A spokesperson for Donald Trump strongly denied the strategy for ending the war in Ukraine set out by an advisor to the future American president, Bryan Lanza. He told the BBC that the Trump administration's priority would not be the return of Crimea to Ukraine. The president-elect's transition team quickly corrected the situation by clarifying that Bryan Lanza was not speaking on behalf of Donald Trump.
“Bryan Lanza was a contract worker during the presidential campaign”said a spokesperson, who refused to give his name, reported by the REUTERS agency. “He does not work for President Trump or speak on his behalf”he repeated. The team Donald Trump will surround himself with for his second term in the White House is currently being developed, as are the policies he will defend, according to REUTERS.
“If President Zelensky comes to the negotiating table and says that we can only have peace [si les Ukrainiens ont] Crimea, he shows us that he is not serious. Crimea no longer exists »Mr. Lanza said in an interview broadcast by the BBC on Saturday. The priority was, he specified, “peace and an end to the massacres”.
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North Korean soldiers
The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, reported on Saturday November 9 the presence of North Korean troops ready to fight alongside Russian forces. “We have numerous reports of North Korean soldiers preparing to participate in combat operations alongside Russian forces”Mr. Syrskyi wrote on his Telegram account, about his conversation with General Christopher Cavoli, who heads the American command in Europe.
UN and International Committee of the Red Cross seized
Ukraine also announced on Saturday that it was contacting the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) over the alleged execution of a Ukrainian soldier on the battlefield by a Russian soldier. “The Russians shot dead an apparently wounded and unarmed Ukrainian soldier. They filmed this and the video is posted online”said Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian human rights ombudsman, on his Telegram account. “I am sending a letter to the ICRC and the UN, this is a violation of the Geneva conventions and international humanitarian law”he added.
According to the newspaper description The World, “the video in question, undated and unauthenticated, shows a man on the ground, in Ukrainian army uniform. The person filming him approaches him, asks him where he comes from and if there are other “pederasts” in the area, talking about Ukrainian troops. The man replies that he comes from the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine and that there are no other kyiv soldiers in the area. Then an armed man enters the video frame and shoots him in the head with a Kalashnikov. »
Ukraine and Russia have repeatedly accused each other of killing prisoners of war since the start of the Russian invasion, launched in February 2022.
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