After an attack « record » of drones against Ukraine, kyiv responded by targeting the Moscow region. On the front, Ukrainian troops are retreating in several sectors, in particular they have lost the village of Vovtchenka. On the diplomatic level, the Kremlin says it sees “positive signals” coming from Donald Trump, American president-elect.
Here is the latest information from this Sunday, November 10, 2024 reported by theAFP on the war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops suffer on the front
On the front, Ukrainian troops are becoming exhausted, suffering from their inferiority in weapons and personnel, and retreating in multiple sectors in eastern Ukraine, where Russian troops have been advancing more rapidly in recent weeks.
Russia claimed on Sunday the conquest of a new village, that of Vovtchenka, in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, in the east of the country.
This locality is located about 5 km from Kourakhové, an industrial city which had around 18,000 inhabitants before the conflict and which is home to a large deposit of lithium, a rare mineral, nearby.
Furthermore, thousands of North Korean soldiers are, according to kyiv and the West, deployed in the Russian region of Kursk, where the Ukrainian army has controlled a few hundred square kilometers since its surprise operation launched on August 6. kyiv assures that they have already been engaged in combat.
Drone attacks in the Moscow region…
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have neutralized 34 drones in the Moscow region in the morning, a record number in the area of the Russian capital since the start of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in 2022. According to this source, Another 36 Ukrainian drones were shot down in two regions bordering Moscow and in three others bordering Ukraine.
The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobiov, said that the interceptions took place in particular over the towns of Ramenskoye and Domodedovo, about 40 kilometers southeast of the center of Moscow and near airports. . According to him, a 52-year-old woman was injured by shrapnel, burned to the face, neck and hands, and two houses were set on fire.
This operation in the suburbs of Moscow comes four days after a massive Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital, targeted almost daily for a month.
…responding to drone attacks in Ukraine
During the night from Saturday to Sunday, an attack « record » of 145 Russian drones had targeted Ukraine. In a statement, the Ukrainian Air Force said that, as of 9:30 a.m. (8:30 a.m. Paris time), 62 of these 145 drones had been neutralized over thirteen regions of the country.
For the moment, the Ukrainian authorities have not mentioned possible victims, nor have they claimed responsibility for the drone strikes targeting Moscow. kyiv says it is carrying out its strikes on Russia, which usually mainly target energy sites, in response to the deadly Russian bombings which have destroyed its infrastructure and devastated its cities since Vladimir Putin launched the assault on Ukraine in February 2022 .
Moscow sees “positive signals” in Trump’s election
“The signals are positive. Trump, during his election campaign, said that he sees all of this (the conflict in Ukraine, Editor's note) via agreements. And that he can obtain an agreement that leads to peace”said the spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov, in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
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“He talks about peace, not confrontation, not the desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, which distinguishes him favorably from the current administration”he continued. According to Dmitri Peskov, it remains to be seen whether Donald Trump “will stick to his statements” countryside.
With Donald Trump's victory in the American presidential election on Tuesday, the question arises of the sustainability of American support, which has enabled Ukraine to resist Russian troops since February 2022. The billionaire has promised on several occasions to quickly find a way out. to this devastating conflict, without explaining how he would proceed.
Vladimir Putin signs mutual defense agreement with North Korea
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the mutual defense treaty with North Korea. Concluded during a rare visit by Vladimir Putin to Pyongyang in June, this treaty between two black beasts of the United States, provides in particular “immediate military aid” reciprocal in the event of an attack against one of the two countries.
The upper house of the Russian Parliament ratified this treaty on November 8, which still had to be signed by the Russian president to enter into force. The Kremlin published the law ratifying the treaty on its website on Saturday evening.
The agreement formalizes months of deepening security cooperation between the two countries, communist allies throughout the Cold War. Russia and North Korea have grown significantly closer since Russia's attack on Ukraine began in 2022.
The agreement also commits the two countries to cooperate internationally to oppose Western sanctions and coordinate their positions at the United Nations. President Putin described the agreement in June as “revolutionary document”.
Citing intelligence reports, South Korea, Ukraine and the West say North Korea has deployed around 10,000 troops to Russia to fight Ukraine.
