► Three dead in a Russian drone attack
A Russian drone attack left three dead and eleven injured, including a child, in Izmail, a port city located in the far southwest of Ukraine, the local governor announced on Friday September 27.
“The Russians launched attack drones in the south of our region”wrote Oleg Kiper, governor of the Odessa region. Two elderly women and a man in his 70s were killed, he added. Eleven other people were injured, including a child, he said.
The locality, which is located on the Danube, neighbors Romania. Although it is very far from the front, it is sometimes targeted by Russian forces because of the port infrastructure it contains, crucial for the transit of goods.
► Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Donald Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meet former US president and White House candidate Donald Trump, a delicate meeting given the Republican’s multiple criticisms of massive US aid to Ukraine.
“As you know, Zelensky asked to meet me. I’m going to meet him tomorrow morning around 9:45 a.m. at Trump Tower.”in New York, announced Donald Trump the day before during a speech to the press.
Volodymyr Zelensky will arrive at their meeting assured of the support of the current administration, but obviously worried about American aid in the event of Donald Trump’s victory in the November 5 election, which promises to be very close.
► FSB investigation into three foreign journalists
The Russian security services (FSB) have opened criminal investigations targeting three journalists, two Americans and a Romanian, who crossed “illegally” the Russian border from Ukraine to report in the occupied part of the Kursk region, Russian news agencies reported.
The two Americans, Kathryn Diss and Fletcher Yeung, work for the Australian channel ABC, while the Romanian journalist Mircea Barbu works for the media HotNews, according to the agencies. In total, investigations were opened against “ 12 foreign journalists » for accusations of this type since August 17, indicated the FSB, cited by the Ria Novosti agency.
► An American tried in Moscow for “mercenarism”
A 72-year-old American national is on trial in Moscow for “mercenarism” in the service of Ukraine, said the state agency Ria Novosti, present at the hearing.
The individual was identified as Stefan Hubbard, from the US state of Michigan. The agency does not say when or where he was arrested, but says he had been living in Ukraine since 2014 and was taken to a Moscow court by Russian military police.
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