Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in London this Thursday, October 10, where he was welcomed by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to discuss England’s “continued engagement” with the Ukraine, and the “victory plan” of the war. This is the start of an express European tour for the Ukrainian president, who wants to convince his allies to maintain their military support, one month before the American presidential election, and while Germany has announced the halving in 2025 of the amount allocated to bilateral military aid intended for Ukraine.
Information to remember
⇒ Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in London to discuss Ukraine’s “victory plan”
⇒ He must then meet Emmanuel Macron in Paris this afternoon
⇒ The Kremlin says the Russian army does not welcome North Korean soldiers
Zelensky, Starmer and Rutte discuss Ukraine’s ‘victory plan’ in London
The Ukrainian president met NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte this Thursday in London during a trilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The British leader indicated that the discussions focused on the “victory plan” proposed by Ukraine against Russia. The UK has been one of kyiv’s main supporters since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022. This is the second time the Ukrainian president has come to London since Labor took office. be able to on the 4th of July.
Volodymyr Zelensky has started an express European tour of his main allies to gather support less than a month before the presidential election in the United States. After London, he is due to meet in the afternoon with the French head of state Emmanuel Macron. He will then go to Rome to speak in the evening with the head of the Italian government Giorgia Meloni, then Friday morning with Pope Francis at the Vatican. He is finally expected the same day in Germany, where he will be received in Berlin by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose government plans to halve in 2025 the amount allocated to bilateral military aid intended for Ukraine, to the great dismay of kyiv.
No North Korean soldiers among Russians, Kremlin denies
The Kremlin on Thursday described as “false” reports from kyiv and Seoul according to which North Korean soldiers fight in Ukraine to lend a hand to the Russian army, which receives ammunition and missiles from Pyongyang, according to the West. A Ukrainian media outlet claimed last weekend that six North Korean officers died during a Ukrainian missile attack that occurred a few days earlier near Donetsk. “This looks like new (false) information, a canard,” said the spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, during his daily briefing.
According to claims by an official of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council on Telegram, a “small number of North Korean engineering troops” would be present to “monitor the use of North Korean munitions by the Russian army.” , claiming that “Russia is increasingly dependent on North Korea’s munitions for different types of weapons.” Nuclear-armed North Korea has strengthened its military ties with Moscow in recent months and Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare visit to Pyongyang in June to sign a mutual defense agreement with Kim Jong Un.
Russian military airfield hit by drones
A Ukrainian drone attack targeted a military airfield in southern Russia during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the local governor announced, reporting a fire, a new strike on Russian soil claimed by kyiv. The important Feodosia oil terminal in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow, is still engulfed in flames for the fourth consecutive day, following a strike carried out on Monday by Ukraine, according to kyiv.
7 dead in the Odessa region
Seven people were killed and ten others injured, according to the new toll this Thursday from Russian strikes the day before in the coastal region of Odessa, in southern Ukraine, authorities said. The attack hit a civilian container ship flying the flag of Panama, Governor Oleg Kiper explained on Telegram on Wednesday. “This is the third attack on a civilian vessel in the last four days,” he added. Russia has targeted Ukraine’s coastal Odessa region throughout the war, hitting ships and grain silos in what kyiv sees as an illegal attempt to destroy its export capacity.