For today, links to seven reports: from Agence France-Press, Reuters, Tass, and the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Ukraine claims strike on depot storing North Korean ammo. From AFP. Kyiv said today it had struck a Russian arms depot in the border region of Bryansk that was storing hardware and ammo including munitions supplied to Moscow by North Korea. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Kyiv Post.
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2,300 Ukrainian soldiers being trained in France as part of new brigade, by Kateryna Denisova | The Kyiv Independent The French military is training and equipping Ukraine’s Anne de Kyiv brigade in France, the first instance of a foreign country training a Ukrainian brigade on its territory, the French Embassy in Kyiv said today. READ MORE . . .
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Zelenskiy says battlefield situation ‘creates opportunity’ to bring an end to war in 2025. From Reuters. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said today that the battlefield situation ‘creates opportunity’ to take steps to end the war in Ukraine no later than 2025. READ MORE . . .
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Situation in Kursk Region. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian troops have liberated the settlements of Novaya Sorochina and Pokrovsky in the Kursk Region, the Defense Ministry said. Over the past 24 hours . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 8 Ukraine could be facing toughest winter since invasion began, NATO chief says. From Reuters. BRUSSELS — Ukraine could be facing its toughest winter since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, as Moscow continues to attack the country’s critical energy infrastructure, new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Tuesday. “NATO must and will . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM OCT. 8 U.S. scrambled to urge Putin not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Woodward book says. From AP. WASHINGTON — Journalist Bob Woodard’s new book, “War,” describes how, months into Russia’s war in Ukraine, the United States had intelligence pointing to “highly sensitive, credible conversations inside the Kremlin” that President Vladimir Putin was seriously considering . . . READ MORE . . .