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“The next weeks of war will be difficult,” warned the Ukrainian president on Monday evening in his daily televised address.
The situation is even "extremely difficult" in the Donbass: the Russians are seeking to "eliminate everything that is alive", accused Volodymyr Zelensky.
kyiv continues to insist on stocking up on arms, and in this sense receives support from the West.
The Harpoon anti-ship missile system, promised by Denmark, could in particular enable Ukraine to counter the blockade imposed by the Russian navy on the port of Odessa, vital for wheat exports, themselves vital for good number of other countries.
According to the British, in three months, Russian losses approach those recorded in nine years by the Soviet Army in Afghanistan.
Since February 24, more than eight million Ukrainians have been internally displaced, according to the UN.
Added to this are 6.5 million who have fled abroad, more than half of them to Poland.
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6:54 am: Back in video on February 24
Three months ago, Vladimir Putin decided to attack Ukraine.
The 20 Minutes
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had at the time produced a video on the Kremlin's choice to launch "a military operation":
6:50 am: The war has been going on for three months
On February 24, Russia launched its offensive in Ukraine.
On the military level, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense estimates the Russian losses at more than 29,200 men, 204 planes and nearly 1,300 tanks since the start of the invasion.
The Kremlin for its part admitted “significant losses”.
Western sources mention some 12,000 Russian soldiers killed, a good French military source confirmed an estimated figure of around 15,000.
Above all, these losses over three months are close to those recorded in nine years by the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, underlines the British Ministry of Defence.
Ukraine, for its part, has provided no indication of its own military losses.
6:45 a.m .: Twenty countries pledge to provide additional weapons to kyiv
During a virtual meeting of the "Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine", 44 countries discussed military assistance to Ukraine on Monday.
Twenty of them have pledged to provide additional weapons to kyiv, and others will train the Ukrainian army, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has announced.
6:40 am: Difficult situation in Bakhmout
Moscow concentrates its firepower on the Ukrainian redoubt in the Lugansk region, trying to surround the towns of Severodonetsk and Lyssytchansk.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense also reported heavy fighting in progress nearby, near the localities of Popasna and Bakhmout, which draws a strategy of encirclement.
The fall of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast would give the Russians control of a crucial crossroads that currently serves as an impromptu command center for much of Ukraine's war effort.
The inhabitants, in any case, are reluctant to flee, despite the risks: "People do not want to leave", laments the deputy mayor of Bakhmout, Maxim Soutkovyï, in front of a half-empty bus ready to take civilians to territories. safer.
"We have reached a point where we are in the process of making evacuations compulsory", even advances the head of the military administration of Bakhmout, Serguiï Kalian.
6:35 am: Donbass under Russian fire
“The next weeks of war will be difficult,” Volodymyr Zelensky warned Monday evening in his daily televised address.
“The Russian occupiers are trying to show that they will not abandon the occupied areas of the Kharkiv region (north-east), that they will not return the Kherson region (south), the occupied territories of the region from Zaporizhia (south-east) and the Donbass (east).
They are moving somewhere.
They are strengthening their positions elsewhere,” he continued.
The situation is even "extremely difficult" in the Donbass: the Russians are seeking to "eliminate everything that is alive", accused the Ukrainian president.
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On February 24, Vladimir Putin decided to launch the offensive against Ukraine. Three months later, the Kremlin had to review its objectives. Russian troops are no longer trying to take the entire country, nor the capital kyiv, but are mainly concentrating on the Donbass. The city of Severodonetsk is currently constantly bombarded. She increasingly lives the same apocalyptic fate as Mariupol. Moscow, for its part, has been the subject since the start of the conflict of numerous international sanctions. Even if its GDP is collapsing, Russia has not yielded to Western allies of Ukraine.
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