A further 160,000 people are to be drafted into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which will raise the manning of units to 85%, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Lytvynenko said during a session of the Ukrainian parliament. According to Lytvynenko, 1,000,050 citizens have been drafted into the military so far since the beginning of martial law.
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The Pentagon has stated that the US will not impose new limits on Ukraine’s use of American weapons if North Korea joins the war; this was said after NATO confirmed North Korean units have been deployed to Kursk. North Korean involvement is fanning Western concerns that the war in Ukraine could widen elsewhere.
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North Korea has sent troops to Russia in recent weeks, as stated by the United States Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin. This had confirmed prior assertions by Ukraine and South Korea that North Korea has deepened its military partnership with Russia. It is estimated that 3,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to Russia for training, and South Korean officials believe that North Korea could send up to 12,000 to Russia.
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Ukraine’s population has declined by 10 million, or around a quarter, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion as a result of refugees leaving the country along with collapsing fertility and war deaths. This was confirmed by Florence Bauer, the Eastern Europe head at the UN Population Fund, who said at a Geneva news conference that the invasion had caused an already difficult demographic situation into something more severe.
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The Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor’s Office has initiated a criminal investigation into the killings of two unarmed Ukrainian POWs by the Russian Armed Forces. The executions were said to have happened near the city of Selidove in the Donetsk Oblast. The two Ukrainian soldiers were believed to have been placed face down with their feet pressed to the ground before being shot at close range by automatic weapons.
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Finland hosted a meeting dedicated to the 8th point of the Ukrainian Peace Formula, Environmental Security, at Ukraine’s request. The conference was held in hybrid and attended by representatives from 60 countries. The Joint Communiqué on strengthening environmental security in Ukraine published in connection with the conference stresses that it is important to assess and repair the damages caused by the war and that those guilty of crimes must be held accountable. The objective of the conference was to promote the reconstruction of Ukraine per the principles of sustainable development and the green transition.
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Switzerland has become the 15th member of the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI), a project which seeks to build a unified air and missile defence system across Europe. The system was initiated by Germany following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and was designed to allow European countries to purchase defence systems together and train together.
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