Tuesday Briefing – The New York Times

Zelensky cleans home in Ukraine’s protection ministry

Ukraine dismissed all six of its deputy protection ministers yesterday, deepening the housecleaning at a ministry that had drawn criticism for corruption in procurement, because the army funds ballooned throughout the conflict. The federal government didn’t give a motive for the adjustments.

The transfer got here as Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, headed to the U.S., the place he’ll attraction to Western leaders for additional assist for the conflict. He’s scheduled to handle the U.N. Common Meeting in particular person in New York and to fulfill with President Biden and members of Congress in Washington later within the week.

In Ukraine’s combat to take again territory seized by Russia, the chain of command for battlefield selections runs immediately from Zelensky to the army’s uniformed common workers, largely bypassing the civilians on the protection ministry. So, the turnover will not be anticipated to have an instantaneous impact on the course of the conflict.

In different information from the conflict: An errant Ukrainian missile, not a Russian assault, seems to have precipitated the lethal blast at a Ukrainian market earlier this month, a Instances investigation discovered.

U.N. to fulfill with out high leaders

The U.N. Common Meeting convenes at present, however of the leaders of the 5 everlasting members of the Safety Council — the U.S., Russia, China, France and Britain — solely President Biden will attend, in a time of rising international division.

This yr’s gathering was deliberate with an eye fixed to rising calls for from the nations of the “international south,” an off-the-cuff group of poorer nations whose crises have fallen by the wayside amid a world deal with the battle in Ukraine. Discussions have been scheduled on local weather change, sovereign debt aid and methods to assist struggling international locations attain the U.N.’s improvement objectives.

Analysts mentioned that by skipping the annual gathering, world leaders risked weakening the U.N. when the establishment was struggling to stay related. The U.N.’s businesses are nonetheless on the forefront of offering humanitarian assist, however throughout the conflict in Ukraine and a collection of army coups in Africa, the world physique has been marginalized as a negotiator and mediator.

A face of change: Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, Iraq’s prime minister, will deal with the U.N., hoping to steer the world that he can lastly remedy his nation’s issues of corruption and instability — and make it a dependable accomplice for the area.

Trudeau accuses India of a killing on Canadian soil

Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, mentioned yesterday that “brokers of the federal government of India” carried out the deadly capturing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh neighborhood chief in British Columbia, in June.

Talking within the Home of Commons, Trudeau mentioned that he raised the problem immediately with Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, on the G20 summit this month. The allegation, which Trudeau mentioned was based mostly on intelligence gathered by the Canadian authorities, is more likely to additional pressure relations between the 2 international locations. This month, Canada suspended negotiations on a commerce take care of India.

Particulars: The neighborhood chief was shot close to a Sikh temple. He had referred to as for the creation of an impartial Sikh nation that would come with components of India’s Punjab State, and India had declared him a wished terrorist.

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