Increasing alliance between Russia and North Korea goes beyond transferring weapons, Ukraine leader says; Belarusian president says Putin’s nuclear weapons threat will ‘cool the ardour’ of Western adversaries. What we know on day 964
Vladimir Putin in an open-top car with Kim Jong-un during a welcoming ceremony in Pyongyang on 19 June 2024. Ukraine’s president says North Korea is providing personnel to Russia’s army.Vladimir Putin in an open-top car with Kim Jong-un during a welcoming ceremony in Pyongyang on 19 June 2024. Ukraine’s president says North Korea is providing personnel to Russia’s army.
Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman has urged international organisations to respond to a claim that several Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed in Russia’s Kursk region It said the attack was directed against “a strongpoint and concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel”, and the bombs were delivered by a Russian Su-34 warplane. Ukraine caught Moscow by surprise on 6 August by bursting across the border into the Kursk region, in the first invasion of Russian sovereign territory since the second world war. Russia has been trying for more than two months to eject the Ukrainian forces.
Russia launched 68 drones and four missiles targeting Ukrainian territory overnight, Ukraine’s air force said on Sunday.
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