Alexander Lukashenko wants to play the opening card. The Belarusian President announced on Friday August 11 that he had ordered his government to resume contact with Poland, against a backdrop of border tensions. The dictator also mentioned the links between Belarus, an ally of Moscow in the war in Ukraine, and the Western camp, lined up behind kyiv. “Currently, we live mainly at the expense of the East, Russia, China. But we must not forget the high-tech West. The European Union is close, they are our neighbours”he stated in the Belarusian news agency BelTA.
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A new drone attack foiled by the Russian army. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that it had destroyed a Ukrainian device. “The drone was neutralized by electronic warfare means and crashed in a forest area in the west” of Moscow, he said on Telegram, accusing “the kyiv regime”. The device crashed “without doing significant damage”added the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin.
Joe Biden is asking Congress for an additional $13 billion in aid. This sum concerns military expenditure linked to Ukraine, according to a letter from the director of the White House budget office. The Biden administration has also requested $8.5 billion in economic, humanitarian and security assistance for countries affected by the conflict.
A new Russian strike on the city of Zaporizhya. At least one person was killed and 14 others injured in a Russian strike on the southern Ukrainian town, authorities said. According to the head of the military administration of the region, a 3-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy are among the injured.
Ukrainian authorities order evacuations in the Northeast. These decisions are taken in the face of the advance of the Russian army. In total, 37 municipalities are concerned, including the city of Koupiansk, populated by 25,000 inhabitants before the war. These are mainly villages located near the front, on the left bank of the Oskil River.