► NATO wants to discuss the threat of Russia/North Korea rapprochement
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Thursday, November 7, that he wanted to discuss the « menace » what the strengthening of ties between Russia and North Korea represents. “I look forward to sitting down with President Trump and seeing how we will collectively ensure we address this threat”he declared.
The new head of NATO was particularly concerned about the rapprochement between Russia and North Korea, Iran and China. “Russia must pay for this. One of the things it does is deliver technology to North Korea, which now threatens the future, the American continent, continental Europe, but also our partners in the Indo-Pacific.he said.
► Seoul does not rule out directly sending weapons to Ukraine
The South Korean president does not rule out delivering weapons directly to Ukraine to help it in its war against Russian forces soon to be joined by North Korean soldiers according to kyiv and Washington, which would constitute a development of Seoul's line on this matter.
At a press conference in Seoul, President Yoon Suk Yeol also reported that he raised the North Korean issue with US President-elect Donald Trump and planned to meet him in a “near future”.
► The West must negotiate to avoid “the destruction of the Ukrainian population”
The West must negotiate in order to avoid “destruction of the Ukrainian population”judged the head of the Russian Security Council, Sergei Shoigu, according to Russian agencies.
“Now that the situation in the theater of hostilities is not in favor of the kyiv regime, the West has a choice: to continue its financing (of Ukraine) and the destruction of the Ukrainian people or to admit the existing realities and begin to negotiate »he said during a meeting of security officials from countries neighboring Russia.
► kyiv targeted by a “massive” drone attack
kyiv was targeted overnight by a new attack « massive » Russian drones, which injured two people, damaged buildings and caused fires in several neighborhoods, the capital's military administration said.
During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, air defense destroyed “more than thirty” of these devices above the city and its suburbs, the administration said in a press release on Telegram. The drones were coming “in waves, from different directions”some flying very low to make them more difficult to spot, she detailed.
The attack caused a fire in a residential building of around thirty floors in the city center, the town hall said. In other neighborhoods, fires affected a private clinic and business center, a gas station and homes.
► Russia: a resident of annexed Crimea convicted of treason
A resident of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for espionage for Ukraine and treason, the local Supreme Court announced in a press release.
This 36-year-old man was accused of “handed over to the enemy information that could be used against the Russian armed forces”according to the same source. The Crimean Supreme Court convicted him after a closed trial.
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