North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who left Pyongyang on Sunday aboard an armored train, arrived in Russia on Tuesday September 12. He must talk about “sensitive subjects” with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming days, somewhere on the Pacific coast Russian, according to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov, quoted by the Russian agency Ria Novosti. Washington fears that Moscow is sourcing weapons from North Korea for its military operations in Ukraine. North Korea itself is under sanctions over its nuclear and missile programs. Follow our live.
Russia forced to “beg” North Korean aid, according to Washington. American diplomacy commented on the meeting between the two leaders. “Having to cross your entire country to meet an outcast from the international scene” come back “begging for help”judged Matthew Miller, spokesperson for the Secretary of State, on Monday.
Ukraine announces that it has taken back an oil and gas platform in the Black Sea from the Russians. This has been controlled by Moscow since 2015. “Ukraine regains control of the ‘Vishki Boika'”, welcomed the military intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense in a press release. Attacks between Ukrainian and Russian forces have increased in the Black Sea since mid-July, when Russia slammed the door on an agreement allowing for a year the export of Ukrainian cereals despite the war.
Moscow accused of wanting to destroy a cargo ship in the Black Sea at the end of August. “Intelligence shows that the Russian army targeted a cargo ship in the Black Sea on August 24 using several missiles”, writes the British Foreign Office in a press release. The target was “a cargo ship flying the Liberian flag docked at the port” from Odessa.