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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Margus Tsahkna on Tuesday opened a bridge in Ukraine which has been rebuilt with Estonia's support after it was partially destroyed in March 2022. That's according to Estonia's public broadcaster ERR, Ukrinform reports. Estonia contributed EUR 1 million to the project, a third of the total cost. This is already the second object built in the Zhytomyr region with Estonia's support. A new kindergarten was opened with Estonia's assistance in Ovruch in June this year. The second reconstruction project in 🇺🇦 by 🇪🇪 is ready and we won’t stop!Today I was very honored to…

Western countries must be ready for long-term support for Ukraine, and Poland intends to do so in the future. Jacek Siewiera, head of Poland's National Security Bureau (BBN), said this during the Warsaw Security Forum, according to an Ukrinform correspondent. "First of all, we must support the Ukrainians until their victory, as they see it," Siewiera said. According to him, Russian aggression against Ukraine is entering a "new phase of a protracted war of attrition." After one-and-a-half years of intense fighting, the war is far from over. Siewiera said that Russia had not achieved its strategic goals, but is determined…

In Zhytomyr, an unknown man attacked Iryna Kotsiuba-Patseva, a volunteer and lecturer at the Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, after which she was hospitalized. The volunteer reported this on Facebook, according to Ukrinform.  "Yes. I was attacked, I am in the hospital," Kotsiuba-Patseva wrote. The fact of the attack on the volunteer was confirmed to an Ukrinform correspondent by the Zhytomyr District Police Department. "In the evening on October 2, the police received a report from a 39-year-old resident of Zhytomyr about a criminal offense committed against her. The woman said that an unknown man had attacked her for no reason…

The U.S. Department of Defense is ready to provide Ukraine with some of its long-range ATACMS missiles, equipped with cluster munitions, as soon as President Joe Biden approves the transfer. U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition Doug Bush said this in an interview with Bloomberg, Ukrinform reports. “The Army is poised to send Ukraine some of its long-range ATACMS missiles armed with cluster munitions once President Joe Biden approves the transfer, according to the service’s top weapons buyer,” the report says. According to the official, the United States has already decided which ATACMS missiles Ukraine will receive. He…

New polling by Russia's state-owned Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM) suggests that the authorities are successfully using the "foreign agent" designation as a tool to manipulate public opinion behind the state’s anti-West, pro-war narratives. The UK Defense Ministry said this in an intelligence update posted to X (formerly known as Twitter), Ukrinform reports. The ministry said that on September 26, 2023, VTsIOM reported the results of a poll of Russians' attitudes towards people and organizations registered as "foreign agents." VTsIOM claimed 61% of those surveyed said that they considered "foreign agents" to be "traitors" who "disseminate lies" about Russia.…

Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur has paid a working visit to the Kyiv region. He visited the Kyiv suburbs of Irpin and Bucha, the cities most affected during active hostilities. The Kyiv Regional Military Administration said this in a post on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. The minister visited the Hostomel highway where active reconstruction of residential houses and the road is underway. He also familiarized himself with the construction of apartment buildings in the Irpinski Lypky residential complex, one of which was completely destroyed. In addition, he inspected the site of the comprehensive reconstruction of private houses opposite Irpinsky Lypky. In…

Australia's defense technology company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has produced and delivered the Slinger "drone killer" system to Ukraine. That's according to ABC News, Ukrinform reports. The system will help Ukraine better protect its skies. According to the report, the system, which is being assembled at an industrial site in Canberra, will help Ukraine better defend itself against Russian drone attacks. Read also: Poland repairs, sends first two Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine A replica cannon mounted on the back of a pick-up truck tracks its target, part of a weapons system that launches "hard kill" strikes to blow drones…

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky had a phone conversation with Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez. According to the president’s press service, Zelensky thanked the Spanish people and government for their principled political and military support for Ukraine. The parties discussed further defense cooperation between the two countries. Zelensky has said he expects that Spain's Presidency of the Council of the European Union will be fruitful in terms of opening Ukraine’s EU accession talks. Read also: Zelensky, Tajani discuss battlefield situation, peace formula, defense In addition, the parties discussed key upcoming international events and security topics on the shared European…

The first two Leopard 2 tanks damaged in the combat zone have been repaired at the Polish defense enterprise Bumar-Labedy in Gliwice (southern Poland) and sent to Ukraine Beata Perkowska, the spokesperson for the Polish Armaments Group (PGZ), said this in a comment to Ukrinform. "Poland has repaired the first two Leopard 2 tanks and has already handed them over to the Ukrainian side," Perkowska said. She specified that not only Leopard 2s, which Poland transferred to Ukraine, but also all Leopard tanks, which Kyiv received from the international coalition, are being repaired at the defense enterprise in Gliwice. Bumar-Labedy…

It is up to Ukraine to decide when to start negotiations with the Russian aggressor. According to an Ukrinform correspondent, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said this in an interview with the German TV channel Die Welt. "I hope that this (peace talks to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian war - ed.) will happen in the near future. The key point for me is, and this should be the guiding principle: no negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine," he said. The Austrian minister also said that it is up to Ukraine to decide "when the time for negotiations comes." Read also: Shmyhal: Ukraine…