He did not give more details, but said South Korea will also provide Ukraine with $150 million (£114m) in humanitarian aid this year, following about $100 (£76m) million in 2022. However, in a joint press conference, Mr Yoon said South Korea plans to provide "a larger scale of military supplies" to Ukraine this year, following last year's provision of non-lethal supplies such as body armour and helmets. South Korea is a US ally and the world's ninth biggest arms exporter, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) think tank.īut it is also wary of Russia's influence over North Korea and has so far resisted Western pressure to help arm Ukraine directly. We reported earlier that Mr Yoon is in Kyiv visiting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after attending a NATO summit in Lithuania and Poland earlier in the week. Yoon Suk Yeol pledged a bigger batch of military supplies and $150m (£114m) in humanitarian aid. On his surprise visit to the Ukrainian capital, South Korean President "This is one of those stories that looks like a military administration story, but there's a lot of politics behind it." "So it may not be coincidental that he comes from Chula and he's close to the general who is one of the key players in Kremlin politics at the moment. "But this guy has been removed for criticising the ministry of defence in the same way that Popov was removed.
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"Chula is full of rumours that the governor of Chula is playing a part in Kremlin politics," he says. He tells us that Major General Seliverstov's former command is based in Chula - south of Moscow. Professor Clarke says he thinks the "rumours will turn out to be true" and there is likely political significance behind his sacking. It comes after Major General Ivan Popov was sacked earlier this week. Russian military bloggers are claiming Major General Vladimir Seliverstov has been dismissed from his job as head of the 106th Airborne Division (see 16.10 post). Military and defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke has given us his take on reports a second Russian general has been sacked. Prilepin, was wounded in a car bombing that killed his driver. In May a prominent Russian nationalist writer, Zakhar Their killings on Ukraine, while Kyiv denied that and portrayed
In bomb attacks inside Russia in the past year. Two prominent pro-war Russian figures, journalist Daryaĭugina and military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, have been killed
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Ms Sobchak is a well known journalist and TV host who also ran Telegram about the alleged plot, urging the security services to Supporter of Russia's war in Ukraine, posted a message on Ms Simonyan, head of state media outlet RT and a vocal There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, which has denied involvement in assassinations of pro-war figures The seven defendants were remanded in custody until 14 September, Russia's state-owned TASS news agency reported on Saturday. They claim the five under-18s and two men were "motivated by national hatred" in a plot "backed by Ukraine" to kill Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak.
A court in Moscow has indicted seven people on criminal charges of trying to kill two prominent Russian journalists.
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