New weapons and other military aid for Ukraine in the war against Russia, almost three years after the invasion by Moscow. The request came from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a telephone conversation with Mark Rutte.
Zelensky’s demands
Zelensky thanked the NATO Secretary General for hosting the Ukraine-NATO Council meeting in Brussels at the level of foreign ministers. “I reiterated the importance of inviting Ukraine into NATO and ensuring the timely reinforcement of our combat brigades with ammunition, weapons and equipment, as well as strengthening Ukraine’s defense against Russian air terrorism this winter,” he wrote Zelensky on because one’s safety is the foundation of everyone’s safety.”
Rutte for his part assured Zelensky that the priority of the Atlantic Alliance at the moment is to urgently provide more military aid to Ukraine. “Our priority is greater support for Ukraine. More air defense, more ammunition and faster supplies,” Rutte wrote on social media.
Lavrov: “Putin warnings ignored”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke during the OSCE summit in Malta, accusing the West of failing to listen to the Kremlin’s warnings about the dangers of sending troops to support Ukraine.
“All these fantasies only exacerbate the situation and show that people who have these ideas prefer not to listen to the very clear warnings that President Putin has repeatedly given,” Lavrov said.
Zelensky: “North Korea trains 10 thousand soldiers to help Russia”
Zelensky meanwhile said he had received intelligence reports that North Korea was training 10,000 soldiers to support Russia in its fight against Kiev.
The Ukrainian president also denounced that Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are held in Russian prisons, including community leaders arrested in the occupied regions. “There are currently at least six mayors and community leaders under Russian captivity,” he said in a video address to a human rights conference in Kiev. A total of 3,767 Ukrainians, mostly prisoners of war, have returned from Russian prisons so far.
At the same conference, Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets spoke of “over 16,000” civilians in Russian custody. “The number will be much higher when we liberate the Ukrainian territories,” he added.
Record number of deaths on the field for Moscow
For the third month in a row, the Russian army has suffered “a record number of daily losses” in Ukraine: this was reported by British intelligence in its daily report on the situation of the conflict triggered by the Russian invasion. A record – he explains in the document published on
British intelligence points out that Moscow has reached a new daily high with 1,523 deaths per day, according to the Ukrainian Army General Staff. “This is the third consecutive month that Russian forces have suffered maximum daily casualties,” they said. “November 28 was also the day” when Moscow suffered “a new maximum number of losses with 2,030, for the first time more than 2,000,” the sources said, according to the report.
November “was also probably the costliest month of the war for Russia in terms of human lives, with 45,680 deaths reported by the Ukrainian General Staff”, a figure that exceeds the 41,980 in October, again according to Kiev data. “November was the fifth consecutive month in which Russia suffered an increase in monthly losses,” the sources added, attributing the reason to the “increased pace” of Russian “offensives and operations” in Ukraine.