While the conflict between kyiv and Moscow still rages, Russia said it sees “positive signals” coming from US President-elect Donald Trump. “He talks about peace, not confrontation, not the desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, which distinguishes him favorably from the current administration,” said Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov in an interview broadcast this Sunday, November 10. It remains to be seen whether he “will stick to his campaign statements”, he added.
With Donald Trump’s victory in the American presidential election on Tuesday, the question arises of the sustainability of American support, which has enabled Ukraine to resist Russian troops since February 2022. The billionaire has promised on several occasions to quickly find a way out. to this devastating conflict, without explaining how he would proceed.
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⇒ Putin signs mutual defense agreement with North Korea
⇒ Trump’s position on Ukraine contains “positive signals”, says Kremlin
⇒ Drone attacks on Moscow and Ukraine
Putin signs mutual defense agreement with North Korea
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the mutual defense treaty with North Korea, whose soldiers are already, according to kyiv and Washington, on the verge of joining the Russians fighting Ukrainian forces. Concluded during a rare visit by Vladimir Putin to Pyongyang in June, this treaty between two beasts of the United States provides in particular for “immediate military aid” reciprocal in the event of an attack against one of the two countries.
The upper house of the Russian Parliament ratified this treaty on November 8, which still had to be signed by the Russian president to enter into force. The Kremlin published the law ratifying the treaty on its website on Saturday evening. The agreement formalizes months of deepening security cooperation between the two countries, communist allies throughout the Cold War. It also commits the two countries to cooperate internationally to oppose Western sanctions and coordinate their positions at the United Nations.
Trump’s stance on Ukraine has ‘positive signals,’ Kremlin says
The Kremlin said Donald Trump had shown “positive signals” regarding the US president-elect’s position on the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Trump, during his election campaign, said that he perceives all this (Editor’s note: the conflict in Ukraine) through agreements. And that he can obtain an agreement that leads to peace,” said the spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, in an interview broadcast this Sunday.
Ukraine suffered a “record” attack by 145 Russian drones overnight
Ukraine was targeted during the night from Saturday to Sunday by an attack by 145 Russian drones, a “record”, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a message on X. In a press release, the Air Force Ukraine indicated that, as of 9:30 a.m. (local time), 62 of these 145 drones had been neutralized over 13 regions of the country.
According to London, October was the worst month for the loss of soldiers for the Russian army
The month of October was the worst for the Russian army in terms of soldier losses since the start of the war with Ukraine in February 2022, the British chief of staff said this Sunday. An average of around 1,500 Russian troops were killed or wounded per day in October, Admiral Tony Radakin told the BBC.
Russia does not reveal its death toll, but Tony Radakin said last month’s death toll was the highest since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of its Ukrainian neighbor. “Russia is on the verge of 700,000 people killed or injured, which illustrates the enormous pain and suffering that the Russian nation must endure because of the ambition of President Vladimir Putin,” he said. he added.
The armed forces chief admitted that Russia was making territorial gains, but stressed that these were “tiny portions of territory.” According to him, the Russian government devotes more than 40% of public spending to defense and security, which represents “enormous pressure” for the state.
Russian army says it has captured a new village in eastern Ukraine
Russia claimed this Sunday the conquest of a new village in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, where its army has advanced more quickly in recent weeks against kyiv troops lacking personnel and equipment. “Units of the Center armed group liberated the town of Volchenka,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. This locality is located approximately 5 kilometers from the industrial town of Kourakhové.
Russia announces it has shot down 70 Ukrainian drones, half of them in the Moscow region
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had shot down “seventy Ukrainian drones” this Sunday morning, almost half of which were in the Moscow region, an unprecedented attack on the capital in terms of its scale since the start of the conflict in 2022. Besides these 34 drones near the capital, the drones were neutralized, according to the Russian army, in the regions bordering Moscow of Kaluga (7) and Tula (2), and in three border regions of Ukraine: those of Bryansk (14), Oriol (7) and Kursk (6).