President Volodymyr Zelenskyy directed Ukraine's Defence Intelligence (DIU) to share information about the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash with its partners and called for putting pressure on Russia to stop lying about this.

Two U.S. military officials tell NBC News the U.S. has intelligence indicating that the Russians may have misidentified the Azerbaijan Airlines flight that went down earlier this week, and shot it down with an air defense system.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has had a telephone conversation with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, during which they discussed the crash of an Embraer plane operated by Azerbaijan Airlines.

Reports suggest that many of the soldiers deployed to Russia are among the best from North Korea's Storm Corps, who are skilled in infiltration and assassination

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that the Russians show no interest in the survival of North Korean military personnel in Kursk Oblast. He has said they are sent into assaults with minimal protection,

Zelensky said this was "the only possible meaning" of Fico's threats to cut off Ukraine's emergency power supply in the winter, given Russian attacks on power plants and the distribution network.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico of opening a "second energy front" against Ukraine at the behest of Vladimir Putin. Zelensky claims that Fico is acting on Putin's orders,

Threats of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico will not stop electricity imports to Ukraine. Instead, his policy could harm Slovakia itself, believes President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “It appears that Putin gave Fico the order to open the second energy front against Ukraine at the expense of the Slovak people’s interests.