Ukraine: North Macedonia sends planes and tanks to confront Russia

Advisor to the President of Ukraine, Mykhailo Podolyakconfirmed this Saturday the delivery of fighter jets and tanks to Ukraine according to North Macedonia.

“You know, friends, when problems arise. It doesn’t matter the size of your country or your GDP, it’s your heart that counts. Many countries today show more courage than half of the G-20. Like North Macedonia, it’s a shoulder to Ukraine with tanks and planes. We will never forget this,” Podolyak wrote on Twitter.

The Macedonian portal mkd.mk has published that the country has returned Ukraine four Su-25 fighters, which he bought in 2001 for four million euros. It will continue in their confrontation Russia which has been going on since February.

These are three single-seat aircraft and one double-seat aircraft, which performed several infantry support flights during the counter-offensive against the Albanian militias.

Ministry of Defence Macedonia announced in the spring of 2003 that the country no longer needed these fighters, and in 2004 they were put into reserve. Now they have been sent back to Ukraine.

Explosions near a nuclear reactor in Zaporozhye

Ukraine D Russia On Friday, they accused each other of bombing the area near the nuclear reactor at the Ukrainian plant in Zaporozhye, the largest in Europe.

The exchange of accusations about the threat of catastrophe reminded that the war, which began more than five months ago, continues to wreak havoc, despite an agreement that allowed three ships with grain to leave Russian-blocked Ukrainian ports.

Grain shipments to world markets have resumed thanks to the mediation of Turkey and the UN in an attempt to alleviate the food crisis that has caused food prices to soar.

Ukraine accused Russia about carrying out three explosions near the reactor at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which have been in the hands of Russia since March.

Ukrainian prison attack to be investigated

The UN has announced a special mission to investigate last week’s attack on a prison in Donetsk, which killed fifty imprisoned Ukrainian citizens and whose authorship is the subject of cross-charges between Moscow and Kyiv.

This was announced on Wednesday by UN Secretary General António Guterres, who confirmed that both Russia and Ukraine had asked the organization to conduct this investigation.

Guterres explained that the terms of reference for the mission are currently being prepared, which must be accepted by both sides, and the search for experts who can integrate it is starting.

The Portuguese recalled that the United Nations does not have the authority to conduct a criminal investigation, but it does have the authority to organize an operation that is in charge of collecting evidence to try to clarify what happened.

(As reported by Europe Press)