Cover image: Training of Chechen fighters in the vicinity of kyiv, October 15, 202. A group of recruits are training on a hill. The exercise is to take the hill. LAURENCE GEAI / MYOP FOR “THE WORLD”
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, October 26, asked the international community $38 billion in aid to help it deal with the budget deficit expected in 2023 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Joe Biden warned that “Russia would make an immensely serious mistake if it used a tactical nuclear weapon”, at a time when Moscow claims that Ukraine is preparing a “dirty bomb”, a claim denied by kyiv and Western countries. Before the UN Security Council, Russia reiterated its accusations against Ukraine on Tuesday. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg argued that Russia’s accusations are a classic Moscow tactic: “Accusing others for what they intend to do. »
- The new British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, reaffirmed the “unwavering support” from the UK to Kyiv during a call to Volodymyr Zelensky. “I am convinced that the partnership between our countries and the traditional British leadership in the defense of democracy and freedom will continue to grow stronger”, the Ukrainian president said in a video, saying he invited Mr. Sunak to Ukraine. The latter replied hoping “that they will meet in person soon”.
- German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited kyiv on Tuesday, for his first visit to Ukraine, after a trip planned a week ago was canceled for security reasons. Since October 10, the Ukrainian capital has again been the target of Russian missiles and explosive drones of Iranian manufacture which have mainly targeted energy infrastructure there and left a dozen dead.
- Israeli President Isaac Herzog claimed on Tuesday that he had shared intelligence information with the United States demonstrating Moscow’s use of Iranian drones. “Iranian weapons play a key role in destabilizing our world and the international community must learn from this, now and in the future”said President Herzog.
- On the ground after eight months of conflict, the fighting is raging, particularly in Bakhmout, a city in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, that the Russian army has been trying to conquer for months. At least seven civilians were killed and three others injured on Monday in this city, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Telegram on Tuesday.
- In southern Ukraine, pro-Russian authorities in the city of Melitopol, controlled by Moscow forces, announced that a car bomb had exploded near local media offices, injuring five people.
Find our direct from yesterday by clicking on this link.
Read all our articles, analyzes and reports on the war in Ukraine
Decryptions. “The Ukrainian army is a MacGyver army” : the ingenuity of the Ukrainian forces against the Russian troops
Testimonials. “I am at my computer, I take a look at the blue sky and, suddenly, I hear a shrill whistle, I see the missile pass through the frame of my window”
Factual. The Ukrainian electricity network, new ” battlefield “ from Russia
Maintenance. charges of “dirty bomb” : “Moscow tries to hide the major defeat that its army suffered in southern Ukraine”
Decryptions. Undocumented Ukrainians who arrived in France before the war in a “triple dead end”
Grandstand. Michel Duclos, former diplomat: “It is not too early for a consultation behind closed doors between Ukraine and its main supporters”
Meet. In Russia, feminists against the war
Factual. The responses of ” World “ to your most frequently asked questions