President Volodimir Zelenski already announced it days ago in Brussels and this Monday NATO has confirmed the presence of North Korean soldiers specifically in the Kursk region in support of Russia in his invasion of Ukraine. This was expressed by the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte, who defined it as “a significant escalation” and a “threat” for the security not only of the Euro-Atlantic area but also for the Pacific area.
Rutte speaks of “military units deployed in the Kursk region” and calls for these activities to “cease” in Putin’s “illegal war” against kyiv. This presence of North Korean troops It is for Zelensky, as he told EU leaders, “a step towards world war.” Now it has been a delegation from the South Korean intelligence services that has informed NATO of these movements; a dynamic that will also be made known to the European Union in the coming hours.
In this scenario of escalation, Zelensky wants everyone to close ranks with Ukraine, and he made it clear to his partners. The Ukrainian president does not want ‘leaks’ in that support. “Only with unity in the EU can we achieve progress, we can mobilize not only the leaders of the Union but other leaders“, he noted, before adding that lasting peace does not depend only on kyiv: “It is important that this not only depends on the will of Russia but on the will of our partners and this allows the plan to be real,” he defended, calling For now, to “consistent” support from its Western allies. Of course, he has made it clear in recent days that he is not negotiating with Moscow nor an entry into NATO in exchange for territorial transfers.
What he does have on the table is a “victory plan”, which for kyiv comes well before a plan for peace, something very distant given the dynamics of the Kremlin. It consists of five points, which he put on the table of the 27. The first involves keeping the alliance with NATO strong, which includes a formal invitation for the country to be part of the organization. The second has to do with military support “to pressure Russia” on the ground.while the third, says the Ukrainian president, consists directly of “placing a package of deterrence measures on Ukrainian territory to force Russia to participate in real peace negotiations or allow the destruction of its military objectives.”
The fourth and fifth point They are the “protection” of Ukraine’s resources, which Moscow “wants to take over” and, after the war, “the reconstruction” of the country, for which economic aid will be key. In this scenario, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the EU and the Member States have sent aid worth 118.3 billion euros, but Zelensky’s demand involves a boost to military support. At that point, together with the military aid provided by the Member States of the Union, it is estimated that the EU’s military support to the Ukrainian army It amounts to a total of 43.5 billion euros. But it is not enough.
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