Russia appears to be covertly recruiting Cuban men for the war with Ukraine. Like the two teens in this story, many of them cannot read their contracts. Alain Paparazzi Cubano / YouTube Alex Rolando Vegas Díaz and Andorf Antonio Velázquez García On September 8, a group of Ukrainian legislators accused Cuba of supplying mercenaries to Vladimir Putin’s regime.

The main award of the Venice Film Festival - the Golden Lion - was awarded to the film by the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos "The Poor and Unfortunate". The ceremony was broadcast on the Venice Film Festival's Twitter account. The list of winners is published on the festival website. “Silver Lion” - The Grand Jury Prize went to the film “Evil Does Not Exist” by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Russia may increase production of artillery shells to two million a year, Reuters reports, citing an unnamed Western official. As the agency notes, this is approximately twice as much as early Western estimates, but does not meet the needs of the Russian army in the war in Ukraine.

Medusa briefly retells the history of the captagon - the main drug in the Middle East SANA / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Captagon seized by the Syria authorities in November 2021. It was intended for transportation to Saudi Arabia During the Civil War, Syria became the center for the production of captagon - a psychostimulator, demanded by both armed fighters and youth from the rich countries of the Persian Gulf.

The Romanian Defense Ministry reported that on September 9, “fragments of a drone similar to those used by the Russian army” were found two and a half kilometers from the village of Plauru , located near the Ukrainian city of Izmail. The Romanian military has taken the area where the drone debris fell under its protection; the fragments found are to be handed over for analysis and technical examination.

Evan vucci / AP / Scanpix / Leta Participants in the Great Twenty summit ( G20 ) in New Delce in the final declaration presented on September 9, “drew attention to human suffering and additional negative consequences of the war in Ukraine”, but did not directly condemn the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Elena Milashina, veteran reporter for Russia’s liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta, had to cancel her plans to travel to Grozny after they’d been publicized by the human-rights NGO Team Against Torture (also known as Committee Against Torture). In a column published in Novaya Gazeta, Milashina writes that she no longer plans to attend the appeal hearing on the case of Zarema Musayeva , scheduled to take place at the Chechen Supreme Court on September 12.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Russian elections after an eternity under Putin This week’s show tackles Russia’s 2023 regional elections, scheduled for Sunday, September 10, though several regions will keep polling stations open all weekend. “Up for grabs” in contests with mostly predetermined outcomes are 26 gubernatorial offices and seats in 20 regional parliaments. There’s also a whole mess of municipal and local races.

Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina said that she will not attend the court hearing on Zarema Musayeva's case, as was previously reported. She wrote about this in a Novaya Gazeta publication. On September 7, the human rights organization “Team Against Torture” reported that Milashina was planning to attend a hearing on September 12 where the appeal against Musaeva’s sentence would be considered.

The war made Ukraine the most mined country in the world. For full clearance will go for decades. Kit newsletter production at Medusa In stretch marks and mines - almost a third of Ukrainian territories, which makes the country the most mined in the world. Ground mines are inexpensive, but very dangerous weapons that can be installed almost anywhere. And it is mines that are called among the reasons for the slowdown in the counter -offset of the Armed Forces.

To speed up training Ukrainian tankers, Denmark has tapped into its military museum collections, getting six 1980s-vintage Leopard 1 tanks out of three museums. Earlier this year, a consortium of Denmark, Germany, and The Netherlands ( and later Belgium ) pledged to send 178 Leopard 1 A5 tanks to Ukraine. Danish trainers began teaching Ukrainians at the Klietz training ground west of Berlin, Forbes reports.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports that its experts based at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant heard around two dozen explosions in the vicinity over the past week.

One of the observers in the elections in Gelendzhik said that on the morning of September 9, the military commissar Gelendzhik, who handed the observer and a member of the election commission of the agenda at the military registration and enlistment office, came to the polling station No. 0940. The message about this appeared on the “Map of Violations”, which is conducted by the Voice movement.

Participants in the G20 summit in India, in the final declaration of the meeting, “drew attention to the human suffering and additional negative consequences of the war in Ukraine.” This is stated in the document ( .pdf ) published on the association’s website on September 9.

In the High Atlas mountains in the central part of Morocco on the night of September 9, an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 occurred , affecting six provinces of the country. According to the latest data , more than one thousand people died. In Marrakesh - residential buildings and other buildings closest to the epicenter of an earthquake of a large city. Some of them are located in the old city included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Look at the consequences of this earthquake.