Donald Trump vows to ‘resolve’ Ukraine war after meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky
Accustomed to visits to the White House, where he was received again on Thursday September 26, the Ukrainian president met this Friday with Donald Trump with whom he maintains a necessary but complicated relationship. An interview announced as delicate in view of the Republican’s multiple criticisms of massive American aid to Ukraine. Arriving assured of the support of the current administration, but obviously worried in the event of the billionaire’s victory in the November 5 election, Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to discuss his “victory plan” that he had unfolded during their first meeting in 2019. “We have very good relations [ndlr : avec Volodymyr Zelensky]and I also have very good relations, as you know, with President Putin,” Donald Trump told journalists, after praising the Ukrainian president. Before adding: “And I think if we win, I think we’re going to solve the problem very quickly,” without ever explaining how. The Ukrainian president, for his part, announced that he would meet Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
Drone strike kills three, injures others in southwest Ukraine
A Russian drone attack left three dead and eleven injured, including a child, Friday morning in Izmail, a port city located in the far southwest of Ukraine, a few kilometers from Romania. The NATO member country’s radars detected the possible incursion of one of the drones involved in the attack that occurred earlier on Izmail. According to a press release from the Ministry of Defense, four F-16 and F-18 planes, Romanian and Spanish, took off in the middle of the night to monitor the situation. Residents in the Tulcea region received warnings on their phones to take shelter. Since the start of the war, Romania has regularly condemned repeated violations of its airspace and has repeatedly discovered drone debris. A nighttime missile attack also targeted Dnipro in east-central Ukraine.
Kryvyi Rih hit by missile attack
In central Ukraine, the birthplace of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to be the target of raids by the Russian army. This Friday morning, a missile attack carried out against a police station in Kryvyï Rih left three people dead. The first report reported only one death. Late Friday afternoon, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Serhii Lyssak updated the count, specifying that the strike had also injured six people.
72-year-old American tried in Moscow for fighting for Ukraine
A 72-year-old American national has been on trial since Friday 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 did not say when or where he was arrested, but said he had been living in Ukraine since 2014 and was taken to a Moscow court by Russian military police. According to the Russian prosecutor, he joined a Ukrainian territorial defense battalion, and, as such, was paid “at least $1,000 [ndlr : 894 euros] per month”underwent training, received a uniform, weapons and “took part in the armed conflict”. He was taken prisoner on April 2, 2022 and risks seven to fifteen years in prison according to the prosecutor.
The FSB continues its hunt for Ukrainian agents
Russian security services (FSB) have arrested two people accused of transmitting military information to Kyiv intelligence from Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed in 2014, Russian state agencies reported this Friday. One of them would have notably given information on the defense systems of the Crimean bridge, which connects the peninsula to Russia and which has been regularly targeted by Ukraine, according to Russian agencies. This strategic work was damaged by the explosion of a truck bomb in October 2022, an attack attributed by the Russian authorities to Kyiv. The Crimean Bridge was also attacked by Ukrainian naval drones in July 2023, causing significant damage and resulting in the deaths of two civilians. The arrests announced Friday were carried out by the Crimean FSB and the city of Sevastopol, a major port on the peninsula and headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. The men are accused of also providing information on the position of Russian troops or the location of military equipment and weapons.
Three foreign journalists targeted by investigations in Russia
Three journalists, two Americans and a Romanian, are the target of criminal investigations carried out by the FSB. They were accused of crossing “illegally” across the Russian border from Ukraine to report in the occupied part of the Kursk region, Russian news agencies reported Friday. 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. They are accused by the Russian authorities of having “illegally crossed the border of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region”, announced the FSB, in a press release echoed by the agencies.
Updated September 27 at 6:16 p.m. with the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.
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