Ukraine-Russia battle newest information: Putin to fulfill Kim Jong-un for weapons talks in Vladivostok

Kim Jong-un plans to journey to Russia and meet Vladimir Putin and talk about the potential of supplying Moscow with weapons for the battle in Ukraine, amid Moscow’s push to hunt nearer navy ties with North Korea.

In a uncommon journey overseas, Kim would journey from Pyongyang, most likely by armoured prepare, to Vladivostok, on the Pacific Coast of Russia, the place he would meet Putin, the New York Occasions reported on Monday, citing US and allied sources.

Whereas in Vladivostok, a port metropolis not removed from North Korea, the 2 leaders would talk about Kim’s sending Russia artillery shells and antitank missiles in trade for Moscow’s superior know-how for satellites and nuclear-powered submarines, the newspaper reported.

At a time when the USA has expressed concern about rising navy ties between the 2 international locations, the information of Kim’s deliberate go to got here after Russia mentioned it was discussing holding joint navy workouts with North Korea.

Cuban residents are being trafficked to battle for Russia in its battle in Ukraine, the nation’s overseas ministry mentioned.

A human trafficking operation was being run by criminals working in each the Caribbean island nation and hundreds of miles away in Russia, the Cuban authorities mentioned.

Authorities are actually working to “neutralise and dismantle” the community.

A Cuban authorities assertion learn: “The Ministry of the Inside is engaged on the neutralisation and dismantling of a human trafficking community that operates from Russia to include Cuban residents residing there, and even some from Cuba, into the navy forces taking part in battle operations in Ukraine.”

Russia has but to touch upon these allegations.

Russia claims to have shot down Ukraine-launched drones in Moscow’s Istra district and one other in Kaluga area within the early hours right this moment.

“Tonight, air defence forces destroyed drones within the Kaluga area and within the Istra area that had been attempting to hold out an assault on Moscow. Emergency providers are on the scene,” Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin mentioned.

He later added {that a} family object was broken because of fallen particles in Moscow and emergency providers are “working to get rid of the implications”.

One other drone was destroyed within the Tver area within the Zavidovo space, which the mayor claimed was flying within the path of Moscow.

The Russian defence ministry mentioned the three drones had been both destroyed or intercepted earlier than they might hit their targets.

The buses, operated by Go-Forward, had been used till March this 12 months to shuttle passengers between Luton Airport and the close by railway station.

They may now be used as relaxation areas for troopers in Japanese Ukraine and to move provides for front-line troops after being donated to a charity supporting the Ukrainian battle effort.

Russia has mentioned that Moscow’s RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), nicknamed “Devil II” – able to carrying ten or extra nuclear warheads – has been rolled out on “fight obligation”.

The pinnacle of Russia’s area company Roscosmos mentioned that the missiles had entered lively obligation, the state-run information company RIA reported. In June, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned that Sarmat missiles could be deployed for fight obligation “quickly”.

Previous to that, defence committee deputy chairman Aleksey Zhuravlyov had used it as a risk when he was interviewed by state broadcaster TV Russia 1 in Might concerning Sweden and Finland’s aspirations in the direction of becoming a member of Nato in mild of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Finland joined the alliance earlier this 12 months, whereas Sweden continues to be ready to be ratified.

Ukraine’s outgoing defence minister Oleksii Reznikov has turned in his resignation and mentioned he was honoured to have served the war-hit nation in its hardest modern-day historical past.

From showing subsequent to president Volodymyr Zelensky in a viral video shot in Kyiv simply hours into the Ukraine invasion final 12 months to finishing up offers for navy help with dozens of Western allies, the lawyer-turned-politician had performed a crucial function in aiding the nation in opposition to Russia’s persevering with full-scale invasion.

On Sunday, Mr Zelensky introduced Mr Reznikov’s elimination as he believed “the ministry wants new approaches and different codecs of interplay with each the navy and society as a complete”.

Ukraine has fought again courageously in opposition to Mr Putin’s warped bid to revive territory misplaced to Moscow with the collapse of the Soviet Union and has continued to defy the percentages by defending itself in opposition to Russian onslaughts with the assistance of Western navy help.

Russia has doubtless proposed that North Korea take part in three-way naval workouts with China, in response to a lawmaker who attended a closed-door briefing with the director of South Korea’s prime spy company Monday.

The briefing got here days after Russia’s Ambassador to North Korea, Alexander Matsegora, informed Russian media that together with North Korea in joint navy drills between Russia and China “appears applicable.” Matsegora added it was his personal perspective and that he wasn’t conscious of any preparations, in response to Russia’s Tass information company.

In keeping with lawmaker Yoo Sang-bum, when South Korean Nationwide Intelligence Service Director Kim Kyou-hyun was requested about the potential of such drills, he mentioned Russian Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu doubtless proposed holding trilateral naval workouts with North Korea and China whereas assembly North Korean chief Kim Jong Un in July.

That is the second a Russain touchdown boat was destroyed by a Ukranian drone as the ocean battles within the war-torn nation intensified.

The footage reportedly reveals a Ukrainian Bayraktar-TB2 kamikaze drone destroying a Russian KS-701 Tuna vessel within the northwestern Black Sea.

Russia suffered fatalities and casualties within the strike, with a navy helicopter airlifting the wounded in response to native studies.

The strike comes as a Ukrainian kamikaze drone struck a FSB safety service constructing within the nuclear city of Kurchatov in a separate assault.

The missile aimed on the mayor’s workplace took an estimated 64 seconds to fly 55 miles and detonate in shrapnel and flames after being fired by Russian forces.

Fortunately for Oleksandr Goncharenko, the mayor of Kramatorsk – close to the frontline in east Ukraine – it missed the goal by 200 metres, hitting a backyard sq..

The municipal headquarters was swiftly moved to a different constructing for security. However that constructing was bombed as nicely, leading to a transfer to one more location, dodging the missiles coming from town of Horlivka which has been captured by Vladimir Putin’s forces.

There’s loads of delight within the cities across the frontline in managing to maintain Putin’s forces at bay, writes Kim Sengupta from Druzhkivka. Nevertheless it has come at the price of crushing loss: