War in Ukraine: New Russian Advance, North Korean Aid, a Rain of Bombs… An Update on the Situation
L’armée russe poursuit sa progression dans la région de Donetsk. MAXPPP – Dmytro Smolienko/Avalon
Tous les jours, Midi Libre fait le point sur la situation en Ukraine. Ce dimanche 13 octobre, découvrez les dernières actualités autour de ce conflit.
The Russian army is still advancing in Ukraine. It claimed this Sunday the capture of a new village in the east of the country, near the strategic city of Pokrovsk, a region where its forces have been advancing rapidly for several weeks. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed to have captured the village of Mykhailivka, at the gates of Selydove. This city, the last town south of Pokrovsk, had been badly damaged by months of Russian bombing.
The target of Vladimir Putin's troops remains Pokrovsk, a city of 60,000 inhabitants before the war, because it is a key logistical crossroads for the Ukrainian army. This is where the only mine producing the coal needed to make steel is located.“Its loss would halve the production of this metal, which is essential to the military industry and expensive to import,” experts estimate. However, even President Zelensky has acknowledged that the situation of his forces in this sector is currently “very difficult”.
North Korea's intervention ?
Another turning point in this conflict ? Volodymyr Zelensky in any case stated on Sunday that North Korea was providing soldiers to the Russian army to carry out its invasion of Ukraine, in addition to delivering ammunition.“We see a growing alliance between Russia and regimes like North Korea. It is no longer just about the transfer of weapons. It is about sending people from North Korea to the armed forces of the occupier,” he said in his daily address. “Under these conditions, our relations with our partners must be developed. “The front needs more support,” he continued, again calling for long-range weapons to increase pressure on the aggressor and prevent a bigger war.On Thursday, the Kremlin denied reports from kyiv and Seoul that North Korean soldiers are assisting the Russian military in Ukraine, which the West says is receiving ammunition and missiles from Pyongyang. Nuclear-armed North Korea, however, has strengthened its military ties with Moscow in recent months, and Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare visit to Pyongyang in June to sign a mutual defense agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. A Ukrainian media outlet reported last weekend that six North Korean officers had died in a Ukrainian missile attack days earlier near Donetsk in Moscow-occupied eastern Ukraine. Andriy Kovalenko, an official with Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said on Telegram that North Korean troops in Ukraine “are limited to a small number of troops from the genius".
900 bombs, 40 missiles, 400 drones
In the same speech, President Zelensky also claimed that the Russian military had dropped 900 guided bombs, fired more than 40 missiles, and launched 400 attack drones in the past week. "No nation should go through such ordeals alone," he lamented. The Russian Ministry, for its part, said it had repelled “five Ukrainian counterattacks” in the Kursk region, in the direction of the towns of Zeleny Shlyakh, Nizhny Klin and Pokrovsk”, as well as an “attempt to cross the Russian border in the direction of Novy Put”.
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