President Volodymyr Zelensky seeks to persuade U.S. lawmakers to green-light a $24 billion assistance package for Ukraine. Kim Jong Un continues his Russia trip.
“The entire staff of the Security Service of Ukraine and our Navy should be specially commended for this. I thank you for today’s triumph,” hein his nightly address. The remarks come as Ukraine claims to have damaged Russian military sites in Crimea, with Ukrainian news outlets also reporting that an S-400 air defense system was destroyed Thursday.
The Post could not independently verify the reports. Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, and the peninsula has come under several attacks in recent months.Tony Radakin, Britain’s most senior military officer, said Ukraine “continues to hold the initiative,” in a statement that rejected the view that Ukraine’s offensive is struggling. Radakin made the comment at an arms fair in London, according to the Guardian. “The idea that war is neat and tidy, and you can plan and predict it to the nth degree is nonsense,” heRussia declared two U.S. diplomats working in Moscow as “persona non grata,” asking them to leave the country in seven days. The two diplomats were accused of maintaining contact with a Russian citizen performing “tasks for financial remuneration with the aim of damaging the national security of the Russian Federation,” according to Russian officials. The Russian has been named as Robert Shonov, a former employee of the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok, in other news releases. The U.S. State Department condemned Shonov’s arrest earlier this year and said the accusations against him “are wholly without merit.”The head national security officials of the United States, Japan and South Korea held a trilateral call Thursday, affirming that arms exports from North Korea to Russia “would directly violate multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions, including resolutions that Russia itself voted to adopt,” according to a White House readout of the call.: An Asian black bear found in a Ukrainian zoo near the front line will have a new home in Scotland, Daniel Wu reports. Yampil, named after the Ukrainian village where he was found, had been discovered barely alive by Ukrainian troops that had retaken the area from Russian forces last year. Yampil the bear was rescued from an abandoned zoo in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland promised to adopt him on Sept. 12. Yampil was whisked from the front line and taken to a Polish zoo, then a Belgian wildlife rehabilitation center, where he was slowly nursed back to health. The center then contacted the Scotland-based Five Sisters Zoo, which had previously taken in rescued brown bears from the center, about potentially adopting the bear.
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