North Korea’s Kim Jong-un set to meet Vladimir Putin; Ukraine recaptures gas and oil rigs in Black Sea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was travelling to Russia by armoured train, Pyongyang said, with face-to-face talks potentially focused on weapon sales
. “Having to travel across the length of his own country to meet with an international pariah to ask for assistance in a war that he expected to win in the opening month, I would characterise it as him begging for assistance,” state department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. Ukraine said its troops had regained more territory on the eastern and southern fronts in the past week of its counteroffensive.
The “decision-making process in Germany is moving forward” regarding the supply of Taurus missiles to Kyiv, president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after a meeting with the country’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock
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