The Russian occupiers are shelling Kherson, explosions are heard in Dniprovsky district, said head of the city military administration Roman Mrochko. “Russian troops are shelling Kherson again. Explosions were heard in Dniprovsky district. Be careful! Stay in safe places!” he wrote on Telegram on Saturday afternoon.
Two of the three ships that used the temporary corridors established by the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reached the Black Sea ports, according to data from the MarineTraffic resource. The bulk carriers YING HAO 01 and AZARA are located in Pivdenny port. The ENEIDA is heading for the port of Chornomorsk.…
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Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny had a call with Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley. Commenting on the conversation, Zaluzhny said Milley’s term in office ends in September. “As a sign of the continuation of the close partnership between Ukraine and the United States, General Milley…
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After two years in detention, a Chinese journalist who spoke up against sexual harassment stood trial on subversion charges on Friday along with a labor rights activist, the latest example of Beijing’s intensified crackdown on civil society. Huang Xueqin, an independent journalist who was once a prominent voice in China’s #MeToo movement, and her friend…
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In 1959, a group of university students in the northwestern Chinese city of Tianshui embarked on a quixotic plan. China was in the midst of the Great Famine, a catastrophe caused by government policies that would kill as many as 45 million. These young people had witnessed farmers starving to death and cannibalism; they also…
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Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko met with American public figure and businessman Howard Graham Buffett. “It was a substantive and productive meeting with Howard Buffett. The famous American philanthropist helps units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in particular, the National Police and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. A particularly valuable…
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Joan Meyer, who spent nearly 60 years as a reporter, columnist, editor and associate publisher at The Marion County Record in Kansas, died on Saturday at her home, a day after the police searched the newspaper’s offices. She was 98. Her son, Eric Meyer, the newspaper’s publisher, confirmed the death. He said that the cause…
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On Wednesday, the Ukrainian defense forces inflicted a successful strike on a command post of Russia’s Black Sea Navy near Verkhniosadove in the vicinity of Sevastopol in temporarily occupied Crimea, according to the Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “On September 20 in the morning, the AFU inflicted a successful strike on…
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The German Federal Ministry of Defense has announced the provision of a new package of military assistance to Ukraine totaling EUR 400 million. “Support will be provided where it is most needed,” the ministry’s press service said in a message. Thus, in order to strengthen Ukraine’s capabilities to intercept remotely installed mines, it is planned…
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U.S. Senator from Arizona Mark Kelly (Democratic Party), during his visit to Kyiv, said that Ukraine had made progress in the counteroffensive and is confident that progress will continue. Kelly said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday that he thinks that the Ukrainian military are doing a fantastic job in incredibly difficult circumstances against…
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