9:46 am: German Leopard tanks for Ukraine not ready until 2024
German arms maker Rheinmetall could not supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks until 2024 at the earliest, the time to repair them, if the government in Berlin decides to deliver them to kyiv, warns the boss of the group in the columns of Bild on Sunday.
The German government announced in early January that it would supply Ukraine with around 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles before the end of the first quarter to combat the invading Russian forces but it still seems reluctant to deliver heavy tanks , even if the Minister of the Economy, Robert Habeck, said last weekend “not to exclude” this option.
9:09 a.m .: the toll of the strike in Dnipro climbs to 20 dead
The death toll from the Russian strike on a building in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine, has risen to 20 dead, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, Valentyn Reznichenko, announced on Sunday.
"Twenty innocent victims", lamented Mr. Reznichenko on Telegram, specifying that 73 people had been injured.
"Rescue operations are continuing. The fate of more than 40 people remains unknown," he added.
1:19 a.m.: UK to deliver heavy tanks to Ukraine
The United Kingdom will deliver "in the coming weeks" 14 heavy tanks to Ukraine, which is insistently demanding Western-made armor to deal with the Russian invasion.
The announcement caused a reaction from Russian diplomacy, which considered that this shipment of arms would "in no way accelerate the end of military hostilities, but only intensify them, causing new victims", according to a press release from the embassy. of Russia in London on Saturday.
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