The German Foreign Minister and the Russian Foreign Minister met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. It is the first bilateral meeting between the two.
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Foreign Minister Johan Wadephul (CDU) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. This is what SZ editor Sina-Maria Schweikle reports. It is the first time that the two foreign ministers have met for bilateral talks. According to reports, the initiative for the conversation came from the German side.
In the evening German time, Wadephul will give a speech at the United Nations. Support for Ukraine is likely to play a major role in this. The Foreign Minister traveled to New York in place of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who remained in Germany because of the domestic political situation.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has asked the European Commission to speed up the next payments from a 90 billion euro loan made available in April. Zelensky said he had received a positive response from EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
As a reason for his initiative, he pointed to the Ukrainian budget deficit of more than 23 billion euros. According to him, this endangers the financing of drone purchases that are important to the war effort. "If we don't order and pay for them in October and November, then we will have serious problems in January and February," he said.
According to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Russian air strikes on Ukraine have once again caused deaths and injuries. Two people were killed in the large city of Zaporizhzhia, the Ukrainian president wrote on social networks. There were 14 injuries across the country. He also reported attacks on Kiev and the Odessa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Mykolaiv and Vinnytsia regions.
Zelenskiy also confirmed Ukrainian drone attacks on the Ilski refinery in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar and a defense factory in the Rostov region.
Denmark's military intelligence service has warned of a "low but growing" risk that Russia could launch a limited attack on a neighboring NATO member state. Russia is also likely to increase its hybrid warfare against NATO countries, the service explains in the analysis published on Thursday.
According to authorities, at least four people were killed when a Russian drone hit an office building in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Another seven were injured, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
The US has proposed a three-way meeting with Ukraine and Russia in the United Arab Emirates to discuss an end to the four-and-a-half-year war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this on Friday in a press conference via WhatsApp.
According to authorities, at least one person was killed and numerous others injured in Ukrainian drone attacks on several Russian regions. In the Rostov region, an attack damaged the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery, which was forced to temporarily suspend operations.
According to Ukrainian police, a Russian combat drone hit a high-rise building in Kiev this morning and killed a 14-year-old boy. At least seven other residents of the apartment block were injured.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb has asked US entrepreneur Elon Musk to expand Starlink satellite internet for Ukraine. This should enable Ukraine to attack Russian missile launchers on Russian territory.
A fire in a terminal of the Starlink satellite internet service in Poland is most likely due to an act of sabotage, according to the government in Warsaw.
In the south of Russia, in the Black Sea region, the governor of the Krasnodar region there has declared a state of emergency. The reason is Ukrainian drone attacks on the infrastructure for grain exports.
