The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, who left for Russia by train on Sunday, entered the territory of this country on Tuesday morning, South Korea’s Ministry of Defense said, according to AFP. In Ukraine, the majority of citizens consider Volodymyr Zelensky to be responsible for corruption in the country, according to a new survey cited by Sky News. On the front, the Ukrainian army claims to be advancing in the east and south, seizing new territories. Kyiv has announced the return of offshore drilling rigs near Crimea, a key step in rebuilding the peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014.

Basic information about the war in Ukraine, day 566, LIVETEXT:

07:52Relations between Russia and China have reached an unprecedented historical level, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday during a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing Reuters.

“Relations between Russia and China have reached an absolutely unprecedented historical level in recent years,” the Russian news agency quoted Putin as saying.

“We will continue this activity together.”

07:27The train of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia on Tuesday morning. The dictator is scheduled to meet with President Vladimir Putin.

01:40After the dismissal of the Minister of Defense, Zelensky calls for digitalization in the army to ensure transparency of supplies.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on new Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and other government officials to cut red tape from the military through digitization and “restart the accounting system” for full transparency in the supply of troops after former minister Oleksiy Reznikov was fired last week following several corruption scandals with acquisitions of the Ministry of Defense.

01:16 The leader of North Korea boards a train to Russia.

Photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un boarding a train from Pyongyang to Russia have appeared.

He is expected to hold a long-awaited meeting with President Vladimir Putin, who has raised concerns in the West about a possible arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

00:26Ukraine and Germany signed a declaration of intent to build a wind power plant around the Chornobyl NPP, Ukrinform reports with reference to the German TV channel ARD, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

00:02Estonia and Latvia are buying a German air defense system for $1.1 billion.

Estonia and Latvia on Monday signed a joint agreement worth about one billion euros to purchase the Iris-T SLM medium-range air defense system from the German manufacturer Diehl, Tallinn announced, AFP reports.

A quick summary of the latest information:

• North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s visit to Russia in the coming days to meet with Vladimir Putin could provide clues about Pyongyang’s increased military aid to Moscow for its war in Ukraine, as well as signs of a reset in relations between the two regimes, Reuters writes.
• The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, allegedly buried the country’s vice-prime minister, former health minister Elkhan Suleymanov alive, because he suspected that he was poisoning him.
• What made the US consider the possibility of sending ATACMS long-range missiles to Ukraine.
• Britain on Monday accused Russia of targeting a civilian cargo ship in a Black Sea port on August 24 in a previously unconfirmed missile attack that Ukrainian defenses successfully thwarted, Reuters reported.
• Ukraine and Germany have signed a declaration of intent to build a wind farm around the Chornobyl NPP, Ukrinform reports with reference to the German TV channel ARD, Ukrainian Pravda reports.
• Estonia and Latvia are buying a German air defense system for $1.1 billion.
• The vast majority of Ukrainians consider Volodymyr Zelensky to be responsible for corruption in the country, according to the results of a new poll cited by Sky News.
• What was the impact of Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative?
• The United States of America doubled its uranium imports from Russia in the first half of this year, while insisting on the continuation of European sanctions, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijártó said on Monday, as quoted by hirado.hu.

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