Cover photo: Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems at Schwesing military airport, Germany, in March 2022. Axel Heimken / AP
- The new Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, expressed reservations about Joe Biden’s request for help for Ukraine. He said Republicans would first introduce a separate bill to provide $14.5 billion in aid to Israel, but needed more information about the Biden administration’s strategy on Ukraine.
- Slovakia announced on Thursday that it would stop supplying arms to Ukraine, limiting support for its neighbor to “humanitarian and civil assistance.” The “war in Ukraine is not ours (…).” “The EU should move from the status of an arms supplier to the status of a peacemaker,” declared Robert Fico the day after his appointment as head of a coalition government with a far-right pro-Russian party. According to the Kiel Institute, Slovakia provided 670 million euros in military aid to Ukraine in the first year of the conflict with Russia.
- A Hamas delegation is currently visiting Moscow, said the spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry. Hamas is not considered a terrorist organization in Russia and its representatives have already made two trips to Moscow in the past year. The spokesman also announced that Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, who is responsible for nuclear negotiations, was also in the Russian capital.
- Russian forces are gaining ground in the Avdiivka sector, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Geolocated images released on Tuesday show the Russian army advancing northwest of Krasnohorivka, 5 kilometers northwest of Avdiivka. For its part, the Ukrainian General Staff reports unsuccessful Russian offensives near Stepove, Tonenke, Sieverne and Nevelske, four locations near Avdiivka.
- The Ukrainian authorities ordered the evacuation of children in ten locations near Kupiansk. A total of 275 minors will be affected by this measure. In August, the Ukrainian authorities had already evacuated civilians in the Kupyansk area due to the advance of Russian forces around ten kilometers from the city.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency is concerned about shots fired near the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant. The interception of two drones on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday near the Khmelnytsky power plant “is once again a reminder of Ukraine’s extremely precarious situation in terms of nuclear security, which will continue as long as this tragic war continues,” warns Director General of the IAEA.
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