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The Russian Navy will set up a base in Abkhazia, a pro-Russian separatist region in Georgia. The leader of the area announced this on Thursday, at a time when Ukraine is stepping up its attacks on Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea.

“We have signed an agreement and in the near future the Russian Navy will have a permanent base in the Ochamchire district” on the Black Sea coast, Aslan Bzhania told Russian newspaper Izvestia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will the attend the meeting of the European Political Community in Granada. He reported on platform X on Thursday morning that he had arrived in the Spanish city. He wants to “guarantee the security and stability of our common European home”, he writes.

“The key for us, especially for the winter, is it strengthening air defense. We already have the basis for new agreements with our partners,” which now need to be “confirmed and implemented,” Zelenskiy said on Telegram.

According to him, special attention will also be paid to the region around the Black Sea and the efforts to strengthen world food security and free passage. Ukraine has recently resumed exporting grain via the Black Sea, despite the threat of Russian attacks.

The new meeting of the European Political Community will take place on Thursday loose political consultation forum of almost fifty countries which was created in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to discuss the continent’s major strategic issues.

The European summit will start on Friday, where prime ministers and presidents will reflect on the future direction of the EU, but migration is also on the agenda.

Ukraine says 24 out of 29 drones to have brought down that have been deployed at night attacks by Russia. According to the air force, this happened over the Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kirovohrad regions. “The enemy continues to attempt to destroy ports and other infrastructure in the south and is also terrorizing central regions.”

Russia regularly bombards targets in Ukraine with drones and missiles. Attacks on Ukrainian ports have intensified significantly after the expired of the so-called grain deal. This made it possible to continue safely exporting Ukrainian agricultural products across the Black Sea during the war. The Russian government decided not to renew the agreement in July.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants more unity among European leaders around the threats from Russia to face and fight against human smugglers. He wants to increase cooperation with our country, among other things.

Sunak will reveal his plans today at the meeting of the European Political Community in Granada, Spain. He will have one meeting presiding with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni about “illegal migration and organized crime“. There, Sunak is expected to insist on more coordinated action.

According to Downing Street, Sunak will bilateral initiatives announce with Belgium, Bulgaria and Serbia to increase intelligence sharing and operational cooperation.

With our country Sunak wants, among other things, the increase cooperation around the organized crime and the illegal migration to the United Kingdom to fight. He wants to further combat criminal networks with Serbia.

Also the support for Ukraine is discussed, including the efforts of European allies to supply Kiev with weapons and the need for grain shipments via the Black Sea. Sunak is expected to be the allocation of British humanitarian aid during the winter months will confirm.

Also artificial intelligence will be discussed during the summit, to which 47 countries have been invited.

Russia wants with sea ​​mines hit civilian ships that through the humanitarian corridor into the Black Sea to prevent the export of Ukrainian grain. This is what the British Foreign Office says.

London bases its statements on “informationand states that Moscow “certainly wants to avoid openly sinking civilian ships and will wrongly blame Ukraine for any attack.”

The information “shows the total disregard from (Russian President Vladimir) Putin against the lives of citizens and the needs of the most vulnerable”. many African countries depend on Ukrainian agriculture for their grain supplyBritish Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in the press release.

By making the information public, “the UK wants to… Exposing Russian tactics and prevent such an incident from occurring,” London said, adding that it would “work with Ukraine and other partners to take measures to improve the safety of maritime transport.”

The UK has been monitoring Russian activities in the Black Sea since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. “That intelligence will help us identify and convict any future Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure or ships,” it said.

According to London Moscow since are unilateral withdrawal from the grain deal with Ukraine already in July 130 port installations and 300,000 tons of grain destroyed.

The United Kingdom had also accused the Russian army of this last month cargo ship that they wanted to attack with missiles under the flag of Liberia.

It has been since this summer number of attacks in the Black Sea by both Russia and Ukraine increased. Russia in particular has stepped up its bombing of Ukrainian transport infrastructure.

Russian football players are again welcome at youth tournaments for the category up to 17 years. World football association FIFA announced this on Wednesday. Russia had been banned from participating in international football tournaments since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The decision means that Russia can be present at the U17 World Cup for boys and girls. The Russian teams may only participate under the name ‘Football Union of Russia’. They must play in neutral colors and may not use the national flag or anthem.

Last week, the European football union UEFA announced that Russian youth teams will again be allowed to participate in international football tournaments in Europe. Senior teams will remain excluded as long as Russia wages war in Ukraine.

UEFA previously stated that “children should not be punished for actions for which responsibility lies solely with adults”. The Football Association of Ukraine has urged UEFA to reconsider the decision and indicated it will not play in tournaments featuring Russian teams. England, Norway, Sweden and Denmark have also said they will not take action at such events.

Ukraine is doing “everything” to get new anti-aircraft systems from the West before the winter. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assured on Wednesday. With this, Kiev wants to cope with a possible new campaign of Russian bombings.

“We are doing everything we can to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems before winter. Now we are waiting for certain decisions from our partners,” Zelensky said in a video published on social media.

In addition, he also said that “from whenever possible” he would work on protecting and rebuilding essential infrastructure in Ukrainian cities.

In the winter of 2022, Moscow launched a massive campaign targeting Ukrainian infrastructure, often leaving Ukrainian citizens without electricity.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Kyrgyzstan next week. Authorities in the Central Asian country reported this on Wednesday. It is Putin’s first trip abroad since an arrest warrant was issued for him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in March this year.

“At the invitation of the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, the President of the Russian Federation will make an official visit to our country on October 12,” the Kyrgyz Kabar news agency reported, citing an official from the presidential office.

According to Russian media, Putin will visit a Russian air base in the city of Kant, east of the capital Bishkek, to mark the twentieth anniversary of its opening.

Putin has rarely left Russia since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He last traveled abroad in December, visiting Kyrgyzstan, where the Russian president attended the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Bishkek, as well as White -Russia. The Russian neighbor is a staunch ally of Moscow in the war in Ukraine.

Kyrgyzstan has not signed the Rome Statute, a treaty that obliges members to abide by the decisions of the ICC. Countries that have done so are expected to arrest the Russian leader as soon as he sets foot on their territory.

For that reason, Putin was not present at the BRICS summit in South Africa in July, which is a member of the International Criminal Court.

Ukraine has destroyed a modern S-400 anti-aircraft defense system of the Russian army on Russian territory, Kiev says. In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, Moscow shot down 31 drones, the Russians said. In addition, Russia is also said to have succeeded in repelling a Ukrainian attempt to land in annexed Crimea.

The anti-aircraft system was destroyed with drones in the often targeted Russian region of Belgorod, according to a source at the Ukrainian intelligence service SBU. In September, the SBU already claimed responsibility for the destruction of another S-400 system in Crimea.