1017 days ago the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. The Ukrainian army will receive over 30,000 high-precision long-range DeepStrike drones next year, said Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. Here's what happened in and around Ukraine over the last 24 hours.
> Russian troops they are sent to the front in Ukraine, women recruited in prisons – said Nazar Voloshin, spokesman for the southern grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He added, however, that none of them had been captured by Ukrainians yet.
> The Ukrainian army will receive over 30,000 high-precision, long-range DeepStrike drones next year, said Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. The minister explained that the new generation drones are capable of operating independently over long distances and accurately hitting designated targets. “Some of them were financed by our international partners who invested in our arms industry,” he said.
Ukraine, Kharkiv region. SZU drone unitKharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, 12/10/2024. Soldiers of the drone unit (“aeogroup”) of the 154th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in positions near the front in the Kharkiv region. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is underway.PAP/Mykola Kalyeniak
> A Russian diplomat, listening to a report on crimes committed by Russia against Ukrainian children, at one point he started smiling. The report was delivered at the UN Security Council by Daria Zarivna, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president's office, who spoke, among other things, about illegal deportations and destruction of the identity of Ukrainian children.
> More than 300 types of military weapons have been banned in Canada, and preparations are underway to buy them from their owners and transfer them to Ukraine, government representatives said.
> Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans is pessimistic about Ukraine's situation in the war with Russia. According to him, Russia now has the advantage and “you can even say that Ukraine is losing the war.” Brekelmans presented this position during a debate in the Dutch parliament.
> Calin Georgescu, the far-right and pro-Russian candidate in the presidential elections in Romania, said that will end all support for Ukraineif he takes the highest office in the country. Georgescu, who won the first round of voting, called Vladimir Putin a “patriot and leader.”
> Ukraine rejects the United States' call to lower the age of military mobilization to 18 from the current 25, a senior Ukrainian government official told AFP anonymously. According to him, the problem is not the number of soldiers on the front, but too little military aid from the US.
> The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, appealed to all parliaments around the world to “support Ukraine as long as necessary.” She recalled that a few weeks ago, 1,000 days had passed since Russia's unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.
Main photo source: PAP/Mykola Kalyeniak