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KIIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is urging allies to spice up Ukraine’s air defenses at an assembly this week in Germany, while either side said Kyiv’s forces pressed new attacks Sunday in Russia’s Kursk region.
Russian shelling, meanwhile, killed at least one person and wounded another in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, local officials said.
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Dozens of partner countries will participate in the meeting of the Ramstein group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Thursday, Zelenskyy said, “including those who can help boost our capabilities not only to defend against missiles but also against guided bombs and Russian aviation.”
“We will discuss this with them and continue to persuade them,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly address on Saturday. “The task remains unchanged: strengthening our air defense.”
The Secretary of Defense of the United States, Lloyd J. Austin, will attend the meeting, who was the first of all scheduled for October with US President Joe Biden Present. The consultation was postponed after Hurricane Milton when he reached the state of Florida.
The Biden administration presses to finish the most imaginable amount of military aid to Ukraine before Trump swallowed on January 20. Trump said during his electoral crusade that he could end the war of a maximum of 3 years in one day, and His comments have raised questions about the unknown of whether Washington will continue to be the largest army lessor in Ukraine -and the maximum vital.
Zelenskyy said last week that Trump “strong and unpredictable”, and those qualities can be something decisive in his political technique for war.
Russia controls about a fifth in Ukraine and last year made slow progress in eastern spaces despite major losses of troops and equipment. The trajectory of the war is not in Ukraine’s favour, with the country virtually disadvantaged on the front line and wanting more from its Western partners.
In the incursion of Ukraine in the Kursk region, Zelenskyy that Russian and North Korean troops had suffered strong struggle losses in the Kursk Russia region.
“In the battles and today near an unmarried village, Makhnovka, in the Kursk region, the Russian army lost to a battalion of North Korean infantrymen and Russian paratroopers,” he said. “It’s important. “
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Zelenskyy said last month that 3,000 North Koreans had been killed or injured in Kursk, where Ukrainian forces introduced an incursion in August, with a blow to the prestige of Russia and forced him to display some of his troops in eastern Ukraine.
The incursion didn’t significantly change the dynamic of the war, and military analysts say Ukraine has lost around 40 percent of the land it initially captured.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that Ukraine has launched a new offensive in the Kursk region. He said his forces boosted Ukrainian troops, however, some reports from Russian army bloggers said Moscow’s forces were facing pressure.
A ministry statement said Ukrainian forces attacked about 9 a.m. local time (0600 GMT, 1 a.m. EST) near the village of Berdin with two tanks, a mine-clearing vehicle and 12 armored combat vehicles with paratroopers. Two Ukrainian attacks were repelled, it said.
Ukrainian presidential advisor Andriy Yermak said there was “good news” from Kursk and that Russia “obtained what he deserves”, while Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Official Center of Ukraine, opposed misinformation, said on Telegram that the Russian troops had been attacked in several places.
Associated Press not without delay capable of determining reports.
In other developments, local officials said one person was killed and another wounded in Russian shelling of the city of Nikopol in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday. Downstream along the Dnieper River, at least six people were wounded when Russian troops shelled the city of Kherson, capital of the region of the same name. Settlements along the west bank of the river come under regular shelling from Russian-controlled territory on the opposite bank.
Nine people were wounded in a Russian guided bomb attack on the border town of Semenivka in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region on Saturday evening, local officials said.
Moscow sent 103 drones into Ukraine overnight Sunday, Ukrainian officials said. According to Ukraine’s air force, 61 drones were destroyed and 42 were lost, likely due to electronic jamming.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that 61 Ukrainian drones had been killed in western Russia on Sunday. No victim has been informed, however, Rostov’s regional governor Yuri Slyusar said that residential buildings and cars have gone through the fall in drone debris.
Morton reported in London.
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