#MOSCOW, September 27. The United States may be prepared for a conversation on the New #START treaty but Moscow will not be ready to engage in dialogue until Washington changes its hostile policy, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.

"Perhaps, they are prepared but we aren’t, because dialogue on the issue, as well as on strategic stability in general, is simply impossible unless the US changes its deeply hostile Russia policy," he pointed out in response to a TASS request to comment on a statement by White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby.

"I believe that the goal of the message is to improve the image of the US policy, particularly in the eyes of the Global South, the members of the global majority, who aren’t familiar with all the details of disarmament agreements and the processes that have taken place in this field. This is a cheap trick. If we are seriously talking about strengthening security, the anti-Russian policy first needs to be abandoned. After that, we will study the situation in a manner determined by the [Russian] president, which is what we have repeatedly explained," Ryabkov noted.

Kirby said earlier that the US was ready to resume talks on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

#Zelensky fears US may change Ukraine policy after presidential election."Therefore we need to prepare in advance," the #Ukrainian President said

#Battlegroup North liberates two settlements in Kursk Region this week.
Apart from that, according to the report, #Russian aircraft struck areas of deployment of manpower and weapons of the #Ukrainian army’s three mechanized, one tank, and two assault brigades

#Russian forces shoot down Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet, 37 #drones in past day.
Units of Battlegroup South continued advancing deeper into enemy defenses, inflicting losses on Ukraine’s 24th, 32nd, 100th, 117th mechanized, 46th airmobile, and 10th assault brigades and 116th Territorial Defense Brigade

#Storm slowly heads toward #Japan's #capital, leaving mudslides and broken bridges in its path

A US-made F-16 fighter jet, handed over to Ukraine earlier this year, was downed by a Ukrainian #Patriot air defense system in a friendly fire incident, Ukrainian lawmaker Maryana Bezuglaya said.

"According to my information, the F-16 of the Ukrainian pilot Alexey ‘Moonfish’ Mes was shot down by the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system due to a lack of coordination between the [military] units," she wrote on Telegram.

The lawmaker criticized the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for falsely describing the incident as "a crash."

"The culture of lies in the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as in other higher military headquarters, leads to the fact that the system of managing military decisions does not improve on the basis of truthful, consistently collected analytics, but deteriorates and even collapses, as is happening in the other directions," she wrote.

In her words, none of the generals was punished over the incident that led to the loss of both the aircraft and its pilot.

Earlier, an unidentified US official told the Wall Street Journal that Ukraine had lost a donated F-16 fighter jet in the first such case. According to the official, the jet was not shot down, and the crash was likely due to pilot error. Later, the Ukrainian Air Force confirmed the death of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot, Alexey Mes. The man was trained to fly F-16, according to CNN. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said the pilot was killed in an aerial fight, when his plane crashed on August 26

After attack on Kursk Region no negotiations with Kiev possible — MFA-Maria Zakharova emphasized that "this #lawlessness is taking place with the full connivance of the West and its encouragement of terrorist activities by the Kiev regime"