The United States will send “a small number” of employees of private military companies in Ukraine to take care of the technical maintenance of American weapons, an American defense official announced Friday, November 8.
Although Washington represents kyiv's primary supporter with more than $60 billion in military aid since the start of the war in 2022, until then American private military companies were prohibited from working in Ukraine.
These soldiers will stay far from the front lines and will not participate in combat against the Russian army, but will help the Ukrainian army to quickly repair and maintain equipment provided by the United States, according to an official under cover of the anonymity to AFP.
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Elon Musk on the call between Washington and kyiv
Billionaire and boss of Tesla and Ukrainian to AFP.
“It is not clear what the three men discussed or whether they discussed a possible change in U.S. policy toward Ukraine following Mr. Trump's election,” thinks he knows on his side le New York Times.
Drone on an embassy
The building where the Estonian ambassador lives in kyiv was hit by a Russian drone late Friday, according to the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The building in kyiv where the Estonian ambassador to kyiv, Annely Kolk, lives was hit by a Russian drone, the Estonian foreign minister said on Friday. “She and her husband are unhurt”said Margus Tsahkna, stressing that this attack constituted “further proof that no one is safe in Ukraine as long as Russia continues its aggression by deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure”.
At least one person was killed and more than forty injured during a series of strikes targeting the cities of Kharkiv, Odessa and kyiv, Ukrainian authorities announced on Friday, the day after deadly bombings on Zaporizhia.
According to the Estonian minister, the intensification of Russian airstrikes are “a new reminder that Ukraine must receive comprehensive assistance, including in air defense, long-range missiles, weapons systems and munitions”. “We cannot have red lines in the fight against terror and for freedom and security”added M. Tsahkna.
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NATO and its Asian partners condemn North Korean engagement alongside Russia
NATO and its partners in Asia (South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand) have “firmly” condemned on Friday North Korea's engagement alongside Russia, in its “war of aggression” against Ukraine.
“The deployment of thousands of fighters [de la Corée du Nord] constitutes a dangerous intensification of the already substantial support provided by this country to the war of aggression that Russia is waging, completely illegally, against Ukraine.declared the Atlantic Alliance in a press release, specifying that its partners in Asia, and Ukraine, had joined this text.
