► Zelensky hopes Trump will help achieve “just peace”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Donald Trump on Wednesday November 6 for “his impressive victory” in the American presidential election, hoping that his election will help Ukraine obtain a “just peace”.
“I appreciate President Trump's commitment to the 'peace through strength' approach to world affairs. This is exactly the principle that can concretely bring Ukraine closer to a just peace,” reacted Volodymyr Zelensky, after the republican had claimed his victory.
Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that he can impose peace in Ukraine by “24 hours”, without ever explaining how, but by decrying the extent of the aid given to kyiv to resist the Russian invasion. He also made laudatory remarks about Vladimir Putin.
► Russia claims the capture of two villages
Russia has once again claimed the capture of two villages near the industrial town of Kurakhové, in southeastern Ukraine, one of the sectors of the front where Russian troops are advancing against an exhausted Ukrainian army.
According to the daily report from the Russian Defense Ministry, Moscow forces seized Antonivka and Maksimivka, two villages located south of Kurakhové, and north of Vougledar, a Ukrainian fortress that fell in early October.
► 717 Russian soldiers captured during the offensive on Kursk
Ukraine has claimed to have captured a total of 717 Russian prisoners of war since the start of its offensive in the Russian border region of Kursk, launched in early August.
The number of Russian soldiers taken prisoner is one of the claimed successes of this Ukrainian operation, which, however, did not make it possible to relax Russian pressure on the eastern front, as the kyiv authorities hoped.
This operation, the largest offensive on Russian territory since the end of the Second World War, took Moscow's forces by surprise in a weakly defended region, and was a humiliating setback for the Kremlin.
► A Russian convicted of attempted sabotage
A Russian was sentenced to twenty-two and a half years in prison for “attempted to sabotage a railway line” in the south of Russia, after having been “recruited” by Ukrainian services, the Russian security services (FSB) announced on Wednesday.
Alexandre Dimitrenko, born in 1992, had “was arrested at his home” while in May 2022, he had “extracts an explosive device from a cache in Voronezh”500 kilometers south of Moscow, according to the press release.
“He planned to plant this explosive under the railway tracks” in the Voronezh region, bordering Ukraine, continue the security services which specify that it is a conviction on appeal pronounced by a court in Moscow.
The trials for « sabotage », ” treason “ or “terrorism” have been increasing in Russia since the start of the assault launched on Ukraine by Russian troops.
► Russian senators ratify the treaty with North Korea
The upper house of the Russian Parliament ratified the mutual defense treaty with North Korea, whose soldiers are already, according to kyiv and Washington, on the verge of joining the Russians fighting the Ukrainian forces.
This vote by the Council of the Federation, which comes two weeks after that of the deputies, was hardly in doubt and no senator voted ” against “while Moscow and Pyongyang have made a rapid rapprochement since Russia launched its attack on Ukraine in February 2022.
