Here you will find the latest on the war and its impact around the world.
Zelensky is expected to use his speech to emphasize how the Kremlin’s invasion violates the most sacred principle of UN border sovereignty. “It will propose some very specific measures that the organization can take to strengthen the principle of territorial integrity,” Kuleba told The Post. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are not scheduled to attend the annual UN summit.
president biden will also speak at the pre-Zelensky meetingaccording to a publication schedule of the annual summit of world leaders, which takes place in New York. the two leaders must win hearts and minds of developing nations that have increasingly called for a negotiated settlement with Russia because of the war’s toll on global food and energy prices.
Zelensky’s first stop during his trip to the United States was to see wounded Ukrainian troops rehabilitating in New York.. “Thank you to the team of doctors who help our boys recover from their injuries,” Zelensky’s office saying in Telegram. Photos showed the Ukrainian leader shaking hands with wounded soldiers.
Zelensky is also expected to meet with Biden in Washington later this week. said his foreign minister. Both will hold talks and Zelensky will also meet with leaders of both houses and parties of Congress, as well as other senior US officials, Kuleba said. “The visit will reaffirm the unbreakable Ukrainian-American partnership in the face of ongoing Russian aggression and our shared determination to end it through a Ukrainian victory,” he said. aggregate.
Ukraine’s cabinet dismissed seven senior Defense Ministry officials. including Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar, according to an update shared on Telegram. He advertisement comes after Zelensky ousted defense chief Oleksii Reznikov this month, as the ministry grappled with corruption allegations. No reason for the layoffs was provided in Monday’s announcement.
Germany will prepare a new package of military and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine worth about $427 million, according to German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. In statements to the German newspaper Bild, the minister saying The package will include ammunition, clothing and heat generators for the coming winter.
A Russian national was arrested on charges of smuggling dual microelectronics of U.S. origin that can be used for rifle scopes, night vision goggles and thermal optics.the Justice Department said in a news release release. Maxim Marchenko, 51, is accused of operating shell companies in Hong Kong for this purpose, the department added.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov discussed Ukraine, among other issues, during a meeting in Moscow.. The two compared notes and “coordinated positions” on the two countries’ positions on regional and international issues of common interest, including Ukraine, according to a reading from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Local officials in cities and regions of Ukraine said at least two people were killed in another night of Russian attacks. local authorities in Kharkiv, Nikolaev, Odessa, Krivoy Rog and Khmelnytskyy The regions reported night strikes early Tuesday. In the western city of Lviv, officials saying Three industrial warehouses were destroyed by the strikes, a man was found dead under the rubble and some 10,000 square meters of land burned. In Kherson, officials saying A police officer was killed Tuesday as a result of Russian artillery fire and two other civilians were hospitalized with injuries.
Whatever the hype about Elon Musk, Starlink is absolutely essential in Ukraine: Internet services provided by SpaceX, a company owned by billionaire Elon Musk, are essential for Ukrainian troops, Alex Horton and Serhii Korolchuk report. Losing Starlink, one Ukrainian soldier said, would force Ukraine to resort to inferior alternatives, such as radio. It could be done, he said, but it would require difficult compromises, such as forcing soldiers to leave the relative safety of trenches to transmit information orally.
“If they stopped working at some point, it wouldn’t be the end of the world,” said a Ukrainian deputy battalion commander, “but it would significantly worsen our situation on the front, our effectiveness.”
Kostiantyn Khudov and Lyric Li contributed to this report.