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00:00 Ukrainian troops claim to have made strategic advances in the direction of Bakhmut, while
00:07 Russia says it carried out a number of air strikes last week.
00:12 Kosovo's Prime Minister welcomes NATO's decision to bolster its troops in the Balkan region
00:18 following last weekend's shootout that left four people dead.
00:22 Germany holds talks with leaders from Central Asia, as EU member states seek to win geopolitical
00:29 allies in the region.
00:35 Ukraine's State Border Guard Service has released a video in which one of its fighters said
00:40 their units, together with Ukrainian armed forces, had made strategic advances in the
00:45 eastern Donetsk region on their route to Bakhmut.
00:48 Meanwhile, in its weekly briefing on Friday, Russia claimed that its army carried out nine
00:54 group strikes by long-range precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine from
00:59 the 24th to the 29th of September.
01:03 Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a top Wagner Group commander, Andrei Trochev,
01:08 to take charge of volunteer units fighting in Ukraine.
01:12 The decision appears to show the Kremlin's plan to integrate Wagner Group leaders after
01:16 the death of their chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
01:20 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commemorated victims of the Babi Yar massacre after the
01:25 killing of nearly 34,000 Jews at the hands of Nazi troops during World War II.
01:34 Kosovo's Prime Minister has welcomed NATO decision to bolster its troops in the Balkan
01:39 region following last weekend's shootout that left four people dead.
01:44 Albin Kurti said the incident illustrates Serbia's attempts to destabilize its former
01:49 province with the help of ally Russia.
01:53 We need NATO because the border with Serbia is very long and the Serbian army has been
02:02 recently strengthening its capacities.
02:07 On Friday, Kosovo police raided several locations in a Serb-dominated area in the north of the
02:13 country where the recent violence took place.
02:16 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said a greater role was needed for the NATO-led Kosovo
02:21 peacekeeping force.
02:23 Sunday's shootout between Serb insurgents and the police was one of the worst since
02:28 Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008.
02:34 Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomed leaders from the five Central Asian states
02:39 on Friday as EU member states seek to win geopolitical allies in the region.
02:44 In Berlin, leaders from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan discussed
02:50 strengthening regional and economic cooperation and the development of a so-called "Middle
02:55 Corridor" route connecting the region with Europe.
02:59 The chairwoman of the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations called the meeting
03:03 "historic" as she proposed five priorities for intensifying cooperation - energy, raw
03:10 materials, agriculture, transportation and vocational training.
03:15 In a joint statement, all parties stressed the importance of respecting the global sanctions
03:20 regime against Russia.
03:22 Central Asian states have often been accused of providing Moscow with supplies it can't
03:26 obtain due to punitive measures it's facing over the Ukraine war.
03:34 Leaders of nine southern European countries have called for the EU to finalize a new migration
03:40 and asylum deal and to beef up efforts to prevent departures from North Africa.
03:46 Following talks held in Malta on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron called for a united
03:52 European response to migration issues.
03:55 The summit came as a sea rescue group said that a Libyan coast guard boat had rammed
04:00 into a small dinghy carrying some 50 migrants just off the country's coast.
04:09 Some relief for European consumers counting their pennies as inflation dropped 0.9 points
04:16 to 4.3 percent in September.
04:19 And the increase in food prices slowed down considerably.
04:22 However, this was offset by an acceleration in energy prices which prevented inflation
04:28 from falling more sharply.
04:30 The September figure is a long way from the European Central Bank's 2 percent target.
04:34 But economists believe that if the trend is maintained, the ECB won't need to raise interest
04:39 rates any further from the already record highs.
04:43 High prices are holding back the European economy because paychecks don't go as far
04:47 as they used to, forcing people to cut back on spending.