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New military aid for Ukraine at Ramstein-24; executions of Ukrainian PoWs: September 6 highlights

Ukraine's partners announce new military aid during the 24th Ramstein meeting. Azov fighters recapture part of New York village in Donetsk region. Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office investigates executions of Ukrainian PoWs by Russian troops. Venice Film Festival showed a film about Russian soldiers. Here are top news for September 6.

“Ramstein-24”

The 24th meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine's Defense took place at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joined the meeting. He wanted to convince his partners that Ukraine “needs strong long-range solutions.”

Some countries have already announced new aid packages. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced a new $250 million aid package for Ukraine at the Ramstein meeting. The UK will supply 650 Lightweight Multirole Missiles (LMM) through a £162 million air defense package to Ukraine. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius also promised Ukraine new arms supplies – 77 Leopard 1A5 tanks and 12 Panzerhaubitze self-propelled howitzers. Canada will supply 80,840 additional CRV-7 rocket motors and 1,300 warheads to Ukraine, Defense Minister Bill Blair said at the Ramstein meeting.

The Netherlands will help Ukraine with maintenance and missiles for F-16 fighter jets.

Spain will send Ukraine a HAWK air defense battery, which includes 6 missile launchers. The system is already located in Poland, said Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles.

Azov recaptures part of the village of New York

12th Special Operations Brigade Azov is involved in defensive and offensive operations in New York, Donetsk region. The military recaptured part of the village and stabilized the situation.

“The enemy has repeatedly claimed to have completely occupied New York. However, this is another manipulation of the occupiers. Defense forces control part of the settlement and are doing everything possible to liberate Ukrainian territories,” the brigade said in a statement.

Execution of Ukrainian PoWs

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office is investigating 28 criminal cases involving executions of Ukrainian PoWs by Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion. Those incidents killed a total of 62 Ukrainian service members.

Recently, the Russians released footage of a new execution. In addition, law enforcement officials have launched an investigation into the execution of three Ukrainian service members in the Pokrovsk direction of the Donetsk region.

The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, explained that Russia deliberately executes Ukrainian prisoners of war and shares such videos to intimidate Ukrainians.

More than $6 billion of US aid could “expire” in September

The deadline for using the $6.2 billion the United States has allocated to help Ukraine under the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) expires in September, Reuters reports.

Several U.S. civil society organizations have appealed to the State Department to use the funds to help Ukraine.

Ukrainian Intelligence hackers attack Russia

Ukrainian Intelligence together with hackers from the BO Team targeted Russia's Internet infrastructure, launching cyberattacks at Lukoil and Bank of Russia, reported a source familiar with the matter.

In total, Ukrainian hackers managed to destroy 18 servers without the possibility of their recovery.

Shmyhal: Russia is preparing further attacks on Ukraine's energy system

According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Ukrainian Intelligence has information Russia is preparing for new massive attacks on the Ukrainian energy system. He assured that Ukraine is preparing for them.

Film about Russian soldiers at Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival showed a film about Russian soldiers. The director Anastasia Trofimova spent seven months living with Russian soldiers near the front line in Ukraine creating the film “Russians at War”. It portrays the occupiers as “ordinary” people and does not show the destruction and war crimes they commit.

Ukraine's State Film Agency called for the film to be excluded from the program, calling it “veiled Russian propaganda.”

SBI: Investigators knew about Dmytruk's preparations to escape

Law enforcement officials knew that MP Artem Dmytruk was preparing to flee abroad, but there were no legal grounds to take him into custody, a spokeswoman for the State Bureau of Investigation said.

After a video from hromadske reader showed the fugitive MP in a shopping center in the UK, the SBI contacted its British colleagues.

Shufrych's custody extended

The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has extended the measure of restraint in the form of detention for MP Nestor Shufrych. He is accused of treason for financing the Russian Guard in Crimea.

At the end of the hearing, Shufrych fell down, seemingly fainting. The guards called an ambulance.

Czech Republic will not return Ukrainian men home

Ukraine's Ambassador to the Czech Republic Vasyl Zvarych has said that Prague will not forcibly send home Ukrainian men of military age who are currently in the country.

As for now, 95,000 Ukrainian men aged 18 to 65 are living in the Czech Republic on temporary protection visas.

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