The Tomahawk missile scandal is gaining momentum; The Pentagon announced new military aid to Ukraine. Athletistic highlights yesterday’s key events.
President Vladimir Zelensky expressed dissatisfaction with the actions of his partners who leaked information about the secret points of the Victory Plan, especially about Ukraine’s request for Tomahawk missiles, without providing them. “If you want to tell the public some details of the closed applications that are in the plan, related, for example, to the missiles that we have requested from our partners, then you will first say what I will give, and then tell everyone what’s in the application because when one of the partners says it’s in the application, it means he doesn’t really want to give anything, so the decision is postponed,” he said. The Kremlin also reacted to the leak about Tomahawk .They said these were “deceptions” by Ukraine aimed at “dragging the West into the conflict as much as possible.”
The United States plans to announce new military aid to Ukraine in the coming days. This is what US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a press conference. We are talking about artillery, air defense, armored vehicles, ammunition and other important weapons.
President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Vasyl Bodnar Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland. From 2021 until recently, Bodnar was the Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey. Previously, he served as Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (2017-2021).
A smaller-than-expected energy deficit and slightly higher grain yields led to an upgrade in GDP growth forecasts. Thus, GDP growth at the end of 2024 will be 4% instead of 3.7% predicted in July, and at the end of 2025 – 4.3% against the previously expected 4.1%. The National Bank also changed the price growth forecast for 2024 and 2025 for the worse: by 1.2 and 0.3 percentage points (pp), respectively, to 9.7% and 6.9%. Only in 2026 will the inflation rate be brought to the target of 5%.
President Vladimir Zelensky, by order, removed Andrei Kostin from the position of Prosecutor General of Ukraine. As you know, Kostin resigned amid scandals related to abuses in the field of disability registration for prosecutors.
Ukraine plans to submit a detailed request for weapons to South Korea in the near future, President Vladimir Zelensky said in an interview with a South Korean television channel. “Now, after the DPRK receives the official status of one who came to fight against the citizens of Ukraine, our request will be detailed, it will be discussed with my representative, who will come to South Korea in the near future about weapons,” he told Zelensky. He clarified that he did not know how South Korea would respond to such a request. But Ukraine needed additional artillery, air defense systems and some other important things.
Later, the Foreign Minister of South Korea said that the decision to provide armed support to Ukraine depends on the level of involvement of North Korean forces in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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