Russian Strike Kills 51 in Eastern Ukraine: Latest Updates and European Response

2023-10-05 21:03:39

51 people were killed in a Russian strike which hit a village of 330 inhabitants in the Kharkiv region, in eastern Ukraine, President Zelensky announced on Thursday. The victims of these strikes gathered to celebrate the memory of one of the deceased villagers. Volodymyr Zelensky denounced “a blatantly brutal Russian crime“. Separately, a hospital was devastated in southern Ukraine, in the Kherson region, according to the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Prokudin.

Slovakia has decided to freeze its decisions on military support for Kiev pending the new government, following the electoral success of parties opposed to aid to its Ukrainian neighbor, we learned from the presidency. Earlier, Ukraine announced “pausing its complaint to the WTO, the World Trade Organization, once morest neighboring countries, in connection with the export of grain. Deputy Minister of Economy Tarass Katchka, quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine agency, estimated that disagreements over the export of Ukrainian grain will be “resolved in the coming weeks and months“.

While several countries are beginning to show resistance to supporting Ukraine, Vladimir Putin estimated that theUkraine would only have “a week to live” without Western arms deliveries, on which kyiv depends for its military effort, a statement made during the Valdai international forum in Sochi. He assured today that his country’s mission was to build “a new world”, castigating Western “hegemony” and placing the assault in Ukraine in this perspective and not in that of a “territorial conflict”. He also accused the West of creating a “new iron curtain

The Russian investigation into the death of Wagner’s boss, Evgeni Prigozhin, would have demonstrated, according to Vladimir Putin, that “pieces of grenade” were found in the bodies of the victims of the crash in August but that there were no had an external impact on the aircraft.

This Thursday, nearly 50 European leaders, including Volodymyr Zelensky, gathered in Granada, in southern Spain. At the end of these meetings, the Ukrainian president said he had received clear agreements from the Europeans to receive more anti-aircraft and artillery systems.

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