New military aid to Ukraine and death of couple in Zhytomyr Oblast: last night's highlights
Slovakia has approved a new package of military aid to Ukraine, and the country will transfer 300 generators; a couple hit a mine in Zhytomyr Oblast — 8 children became orphans. Here is what you may have missed from the previous night.
New military and humanitarian aid
The Slovak government approved a new package of military aid to Ukraine. It will include ammunition, warm clothes, and other equipment. In addition, the country will donate 300 generators in December.
France has donated 100 medium-capacity generators to Ukraine for the heating season, the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine reported.
And the US is preparing a new $275 million military aid package for Ukraine, Reuters reports. The package will include new means to fight drones and strengthen air defense.
In addition, the US House of Representatives has approved a record US defense budget for 2023, which amounts to about $ 858 billion, including $ 800 million for Ukraine. In the future, the document must be approved by the Senate and President Joe Biden.
Death of a couple in Zhytomyr Oblast
A couple died in the north of Zhytomyr Oblast: their car exploded. It probably hit a mine. 8 children became orphans, who are now under the supervision of relatives.
According to preliminary data, a 38-year-old man and his 32-year-old wife were driving a car from the village of Sushchany toward the village of Kopyshche.
“At a certain point, their car was on the roadside, where the car exploded. Preliminarily, it hit a mine. As a result, the couple died. During the inspection of the scene, experts recorded evidence of an explosion,” the police said.
Other news:
- in Vilnius, one of the largest memorials to Soviet troops in the country was dismantled at the Antakalnis cemetery. This was done despite the position of the UN committee, which delayed the dismantling after the appeal of “ethnic Russians”;
- Ukrainian hospitals have formed a five-day stock of fuel for alternative power sources in case of a long-term power outage, the Ministry of Health reported;
- the leader of the ruling party of Georgia “Georgian Dream” Irakli Kobakhidze said that the government does not have generators and transformers of high power, which Ukraine asked to transfer. Meanwhile, Georgians raised funds for 200 small generators for Ukraine on their own;
- the occupiers began choosing only healthy children for deportation from Ukraine so that Russians would not return them back during illegal adoption, human rights activists say.
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