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Moscow admits attacking the Severny road bridge over the Dnieper River, called the Kiev North Bridge. Russia issues a new warning to diplomats and foreign citizens to leave Kiev. 'We will increase attacks on refineries in response to the escalation. We have documents proving Putin's new doctrine against civilian targets,' Zelensky replies. Meanwhile, Ukraine would need 'up to 70 billion euros more than expected' in 2027 to continue resisting the Russian invasion
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Ukraine will step up attacks on Russian oil refineries in response to Moscow's new campaign of airstrikes aimed at forcing Ukrainians to abandon Kiev and other cities. President Volodymyr Zelensky declared this, assuring that Ukrainian attacks will not target civilians.
A drone violated Lithuanian airspace. This was reported by the Vilnius Government Crisis Service. After inviting the population to identify the nearest air-raid shelters where they could take refuge in case of need, the Crisis Service then raised the alarm.
The Russian Foreign Ministry admits to having struck the Severny road bridge over the Dnieper River in Kiev, called the bridge north of the capital, overnight. "The Russian Armed Forces continue to target Ukrainian infrastructure and ships used for the benefit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Overnight, attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles hit the Severny road bridge over the Dnieper River in Kiev, which facilitates troop movements and deliveries of military supplies for the Ukrainian Armed Forces," the ministry said, as reported by Tass.
According to the New York Times, Moscow is preparing a major offensive against the Ukrainian energy sector with the launch of 'a thousand missiles' against the power plants. Zelensky: "Putin now without rules, wants Ukrainians to leave Kiev".
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The Ukrainian president's plane was almost hit by a drone as it was about to take off from Moldova. This is the reality he is experiencing", declared Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre on the evening of September 9. Zelensky had been in Oslo together with other leaders from around the world to attend the state funeral of King Harald V of Norway. And, on that very occasion, he would have told Støre what had happened.
The Norwegian Finance Minister and former NATO secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, also became aware of the episode and declared to the broadcaster Nrk: on 8 September "the flight was delayed and there were threats against the plane. However, I do not know enough details to provide further explanation."
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Moscow hammers Kiev: "Diplomats and foreigners leave"
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Zelensky: "Accelerate the production of ballistic missiles"
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Reuters that he had asked Ukrainian ballistic missile manufacturer Fire Point to speed up work on the production of the FP-9 missile with a range of up to 850 kilometers, capable of reaching Moscow. "I asked them, 'Where is my FP-9? We need FP-9,' said Zelensky who also reported part of the interview on his social media. At the same time, he expressed confidence that FP-9 missiles will appear in the Armed Forces of Ukraine this fall. Zelensky also said that Ukraine intends to intensify attacks on Russian oil refineries in response to a change in Russian airstrike tactics. According to him, Ukrainian intelligence has received documents which show a new Russian "doctrine" of attacks on a wider range of civilian infrastructure before the winter. "We have seen the documents and we know that they allow them to attack infrastructure, logistics, roads, schools, hospitals to force people to leave the capital, to leave different cities," the head of state said. According to him, Ukraine will respond to attacks on its energy infrastructure with raids on Russian energy sector infrastructure, mainly on refineries which, as he said, "give them money for this war anyway." assured that, unlike the Russian side, it does not intend to hit civilian targets. On October 1, Zelensky announced the first combat use of the Ukrainian-made FP-7 tactical ballistic missile with a range of 200 kilometers and said that the next stage should be mass production Fire Point is also developing the FP-9 with a range of up to 850 kilometers. The company's co-founder and chief designer, Denis Shtilerman, said in June that the missiles Ukrainian ballistic missiles could begin being used for attacks on Moscow this fall.
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Zelensky: "Putin will use every opportunity to impose new conditions"
Vladimir Putin "has begun to think that he can decide" how to stop the war in Ukraine and will use any negotiating opening to impose new conditions. This is the warning launched by Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with Reuters relaunched on his X account, in which the Ukrainian president invites the United States not to waste time in seeking compromises with Moscow.
"I believe the United States really wants to stop Russia's war. I trust them,” Zelensky said, acknowledging that “it is difficult to stop someone who is big and doesn't want to stop.” But, he added, “we are wasting time if we want to play with Russian compromises.”
According to Zelensky, every political change offers Putin the opportunity to relaunch his demands: "If Putin sees that something can be supported, he will try to propose another idea, other issues and new conditions." "New government, new conditions. Are leaders in Europe changing? New conditions. Does US policy change? (…) New conditions,” he noted.
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"Right now in the world there is an ongoing confrontation between democracies and autocracies. With Russia, as far as Ukraine is concerned, it is a military confrontation. Russia's objective is to reconstruct the Soviet Union or the Tsarist Empire. For this reason it is trying to weaken those who support Ukraine: also the United States, but above all the European Union, of which Ukraine is a candidate country. We Europeans help Kyiv on an economic, political and military level, beyond some internal controversy. It is clear that This is not convenient for Russia." Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said this, speaking at Liguria D'Autore, the exhibition organized by Vis Factor and created by Valentina Fontana, underway in Rapallo. "In this global confrontation, Russia is better off with a weak and divided Europe, perhaps with extremist or pro-Russian political forces winning the elections. This is what must not happen - he underlined -. On the economic level, however, I do not believe that there is a global war. There is certainly a confrontation with China, which aims to conquer world markets and replace the dollar and the euro with its own currency. President Xi Jinping has said this clearly in three congresses of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese one, however, is an objective commercial, while the Russian one is above all military - he concluded - China is playing a game of economic hegemony: it needs to continue exporting and occupying the markets. We have the duty to defend our system".
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The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, declared that he trusts the US and believes that they really want to stop Russia's war" but also warned against the idea of continuing to seek compromise with Moscow. "I understand that it is difficult to stop someone great who does not want to stop. This is why we try to find compromises with Russia. But I think we are wasting time if we want to play with Russian compromises", said the leader of Kiev interviewed by the Reuters agency. "If Putin sees that you are willing to accept something, he will try to propose another idea, other issues and new conditions. New government? New conditions. Are leaders in Europe changing? New conditions. US politics? President Trump arrives - very strong - and there are new conditions", continued Zelensky. "If Putin sees that President Trump needs a victory, he will decide what to concede and what not. And this is precisely the problem: Putin has started to think that he can decide. But America is a hundred times stronger than Russia. Absolutely. They just need to remember that," he concluded.
Zelensky: "We will intensify raids on Russian refineries"
Ukraine will intensify attacks on Russian oil refineries in response to Moscow's new airstrike campaign aimed at forcing Ukrainians to abandon Kiev and other
