The war in Ukraine, day 980. The US urges China to press for the withdrawal of North Korean troops from the border with Ukraine / Biden: Ukraine must retaliate if North Korean soldiers cross the border

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The war in Ukraine, day 980. The US urges China to press for the withdrawal of North Korean troops from the border with Ukraine / Biden: Ukraine must retaliate if North Korean soldiers cross the border

  • Ukrenergo says Ukraine is facing its “most difficult” winter since the start of the war.
  • The Russians launch 62 drones towards Ukraine during the night

The war in Ukraine, day 980. The US urges China to press for the withdrawal of North Korean troops from the border with Ukraine / Biden: Ukraine must retaliate if North Korean soldiers cross the border

UPDATE The Russians launch 62 drones towards Ukraine during the night

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 62 drones and launched a missile attack on a residential area in the Sumy region on the night of October 29-30. A total of 33 Russian drones were successfully destroyed, while another 25 disappeared from the radar, the Ukrainian Air Force announced.

The air force also reported that Russian tactical aircraft are continuously hitting frontline areas in Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts using guided bombs, according to Ukrainska Pravda.



UPDATE Biden: Ukraine must retaliate if North Korean soldiers cross the border

US President Joe Biden said that if North Korean troops violate the Russian-Ukrainian border, Ukraine must retaliate, reports Reuters.

Biden expressed concern about the presence of North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region of Russia, stressing the potential threat they could pose to Ukraine.

UPDATE Ukrenergo says that Ukraine is facing the “most difficult” winter since the beginning of the war

Oleksiy Brekht, the interim head of the Ukrainian state grid operator Ukrenergo, said in an interview that the country could face the most difficult winter since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Kyiv Independent writes.

“The winter will be the hardest in the last three years,” Brekht told Suspilne in an excerpt from an interview published on Tuesday.

CNN: US urges China to press North Korean troops to withdraw from Ukraine frontline

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has urged China, which has ties to Pyongyang, to pressure North Korea to withdraw North Korean troops from the front line in Ukraine, CNN reported, citing a US official. .

NATO and the Pentagon have previously confirmed that North Korean troops are training in Russia and that some of them are heading to Russia’s Kursk region, part of which Ukrainian forces have controlled since August.

Source: www.mediafax.ro