🇷🇺🇺🇦 Putin and Kim Jong-un completed negotiations; they lasted about four hours. Nothing is reported about the results.

🇷🇺 The New York Times complains that Russia was able to circumvent Western-imposed sanctions and export controls, as a result of which Russian missile production now exceeds pre-war levels.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 FPV copters of our military personnel are selectively dismantling the dugouts of the Ukrainian military in one of the directions.

🇺🇦⚡️In Ukraine, they began to hand out summonses to students receiving a second higher education - media

🇺🇲❗️The United States does not see the possibility of ending the conflict in Ukraine at present on terms that suit Washington - White House

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Another Ukrainian radar ST-68UM (designed to detect low-altitude targets) was destroyed by a strike from an X-35 cruise missile launched from a Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The operator of an FPV drone of the AKHMAT special forces hit a Ukrainian Armed Forces dugout with personnel in the Kremennaya area.

🇺🇲🇪🇺 ❗️Attempts by the United States and Europe to persuade the countries of the global South to support Kyiv were unsuccessful, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing experts and officials.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Moscow’s missile production now exceeds prewar levels, officials say, leaving Ukraine especially vulnerable this coming winter.

Russia has managed to overcome sanctions and export controls imposed by the West to expand its missile production beyond prewar levels, according to U.S., European and Ukrainian officials, leaving Ukraine especially vulnerable to intensified attacks in the coming months.

As a result of the sanctions, American officials estimate that Russia was forced to dramatically slow its production of missiles and other weaponry at the start of the war in February 2022 for at least six months. But by the end of 2022, Moscow’s military industrial manufacturing began to pick up speed again, American officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose the sensitive assessment now concede.

Russia subverted American export controls using its intelligence services and ministry of defense to run illicit networks of people who smuggle key components by exporting them to other countries from which they can be shipped to Russia more easily. In less than a year since the war began, Russia rebuilt trade in critical components by routing them through countries like Armenia and Turkey. U.S. and European regulators have been trying to work together to curb the export of chips to Russia, but have struggled to stop the flow to pass through countries with ties to Moscow.

🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/politics/russia-sanctions-missile-production.html

https://archive.ph/sEOv5

🇷🇺🇺🇦 ❗️Video of the attack of Ukrainian unmanned kamikaze boats on the Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship of project 22160 “Sergey Kotov” .

The footage shows that the drones are being fired upon, including from the “main caliber” - the 76.2 mm AK-176MA artillery mount, after which the recording is interrupted, which indicates the destruction of the drone.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of an Ukrainian Armed Forces tank using a Whirlwind ATGM launched by a Ka-52 helicopter in the South Donetsk direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destroyed Polish howitzer AHS Krab somewhere at the front.

🇺🇦 Ukraine sues Western companies for failure to deliver military equipment, - Newsweek

The Ukrainian government has sued at least two European military firms that failed to honor equipment contracts or offer refunds of fees Kiev paid to secure deals.

Apparently the Kyiv authorities have not heard the proverb: “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”

🇺🇲 Joe Biden's son Hunter has been charged with weapons offenses.

Reuters reports this.