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Ukraine attacks the port of Berdyansk with missiles, according to pro-Russian authorities
The Ukrainian army attacked the port of Berdiansk, in the Sea of Azov, with missiles on Saturday, according to the pro-Russian authorities of the Zaporyy region today.
“The enemy perpetrated an attack with guided missiles against the port of Berdiansk. The fires caused by the impact have been suffocated,” reported the governor imposed by Moscow, Yevgueni Balitski, on his Telegram channel.
The governor, who was recently received in Moscow by Russian President Vladimir Putin, stressed that the attack did not cause injuries among the civilian population and did not interrupt the work of the port facilities.
In turn, he assured that anti-aircraft defenses continue to be on maximum alert, since new Ukrainian attacks against the city are not ruled out.
At the end of October Kiev had already attacked the strategic port under Russian control since 2022 with a dead old woman.
The Russian army controls more than 70% of Zaporiyia and tries to take control of the rest of the region as it advances at forced marches in neighboring Donetsk.
North Korean soldiers in the Belgorod region, according to Ukraine
Ukraine claims that North Korean soldiers, who until now were only in the Russian region of Kursk, were also transferred to Belgorod, which borders the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv.
“Some soldiers from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea were transferred to the border of the Belgorod region,” the head of the Central Intelligence Department of the National Security and Defense Council, Andrí Kovalenko, wrote on Telegram.
The senior Ukrainian official stressed that “they are not in the Kharkiv region,” as some US media had reported based on Ukrainian sources.
The Kremlin rules out a second onde of mobilization
For its part, the Kremlin today ruled out a second wave of mobilization of reservists to fight in Ukraine with a view to the fourth year of fighting in the neighboring country.
“Our citizens very actively sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense,” Dmitri Peskov, presidential spokesman, told the official agency RIA Novosti.
Peskov stressed that volunteers carry out courses in which they are instructed “consciously,” so “now there is no need to talk about mobilization.”
“There are many, hundreds who sign contracts every day,” he added.
The Kremlin has refrained from declaring a new partial mobilization after the first one in September 2022 caused great popular discontent and the exodus of hundreds of thousands of military-age men.
1,000 days of combat
Fighting in Ukraine reached 1,000 days this week with Russian forces advancing in forced marches in the Donbas, although Moscow has not yet been able to expel Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region.
Ukraine hopes to slow down the current Russian offensive with Western authorization to use American and British long-range missiles against targets in Russian territory, which Kiev used against the Bryansk and Kursk regions.
Russia responded on Thursday by launching an Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile at an arms factory in the Ukrainian region of Dnipro.
In addition, on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that there will be more launches and announced the mass production of those new generation missiles capable of circumventing any Western missile shield.
International
Trump: “I won’t allow the stupidity of buying venezuelan oil again”
U.S. President Donald Trump declared on Friday that he would not allow the purchase of oil from Venezuela, as his predecessor Joe Biden did when he lifted a series of sanctions.
“Biden went and bought millions of barrels of oil. I’m not going to allow something that stupid to happen again,” Trump said in remarks to the media in the Oval Office.
The president was asked about the visit of his special envoy, Richard Grenell, to meet with Nicolás Maduro at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Friday.
“He (Grenell) is meeting with a lot of different people,” Trump responded.
International
Trump administration holds first direct talks with Maduro regime to discuss hostage release
The Trump administration has had its first contact with Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela to advance the release of American hostages and ensure the repatriation of “criminals and gang members in a clear and unconditional manner.” The meeting took place just before U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first trip to Latin America, marking his first international tour.
Rick Grenell, Trump’s Special Envoy for Foreign Affairs, traveled to Venezuela to meet with Maduro and discuss the release of American hostages and the deportation of Venezuelans. This marks the first face-to-face encounter between the new U.S. government and the Chavismo regime, which may begin to shape the future of bilateral relations and whether the Trump administration plans to deploy a strategy aimed at seeking regime change in the Caribbean nation.
“We want to do something with Venezuela. I’ve been a big opponent of Venezuela and Maduro. They’ve treated us badly, and they’ve treated the Venezuelan people very badly,” Trump said in a statement in the Oval Office.
“From migration to security and trade, no other region in the world affects the daily lives of Americans more than the Western Hemisphere, and that’s why, under President Trump’s golden era, he has prioritized the Americas in this administration,” said Mauricio Claver-Carone, Special Envoy for Latin America, in a call with journalists, confirming Grenell’s meeting in Caracas.
International
Florida democrats urge Trump administration to reinstate protections for venezuelans
Florida Democrats in Congress criticized the Trump administration on Friday for reversing an 18-month extension of a federal program that protects over half a million Venezuelans from deportation. They urged officials to reinstate these protections for individuals from the South American nation.
In a letter addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the group of lawmakers stated that “sending Venezuelan immigrants back to a dictatorship that engages in torture, extrajudicial killings, and systematic human rights abuses would be a death sentence for many of our friends and neighbors.”
“This decision will have a devastating impact on more than 505,400 Venezuelans who currently rely on protected status,” the lawmakers wrote. “It will also severely affect the communities where they live, work, and pay taxes.”
The letter, led by Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Broward County and Darren Soto of Osceola County, follows Noem’s decision to cancel the program’s extension from April 2025 to October 2026. The extension had been announced by former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas just days before Biden left the White House. Noem argued that the decision should be left to the Trump administration.
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