostly women.
14:36 Forty-five Indian citizens who were misled when joining the Russian army have been dismissed, the country's Foreign Ministry reported. Another 50 Indians serve in the Russian army, and New Delhi is seeking their dismissal.
14:23 Russia has been producing attack drones with a range of 1,500 km for a year now and has already attacked targets in Ukraine, Reuters reports, citing sources. The drone is called Harpia-A1 and uses Chinese engines and components. From July 2023 to July 2024, 2,500 such drones were produced at a plant in Udmurtia.
14:09 Ukraine has returned 49 more of its citizens from Russian captivity , Zelensky reported. He specified that these are soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, the National Police, the State Border Service, as well as civilians. Among them is a girl who was taken hostage by the Russians when she came to take care of her sick father, as well as a military medic. In addition, they managed to free some more defenders of Azovstal.
14:01 The EU intends to impose new sanctions on Iran that will affect the aviation sector, as well as participants in drone and ballistic missile development programs, Borrell said. According to him, this will be done in response to Tehran's missile supplies to Russia.
13:45 Finland announced a new aid package for Ukraine worth 118 million euros, which will include military equipment, but they did not specify what kind. In total, Finland has already transferred military equipment worth 2.3 billion euros to Ukraine.
13:32 The IAEA announced the expansion of its monitoring mission in Ukraine to substations associated with nuclear power plants. A group of agency experts has already visited one of the facilities attacked by Russia.
12:48 Peskov said that the issue of Crimea's ownership "belongs to the category of disagreements" between Russia and Turkey, "Moscow continues to explain its position." At the same time, he assured that Russia continues to develop partnership relations with Turkey. This is how the Kremlin spokesman commented on Erdogan's statement that Crimea should return to Ukraine in accordance with international law.
12:27 Russians dropped four guided aerial bombs on civilian infrastructure in the urban settlement of Yampol in the Shostka district of the Sumy region - two people were killed, six were wounded, including a four-year-old child, OVA reported.
In addition, as a result of the Russian strike on the city of Akhtyrka in the Sumy region, two people from the Akhtyrka nursing home for the elderly and disabled were killed, said the director of the nursing home, Viktor Tokarev.
11:19 In Ivano-Frankivsk region, an industrial facility was damaged due to a drone attack. According to the Ministry of Energy, an overhead power line was turned off during the firefighting, household consumers were de-energized, but power has already been restored. Over the past 24 hours, Russia attacked energy facilities in six regions: Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa and Ivano-Frankivsk.
10:23 Russian troops fired at the Vostochny overpass in Pokrovsk; so far, only one side is open to traffic, the city military administration reported.
09:50 Air defense destroyed 24 of 26 Shahed-type attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. The drones were shot down within the Mykolaiv, Odesa, Khmelnytskyi and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.
09:42 The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a Russian warehouse with ammunition and missiles for air defense systems in the village of Glubokoe near Mariupol at night, said Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to the city mayor. The detonation lasted until five in the morning, and preliminarily, the air defense crew may have been hit.
09:34 At night, Russians attacked Odessa and the region with attack drones, one person was injured as a result of falling debris, said the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper.
09:18 As a result of yesterday's air strikes on the Kievsky district of Kharkov, five people were injured, including a ten-year-old child, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. The number of people injured as a result of yesterday's strikes on the village of Borovaya in the Izyum district has grown to ten, of which three were rescuers, four people died. Another three people were injured as a result of enemy shelling of the city of Dergachi in the Kharkov district and one in the village of Morozova Dolina in the Bogodukhovsky district.
09:03 In the Kherson region, over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and ten were wounded, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:52 In Donetsk Oblast, four people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on September 12: three in Verolyubovka and one in Krasnoyarsk. Another ten people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:37 In Nikolaev, during the night Russian attack, the wreckage of a downed UAV fell on the territory of a food enterprise - a fire started, which was quickly extinguished, no one was hurt, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
08:21 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 13:
- personnel - about 631,420 (+1220) people,
- tanks - 8671 (+18),
- combat armored vehicles - 17,003 (+48),
- artillery systems - 18,061 (+52),
- MLRS - 1185 (+1),
- air defense systems - 945 (+0),
- aircraft - 369 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 15,113 (+80),
- cruise missiles - 2591 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 24,560 (+79),
- special equipment - 3071 (+10).
07:36 As a result of another Russian shelling of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, one person was wounded, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
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