Category: World

Air defence is responding to Russian drones in Kyiv and the oblast, and air-raid warnings have been issued in a number of oblasts.

Supply: Kyiv Oblast Navy Administration; Kyiv Metropolis Navy Administration; Air Power of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Particulars: At 18:53, Kyiv Oblast Navy Administration reported that air defence was working within the oblast.

Earlier than that, the Air Power had reported Russian assault UAVs over Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, in addition to heading in the direction of Kherson Oblast.

At round 19:40, the sounds of explosions started to be heard within the capital.

Quote from Kyiv Metropolis Navy Administration: "Air defence forces are working to destroy the menace within the skies over Kyiv. Stay in shelters till the official all-clear is given."

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Russian forces have attacked Zaporizhzhia with assault UAVs, inflicting fires on the web site of the strike.

Supply: Ivan Fedorov, Head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Army Administration, on Telegram

Quote: "The enemy is attacking Zaporizhzhia with UAVs.

There have been strikes. A fireplace has damaged out."

Particulars: Fedorov added that there’s at the moment no details about casualties.

Photograph: Ivan Fedorov, Head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Army Administration, on Telegram

Later, he reported {that a} kindergarten, a residential constructing, and a enterprise have been broken within the Russian assault.

The official stated that the Russians directed at the least seven UAVs in direction of Zaporizhzhia. A number of fires broke out within the metropolis.

At 19:59, Fedorov reported {that a} girl had sustained a shrapnel head wound because of the Russian assault on Zaporizhzhia. Medical doctors are offering her with medical help.

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Air defence is responding to Russian drones in Kyiv and the oblast, and air-raid warnings have been issued in a number of oblasts.

Supply: Kyiv Oblast Army Administration; Kyiv Metropolis Army Administration; Air Drive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Particulars: At 18:53, Kyiv Oblast Army Administration reported that air defence was working within the oblast.

Earlier than that, the Air Drive had reported Russian assault UAVs over Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, in addition to heading in the direction of Kherson Oblast.

At round 19:40, the sounds of explosions started to be heard within the capital.

Quote from Kyiv Metropolis Army Administration: "Air defence forces are working to destroy the menace within the skies over Kyiv. Stay in shelters till the official all-clear is given."

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Tomio Okamura, Chief of the Czech populist occasion SPD (Freedom and Direct Democracy), has acknowledged that for a possible entry right into a coalition, they’ll demand a authorities programme clause to evaluation the residence permits of all Ukrainians in Czechia.

Supply: IDNES, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Okamura mentioned that for the occasion’s potential participation in a brand new Czech authorities after the parliamentary elections, it will set as a situation the evaluation of the residence permits of all Ukrainians residing within the nation.

He famous that after the mass arrival of Ukrainian residents to Czechia due to the warfare, the supply of rental housing had worsened, and queues at polyclinics had grown.

"This isn’t about hatred, however I’m a Czech politician and I’m on the facet of Czech residents," Okamura mentioned.

In line with the occasion’s plans, solely these Ukrainians who "clearly work in jobs that Czechs have little curiosity in" ought to be allowed to remain within the nation.

Background:

• Okamura additionally needs Ukrainian flags faraway from authorities buildings instantly if his occasion participates within the authorities.
• The newest polls present help for this political power at 10-13% of voters.
• Chief of the populist ANO occasion Andrej Babiš, who tops the polls, has promised to abolish the ammunition initiative that helps provide Ukraine with artillery shells.
• Parliamentary elections in Czechia will happen in early October 2025.

Learn extra: Why power in Czechia set to change and what it means for Ukraine

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A resident of Semenivka was killed in a drone assault on Chernihiv Oblast on Saturday 6 September. Another lady was injured in Horodnia and is now in a severe situation.

Supply: Viacheslav Chaus, Head of Chernihiv Oblast Army Administration, on Telegram

Quote from Chaus: "The Russians focused easy entrance home gardens within the cities of Horodnia and Semenivka. The terrorists [Russian troops – ed.] focused civilians with drones.

A 70-year-old resident of Semenivka was killed.

A forty five-year-old lady from Horodnia has been hospitalised in a severe situation."

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Ukraine’s state finances will obtain €3.37 million from a French firm implicated in a Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Workplace (SAPO) investigation into abuses on the state-owned Ukraina printing home. This marks the primary time within the historical past of Ukraine’s anti-corruption our bodies that compensation might be paid by a international firm.

Supply: NABU

Particulars: The settlement with the corporate was signed by France’s Nationwide Monetary Prosecutor’s Workplace on 8 July and authorised by a Paris court docket on 3 September.

The funds have already been frozen in a particular account and might be transferred shortly, SAPO’s press service confirmed.

