Trump-Putin phone call after the US envoys' mission to Moscow and Kiev. “We have no plan to attack Europe,” the Russian leader is said to have assured, according to reports from the Kremlin, which dismisses “the myths about the Russian threat” as a pretext for the Europeans “to increase support for Ukraine and military spending.” Once the three days of truce expired, Moscow resumes attacks on Kiev, but Zelensky sees the possibility of a meeting between Russian, Ukrainian and American negotiators as early as September. Supplies of Patriot missiles to Ukraine from London and Berlin. Budapest expels 10 Russian diplomats for "unacceptable activities". Moscow: "The response will be harsh and painful."
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called German Chancellor Friedrich Merz a slave of the German military-industrial complex. "Merz is a slave of the German military-industrial complex," Zakharova told Sputnik radio, adding that he not only lobbies to further the interests of this sector, but is at its service. Previously, the Russian ambassador to Berlin, Serghei Nechayev, had denounced that the degree of militarization of the German economy, as well as the volume of military and other aid to Ukraine, are increasing. The diplomat added that Germany's declared policy is to inflict destruction on Russia and provide aid to Ukraine as long as necessary.
Four people, including a child, were killed and 29 injured last night in a Ukrainian drone attack on Novorossiysk, a Russian port city on the Black Sea. This was reported by the governor of the Krasnodar region, Veniamin Kondratyev, quoted by Ria Novosti. The governor added that, among other things, a nursery school, an Orthodox church, five residential buildings and three private houses were damaged in the bombing.
Russian forces shot down 596 Ukrainian drones overnight. This was declared by the Moscow Ministry of Defense after Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with his US counterpart yesterday on ways to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. The attacks left four dead in Novorossiysk in the southern Krasnodar region, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram.
A Russian drone attack on a border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova left two dead and three injured, the governor of the Odessa region, Oleg Kiper, announced. “During the night, enemy drones attacked the Starokozash road border crossing on the border with Moldova,” he said on Telegram. According to an initial report, "two people died and three were injured," he added. The crossing has been damaged and its operations have been suspended, the governor continued. The Starokozash crossing is located at the south-eastern end of the Ukrainian-Moldavian border, about 70 kilometers from the Ukrainian city of Odessa and 130 kilometers from Chișinău, the Moldovan capital.
Ukraine's new acting defense minister, Yevgeniy Khmara, has stressed the importance of air defense weaponry as the country seeks to repel growing Russian drone and missile attacks. “Just last night, the enemy launched another massive air strike,” Khmara said during yesterday's meeting of the Contact Group for Ukraine in the Ramstein format. Khmara reported that, thanks to the support of Kiev's partners, contracts for the supply of about 1,000 missiles for Patriot systems are being concluded. “However, most of these missiles will only start to be delivered in the next few years, which is why we ask you to provide us with missiles from your arsenals already today,” Khmara told German Defense Minister Pistorius and other officials from Ukraine's allied countries.
The Ukrainian army carried out 53 attacks yesterday against the Donetsk People's Republic, killing one civilian and wounding 13 others, the department of the regional government responsible for registering Ukraine's war crimes announced in a statement. «Fifty-three attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces were recorded. The death of a civilian and the wounding of 13 other people were reported," the statement reads. The attacks damaged five residential buildings, several diesel locomotives and passenger cars, as well as public transport vehicles, trucks and six civilian infrastructures. Additionally, the department received additional information regarding two civilians killed and seven injured in the events of August 25 and September 4 and 7.
Following several waves of attacks against one of Dtek's thermoelectric power plants, the latter stopped producing electricity and as of this evening the supply of electricity has completely stopped in Mykolaiv and the community of Kherson. This was announced by the electricity company, cited by the Ukrainian media. Since the start of the large-scale invasion, Dtek's thermal power plants have been attacked by the enemy more than 230 times.
"We must support Ukraine, but here there is a fundamental misunderstanding: the turning point in negotiations and identifying a mediator for Europe in a voiceless Europe are necessary to defend the Ukrainian population tooth and nail. So we are at a turning point, then they ask us to send weapons? Here we are consistent, I won't change my mind: it will not be with weapons, few of them, that we will solve the problem". Giuseppe Conte says it from the stage of the Avs party in Rome.
“If these talks mean that you are preparing an attack against us, I assure you that the war will be completely different and very short.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared this, quoting the words spoken several times by President Vladimir Putin and inviting Europe to "remember them". "We have no intention of attacking anyone. It's nonsense, idiocy. It's the total absence of any ability to think in terms of the state," added Lavrov, quoted by Tass.
The head of Russian diplomacy said he believed it was unlikely that Europe would "attack Russia while claiming that we are preparing aggression against Europe". "It's even ridiculous. On the one hand, they say that Russia is losing and therefore we need to support Ukraine in every way, increase this support and Ukraine will win; on the other hand, this same Russia which in their eyes is "losing" is preparing an attack on Europe. From the point of view of a politician, it is not serious to say such nonsense," he said.
