The United States is scheduled to announce $500 million in military aid to Ukraine on Thursday at the final meeting of President Joe Biden's arms supply conference, which Kiev insists is critical to its defense against Russia. are. The Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG), which is made up of about 50 allies and normally meets every few months at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, has been working with Lloyd's Air Force to speed up and synchronize arms deliveries to Kiev. It was established in 2022 by U.S. Secretary of Defense Austin. With President-elect Donald Trump set to take office on January 20, the organization's future is uncertain. President Trump's advisers have floated a plan to end the war in Ukraine that would cede most of Ukraine to Russia for the time being.
Ahead of the meeting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy downplayed concerns about his remarks. President Trump said he understands why Russia does not want Ukraine to join the NATO defense alliance. Zelenskiy, who pushed for an invitation to join NATO before Trump returned to office, cautioned against speculating about the U.S. position and said he would discuss the issue with Trump. “We should not quickly draw conclusions about U.S. policy,” Zelenskiy said. “We need to make every effort and do everything possible to ensure that Ukraine receives the adequate security that its people deserve, that can stop President Putin. I'm going.''
North Korea benefits from troops that fought alongside Russia against Ukraine, US official warns as North Korea gains experience 'further enhancing its ability to wage war against its neighbors'. More than 12,000 North Korean troops are stationed in Russia and began fighting with Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region last month, Dorothy Camille Shea, the US deputy ambassador to the UN, told the UN Security Council. Ta. North Korea has “benefited greatly from Russia's provision of military equipment, technology and experience, increasing its ability to wage war against its neighbors,” Xia said, adding that North Korea “has benefited greatly from Russia's provision of military equipment, technology and experience, increasing its ability to wage war against its neighbors.” He spoke at a meeting of the 15-nation Council on what he claimed was a test for the United Nations. A hypersonic ballistic missile will be launched on Monday.
A daytime Russian missile attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya killed at least 13 civilians and injured about 30 others on Wednesday, officials said. Footage posted on Zelenskiy's Telegram channel shows civilians lying on city streets strewn with rubble. The post shows them being treated by emergency services and taken away on stretchers. Russian forces began firing glide bombs in Zaporizhia in mid-afternoon, with at least two bombs hitting residential buildings in the city, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said.
United Nations officials say more than 12,300 civilians have been killed in the war in Ukraine since Russia's invasion nearly three years ago. Wednesday pointed to sharp rise in casualties from use of drones, long-range missiles and glide bombs. Russia, which has gained territory in eastern Ukraine, has used such weapons to regularly attack remote cities in recent months. This brings the number of civilian deaths in Ukraine from September to November 2024 to 574, an increase of 30% from the previous year, according to UN data.
ukraine Ukraine's military said Wednesday it had launched a night attack deep in Russia, setting fire to an oil depot that serves as an airbase for Russian nuclear bombers.. Russian regional governor Roman Busargin said the cities of Engels and Saratov on the other side of the Volga River had been hit by a “massive drone attack” and that a fire had broken out at an industrial site in Engels, without giving names. . Later, he posted on Telegram that the fire had spread and two firefighters were killed while fighting the fire. He declared a state of emergency in Engels, which had a population of 200,000.
united nations On Wednesday, Russia sounded the alarm over a recent spike in suspected executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war, announcing that it had confirmed 68 such cases since the start of the war. “I call on the Russian authorities to halt the summary executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war,” Nada al-Nassif, deputy UN human rights chief, told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. “Summary executions constitute war crimes,” he said, calling on Russia to “condemn such acts and prosecute those responsible.”
President Zelenskiy and Moldova's President Maia Sandu on Wednesday discussed using Ukrainian coal to ease the energy crisis plaguing Moldova's separatists. Transnistria suffers from power outages and lack of heating. Pro-Russian Transnistria, which separated from Moldova at the end of Soviet rule, has long relied on Russian gas supplies. However, supplies to the region through Ukraine were halted on January 1 after Ukraine refused to renew an agreement allowing gas to pass through its territory.
