Russia, Ukraine trade drone attacks

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday it destroyed 14 Ukrainian aerial drones successful areas on the Ukraine-Russia borderline arsenic good arsenic 4 uncrewed Ukrainian boats successful the Black Sea.

The ministry said Russian aerial defenses destroyed 10 drones implicit Russia-occupied Crimea, and different 4 implicit the Rostov region.

Russian forces carried retired a 2nd consecutive nighttime of dense drone attacks targeting the Sumy portion successful confederate Ukraine.

The Sumy determination subject medication said Wednesday that Ukrainian aerial defenses changeable down 19 Russian drones, a nighttime aft Ukraine downed 25 drones successful the aforesaid area.

Officials successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv regions besides reported drones being changeable down overnight.

North Korean involvement

Ukraine has “information that 2 units of subject unit from North Korea are being trained — perchance adjacent 2 brigades of 6,000 radical each” — for combat successful Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday.

“This is simply a challenge,” the president said successful his regular address. “But we cognize however to respond to this challenge. And it is important that our partners bash not shy distant from this challenge, arsenic well.”

“If North Korea tin intervene successful the warfare successful Europe, past the unit connected this authorities is decidedly not beardown enough,” Zelenskyy said. “And if Russia is inactive capable to grow and prolong this war, it means that everyone successful the satellite who is inactive not helping to unit Russia into bid is really helping Putin to wage war.”

“We expect a firm, factual effect from the world,” helium added. “Hopefully, not lone successful words.”

Also Tuesday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said successful a connection that Russia is playing with lives beyond Ukraine.

“Russia’s indiscriminate strikes connected ports successful the Black Sea underscore that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is consenting to gamble connected planetary nutrient information successful his attempts to unit Ukraine into submission. ... In doing so, helium is harming millions of susceptible radical crossed Africa, Asia and the Middle East to effort and summation the precocious manus successful his barbaric war.”

Starmer said Russia’s behaviour successful the struggle has shown “no respect for quality beingness oregon the consequences of their penetration crossed the world.”

Some accusation for this study was provided by The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters