U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Romanian Foreign Minister Luminica Odobescu spoke by phone Thursday to discuss Romania’s investigation into drone debris found in Romania near the border with Ukraine, the U.S. State Department said.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 562, LIVETEXT:

07:58 On the night from Thursday to Friday in Moscow, a severe fire broke out in the building of the Federal Customs Service. The Russian authorities have not yet announced anything about the cause of the fire.

07:47 Britain will host a global food security summit in November to support countries struggling with the fallout from Russia’s Black Sea grain blockade, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will announce on the sidelines of the G20 summit in India on Friday.

Sunak will say world leaders must make it clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative has increased Russia’s global isolation, Sunak’s office said.

“Once again, Vladimir Putin has failed to show his face at the G20… the rest of the G20, meanwhile, is proving that we will show up and work together to pick up the pieces of Putin’s destruction,” Sunak said as he left. for New Delhi. (Reuters)

New US military aid to Ukraine

07:18The US announces new military aid to Ukraine worth 600 million dollars

01:40 Zelensky reports that he spoke about security issues with the prime ministers of Great Britain and Israel. He says that in September there will be an announcement about new weapons for Ukraine

00:54 Pentagon explains why Russian fears about health risks from depleted uranium projectiles are unfounded

00:34 VIDEO In Olesk, a car was blown up in which two FSB officers were allegedly torturing Ukrainians – Ukrainian truth

00:12VIDEO Seven Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian region on Thursday

A quick summary of the latest information:

• NATO has no indication that the fragments of drones found on the territory of Romania were caused by a deliberate attack by Moscow on our country, the head of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Thursday.
• In MApN’s latest report on Thursday, the ministry claims that Russia’s latest series of kamikaze drone attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube have been monitored “in real time”. How the leaders of the Romanian army explain that they did not know that the pieces of the drone fell on the territory of Romania. PHOTO. The crash site of the Russian drone in Cetalkio. Locals say they found a piece of metal.
• On the night from Wednesday to Thursday, Moscow again attacked the Ukrainian port on the Danube. The attack was recorded by several Romanians from Izmail itself.
• CNN: South African billionaire Elon Musk prevented a Ukrainian attack on the Russian naval base in Sevastopol last year by secretly shutting down the Starlink Internet system on the Crimean coast.
• A Ukrainian official says Russia no longer has troops in Belarus to launch a ground offensive against Ukraine from that country.
• The “traitor from Crimea”, who fired a grenade launcher at the Ukrainian military, was captured. He was detained in the spring during a battle near the village of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region, the SBU reported.
• Yevhen Dykiy, a former company commander of the Ukrainian Aidar battalion, says that the famous “dragon’s teeth” used by the Russian army for its defense are useless, and other elements of defense have created problems for the Kyiv troops.
• Earlier this year, North Korean hackers attacked Russian diplomats and successfully hacked the servers of the Russian Aerospace Research Institute, according to Microsoft.
• Northern Coasts military exercises will be conducted under German leadership from next week. Three thousand military personnel from 14 countries will take part in exercises near the shores of Estonia and Latvia for two weeks.
• The Ukrainian military has released a stunning new video showing how a HIMARS attack caught a group of Russian troops just as they were loading missiles for Alligator attack helicopters onto trucks.
• In Russia, they found a new position for Sergei Surovkin, nicknamed “General Armageddon”, after the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation removed his biography from the official website of the Russian military.
• The military court of the 235th Garrison of Moscow decided to take into custody Major General Kostyantyn Ohienko, responsible for the air defense of the capital of the Russian Federation. He is accused of bribery.

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• Thursday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro