A strategic envelope. The US State Department announced Thursday, September 8 that the United States will provide aid of 2 billion dollars to support Ukraine in the conflict between it and Russia. This long-term aid will also concern Ukraine’s neighbors who feel threatened by Russia, specified Anthony Blinken, head of American diplomacy. Follow our live.
Further aid for the Ukrainian army. The United States will also deliver to Ukraine new military aid amounting to 675 million dollars, announced Thursday, September 8 the Secretary of State for Defense, Lloyd Austin, visiting the American base in Ramstein (Germany). Follow our live.
Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia? The United Nations Under-Secretary General for Human Rights suspects the displacement of unaccompanied minors and their adoption by Russian families. At a meeting of the UN Security CouncilWednesday, September 7, IIze Brands Kehris said that ithere were “credible accusations”. Russia’s UN ambassador Vasily Nebenzia has dismissed accusations “unfounded”, which he called “legend”.
Washington accuses Russia of “filtering” hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. At UN Security Council, Ilize Brands Kehris also expressed concern about the existence of filtration camps through which Ukrainians sent to Russia pass. This was confirmed by Deputy Spokesman for US Diplomacy, Vedant Patel: “We have information that officials from the Russian Presidential Administration are overseeing and coordinating these triage operations” of hundreds of thousands of people. These officials believe that the purpose of these operations is to facilitate, in the long term, the annexation of Ukrainian territories.
kyiv has taken over several localities near Kharkiv, assures Zelensky. “This week we have good news from the Kharkiv region”, said the Ukrainian president in his video speech on Wednesday evening broadcast on social networks. Refusing to name them, he referred to “localities where the Ukrainian flag returned”.