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Sunday, 24 November 2024, 23:03
During the meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council (UNC) at the level of defense ministers, which took place yesterday evening at the Alliance Headquarters with the participation of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, the Ukrainian side heard no objections to the points of Victory Plan, including that on inviting Ukraine to NATO.
Colonel Yevhenii Zubarevskyi, deputy head of the Mine Action Division at the Ministry of Defense, said the Russian army exploits the environment as a means of warfare.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service said Friday that the North Korean regime has decided to send 12,000 soldiers to Russia to engage in the war against Ukraine.
There is "no agreement" among EU leaders in the assessment of the Victory Plan presented in Brussels by President Volodymyr Zelensky. The plan will be reevaluated after the U.S. presidential election.
The Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, Jean-Noel Barrot, will pay a visit to Ukraine this weekend.
Following a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council at the level of defense ministers in Brussels on October 17, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said it is necessary to act decisively and in unity to prevent Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin from strengthening and fueling the war further.
Nearly 11,000 North Korean troops are training in eastern Russia to start fighting against Ukraine in November.
At a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani told his counterpart Rustem Umerov that Japan will provide Ukraine with additional vehicles from the Self-Defense Forces.
In the past day, 245 people, including 29 children, were evacuated from the Kupiansk and Borova districts of the Kharkiv region.
On October 17, 210 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded along the frontlines.
Three people were injured in Russian strikes in the Kherson region on Thursday, October 17.
The Defense Forces have shot down 80 drones that Russian invaders have been using to attack Ukraine since the evening of October 17.
The European Union leaders have supported a EUR 35 billion loan to Ukraine as part of the G7 initiative to provide Ukraine with a USD 50 billion loan using proceeds from frozen Russian assets. At the same time, Russian assets will remain blocked until Russia ends the war.
Russian troops killed one resident and wounded two others in the Donetsk region on Thursday, October 17.
On the morning of Friday, October 18, Russian troops fired artillery at the town of Marhanets in the Dnipro region.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to October 18, 2024, amounted to about 675,800 people, including 1,530 people over the previous day.
During September, Russian troops attacked the region from drones more than 2,700 times, and since the beginning of October - about 1,500 more times.
The essence of the Victory Plan, presented by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, is the strategic defeat of Russia, which should make further war for the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories meaningless for Moscow.
Near Vovchansk, Kharkiv region, fighters of the Gart brigade of the 1st detachment of the State Border Guard Service used FPV drones to strike at the shelters of Russian troops and destroy their Murom-P video surveillance complex.
Soldiers of the Phoenix company of the State Border Guard Service's Revenge brigade killed two Russians and damaged an armored personnel carrier and a military vehicle in the Kupiansk direction in Kharkiv region.
A representative from the Air Force Command informed representatives from 16 NATO member countries about the specifics of organizing strategic communications during wartime as part of an experience exchange course held in Kilkis, Greece.
The Swiss government, in partnership with Global Clearance Solutions, will supply the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) with three demining systems and provide training for personnel.
Since the beginning of September, more than 600 civilians have been evacuated from the Kherson region.
The World Bank (WB) expects the Ukrainian economy will grow by 3.2% this year and by 6.5% in 2025.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed the draft bill ‘On Amendments to the Customs Code Regarding the Introduction of the Appraisal of Customs Officials’.
The Military Counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained another Russian agent in Kharkiv who had been scouting the locations of the Ukrainian Defense Forces and attempting to assist the invaders in preparing a new series of strikes on the region.
17 October 2024
Energy Minister German Galushchenko has said that a new round of visits by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission to Ukrainian NPP substations will begin next week to check the current situation there. He discussed this issue in detail at a meeting with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in Paris.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has denied insinuations about Ukraine's plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Ukraine, under the Budapest Memorandum, gave up nuclear weapons in exchange for guarantees of peace, territorial integrity and sovereignty from influential nuclear states, but in return received aggression from Russia. At the same time, Ukraine has never declared its intention to restore nuclear arsenal.