Volodymyr Zelenskyy On Wednesday, Croatia said the war could not end until next year. Addressing the third Ukraine-Southeast Europe summit in Dubrovnik, the Ukrainian leader said: “In October, November and December we have a A real opportunity to move the situation towards peace and long-term stability,” he said. “The situation on the battlefield creates an opportunity to make this choice – a choice to favor Decisive action to end war by 2025.” Zelensky did not specify how and why he perceived such an opportunity. Russian forces now occupy less than 20% of Ukraine's east and south.
The President of Ukraine is in London on Thursday To meet new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The meeting was hastily organized after the Ramstein summit, where Zelensky had planned to present a “victory plan” to Western leaders, was formally postponed. US President Joe Biden canceled his trip to stay home to respond to Hurricane Milton.reports Dan Sabak.
Organizers said Ramstein Junction About 20 world leaders in Germany will be modified. Zelenskyy will travel to Berlin on Friday to meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian sources said. Zelenskyy was in Croatia on Wednesday and is scheduled to meet with Pope Francis on Friday. At the Croatia summit, Zelenskyy told reporters: “I will meet the leaders of Britain, France, Italy and Germany separately in each country.”
A Russian ballistic missile Officials said 6 Ukrainians were killed and 11 injured in a strike on port infrastructure in the Odesa region. attack A civilian container ship was hit Panama's flag was flown, the region's governor, Oleg Kiber, said. This is the third attack on a civilian vessel in the past four days.
Ukraine's military said it had done one “Direct hit” on site where Shaheed drones are stored In the Krasnodar region of southern Russia. A report said the attack was carried out near a village Oktyabrsky Jointly carried out by the Naval Forces and the SBU Intelligence Service. “According to available information, nearly 400 strike drones were stored there,” the statement said. “Based on objective control results, a direct hit on the target was made. Secondary explosions were observed at the site.
Earlier, Ukraine's military said one of its drones hit something critical A North Korean weapons storage facility with glide bombs and other explosives Bryansk border region of Russia. Russian authorities declared a state of emergency in the area “after explosives detonated”. Three weeks ago, another drone blew up a large Russian weapons depot, and this week a drone struck a major oil terminal in Russia-occupied Crimea, which has been burning for days. Analysts say attacks on the Kremlin's arsenals have significantly disrupted Russian ammunition supplies and reduced the Ukrainians' edge on the battlefield.
Ursula van der LeyenThe head of the European Commission, Viktor Orbán, has accused Ukraine of a historic failure to support it, economic malfeasance and turning his country into a “back door for foreign intervention”. At the European Parliament in Strasbourg, he sharply criticized Orban's stance on Ukraine. Reporting by Jennifer Rank from Brussels. “There are still some Blame this war on Ukraine's thirst for freedom, not Putin's lust for powerSo I would like to ask them: would they ever blame the Hungarians for the Soviet invasion? [of Hungary] In 1956?” Van der Leyen criticized Orban for failing to follow through on an EU pledge made by 2022 to end dependence on Russian fossil fuels. “Instead of looking for alternative sources [of energy]In particular, One member state sought alternatives to buying fossil fuels from Russia.”
