In his evening address of October 30, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the next meeting of Ukraine Defense Contact Group (also known as the Ramstein Format) will take place in “coming weeks”.
The White House announced on October 17 that the next Ramstein-format meeting would be held virtually in November, but did not reveal the exact date.
The U.S. president Joe Biden had originally planned to convene the leader-level meeting for the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on October 12 in Germany, but it was postponed due to Hurricane Milton.
Zelensky stated that it was important to fully implement each support package and to ensure that our actions are as coordinated and effective as possible with our partners.
The Ukraine Defense Contact Group, led by the United States, is composed of over 50 countries including all 32 NATO member states. It meets at the U.S. Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The group’s last meeting in Ramstein on Sept. 6, was its 24th since it was established in April 2022.
The virtual Ramstein meeting to be held in the near future will be the first at the level of leaders. Zelensky attended the last meeting in person and secured more military aid, including from the U.S.A., U.K. Germany, Canada, and other allies.
Zelensky had planned to present his five point victory plan at the initial Ramstein summit, but he met leaders individually after the summit was postponed.
The White House announced on October 17 that the next Ramstein format meeting would be held virtually in November, prior to Volodymyr Zelensky’s announcement.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the recent restrictions are applied to companies that are involved in networks of sanctions evasion in 17 jurisdictions including China, India Malaysia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Thailand and Turkey.
Serhii derkach, Deputy Communities and Territories Minister, presented a step-bystep plan for the partial reopening Ukraine’s airspace during a conference held in Warsaw.
“Russia thinks that they are very powerful, but if we had wanted to seize their power plant, then we would have done so, we could have done so, but we didn’t want to,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to Interfax the Russian banking giant offers interest at as low as 2% and plans to extend its offer to Kherson oblast and Zaporizhzhia as soon as housing constructions begin there.
The denial comes just a day after Financial Times reported that Ukraine, Russia and other countries are resuming talks about stopping the strikes on their energy infrastructures after the talks abruptly ceased in August after Ukraine’s Kursk invasion.
The prime minister of a NATO member and EU country discussed a number of topics with the propagandist sanctioned in the West, including the Nord Stream explosions and the supposed Western fatigue regarding the support for Ukraine.
It was a confidential information between Ukraine & the White House. How can we understand these messages? Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, said this during a press conference with journalists from Nordic nations.
Eric Schmidt, speaking at the Future Investment Initiative Conference in Saudi Arabia said that Russia’s conflict in Ukraine demonstrated how a “$5,000 Drone can destroy a tank worth $5 million.”
One source stated that only a few hundred of them are special forces and the rest are regular troops.
A source at the South Korean news agency said that Seoul had not received a similar request from the Ukrainians and the matter was not being considered.
As part of the investigation, the office summoned Salome Zourabichvili on Oct. 31. The president refused acknowledge the results, calling it “a Russian special operation” and urging voters to protest.
According to the Air Force, Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 33 of the 62 Russian Shahed drones that were launched overnight. Twenty-three drones were reported “lost.”
Oleksandr Vikul, the head the city’s Military Administration, said on his Telegram channel, Oct. 30, “Unfortunately, 55-year-old male died at 8:50 am.”
Microsoft warned in a blogpost on October 29 that the Russian hacker group Midnight Blizzard was sending highly targeted phishing email to U.S. citizens working in government, academia and defense organizations as well as non-governmental organisations.
In a separate press briefing on October 28, Pentagon spokesperson Major-General Pat Ryder stated that a “relatively few” North Korean troops were already in Kursk Oblast.
On Oct. 29, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen dictator, appeared to boast about using Ukrainian prisoners in a drone attack on Chechnya. He claimed that there were casualties amongst the captives.
This includes 1,560 casualties that Russian forces have suffered in the last day.
The city authorities reported that Russian drones attacked Kyiv overnight on October 30, 2010.
Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian foreign minister, will be speaking at the Minsk Conference on Eurasian Security on October 31, Belarus.
The Financial Times reported that Ukraine and Russia have begun preliminary discussions to stop attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure.
Mediazona, an independent Russian media outlet, and BBC Russia confirmed through open-source research the names of 75.382 Russian soldiers killed since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion.
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