Slovak Foreign Ministry Juraj Blanar announced on October 11 that Slovakia will expand its base in Michalovce. Instead of supplying new arms to Ukraine, the Slovaks will repair Ukrainian military equipment.
Blanar said that Slovakia would expand the facility to help Ukraine as it will no longer be able to provide military equipment to Ukraine from its stockpiles. According to him, they have nothing left to give.
Later, he said that the Germans would finance the investment, and Slovakia would provide the physical premises.
The repair facility located in the military quarter of the Slovak Army in Michalovce began operations by the end 2022.
Blanar made the announcement during his first official trip to Germany. He met with his counterpart and discussed Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as migration and mutual relations.
Robert Fico, the populist Slovak prime minister, said that his country would stop military aid to Ukraine once he assumed office in September 2023. This was a dramatic reversal in Slovak foreign policies.
On October 7, Fico and Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal met in the Ukrainian border town of Uzhhorod.
The meeting took place shortly after Fico stated that he would block Kyiv from joining NATO as long as he was prime minister.
“I have told everyone, including Prime Minister Shmyhal and the Americans, that this is what I believe. Fico told Slovak Media that as long as he is the head of the Slovak Government, he will instruct the lawmakers under his control as the chairman of (ruling Smer party) to never agree to Ukraine joining NATO.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, thanked Germany for their support but stressed the importance of German aid next year and its need to remain unchanged.
Several months back, these infantrymen served their sentences in prison. They are now part of the 1st Separate Assault Battalion (also known as “Da Vinci”).
In a statement released on October 11, the spokesperson for the European Union’s External Service said that it was “appalled by” Victoria Roshchyna’s death and demanded an “independent and thorough” investigation into her death.
Defense Minister Rustem Umerov had planned to merge Defense Procurement Agency and State Rear Operator into one agency, but changed his mind when a NATO announcement said that the agencies should remain separate and two separate supervision boards should be set up.
Operational Command South reported on October 11 that since the beginning of the week, Ukraine has repelled 29 Russian assaults in the oblasts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
“We are working together actively in the international arena, and our assessments of world events are often very similar,” Russian President Vladimir Putin stated of the meeting.
Scholz revealed during a joint news conference that Germany had already delivered a package worth 600 million euro ($660 million) of aid to Ukraine.
Sources told Reuters that the funding would come from the U.S.A., Japan and Canada. They added that it would be backed up by interest generated by frozen Russian assets.
Media Initiative for Human Rights reported on October 11 that Viktoria Roshchyna was a Ukrainian journalist who was killed in Russian captivity. She was held in Russian prisons where torture is used to punish the prisoners.
“Looking to a future of prosperity and peace also means looking at the reconstruction. I am pleased to announce that the “Ukraine Recovery Conference” will be held in Rome, Italy on 10 and 11, July 2025,” Italian Premier Giorgia Mello said.
A Ukrainian official stated that “the Russian plan in Kursk Oblast was thwarted thus far” due to Russian forces suffering losses.
In Steven Seagal’s latest documentary, “In the Name of Justice”, which was shared by the Russian state-run platform Smotrim on its website, he visits various occupied territories of Ukraine including Mariupol.
During a 35-minute meeting, the pope presented Ukraine’s president with a bronze relief with a flower, and the inscription “Peace is fragile flower.”
On Oct. 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Turkmenistan and spoke at a forum with Central Asian leaders, including the president of Iran.
The alleged attempts to pressurize the media outlet “are nothing less than anti-democratic, given the essential role that the newsroom plays in upholding the core national value of freedom the press,” Gulnoza Saied, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator said.
Vasyl Chynchyk, the head of administration in the town, said that approximately 1,150 people still live there.
Regional authorities reported early on October 11 that Russian attacks in Ukraine have killed six people and injured 27 others over the past 24 hours.
Maksym Kozoytskyi, the Lviv Oblast Governor, confirmed that the passenger bus, which carried the logo of popular transport company FlixBus was travelling from Warsaw to Odesa.
The General Staff has not provided any further details on how the helicopter was destroyed.
In a documentary broadcast on national television, Commander-in Chief Oleksandr Sryskyi stated that “we know about approximately 50,000 soldiers who were transferred from other sectors to the Kursk directions.”
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