Among the strategic targets to be hit due to Erdogan and Putin’s meeting on the renewal of the wheat deal was a fierce Russian overnight attack on southern and eastern Ukraine, including the port of Ismail. Let’s see together the most important news about the war in Ukraine for today, September 4, 2023.
RUSSIAN ATTACKS TO THE ODESSA REGION. Kiev alleges that last night it shot down 23 kamikaze drones out of a total of 32 launches in south and east of Ukraine and destroyed a Russian boat while it was landing. Moscow responded by saying that the Ukrainian Armed Forces, moving in the direction of Cape Tarkhankut off the coast of Crimea, destroyed 4 US-made ‘Willard Navy’ high-speed motorboats, along with landing teams.
Russia’s attack on the port of Izmail in the Odessa region of southern Ukraine lasted about 3 and a half hours, and some drones even reached Romanian territory, according to the spokesperson of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oleg Nikolenko. . Romania denies this. Extensive damage was done to port infrastructure, with drone debris causing fires in many buildings. Warehouses and production sites, machinery and agricultural equipment were damaged.
ERDOĞAN IS IN RUSSIA TO RENEW THE WHEAT AGREEMENT. The attack on the port of Izmail, one of the main ports used for grain exports, took place on the day that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the resumption of the export agreement. Ukrainian grain crossing the Black Sea The Turkish president hopes the talks on grain transportation will be a springboard for broader peace talks between Kiev and Moscow.
ZELENSKY REPLACED MINISTER OF DEFENSE. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky replaces defense minister. This week, Ukraine’s parliament will vote on the dismissal of Oleksii Reznikov and the appointment of Rustam Umerov after he was accused of involvement in corruption over some bloated military supplies. Umerov, 41, is considered a loyalist to Zelensky. The entrepreneur in the telecommunications industry was elected to the Parliament in 2019 and since 2014 has been co-chairman of the Crimean Platform, an international diplomatic initiative aimed at canceling Russia’s annexation of the peninsula.
BOMB ALARMS CONTINUE IN SCHOOLS IN KIEV. While a second bomb threat was reported in schools in the capital, Kiev announced that at least 503 children had been killed by Russian forces in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, and more than 1,119 were injured. Most of the children in the Donetsk region were affected.
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