Military actions in Donetsk region, 132 combat clashes, enemy shelling, North Korea's entry into the war, 35 billion euros in EU loans. How the 973rd day of a full-scale war will be remembered.
shelling of Mirnohrad
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that as of 22:00 on October 23, 132 combat clashes had occurred, almost 40 of them in the Pokrovsk direction.
There are 30 combat clashes in Kurakhovskoye.
More details about the operational situation as of the evening of October 23 are in the news.
NATO spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah confirmed in a statement to journalists that the Alliance has relevant evidence of the presence of North Korean troops in Russia, Politico writes.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also said this. He said that it remains to be seen what exactly the Koreans are doing in Russia, but according to data from South Korea and Ukraine, they are preparing to fight there.
Dakhlallah said in a statement to the media that “allies have confirmed evidence of the deployment of DPRK troops in Russia. If these troops were to fight in Ukraine, it would mark a significant escalation in North Korea's support for Russia's illegal war and another sign of significant Russian casualties on the front lines.”
The statements are the first Western confirmation of what Ukraine has been saying for weeks: North Korea is fully entering the war. financial aid to Ukraine in the amount of 35 billion euros in loans.
The package was approved after successfully completing a written procedure. The decisions must now be published in the EU's Official Journal and will enter into force.
The funds are provided within the 50 billion loan approved by the Group of Seven using excess profits from frozen Russian money.
The United States has decided to transfer $20 billion to Ukraine as part of a loan that will be repaid using profits from frozen Russian assets in the West.
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this during his evening address.
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The Cabinet of Ministers has amended the procedure for determining critically important enterprises whose employees have the right to a reservation. In particular, it has allowed them to be checked for compliance with the established criteria, writes Ekonomicheskaya Pravda, citing the decrees.
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Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said that the central medical and social expert commission (MSEK) is planned to be liquidated by the end of the week.
He said this during a briefing on the liquidation of the Medical and Social Expertise Commission and the implementation of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on combating corruption and other offenses in determining disability, Ukrinform reports.
“By the end of this week, we will adopt an order from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which will liquidate the central MSEK. We prepared for this by strengthening the material and technical base of the subordinate institute in the city of Dnipro. Since we saw that the central MSEK is only a visual examination, then people were sent to clinical bases in Dnipro and Vinnytsia,” Lyashko emphasized.
The police have opened a case and are investigating the fact of the use of funds during the international tournament in artistic gymnastics Ukraine Nation Cup, the main organizer of which was the champion Stella Khlusa (Zakharova). The case was opened back in June 2015.
This is stated in the response of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Kyiv in response to an information request from LB.ua, which we made while working on the investigation into the inflated costs of holding the 2024 Ukrainian Championship in Artistic Gymnastics, also organized by Stella Zakharova.
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