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Moldovan President Maia Sandu answered FRANCE 24's questions for Marc Perelman from the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In the interview, Maia Sandu discusses the war in Ukraine, security in the region and the issue of Transnistria, where several thousand Russian soldiers are stationed. She also discusses the allegations of an attempted coup d'état in her country, and the process of Moldova's accession to the European Union.
Firefighters put out the remains of a fire after a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rig, President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown. The missile attack hit a police building killing at least one policeman, and injured dozens of other people. The attack is part of a new wave of Russian air strikes in the centre and east of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed a security conference outside Moscow in a pre-recorded video link.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Russia of mining and blowing up the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, denying Russian claims that it was destroyed by Ukrainian shelling as "physically impossible". The partial destruction of the strategically important dam has flooded a small city, two dozen villages and forced the evacuation of hundreds.
Zelenskyy is visiting allies in search of further arms deliveries to help his country fend off the Russian invasion.
A number of London police have stepped back from firearms duties after a fellow officer was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a young black man, a force spokesman said Sunday. Police in Britain are not routinely armed and the small proportion who are authorised to carry guns are highly trained.
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