Russian attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding area. And Russian air strikes on the border with Moldova
The country is signing contracts to purchase around 1,000 Patriot missiles using an EU loan
Key points
During the night of 8 to 9 September, Russian forces attacked the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv Oblast, causing fires and damaging a food processing plant in Bila Tserkva, as well as a non-residential building, a garage and several lorries in the Ukrainian capital. This was reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, as quoted by Ukrainska Pravda.
Moscow also carried out an air strike on the Starokozache border crossing with Moldova, in the Odessa region, which was subsequently closed. Two people were killed and three others injured. A further 16 people were taken away by bus from the border crossing area, according to the governor of the Odessa region, Oleh Kiper. Buildings, buses, lorries and cars were damaged. The raid is merely the latest in a series of Russian attacks on Odessa’s border infrastructure.
On 1 September, the Orlivka border crossing with Romania was also targeted, forcing the Ukrainian authorities to temporarily close the crossing. On 25 August, the Vinohradivka-Vulcanesti border crossing with Moldova was attacked by Russian drones. Another attack struck the Tabaki border crossing, also on the border with Moldova, on the night of 20 August. On 27 August, five Russian drones violated Moldova’s airspace.
The interviews
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the talks held by US presidential special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow and Kyiv as “substantial”, adding that new ideas for resolving the conflict in Ukraine had been discussed.
“I believe they were – in short, they were – substantive discussions. I do not wish to describe them as good or bad, productive or unproductive; I will simply say that they were substantive. New ideas were put forward,” Rubio told journalists during his visit to Colombia.
