► The EU must support Ukraine “as long as necessary”
The European Union must support Ukraine “as long as necessary”said the future head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, on Tuesday, November 12.
“We must continue to work every day. Today, tomorrow and for as long as necessary and with as much military, financial and humanitarian aid as necessary”she declared to MEPs in Brussels.
The former Estonian prime minister was appointed in June by the 27 heads of state and government of the EU to replace the Spaniard Josep Borrell at the head of European diplomacy. It must still receive the approval of the European Parliament at the end of its hearing on Tuesday, but there is little doubt about the green light from MEPs.
► A woman and her three children killed by a Russian strike in Ukraine
A woman and her three children were killed in their apartment by a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rig, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky in east-central Ukraine, according to the final toll announced Tuesday by Ukrainian authorities.
A Russian missile destroyed a section of a residential building Monday morning. The regional governor announced in the evening the discovery of the woman's body buried under the rubble, also reporting fourteen injured.
Later, rescuers found the bodies of his three children, the public prosecutor's office said Tuesday morning announcing the end of the rescue operation. They are two boys aged two and ten and a two-month-old girl, their grandmother told local media. According to her, the father survived because he had gone into another room at the time of the explosion.
► North Korea ratifies defense treaty with Russia
North Korea ratified the historic defense agreement with Russia on Monday, sealing their rapprochement in the context of Moscow's war in Ukraine, the official North Korean agency KCNA reported on Tuesday.
The agreement “was ratified in the form of a decree” signed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday, KCNA said. Russian President Vladimir Putin also signed this mutual defense treaty, the Kremlin announced this weekend.
Concluded during a rare visit by Vladimir Putin to Pyongyang in June, this treaty between these two countries, the bane of the United States, provides in particular “immediate military aid” reciprocal in the event of an attack against one of the two countries.
According to kyiv, some 11,000 North Korean soldiers are already deployed in Russia and have started fighting against the Ukrainians on Russian territory, in the Kursk region, a small part of which has been occupied by Ukrainian forces on the offensive since August. The Kremlin has so far evaded questions about this presence of North Korean reinforcements.
