LIVE – War in Ukraine: Zelensky present at EU meeting amid uncertainty after Trump’s election

kyiv was targeted overnight by a new “massive” attack by Russian drones, which left two people injured, damaged buildings and caused fires in several neighborhoods, the capital’s military administration said. Russia, which launched its invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago, has in recent weeks intensified its strikes on Ukrainian cities, particularly kyiv.

The capital was targeted by drone attacks for six days during the first week of November and 20 days in October, according to press releases from the military administration.

A resident of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for espionage for Ukraine and treason, the local Supreme Court announced in a statement on Thursday.

This 36-year-old man was accused of having “given information to the enemy that could be used against the Russian armed forces”, according to the same source.

The West must negotiate in order to avoid the “destruction of the Ukrainian population”, the head of the Russian Security Council, Sergei Shoigu, ruled on Thursday, according to Russian agencies.

“Now that the situation in the theater of hostilities is not in favor of the kyiv regime, the West has a choice: to continue its financing (of Ukraine) and the destruction of the Ukrainian people or to admit the existing realities and begin to negotiate,” he said during a meeting of security officials from countries neighboring Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected in Kazakhstan on November 27 for an official visit to this immense Central Asian country, where traditional Russian influence is contested by China, Turkey and the West, announced the authorities of the two countries .

The summit was announced during a meeting between the heads of Kazakh diplomacy, Mourat Nourtleou, and Russian, Sergei Lavrov, in Astana, the capital of the leading Central Asian economic power. Kazakhstan, which maintains a balancing position on the war in Ukraine by supporting Ukrainian territorial integrity without condemning the Russian invasion, is accused by the West of not respecting the sanctions against Moscow, which it denies.

South Korea has not ruled out directly delivering weapons to Ukraine, the South Korean president announced on Thursday, referring to a possible adjustment of Seoul’s policy in this area.

The government of this country, a major arms exporter, had already indicated that it was studying the possibility of sending weapons directly to kyiv, in response to the deployment of soldiers by Pyongygang to support Moscow in its war against ‘Ukraine. It has opposed it until now because of a long-standing national policy that prevents it from supplying weapons to countries engaged in active conflicts.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Wednesday that he would go to Hungary this Thursday to a meeting of the European Political Community (EPC), made up of the Twenty-Seven and their neighbors, from Turkey to Ukraine.

A look back at the significant information from the last 24 hours:

– Russia claimed Wednesday 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.

– The Council of the Russian Federation ratified on Wednesday a mutual defense treaty with North Korea, accused by the West and kyiv of wanting to commit thousands of soldiers to fighting against Ukraine.

– Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Donald Trump after his victory in the US presidential election in a message posted on wrote the Ukrainian head of state. He subsequently claimed to have had an “excellent” telephone exchange after his victory.

– Russia “has no illusions” about Donald Trump but will “work” with him while pursuing “all its objectives” in Ukraine, Russian diplomacy warned after the Republican’s victory in the American presidential election.

– Ukraine said on Wednesday that it had 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.

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