LIVE UPDATES: US to Announce Next Round of Ukraine Aid on Friday - Kirby

The United States will announce tomorrow a new round of security assistance for Ukraine, including mainly ammunition for existing systems such as High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday.

"You’ll see us tomorrow, just unilaterally, the US will have another round of assistance for Ukraine, and it will include mostly ammunitions and munitions that the Ukrainians will need for systems that they already have, like the HIMARS and the artillery," Kirby said during a press briefing.

Ukrainian troops are continuing to shell border areas in Russia's Kursk Region, Kursk Governor Roman Starovoit said on Thursday.

"Ukrainian troops continued shelling the border areas of the Kursk region. Nine strikes were recorded near the village of Troitskoe, Korenevsky district. There were no casualties or destruction. Another 11 strikes were recorded near the village of Begoshcha, Rylsky district. There were no casualties, but the village was left without power supply. Repair crews have already begun to eliminate the damage," Starovoit said on Telegram.

"From the beginning of the Ukraine conflict, India has clarified that this dispute can only be resolved through dialogues and diplomacy," he added.

China and other countries will face consequences in case they "cross the line" by delivering weapons to Russia for use in the Ukraine conflict, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said on Thursday.

"What I will convey to each of the colleagues, including my Chinese colleague here, is that the truth here is not somewhere in the middle, there is only one country responsible, and that is Russia. And, therefore, all others should clearly refrain from helping Russia militarily … [it] will have consequences if countries cross that line," Hoekstra said at a meeting of the G20 foreign ministers.

It is not possible to achieve peace in the conflict in Ukraine with demands to stop the supply of weapons to Kiev, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday.

"It is impossible to contribute to peace when here in Berlin they shout 'never war again' and at the same time demand that all arms supplies to Ukraine be stopped," Scholz told lawmakers.

There cannot be and will not be a peaceful solution that does not take into account the position of Kiev, he said, adding that Germany adheres to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's position on peace negotiations.

Additionally, the chancellor said that more than 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers had undergone military training in Germany, and another 1,000 soldiers would soon arrive in the country.

One person was killed and a child was injured after a Ukrainian sabotage group shelled a moving car in the Klimovsky district of Russia's Bryansk region, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said on Thursday.

"Today, a sabotage and reconnaissance group penetrated from Ukraine to the territory of the Klimovsky district ... Saboteurs fired at a moving car. As a result of the shelling, one resident was killed, a ten-year-old child was injured," Bogomaz wrote on Telegram.

The Russian armed forces are taking all the necessary measures to eliminate the sabotage group, the official added.