On the night between September 8 and 9, Russian forces attacked the city of Kiev and the Kiev oblast, causing fires and damaging a food processing plant in Bila Tserkva, as well as a non-residential building, a garage, and some trucks in the Ukrainian capital. This was reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine cited by Ukrainska Pravda.
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The talks
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the talks held by the US presidential special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow and Kiev as “substantial,” adding that new ideas for resolving the conflict in Ukraine were discussed.
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“I believe that, in short, they were substantial talks. I don’t want to call them good or bad, productive or unproductive; I just say they were substantial. New ideas were put forward,” Rubio told reporters during his visit to Colombia.
Patriot purchase
Kiev is signing contracts to purchase about 1,000 Patriot missiles using an EU loan, with deliveries starting only in the coming years. This was stated by Ukrainian Defense Minister Yevgeny Khmara during a meeting of the Ramstein Contact Group. “With the assistance of our partners and thanks to the EU loan,” he said, “we are signing contracts for about 1,000 Patriot missiles.” According to the news agency Ukrinform, Khmara specified that missile deliveries will mostly take place in the coming years. Kiev is also asking partners to provide missiles from their stocks. “We urge you to transfer missiles from your arsenals in exchange for future improved missiles, which will be supplied under our contracts,” Khmara said. According to the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Kiev needs to receive from partners 300 Patriot missiles, 500 air-to-air missiles, portable air defense systems, and funding of 2 billion dollars for drones. Khmara added that Ukraine faces a 27 billion dollar deficit in the defense budget.
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