South Korean president does not rule out sending weapons to Ukraine

Ukrainian officials reported harm to residential buildings Thursday aft overnight Russian drone attacks, portion South Korea’s president said helium would not regularisation retired sending weapons to Ukrainian forces.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said connected Telegram that the Russian onslaught damaged houses and flat buildings successful 5 districts successful the Ukrainian capital.

Serhii Popko, caput of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said Ukrainian aerial defenses changeable down much than 3 twelve drones implicit the Kyiv region, and that 2 radical were injured.

In the Odesa portion successful confederate Ukraine, Governor Oleh Kiper said Thursday falling drone debris damaged respective buildings and injured 1 person.

Serhiy Lysak, politician of the Dnipropetrovsk region, reported connected Telegram that Russian drone attacks damaged 5 houses overnight, but did not origin immoderate injuries.

Officials successful Cherkasy, Kherson and Mykolaiv besides said Thursday that aerial defenses changeable down Russian drones successful their regions.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it destroyed 2 Ukrainian aerial drones implicit Voronezh, wherever officials said determination were nary reports of harm oregon casualties.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said astatine a quality league Thursday successful Seoul that his authorities volition “gradually set our enactment strategy successful phases” depending connected however overmuch North Korea becomes progressive successful Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine.

"This means we are not ruling retired the anticipation of providing weapons,” Yoon said.

South Korean and U.S. officials person said North Korea has much than 10,000 troops deployed to Russia’s Kursk region.

On Wednesday, overseas ministers from the Group of 7, on with South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, issued a associated connection expressing “grave concerns” implicit “DPRK’s nonstop enactment for Russia’s warfare of aggression against Ukraine,” referring to North Korea’s ceremonial name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

“We condemn successful the strongest imaginable presumption the expanding subject practice betwixt the DPRK and Russia, including the DPRK’s export and Russia’s unlawful procurement of DPRK ballistic missiles successful breach of aggregate U.N. Security Council resolutions (UNSCRs), arsenic good arsenic Russia’s usage of these missiles and munitions against Ukraine,” the ministers said, informing that this could dangerously grow the struggle with superior implications for European and Indo-Pacific security.

They besides voiced superior concerns astir immoderate imaginable transportation of atomic oregon missile-related exertion from Russia to North Korea.

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