The governor of Sevastopol, in annexed Crimea, installed by Moscow, warned this Saturday September 23 against the possibility of a new Ukrainian missile attack on the city, the day after Kiev’s strike on the fleet headquarters Russian Black Sea. “Be careful, missile danger! Missile danger!” warned Mikhail Razvojaev on Telegram. “Close your windows tightly and don’t go near them,” he added, asking people in cars and public transport to take shelter.
Canada will support Ukraine ‘as long as it takes’
Volodymyr Zelensky met, Friday, September 22 in Ottawa, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who promised to help his country at war “as long as it takes”, announcing the sending of new military equipment to Kiev . After the UN General Assembly and the White House earlier in the week, the Ukrainian president is completing a diplomatic tour from the Canadian capital intended to maintain the momentum of Western support for Kiev to confront Russia .
Justine Trudeau, at the head of a country which hosts a large Ukrainian diaspora, received the Ukrainian president in Ottawa in the morning with a hug. They held a bilateral meeting then spoke in front of elected representatives of Parliament.
Before Volodymyr Zelensky took the podium, Justin Trudeau announced a new aid package for kyiv worth 650 million Canadian dollars (452 million euros) over three years. It includes some 50 armored vehicles and the training of Ukrainian pilots in F-16 fighter jets. “We will stand with you, alongside all the heroes of this courageous fight, for as long as it takes,” he said.
kyiv claims strike on Russian fleet HQ in Crimea
kyiv claimed Friday a “successful strike” on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in annexed Crimea. Nine people were killed and 16 others injured, including two generals, according to the head of Ukrainian military intelligence. This Ukrainian region annexed by Moscow in 2014 and the city of Sevastopol, where the targeted naval headquarters is located, are at the heart of the Russian military system for its invasion of Ukraine, both to supply the troops occupying the Ukrainian south and to carry out missile strikes from the sea.
“The enemy carried out a missile attack on the fleet headquarters,” Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram. The Russian Defense Ministry, which initially announced the death of a soldier, then clarified that he was missing. The Ukrainian army welcomed this “successful strike against the headquarters of the command of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol”. The exact extent of the damage is not yet known, but Russian authorities admitted that the building was “damaged.” Governor Razvojaïev affirmed at the beginning of the afternoon that it was in flames and that the “fight against the fire” was continuing.
One dead and 15 injured in strike on Kremenchuk in the center
At least one person was killed and 15 injured, including a child, on Friday in a Russian strike targeting the city of Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, the regional governor announced on Telegram. “The enemy fired rockets at Kremenchuk. One rocket was shot down by the air defense forces. Unfortunately, civilian infrastructure was hit,” said Dmytro Lunin, governor of the Poltava region.
Russia-North Korea: Blinken expresses “serious concerns”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his South Korean and Japanese counterparts expressed “serious concerns” about talks on military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, including possible arms trade, said the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un paid a week-long visit to Russia earlier this month and discussed military cooperation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian attacks in Donetsk, Russian official says
Ukrainian forces have launched coordinated attacks on several villages in the eastern Donetsk region and are heavily shelling the town of Bakhmut, a Russian official in the region said Friday. “Over the past 24 hours, in the Krasnolimansk direction, the enemy has carried out a series of actions and conducted combat reconnaissance in several directions at once,” said Denis Pushilin, the head of the pro-Russian separatist territory of Donetsk on social networks.
He listed several villages in northern Donetsk, near the Ukrainian-controlled town of Lyman, and claimed the assaults had been suppressed by Russian forces.