Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he had a new discussion with the French side, Emmanuel Macron, based on his proposal to deploy troops in Ukraine as a means to help establish peace. “We share a common vision: certain guarantees are necessary for peace that can really be achieved,” said the Ukrainian president, who was in Brussels on Wednesday for a meeting with key NATO and European leaders. “We have worked on President Macron’s initiative on the presence of forces in Ukraine that could contribute to the path to establishing peace.” Macron said Franco’s office confirmed that aid to Ukraine was his “absolute priority” and that Ukraine would remain “in the middle of defending itself and defeating the Russian aggression”. Macron would establish a “strict dialogue with Ukraine and its international partners to work towards a return to a fair and lasting peace”. Zelenskyy is also due to attend an EU summit in the Belgian capital on Thursday.
he asked how Britain would respond if Zelenskyy asked British forces to be sent to UkraineThe UK foreign minister, David Lammy, told Sky News that he had seen no sign that the Russian president was ready to negotiate. “There is a debate about the deployment of Ukraine for days before. That is why we are meeting at this very moment to escape Ukraine through the winter and enter in 2025. I know there are many speculations out there, but the truth is that Putin is not a person who can deal with you when he makes such mayhem. in Europe just this moment in time.”
The Secretary General of Nato, Mark Rutte, has expressed frustration that European leaders are playing into Vladimir Putin’s hands by publicly talking about starting peace talks and whether European peacekeepers will participate. Jupiter, Rutte said, must “do everything now to make sure that, when it comes to air defense, when it comes to other weapons systems, we look at it to do whatever we can… we think it’s wisest to cover something like this [pre-empting a peace process] and focus on the task at hand, and the task at hand is to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to prevent Putin from winning.”
Russia’s investigative committee said it detained an Uzbek citizen who investigators accused of planting the bomb who killed Igor Kirillov Lt. The Kremlin’s government news agency Tass reported claims by Russia’s domestic spy agency, the FSB, that the 29-year-old was recruited by Ukrainian special services and promised $100,000 and a trip to the EU. The man was arrested in the village of Chernoye in the Balashikha district of Moscow, the Ria state news agency reported, citing the interior ministry. The Russian foreign ministry said it would raise Kirillov’s murder in the UN security council on Friday.
Britain on Thursday revealed £225m (US$286m) in new military aid to Ukraine over the next year including drones, boats and air defense systems. John Healey, the secretary of the UK president, visited Kyiv on Wednesday for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Rustem Umerov.
North Korea has demonstrated this year that it can produce ballistic missiles and supply them to Russia for use against Ukraine in a series of measures.The chief research team used weapons in the war on Wednesday. Jonah Leff told the UN Security Council that investigators on the ground had examined the remains of four missiles recovered from North Korea in July and August, including markings indicating it was produced in 2024. “This is the first public document of having missiles produced in North Korea and then used in Ukraine within months, not years,” he said.
The World Bank approved $2.05bn in funding for Ukraine which includes the first grant from a $20bn US loan fund for Kyiv, which is backed by revenues from frozen Russian sovereign wealth. The package also includes a World Bank financing of $1.05bn increased with loan guarantees from a trust fund called the Bank of Japan and Britain. About $50bn in financing for Ukraine is being raised from frozen Russian assets overseas.
Keir Starmer said in office that he should stand by Donald Trump’s call to strengthen the use of international partners in support of Ukraine. “The prime minister emphasized the need for allies to stand together with Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression and to secure Ukraine in a very stable position.”
Ukraine has dismissed Russia’s allegation that its white phosphorous paints were repeatedly dropped in September as “false and absurd.”saying Kyiv is fully compliant with its international arms control obligations. “We hope that through such false accusations, Moscow will change its reasons and deceive foreign audiences,” foreign ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi told Reuters.
The US issued new sanctions on Wednesday on several Russian entities based on their involvement in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipelineSay Public. They included Russia-based marine services and water transport entities, state-owned maritime rescue services and more than a dozen vessels, as well as Nord Stream 2 AG, the project’s operator, and Russian insurance companies involved. it is a matter
Ukraine’s air force said on Wednesday that Russia had launched 81 drones to attack Ukraine overnight, of which 30 “imitation drones” failed to reach their targets and 51 were shot down.