Ukraine-Russia newest information: Putin’s forces ‘face 40,000 casualties’ this month as Zelensky in North Korea warning | EUROtoday

Russian troop casualties over October could attain round 40,000, Janek Kesselmann, the deputy commander of the Estonian Military Intelligence Center has stated.

Kesselmann instructed ERR: “The advance of the Russian Federation armed forces has been made possible by massive bombings, including cluster bombs, killer drones and indirect fire.

“This effect is carried out by meat attacks, so to speak, where Russia cynically wastes its personnel.

“The losses in Russia are quite high. And it seems that this month will be one of the biggest losses in Russia

“We estimate that the enemy will lose somewhere around 40,000 soldiers both wounded and killed during the month.”

According to Kyiv mayor Vitalii Klitschko, a drone slammed right into a 25-storey residence block Friday night time within the metropolis’s west, killing a 15-year-old lady and injuring 5 others.

Ukraine’s Emergency Service stated 100 individuals had been evacuated following the strike, which broken a number of flats on the constructing’s higher flooring.Serhii Popko, who heads Kyiv’s native army administration, stated on Saturday that Russian forces in a single day pummeled town for seven and a half hours.

Air raid sirens wailed all through the night time, and Popko stated that Ukrainian air protection shot down “up to a dozen” Russian drones.Also late on Friday, a Russian missile hit a residential space within the central metropolis of Dnipro, killing a 14-year-old and two grownup ladies, stated regional governor Serhii Lysak, including that at the very least 20 others had been left with accidents, together with an 8-year-old and youngsters.

He stated the assault broken 13 residence buildings, personal homes and a medical facility.

Chief of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Serhii Lysak wrote on Telegram that the variety of the injured in in a single day missile strikes on Dnipro has risen to twenty.

“There are already 20 injured in Dnipro including children: girls aged 8 and 16, and two boys aged 17,” the message reads.

The regional chief burdened that solely civilian areas had been broken after three separate missile strikes on Dnipro killed three together with a baby.

Posting on X, he stated: “Russian murderers have resumed their usual business.

“This proves once again that aggression cannot be stopped by words alone but only by decisive action in defense of the state and the people against whom this war is waged.

“Over the past evening and night, Russian forces attacked Kyiv, Dnipro, Sumy, Khmelnytskyi, and other regions of Ukraine. In Dnipro, one of Ukraine’s most important hospitals, the Mechnikov Hospital, was damaged, along with ordinary residential buildings. Tragically, three people were killed, including a child. In Kyiv, this Russian strike took the life of a girl who was only 14 years old.

“My condolences to their families and loved ones. Many were wounded in these strikes, and all received the necessary assistance. This war has continued for three years now, and there is only one culprit—Moscow. That is why we must exert pressure on the aggressor that can truly force them to end their terror and war. Reliable peace and security are achieved only through strength and determination.”

Weapons bought from South Korea won’t be transferred to Ukraine, the president of Poland Andrzej Duda has stated.

Mr Duda was requested by reporters whether or not Poland would provide Kyiv with any arms it obtained from South Korea, if Seoul decides to provide Ukraine with weapons in future.

He stated that Ukraine had requested the doable switch of South Korean weapons to Kyiv – however Poland refused.

“There is no scenario in which we give someone the weapons we have recently bought for billions of zlotys from the pockets of our taxpayers. These weapons should serve the security and defence of the Republic of Poland,” he stated.

In a uncommon interview with the BBC’s Emma Barnett, Bush, 66, introduced the discharge of a brand new brief movie – which she wrote and directed – impressed by Russia’s struggle on Ukraine Just over 4 minutes lengthy, the animated clip depicts slightly shrew trying to find hope as she navigates a bombed-out metropolis, soundtracked to “Snowflake”, Bush’s tune from her 2011 album, 50 Words for Snow.

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Leaders of the Group of Seven rich democracies yesterday reached consensus on supply of some $50bn in loans to Ukraine backed by the earnings from frozen Russian sovereign property beginning as early as December.

“These loans will be serviced and repaid by future flows of extraordinary revenues stemming from the immobilization of Russian Sovereign Assets,” the G7 assertion stated.

“Our aim is to begin disbursing the funds by the end of the year,” stated the assertion, which was launched as world finance chiefs had been assembly in Washington for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual conferences.

An accompanying assertion from G7 finance ministers stated that the loans can be disbursed by way of a collection of bilateral loans, beginning as quickly as 1 December and persevering with by way of the top of 2027 “in installments that will reflect Ukraine’s urgent financing needs.”

Each bilateral mortgage would enter into pressure no later than 30 June 2025, which gives some timing flexibility for G7 members to rearrange particulars.

The Ukrainian army’s commander-in-chief has refuted stories that Ukrainian troops are being surrounded in Russia’s Kursk area.

Oleksandr Syrskyi wrote on Telegram, in response to Ukrainska Pravda: “This is blatant disinformation that does not reflect the real situation. Ukrainian forces continue active operations on the Kursk front, for the third consecutive month, depleting the enemy’s combat potential.

“Despite intense pressure from the enemy in this direction, the occupiers are sustaining significant losses in personnel and military equipment.”

Since August 8, Russian forces on the Kursk entrance have misplaced greater than 17,000 killed, with 6,662 killed, 10,446 wounded and 711 captured, Syrskyi stated.

A Russian missile assault hit residences and a medical facility within the central Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro yesterday night, killing three individuals and injuring at the very least 9, regional governor Serhiy Lysak stated.

Mr Lysak, writing on the Telegram messaging app, stated an eight-year-old lady and a teenage boy and had been among the many injured.

News stories from town stated a number of strikes hit completely different areas there.

Mr Lysak stated a two-storey constructing was partly destroyed and one particular person may nonetheless be underneath rubble. A medical facility and 4 residence buildings suffered injury.

Pictures posted on-line confirmed residents and rescue groups outdoors shattered homes and broken amenities on the medical constructing.

The US has stated for the primary time it had proof that 3,000 North Korean troops had been receiving coaching in Russia for doable deployment towards Ukraine in “a very serious” escalation that will make them “legitimate military targets”.

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