1021 days ago, the Russian attack on Ukraine began. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday expressed “deep gratitude” to Donald Trump for his “firm determination” to end Ukraine's war with Russia during a meeting with the US president-elect in Paris on Saturday. This is what happened in the last 24 hours in Ukraine and its surroundings.
> It was announced in the Ukrainian capital that a new contact group on strengthening Ukraine in the war with Russia, consisting of key partners of Kiev, including Poland, will meet in December.
> In occupied Donetsk, a car exploded in which the former commandant of the Russian correctional colony in Olenovka, Sergey Evsyukov, and his wife were, reports the portal “Ukrainskaya Pravda” with reference to Russian media and social networks. Yevsiukov died, his wife was seriously injured. In 2022, dozens of Ukrainian prisoners were killed in the prison he was in charge of.
> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during a meeting with the US president-elect in Paris on Saturday, expressed “deep gratitude” to Donald Trump for his “firm determination” to end Ukraine's war with Russia.
“Above all, working together to end this war is our absolute priority. This is exactly what we will focus on as a result of the meeting in Paris,” Zelensky wrote on Platform X.
“I thank President Macron for organizing this meeting and I also thank President Trump for his determination to end this war,” he said.
Donald Trump met with Volodymyr Zelensky LUDOVYCH MARIN/PAP/EPA
> The Security Service of Ukraine reported on Monday that Sea Baby naval drones damaged several Russian helicopters and patrol boats as a result of a special operation in the Kerch Strait. The target of the drones was also a barge carrying military equipment and military equipment to repair a bridge in annexed Crimea.
>Enemy planes attacked several regions of this country and came in waves. The DeepState project, which monitors the situation on the front, reported that Russian forces are advancing in the region of the city of Kurakhov in the Donbass. Since the start of the Russian aggression in February 2022, Ukraine has lost 43,000 soldiers and 370,000 have been injured. During that time, about 200,000 Russians were killed and more than 550,000 were injured, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
> US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Verma received in Washington the authorized representative of the Polish government on the reconstruction of Ukraine, Pawel Kowal. The conversation was about cooperation in the reconstruction of Ukraine.
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