The investigation discovered that the printing home bought supplies from the French firm at inflated costs through an Estonian middleman, whereas the previous director of the state firm acquired improper advantages within the type of mental property rights to safety characteristic designs for paperwork.

The provider was the French agency Surys, which offered consumables containing protecting components.

SAPO coordinated efforts to defend Ukraine’s pursuits within the French court docket, working alongside France’s Nationwide Monetary Prosecutor’s Workplace.

The case is linked to fraudulent schemes involving Ukrainian passports, wherein former Minister of Well being Maksym Stepanov – who headed the Ukraina printing home from 2011 to 2016 – is a suspect.

The investigation has been carried out collectively by Ukraine, France and Estonia below the auspices of Eurojust. In whole, eight people have been formally charged.

In December 2024, Ukraine secured a plea settlement with an affiliate of the previous director of the printing home.

"The Excessive Anti-Corruption Courtroom convicted the defendant, who repaid UAH 14.5 million (US$351,000) in damages, donated UAH 2 million (US$45,000) to the Armed Forces, and offered key testimony in opposition to six people – proof that proved decisive in associated French and Estonian proceedings."

In Ukraine, the investigation into the printing home case has been accomplished, and the defence is presently reviewing the case supplies.

Background: In 2023, a large-scale worldwide scheme to embezzle funds from the state-owned Ukraina printing home was uncovered. The fraud came about between 2013 and 2016 in the course of the manufacturing of Ukrainian passports, ID playing cards and driving licences.

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On 6 September, leaflets resembling 100-hryvnia banknotes have been found in one in all Chernihiv’s residential districts. They contained calls to share coordinates and help in adjusting fireplace on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in alternate for actual cash.

Supply: Chernihiv Oblast police; public broadcaster Suspilne Chernihiv

Particulars: In keeping with police, the leaflets have been dropped from a drone.

Native media revealed images of the supplies.

The Chernihiv police additionally reminded residents that collaboration with the Russians carries prison legal responsibility.

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Fighters from the Tymur particular unit of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine have posted a video displaying how they thwarted the Russian plans to interrupt by to the borders of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

Supply: Defence Intelligence of Ukraine

Particulars: The Russians in small teams tried to advance past the road of contact and take up firing positions in buildings to pay attention forces for additional assaults on Ukrainian positions.

The video reveals the destruction of buildings, clearly with the Russians inside, carried out with the assistance of drones.

Quote: "The occupiers who survived the strikes by Ukrainian drones had been killed by Bratstvo (Brotherhood) assault troops." [Bratstvo is a part of the Tymur special unit – ed.]

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected Vladimir Putin's invitation to journey to Moscow for talks, as a substitute suggesting that the Russian chief come to Kyiv.

Supply: Zelenskyy in an interview with ABC Information

Quote: "He can come to Kyiv… I can't go to Moscow when my nation's beneath missiles, beneath assault, every day. I can't go to the capital of this terrorist. And he [Putin] understands this."

Particulars: Zelenskyy famous that Putin's proposal appears to be like like a method of suspending an actual assembly.

"If an individual doesn't need to meet through the struggle, after all, he can suggest one thing which might’t be acceptable by me or by others," he remarked.

Background

• Putin made it clear that he doesn’t intend to journey wherever to carry talks with Zelenskyy, however is open to assembly in Moscow.
• Ukrainian International Minister Andrii Sybiha described Putin's proposal to satisfy with Zelenskyy in Moscow as "unacceptable".

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Hungarian International Minister Péter Szijjártó has acknowledged that his nation won’t change its angle in the direction of Ukraine’s accession to the EU, even when Moscow supposedly doesn’t object. He claims that the Hungarian authorities solely considers the opinion of its folks, who don’t wish to see Ukraine within the EU.

Supply: Szijjártó on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Szijjártó was commenting on the phrases of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who mentioned it’s "odd" that Hungary rejects Ukraine’s EU accession since even Russia doesn’t oppose it.

Quote: "As soon as once more, Zelenskyy judges by his personal requirements. Not like Zelenskyy, Hungary’s place isn’t dictated from overseas. We don’t care what Moscow thinks about Ukraine’s EU membership. … So regardless of how a lot Zelenskyy counts on Russia to affect us, Hungary won’t assist Ukraine’s EU accession."

Background:

• Final week, Hungary reiterated that it’s going to not comply with the opening of the primary cluster of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
• A European survey discovered that greater than half of EU residents assist enlargement – such attitudes are linked to the safety challenges dealing with Europe.
• In the meantime, 64% of respondents in Hungary mentioned they assist enlargement normally, with out singling out any particular nation.

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