As part of intergovernmental consultations between Ukraine and Slovakia, the parties discussed cooperation in the field of defense, including new defense contracts.
On Monday evening, the Russian army shelled Sloviansk, Donetsk region. One person was killed and six more were injured, including a two-year-old child.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine invites its partners to define how they envision the end of the war with Russia and Ukraine's place in the global security architecture.
The Norwegian government is proposing to increase the overall funding framework for the Nansen Support Programme for Ukraine to NOK 135 billion (USD 12.7 billion) and to extend it for an additional three years, until 2030.
During the Ukrainian government delegation's visit to Slovakia, the heads of the respective agriculture ministries signed a memorandum of cooperation in agriculture and the food industry.
Ukraine is expecting to see new defense contracts being signed at the level of Ukrainian and Slovak companies, and is also counting on the start of joint production of Bozena demining vehicles.
As a result of a successful special operation executed by Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency (HUR), the Aleksandr Obukhov minesweeper with the Russian navy’s Baltic fleet sustained grave damage.
In the morning hours of Monday, October 7, the websites of the Russian courts on the sudrf.ru domain and that of the Judicial Department, including the site of the Pravosudie State-Run Automated System, went out of service.
President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the main command post of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where he met with the soldiers and awarded them with state awards.
The number of those injured in a Russian airstrike targeting a residential area in Kherson, Southern Ukraine, has increased to 20, including two toddlers, 2 and 4 years of age.
On October 7, the birthday of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, cyber specialists of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) together with activists of the Vo Them group paralyzed the judicial system of the aggressor state.
During the second round of joint consultations between the governments of Ukraine and the Slovak Republic, Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andriy Sybiha held bilateral talks with Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia Juraj Blanar.
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