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Our task remains unchanged – this year we must be ready to open negotiations on Ukraine’s membership in the EU
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Official website
17 October 2023 - 18:50
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/nashe-zavdannya-nezminne-cogo-roku-buti-gotovimi-vidkriti-pe-86413
I wish you health, fellow Ukrainians!
A report for this day. An eventful one.
The Staff. Key war and foreign policy issues. A meeting with the Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate. A long one. On key risks. We are addressing every risk, every threat. Our response is powerful.
Finance Minister Marchenko informed about meetings and negotiations with the heads of international financial institutions. The annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank have recently taken place. Their attention to Ukraine is important. And there is an important conclusion that many partners, different leaders and institutions have: global stability, global security, and the development of the global economy are directly linked to the fact that Russian aggression against Ukraine must end, end fairly – with the restoration of international order, with the full force of international law.
Today, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted the decision necessary to start negotiations with the European Union. The law on politically exposed persons has been adopted. I am waiting to sign the text of the law. Our task remains unchanged: to be ready to open negotiations on Ukraine’s membership in the EU this year. We are doing the Ukrainian part of the job for this and we will complete it. We expect a political decision to start negotiations from the leaders of the EU countries.
I held a final meeting on the work of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Ukraine this year. This is an important and effective platform for direct communication with communities and addressing pressing issues in the regions, interaction of local authorities with all central government agencies, the government, and the Verkhovna Rada. I am grateful to everyone who is actively working within the Congress. In particular, with regard to the restoration and preparation for winter. But, of course, the work of the Congress should be expanded to cover a wider range of issues, including social issues, communications, job creation, and many, many other things that are important to people across the country.
And the front. The warriors. Our brigades. The 54th separate mechanized brigade, the 68th separate jaeger brigade, the 25th separate airborne brigade – this is the Lyman direction. And the Soledar direction: the 92nd separate assault brigade and the 93rd Kholodnyi Yar separate mechanized brigade. Thank you, warriors!
Thank you to everyone who is fighting and working for Ukraine! Thank you to everyone who is helping us! And today I am especially grateful to the United States. Our agreements with President Biden are being implemented. And they are being implemented very accurately – ATACMS have proven themselves.
Glory to Ukraine!
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJf7FGtg2tM
VIDEO
Nine Russian helicopters destroyed at airfield in one day - Dozens are killed and injured - OFFICIAL
Kanal13
1.6M subscribers
10-17-2023 9:30 a.m EDT
2:49 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as8PTnOULss
Ukrainian troops have attacked helicopters and equipment belonging to the Russian occupying forces at air bases near the occupied cities of Berdiansk and Luhansk on the night of 16-17 October. Ukrainian General Staff reported this. Notably, a video of explosions reportedly is Berdiansk emerged in local online groups on the night of 16-17 October.
The Ukrainian General Staff later clarified that Ukrainian Rocket Forces and Artillery hit helicopters at landing sites, an ammunition storage point and an artillery vehicle belonging to the Russians. İt is said that nine Russian helicopters, an air defense installation, an ammunition depot and much more were destroyed as a result of the special operation Dragonfly in temporarily occupied Luhansk and Berdiansk.
It is reported that the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine received information about the use by the Russians of airfields in temporarily occupied Berdyansk and Luhansk, as well as the presence there of a significant amount of aviation and special equipment and ammunition. The specified data was checked and confirmed. The coordinates and necessary data were transmitted to the units of the Defense Forces for destruction.
As a result, the fighters launched a fire strike on the night of October 16-17, and the invaders suffered significant losses. According to the latest data, the following were destroyed in Berdiansk and Luhansk: nine helicopters of different modifications special equipment that was located at airfields air defense launcher ammunition depot airfield runways damaged Losses in enemy manpower amount to dozens of dead and wounded. Bodies are still being pulled out from under the rubble. The mayor of the temporarily occupied Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia Ivan Fedorov said that half the night on 16-17 October, the city’s residents listened to the wonderful “tracks” of air defense’s work, arrivals and detonations of ammunition near Berdiansk.
There aren’t enough Ukrainian men of fighting age left to form ‘five new brigades’,so this would be the geriatric or adolescent males or perhaps Unite States army the Ukrainians are planning to ‘use’.
No - it’s just flat out lies. The last offensive failed, the money is drying up, the fighting shifts to Israel. Of course, Biden will try to dump the last American dollar in a ditch in the Ukraine, and Zelensky will try to spill every last drop of Ukrainian blood before the elites behind this proxy war all retire to wealthy/mansions/luxury.