I held a meeting of the Staff.
We thoroughly analyzed our work with Syria after the fall of Assad and his escape.
Today, the intelligence services presented their reports—the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine—as well as the Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs. We are defining our strategy and concrete steps.
Ukraine is interested in stabilizing the situation in Syria and the entire region and will support the necessary efforts of partners.
We believe it is crucial for the security of the Syrian people and the region as a whole to remove any Russian presence from Syria.
We are grateful to every state and every leader who is ready to help Syrian society restore normal life and build effective state institutions. We will certainly support Syria in ensuring food security—necessary decisions on our part have already been made, and Ukraine is ready to supply food.
We are ready to work with the representatives of the Syrian people to correct the mistakes of the Assad regime, especially regarding Ukraine and all of Europe.
Today, we also received a report from Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi on the frontline and the areas of the Kursk operation. There are risks of North Korea sending additional troops and military equipment to the Russian army, and we will have tangible responses to this. Now, according to preliminary data, the number of North Korean soldiers killed and wounded in the Kursk region has already exceeded 3,000.
It is important for the world to understand that the risk of destabilization around the Korean Peninsula and in neighboring regions or waters increases proportionally with the growing cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang. The transfer of modern warfare experience and the proliferation of military technologies from Russia is a global threat. For the world, the cost of restoring stability is always much higher than the cost of effectively pressuring those who destabilize the situation and destroy lives.
I held a meeting of the Staff.
We thoroughly analyzed our work with Syria after the fall of Assad and his escape.
Today, the intelligence services presented their reports—the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine—as well as the Ministers of…
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