diff --git a/ansible/roles/remove-old-ecs-pr-deploys/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/remove-old-ecs-pr-deploys/tasks/main.yml
index 0dd90a0fc..6aa670d08 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/remove-old-ecs-pr-deploys/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/remove-old-ecs-pr-deploys/tasks/main.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     terraform_lock_timeout_mins: 0
 
 - name: maybe remove deployment
-  include: remove-ecs-deployment.yml
+  include_tasks: remove-ecs-deployment.yml
   with_list: "{{ ns_service_tuples }}"
   loop_control:
     loop_var: ns_service_tuple
diff --git a/azure/cleanup-ecs-pr-proxies.yml b/azure/cleanup-ecs-pr-proxies.yml
index 20a721c73..ddf1f7572 100644
--- a/azure/cleanup-ecs-pr-proxies.yml
+++ b/azure/cleanup-ecs-pr-proxies.yml
@@ -60,6 +60,26 @@ jobs:
           debug: true
         displayName: cache utils pre-requisites 
 
+      - bash: |
+          PATCH=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/actions/python-versions/releases \
+            | jq -r '[.[] | .tag_name | select(startswith("3.13"))] | .[]' \
+            | sort -V | tail -n 1 | cut -d- -f1)
+          echo "Resolved latest python version: $PATCH"
+          echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=LD_LIBRARY_PATH;]/agent/_work/_tool/Python/${PATCH}/x64/lib/"
+        displayName: 'Query and set python tool cache path'            
+
+      - task: UsePythonVersion@0
+        name: UsePy
+        displayName: "Use Python 3.13"
+        inputs:
+          versionSpec: 3.13
+
+      - bash: |
+          echo "Checking the python version in use to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+          echo "Python location: $(UsePy.pythonLocation)"
+          echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=LD_LIBRARY_PATH]$(UsePy.pythonLocation)/lib"
+        displayName: 'Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH'
+
       - bash: |
           make install
         displayName: install dependencies
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 868e336f4..0c03f19ff 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -289,6 +289,21 @@ files = [
     {file = "charset_normalizer-3.4.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:44251f18cd68a75b56585dd00dae26183e102cd5e0f9f1466e6df5da2ed64ea3"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "click"
+version = "8.3.1"
+description = "Composable command line interface toolkit"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.10"
+groups = ["main"]
+files = [
+    {file = "click-8.3.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:981153a64e25f12d547d3426c367a4857371575ee7ad18df2a6183ab0545b2a6"},
+    {file = "click-8.3.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:12ff4785d337a1bb490bb7e9c2b1ee5da3112e94a8622f26a6c77f5d2fc6842a"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+colorama = {version = "*", markers = "platform_system == \"Windows\""}
+
 [[package]]
 name = "colorama"
 version = "0.4.6"
@@ -1425,4 +1440,4 @@ zstd = ["zstandard (>=0.18.0)"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.1"
 python-versions = "^3.13"
-content-hash = "141fb8c250698df38381f7d588951364b99c53f1ebdd3344ea9a3966227c1fdc"
+content-hash = "16fe4f55ce75508068564526b334a8963cdee9cbfdac5e944d8a2df3a8da84db"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ba5b7d095..25c626d75 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ boto3 = "^1.34.0"
 ansible-core = "^2.19.4"
 urllib3 = "^2.5.0"
 cryptography = "44.0.1"
+click="^8.1.2"
 
 [poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 ansible-lint = "^6.0"