According to the Ukrainian government, North Korean troops in Russia's Kursk region have suffered heavy losses and have no protection from the Russian forces they are fighting alongside.Meanwhile, the United States says Russian and North Korean generals view the soldiers as “disposable.” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Friday that Russian troops are sending North Koreans into battle with minimal protection and that North Koreans are taking extreme measures to avoid being captured. “Their losses are grave, very grave,” Ukraine's president said in a video address in the evening. “We see that neither the Russian military nor the North Korean supervisors have any interest in ensuring the survival of these North Koreans.'' President Zelensky said that “several'' injured North Korean soldiers were He was captured and killed by Ukrainian forces. In Washington, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the troops sent by North Korea were taking their own lives rather than risking capture. He said “desperate” attacks by generals who viewed North Korean soldiers as expendable were sending a “sea” of North Korean soldiers to their deaths, with 1,000 soldiers killed in Pyongyang in the past week. It is estimated that there were more casualties, and said the same was confirmed. Figures released by South Korea.
Biden administration has promised to approve new military aid to Ukraine, including critical air defense systems. Kirby said the promised U.S. security aid package would be announced “in the coming days,” but it was unclear how much it would include. The surge in aid comes as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with Ukrainian Presidential Secretary Andriy Yermak in Washington, where hundreds of thousands of artillery shells, thousands of rockets, hundreds of It comes weeks after the country pledged extensive support, including a program to provide rockets. The armored vehicles will be in place by mid-January.
Slovakia confirmed its readiness to host peace talks between Russia and UkraineDespite Kiev's accusations that it is at the mercy of President Vladimir Putin. Russia's president said on Thursday it was “acceptable” for his country to become a “platform” for dialogue over the conflict, but said US President-elect Donald Trump could end the conflict after taking office in January. Ta. The prospect has raised concerns that a settlement could be imposed in Kiev with favorable terms for Russia while Ukraine struggles on the battlefield. “If someone wants to organize peace talks in Slovakia, we will be ready and hospitable,” Slovak Prime Minister Roberto Fico said on Facebook late Friday.
Ukraine received the first batch of liquefied natural gas from the United StatesKiev says the deal will strengthen energy security for Ukraine and Europe as a major gas transit deal with Russia comes to an end. Despite the war, the Russian government continues to send gas to Europe across Ukraine under a multibillion-euro deal, which Kiev has long had no intention of renewing when it expires at the end of this year. It was stated. “Dtek, Ukraine's largest private energy company, today received its first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States,” the company announced on Friday. The cargo contained about 100 cubic meters of gas, Agence France-Presse reported.
A Russian court has sentenced a singer to five and a half years in prison for burning his passport in protest of Moscow's war in Ukraine.. State news agency RIA Novosti reported that 26-year-old Eduardo Charlotte “publicly insulted” the religious feelings of believers in a court in the Volga city of Samara in a lawsuit over a video he posted online. He was found guilty of “rehabilitating Nazism.” In June 2023, the singer posted a video of her burning a Russian passport in protest of military operations. In another video, he nailed to a cross a photo of Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has staunchly supported the attack. Charlotte initially left Russia for Armenia after the attack, but was arrested at St. Petersburg airport in November 2023 while attempting to return to Russia.
