#Zelensky fears US may change Ukraine policy after presidential election."Therefore we need to prepare in advance," the #Ukrainian President said

#Battlegroup North liberates two settlements in Kursk Region this week.
Apart from that, according to the report, #Russian aircraft struck areas of deployment of manpower and weapons of the #Ukrainian army’s three mechanized, one tank, and two assault brigades

#Russian forces shoot down Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet, 37 #drones in past day.
Units of Battlegroup South continued advancing deeper into enemy defenses, inflicting losses on Ukraine’s 24th, 32nd, 100th, 117th mechanized, 46th airmobile, and 10th assault brigades and 116th Territorial Defense Brigade

#Storm slowly heads toward #Japan's #capital, leaving mudslides and broken bridges in its path

A US-made F-16 fighter jet, handed over to Ukraine earlier this year, was downed by a Ukrainian #Patriot air defense system in a friendly fire incident, Ukrainian lawmaker Maryana Bezuglaya said.

"According to my information, the F-16 of the Ukrainian pilot Alexey ‘Moonfish’ Mes was shot down by the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system due to a lack of coordination between the [military] units," she wrote on Telegram.

The lawmaker criticized the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for falsely describing the incident as "a crash."

"The culture of lies in the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as in other higher military headquarters, leads to the fact that the system of managing military decisions does not improve on the basis of truthful, consistently collected analytics, but deteriorates and even collapses, as is happening in the other directions," she wrote.

In her words, none of the generals was punished over the incident that led to the loss of both the aircraft and its pilot.

Earlier, an unidentified US official told the Wall Street Journal that Ukraine had lost a donated F-16 fighter jet in the first such case. According to the official, the jet was not shot down, and the crash was likely due to pilot error. Later, the Ukrainian Air Force confirmed the death of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot, Alexey Mes. The man was trained to fly F-16, according to CNN. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said the pilot was killed in an aerial fight, when his plane crashed on August 26

After attack on Kursk Region no negotiations with Kiev possible — MFA-Maria Zakharova emphasized that "this #lawlessness is taking place with the full connivance of the West and its encouragement of terrorist activities by the Kiev regime"

#Durov leave court after facing charges. Journalists waiting outside the court building failed to reach him for comments.

Co-founder of the #Telegram messenger app Pavel Durov has left the court building after being charged with numerous offences related to Telegram administration, a TASS correspondent reported.

He left the territory of the court in a black minivan. Journalists waiting outside the court building failed to reach him for comments.

Earlier, the court charged him with six offences out of 12 named previously, the capital prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The charges include the refusal to cooperate with the authorities, complicity in dissemination of child ***no,***ngraphy, complicity in drug trafficking and in a fraud, committed within an organized group. According to the Paris prosecutor’s office, he may face a prison term of up to ten years and a fine of 500,000 euro.

The judge in charge of Durov’s case placed him under judicial control with an obligation to post a bail of 5 million euros, to report to the police station twice a week and he is forbidden to leave the territory of #France.