► Mark Rutte calls for “changing the trajectory” of the conflict
Ukraine's allies must provide sufficient military assistance to “change the trajectory” of war, “once and for all”said NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday, December 4.
“We must provide sufficient support to change the trajectory of this conflict once and for all”he declared during a press conference in Brussels.
► According to NATO, Russia “supports” North Korea’s nuclear program
Russia brings its ” support “ to North Korea's nuclear and missile program, in exchange for weapons and soldiers in its war against Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.
“These developments can destabilize the Korean Peninsula and even threaten the United States”he added during a press conference in Brussels.
► Ukraine says it has arrested a teenager spying for Russia
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) announced that it had detained a 16-year-old girl suspected of helping Moscow to “prepare an airstrike” against its region of Cherniguiv, bordering Russia.
Arrested in the city of Cherniguiv, capital of this territory, the young girl was recruited by Russian military intelligence (GUR) and had the task of identifying air defense complexes and radars defending the region against Russian attacks, said the SBU in a press release.
► Fifteen years in prison in Crimea for treason for the benefit of kyiv
A resident of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for espionage for Ukraine and treason, the local prosecutor's office announced.
This 45-year-old man was accused of having sent the Ukrainian secret services (SBU), via messaging, video images allowing them to locate Russian anti-aircraft defense systems deployed in Kerch, Crimea, according to the press release.
► Russia accuses Ukraine of supporting the Islamist rebel group in Syria
The Russian ambassador to the UN accused Ukraine on Tuesday evening of militarily supporting the fighters of the radical Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) who are leading an offensive in north-west Syria, against the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, supported militarily by Russia since 2015.
“We want to draw attention to the identifiable traces pointing to the main Ukrainian intelligence directorate, the GUR, in the organization of hostilities and in the supply of weapons to fighters in north-west Syria”declared Vassili Nebenzia during a meeting of the Security Council on the escalation of hostilities in Syria.
“We are referring to the identification in the province of Ukrainian military instructors (…) who trained HTS fighters in combat operations”he added.
