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• Bomb package The Ukrainian ambassador points to Russia after receiving an explosive package: "We know the terrorist methods of the aggressor country"

The European Commission has presented options to ensure that Russia is held accountable for "atrocities" and "crimes" committed in the war in Ukraine coinciding with the Russian advance on the strategic city of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, while Ukrainian troops try to gain a foothold in Lugansk and resist in the Ukrainian war that began in February.

Ukraine pressures Germany to hand over the

to the country in the face of massive Russian bombardments against civilian infrastructure.

US Secretary of State

said Russian President

's strategy of

against civilians in the

, bombing more than a third of the country's water and electricity supply, "does not it will work".

US aid to Ukraine continues.

The US Army has awarded a

to Raytheon Technologies Co. for the acquisition of six National Advanced

, the Pentagon has reported.

The National Court investigates the explosion of a package bomb at the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid, which injured its Security officer.

The postal item was addressed to the ambassador,

.

In Zaragoza, the TEDAX carried out a controlled explosion of a device at the

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08.33

Zelensky mocks Musk's peace plan for Ukraine, invites him to the country

The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, has mocked the

, which includes the cession of territory to the Russians, and has invited him to visit the country so that he "understands the Ukrainian reality before ruling about".

During the DealBook forum, organized by

, Zelenski invited the current owner of Twitter to visit Ukraine to see the damage caused to the country by Russian forces, reports Efe.

And he pointed out that this visit could help the controversial billionaire to understand the

on February 24, before proposing a peace plan.

The comments made on Wednesday by Zelenski, through a video link in the aforementioned DealBook, were an implicit reproach to Musk, the businessman who last month proposed a peace plan for Ukraine that included the cession of territory by kyiv. .

Russia has occupied the Crimean peninsula since 2014 and has unilaterally annexed four Ukrainian regions: Kherson and Zaporizhia in the south, and Lungansk and Donetsk in the east.

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08.31

Russia launches several military satellites from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome

The Russian Aerospace Force today launched

on board from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, in the north-west of the country, the Russian Defense Ministry reported, reports Efe.

The military statement, released by the official Russian agency TASS, did not specify the number of devices placed in orbit.

Over the past few months Russia, whose army is conducting a

, has launched a series of military satellites, two of them last November.

In October, it launched three military satellites into orbit, one on the 15th and another two on the 22nd, launched respectively with Angará and Soyuz-2.1b carrier rockets, as well as a Glonass-K navigation satellite, also controlled by the Ministry of Defence.

Another military satellite, Kosmos-2558, was also launched in August, following launches of other communications, navigation and military equipment in March, April, May and July, also controlled by the Russian Aerospace Force.

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08.20

At least nine dead in fires in their homes to fight the cold

Ukraine's energy crisis sparked by Russian attacks on the country's power grid leaves at least nine people dead in house fires in the past 24 hours. Suffering from freezing temperatures, Ukrainians turn to emergency generators, candles and gas cylinders to try to heat their homes after the power cuts, reports Reuters.

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08.08

Biden and Macron intend, in Washington, to strengthen their alliance against Ukraine

The US president, Joe Biden, receives his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, at the White House this Thursday, on a state visit with which both leaders want to leave behind tensions in defense and trade to strengthen their alliance in the face of war in Ukraine.

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08.01

OSCE meeting in Poland with Lavrov absent

The

(OSCE) meet this Thursday in Lodz (Poland), in a meeting marked by the

, reports Efe.

The head of Moscow's diplomacy will not be present at the meeting, which will culminate this Friday, because he is on the list of European sanctions in relation to the

, which will prevent this issue from being directly addressed at the meeting. ministerial.

The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, has not traveled to Lodz either due to agenda issues, so the alternate deputy secretary, Vitoria Nuland, will represent Washington.

In view of the

within the organization, paralyzed in practice by the

since decisions are made unanimously, it is not expected that Lodz will be able to unblock the 2023 budgets or other issues that remain frozen,

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08.00

Ambassador of Ukraine in Spain: "We know the terrorist methods of the aggressor country"

The head of security at the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid was slightly injured yesterday after an artifact sent to the diplomatic delegation hidden in a package exploded.

The mailing was addressed to the ambassador,

, who recounted what happened to the Ukrainian outlet

a few hours after the explosion.

The investigation into the event that caused hand injuries to an employee of the diplomatic legation has been assumed by the National Court. The Ukrainian ambassador points to Russia after receiving an explosive package: "We know the terrorist methods of the aggressor country"

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07.55

Strategy of "fire and fury" against the civilian population of Ukraine

US Secretary of State

has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy of "fire and fury" targeting Ukraine's civilian population,

, is not it will work, reports Reuters.

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07.52

Surface-to-air missiles for Ukraine

The US Army has awarded a

to Raytheon Technologies Co. for the acquisition of

National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) for Ukraine, the Pentagon reports Reuters.

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07.15

Russia advances in Donetsk as Ukraine regains ground in Lugansk

Russian troops are advancing southwest of the strategic city of Bakhmut, the epicenter of

in the eastern Donetsk region, while trying to gain a foothold in neighboring Lugansk, where the Ukrainian army is holding out and has already liberated 13 towns.

"The situation at the front is difficult. Despite extremely large Russian losses, the occupiers are trying to advance in the Donetsk region and gain a foothold in the Lugansk region, gain ground in the Kharkiv region, they are planning something in the south." warned the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky.

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