Charles Michel, President of the European Council, announced on October 15 that he invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to present a victory plan for defeating Russia during a summit this week of EU leaders.
Zelensky has rallied support from Ukraine’s Western Allies as the Russian Invasion drags on into its third year, and Russian forces continue making gains along Ukraine’s eastern front.
At the Brussels meeting, EU Leaders from 27 Nations will discuss military assistance to Kyiv, and measures to strengthen Ukraine’s energy infrastructure which has been heavily damaged by Russian attacks.
Zelensky visited Berlin, London Paris and Rome in a whirlwind trip last week as Ukraine prepares for a third challenging winter of war. His visits came after the U.S. president Joe Biden postponed his trip to Germany in order to prepare for Hurricane Milton’s approaching Florida.
Zelensky wants renewed military and financial assistance from Europe, as he is concerned that support could wane if Donald Trump, the former U.S. president, wins next month’s elections. As winter approaches, Russian forces continue making gains along Ukraine’s east front and are targeting critical energy infrastructure.
On Oct. 15, former President Donald Trump declined to confirm whether he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin after leaving office in 2021, but said: “If I did it, it was a smart thing.”
According to Suspilne, the sources claim that the North Korean soldiers left around 7 kilometers (4miles) from the border of Ukraine.
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Serhii Lehchenko, advisor to the Presidential Office, reported that unnamed U.S. legislators cited America’s Vietnam War experience, where men aged 18-26 years old were drafted into combat.
Western diplomats and analysts say that the growing military ties between Russia and North Korea show Moscow’s increasing dependence on resources to continue its costly war in Ukraine.
Interfax reported that the federal censorship agency Roskomnadzor confirmed that Steam, with its online catalog of over 100,000 games, and the use by more than 130 million people around the world including about 10 million in Russia has agreed to comply to the legislation.
David Arakhamia is the leader of Zelensky’s Servant of the People, a parliamentary group. He made comments to the Kyiv Independent.
Financial Times (FT), Oct. 15, reported that Elina Valtonen, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs, warned that Western countries are losing interest in their support for Ukraine and called for a stronger commitment to backing Kyiv.
According to a Harvard CAPS/Harris survey, 48% of voters in swing states who said they’d vote early supported Trump while 47% supported Harris. Another 5% of voters said they had voted or chose another candidate.
Mark Rutte stated during a joint interview on October 13 with German radio Hessischer Rundfunk and Reuters that “we will continue to do what is necessary to ensure that he won’t get his way. That Ukraine will prevail.”
On Oct. 14, hundreds of Ukrainian schools, businesses and media outlets including the Kyiv Independent received bomb threats by email. This prompted the evacuation of state institutions.
In an interview with Kremlin’s RIA Novosti, published on October 15, Peter Szijjarto, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that Budapest and Russia’s state-owned Gazprom are in discussions on additional gas purchases next year.
The Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces shot down 12 of the 17 drones of the type Shahed launched by Russia over night. Overnight, seven S-300/400 and two Kh 59 missiles were fired at Mykolaiv Oblast.
“With the beginning of the “heating season,” we can expect massive Russian attacks on the energy sector,” Oleksandrlytvynenko said, National Security and Defense Council Sec.
Dmytro Lytvyn, Ukraine’s presidential advisor, reacted after almost a full week of silence following Ukrainska Pravda’s claim that the Ukrainian Government is exerting “systematic” pressure against one of Ukraine’s largest news media sites.
The statement follows an article in the French newspaper Le Monde that claimed that Tuareg fighters of the anti-government CSP were using Ukrainian drones to attack the military and Wagner mercenaries.
“Now the town is more like a desert world: there are no shelters either for civilians or soldiers,” Anastasia Bobovnikova said, a spokesperson for the Operational Tactical Group Luhansk.
“It was (Ukraine) the apple of his eyes; he used talk about it.” Donald Trump said that he had told him, “You’re not going to go in, and he was not going to go in.”
This includes 1,210 casualties that Russian forces have suffered in the last day.
According to Vitalii Kim, the Russian forces attacked the city at 2:30 am with S-300 anti-aircraft weapons. A restaurant complex, an industrial facility, shops, residential structures, and cars were all damaged.
According to the Eastern Human Rights Group, Ukrainians suffering from diabetes, bronchial asthma, and other illnesses on Russian-occupied territory will no longer be eligible for free medication unless they obtain Russian passports by 2025.
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