LIVE – War in Ukraine: 11,000 North Korean soldiers deployed in the Russian region of Kursk, according to Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that 11,000 North Korean soldiers were deployed in the Russian region of Kursk to support the Kremlin army, which is trying to expel Ukrainian forces from this territory bordering Ukraine.

“There are already 11,000 in the Kursk region. We see an increase in the number of North Koreans but no increase in the reaction of our Western partners,” lamented the Ukrainian president in his daily address.

A Ukrainian court on Monday sentenced a resident of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk to 15 years in prison for high treason for passing military information to Russia. “As a result of public action by the Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office, the court found the citizen guilty of high treason (…) she was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property,” it said. indicated the Attorney General’s Office on Telegram.

According to the prosecution, this woman transmitted information between March and April 2024 on Ukrainian troop deployments to an acquaintance who served in the Russian army. She also, according to this source, gave the exact location of the Ukrainian forces stationed in Sloviansk, as well as the location of checkpoints in the region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui in Moscow on Monday, as the West denounces the deployment of thousands of North Korean soldiers near the front in Ukraine.

“Vladimir Putin received the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Choe Son Hui, in the Kremlin,” the Kremlin said in a statement. On Friday, she met her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in kyiv on Monday for a visit where she intends to express “unwavering” support from Western allies for Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion.

“Ukrainians have been yearning for peace for almost 1,000 days. From the first day to this very moment, the commitment is the same: Germany, together with many partners around the world, stands by unwaveringly alongside Ukraine”, declared the minister upon her arrival, according to a ministry press release. This is Ms. Baerbock’s eighth visit to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, the ministry said.

At least 13 people were injured overnight from Sunday to Monday in a series of Russian strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city located in the northeast of the country, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said.

The city of Kharkiv and its region, bordering Russia, have been regularly bombarded by Moscow since the start of the invasion in February 2022, and these strikes have intensified in recent months.

“Congratulations to Maia Sandu”. In a message posted on X, the Ukrainian president welcomed the “European choice” made by the Moldovans, who re-elected their head of state as head of the country this Sunday. A vote won despite suspicions of Russian interference, categorically denied by the Kremlin.

Indonesia and Russia began their first joint naval exercises on Monday, at a time when the president of this Southeast Asian archipelago wants to strengthen Jakarta’s role on the world stage. According to local television channels, the Russian ships were welcomed with a fanfare on Sunday at a port in the town of Subraya, the day before the start of the exercises.

Jakarta has long favored a neutral foreign policy, refusing to take a clear side in the war between Russia and Ukraine or to choose between China and the United States, two rival great powers.

Hello and welcome to this live broadcast devoted to the war in Ukraine, more than two and a half years after the invasion of Vladimir Putin’s Russian troops.