BRUSSELS, Oct 17 - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his government has intelligence information that 10,000 troops from North Korea are being prepared to join Russian forces fighting against his country, warning that a third nation wading into the hostilities would turn the conflict into a “world war.”

KYIV, Oct 17 – The United States will allocate almost $700 million for the modernization of Ukrainian ports, railways and checkpoints, said Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction - Minister for Communities and Territories Development and Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov after a meeting with US Special Representative Penny Pritzker.

KYIV, Oct 17 – The destruction of Kakhovka hydroelectric dam caused damage to Ukraine worth almost $14 billion, exacerbating the already catastrophic consequences of the full-scale Russian invasion, according to a comprehensive report by the Ukrainian government and the UN.

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 - The United States has quietly delivered a small number of long-range ballistic missiles that Ukraine said it urgently needed and that President Joe Biden promised last month, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Tuesday, saying they were used on the battlefield against Russia and “executed very accurately.”

KYIV, Oct 17 – Ukraine needs to protect the sky over its energy facilities, Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko has said.

"It turned out to be not enough for the Russians to break only the line to de-energize the nuclear power plant. Now, they are testing our ability to quickly restore the electrical substation. Such nuclear blackmail by a terrorist country should not go unanswered by the world community," Haluschenko wrote on his Facebook on Monday.

KYIV, Oct 17 – Ukraine will receive the first NASAMS air defense systems soon, Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov has said following a dialogue with international partners during the sixth meeting of Ukraine Defense Contact Group and the Informal Meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Brussels last week.

KYIV, Oct 17 – Disconnections of new Russian banks from SWIFT should become part of the ninth package of EU sanctions against Russia, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

KYIV, Oct 17 - Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital Monday, setting buildings ablaze, tearing a hole in one of them and sending people scurrying for cover or trying to shoot them down in what the president said was Russia’s attempt to terrorize civilians.

KYIV, Oct 17 – France will transfer short-range anti-aircraft missile systems Crotale to Ukraine, French Minister of Defense Sébastien Lecornu has said.

"They will be especially useful in the fight against drones and aerial bombardments," the Associated Press quoted the minister as saying.

KYIV, Oct 17 – The command of the German armed forces, as part of the planned EU mission to train Ukrainian military personnel, intends to accept 5,000 Ukrainian military personnel for training, Ntv reported on Sunday.