2023-10-10 21:14:12
While the eyes of the world are now focused on what is happening between Israel and Hamas, the war in Ukraine is trying not to sink into oblivion. And the United States has understood this well. According to our colleagues at the Washington Post, the White House has also reportedly decided to link urgent aid to the Jewish state to that for kyiv. The reason ? Increasing the chances that the US Congress will approve support for Ukraine despite growing opposition from Republicans in the House of Representatives. Two birds with one stone for Biden?
Is the world becoming even more polarized? Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abou Mazen) is in any case preparing a visit to Moscow, declared the Palestinian ambassador to Russia, Abdel Hafiz Nofal.
“We are in daily contact with Moscow. Preparations for President Abbas’ visit underway“, declared the diplomat quoted by the Russian media. A statement which took the Kremlin by surprise, which was quick to retort that no date had been set and that the visit had been planned for a long time, before the events this weekend.
Because if Russia tries to take advantage of the situation in the Middle East, in particular via the accusations of selling arms to Hamas perpetrated against Ukraine, it also risks big. Israel, in fact, has always been relatively neutral in the Ukrainian conflict, in particular because of the privileged links between the Jewish communities of the two countries. If it turns out that Moscow, via Iran, supported Hamas in its murderous expedition, things could take a completely different turn.
Meanwhile, on the ground, clashes continue. Russian troops have a lot to do to resist the incessant assaults by Ukrainian forces. For its part, Russia continues its nightly bombings using attack drones in southern Ukraine. Last night alone, 27 Iranian-made “Shahed-131/136” were destroyed in the Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram on Tuesday morning. “New” warships have also arrived in Sevastopol, a sort of snub to the Ukrainian incursions of recent weeks.
For its part, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Tuesday of possible tensions in Europe on the gas market, particularly in the event of a cold winter and new restrictions on the transport of Russian gas in gas pipelines. , according to a report on the gas market outlook for 2026 published Tuesday.
Replay our live dedicated to the conflict in Ukraine below:
1696974147
#War #Ukraine #thread #events #Tuesday #October