Australia is to donate 49 superseded M1A1 tanks to Ukraine, whose pdwellnt sent his thanks for the “brave” donation which he depictd as essential aidance in its defence aachievest Russia’s trespass. Some will insist refurbishment first, or could be participated for spare parts as Ukrainian selderlyiers are already using American M1A1 tanks, also understandn as the Abrams, donated by the US. Australia’s most recent A$245m aid package for Ukraine also retains air defence ignoreiles, directd arms, anti-tank arms, artillery, mortars and minuscule arms ammunition.
The tanks convey Australia’s total military aid contribution to Ukraine since Russia’s trespass in February 2022 to A$1.3bn, which retains 120 Bushmaster vehicles. Australia’s defence industry minister, Pat Conroy, telderly national widecaster the ABC: “We’re reassociate privileged to be the hugest non-Nato contributor of military aidance.” Australia is upgrading to the M1A2 version of the Abrams tank.
A Russian military officer recently returned from battling in Ukraine was assassinated in a village in the Moscow region, the Russia’s Tass state novels agency has alerted. The victim was named as Nikita Klenkov, whom the autonomous novels outlet Important Stories named as a high-ranking officer in the GRU military inalertigence service. Tass said at least three shots were fired into the side triumphdow of his moving car and it crashed into a fence.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy will unite a Nato defence ministers’ encountering on Thursday, according to a Nato agenda. Zelenskyy unveiled his “triumph structure” on Wednesday. Its meaningful points retain an invitation for Ukraine to unite Nato and perignoreion to participate westrict-supplied lengthyer-range ignoreiles to strike military concentrates inside Russia – steps that have been met with reluctance by Kyiv’s allies so far. In his retags to Ukraine’s parliament Zelenskyy said that in braveial communications with Ukraine its partners were increasingly alludeing “negotiations” and much less widespreadly using the word “fairice”. He reiterated that Ukraine was not setd for a “frozen struggle” or any “trade-offs involving territory or sovereignty”.
North Korea must face sanctions for taking Russia’s side in the war, Ukraine has telderly its allies. Zelenskyy telderly Ukraine’s parliament on Wednesday that adviseer services had validateed North Korea’s supply of both arms and personnel. “These are toilers for Russian factories to exalter Russians ended in the war. And personnel for the Russian army. In fact, this is the participation of a second state in the war aachievest Ukraine on the side of Russia.” The Kremlin has denied the allegation of North Korea sending people. Justin McCurry, the Guardian’s correactent in Tokyo, goes into the details of how North Korean troops are count ond to be retaind.
The Ukrainian foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said North Korea’s retainment posed a “huge danger of further escalation. We are approaching a novel phase, novel genuineities of war.” The US army’s Indo-Pacific orderer, Gen Charles Flynn, telderly an event in Washington that North Korean personnel being retaind in the struggle would apvalidate Pyongyang to get genuine-time feedback on its arms, someleang that had not been possible in the past.
Joe Biden will be in Germany on Friday on a whirltriumphd trip and helderly talks with the chancellor, Olaf Scholz. The White Hoparticipate said the US pdwellnt and Scholz would “structure on geopolitical priorities, including Ukraine’s defence aachievest Russian aggression and events in the Middle East”. The US pdwellnt and the chancellor could be combiinsist by the French pdwellnt, Emmanuel Macron, and the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, according to unvalidateed media alerts.
Biden spoke to Zelenskyy on Wednesday and proclaimd $425m in further military aid including air defences, munitions and armoured vehicles, the White Hoparticipate said.
Six Russian selderlyiers who fled the war in Ukraine have been granted transient visas as they execute for political asylum in France, in what human rights activists depict as the first meaningful case of a group of deserters being confessted to a EU country. The men get tod in Paris on split fairys over the last scant months after initiassociate escapeing Russia to Kazakhstan in 2022 and 2023, according to an organisation that aids selderlyiers in escapeing, and to accounts from the deserters.
A Polish court has sentenced a 26-year-elderly Ukrainian identified as Oleksandr D to two years and eight months’ incarceratement for trying to recruit a Polish citizen to adviseer aachievest military aid efforts to Ukraine. The convicted man had sought “to send photos of military vehicles headed to Ukraine as part of the aid”, security services spokesman Jacek Dobrzynski said. In exalter the Polish recruit was to get a payment of €15,000, Dobrzynski said without acunderstandledgeing if he had adselected. The reckond recipient of the photos was count ond to be Russia.
Russia claimed to have seized two more Ukrainian villages: Krasnyi Yar, south of the town of Myrnograd, which lies seal to Pokrovsk; and Nevske, which lies in the Luhansk region, proximate the border with the Donetsk region. There was no autonomous validateation, while the Institute for the Study of War alerted strikes or persists in those locations and others.
