Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening. Between the strong declarations, the advances on the front and the results of the fighting, here is the essential part of this Thursday, the 982nd day of the war.
Fact of the day
A Russian missile strike on a police station in central Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, killed at least one police officer and injured 30 others on Friday, Ukrainian police said.
“The Russians targeted a police station in central Kharkiv with two missiles, killing a police officer and injuring 26 others, as well as four civilians,” Ukrainian police chief Ivan Vyguivsky said on Facebook.
The person killed, Andriï Matvienko, had the rank of colonel, he said. He also posted photos showing a large crater, towering piles of debris and a police officer covered in blood being treated in an ambulance.
According to Interior Minister Igor Klymenko, three injured police officers are also in serious condition. “Doctors are fighting for their lives,” he said on Telegram.
Today's statement
« “There is no doubt that […] the Russian army and people will achieve a great victory » »
The words were signed by Choe Son Hui, North Korean Foreign Minister, as part of a visit to Moscow to discuss with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
The latter welcomed the “very close contacts […] established between the military and security services” of the two countries and expressed Moscow’s “gratitude” “for the principled position” of North Korea.
“We reaffirm that we will always stand firmly alongside our Russian comrades until the day of victory,” added the North Korean minister, according to a Russian translation of her remarks.
Russia and North Korea have grown significantly closer since Vladimir Putin launched his assault on Ukraine in February 2022, with the two countries notably concluding a mutual defense agreement during the president's June visit. Russian in Pyongyang.
North Korea has been suspected for many months of supplying large quantities of shells to Russia as well as hundreds of missiles. Now it would also provide thousands of troops to fight in the conflict with Ukraine. North Korea is also suspected of asking in exchange for technologies that will help it strengthen its nuclear arsenal, in particular its ballistic missiles.
The number of the day
425 millions. This is in dollars the amount announced by the United States for new military aid to Ukraine. This new envelope, announced a few days before the American presidential election, includes anti-aircraft defense equipment, artillery ammunition, armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons, detailed the American Department of Defense in a press release.
The trend
The United States and Russia are “on the verge of a direct military conflict,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview published Friday by the Turkish daily Hürriyet.
“Under the current president, who has pushed the spiral of Russophobia in the United States to its limits, our countries are on the verge of direct military conflict,” he said in response to a question about the elections American.
Our file on the war in Ukraine
“We have no preference. At the time, the Trump administration adopted the most anti-Russian sanctions compared to its predecessors,” he added.
For the Russian minister, “no matter who wins the elections, we do not believe that the anti-Russian line of the United States can change”. A statement that could not ring truer, at a time when Russia and North Korea, intrinsically anti-American, are demanding their strategic and military rapprochement.
