• 7:07 a.m .: in Ukraine, the difficult care of soldiers who are victims of post-traumatic stress

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In Ukraine, the care of soldiers who are victims of post-traumatic stress © AFP

Mental health professionals in Ukraine want to better organize the help given to traumatized soldiers.

Report by our correspondent Gulliver Cragg in Sumy, in northwestern Ukraine.

  • 4 a.m.: crucial meeting in Germany of countries supporting Ukraine militarily

The countries that support kyiv militarily are holding a meeting in Germany, from which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he expects "strong decisions", such as the dispatch of heavy armored vehicles, to help his country in the crucial battles to come against Russia.

A few hours before this meeting on the American base of Ramstein, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark announced substantial new deliveries of weapons to Ukraine.

This meeting is the third in this so-called "Ramstein" format since the start of the conflict.

Ministers of Defense and senior military officials from around fifty countries gather around the American Secretary of State for Defense, Lloyd Austin.

"Some countries" will send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said Thursday, adding that "further information" will be released on Friday.

"You need German tanks, Finnish tanks, Danish tanks, French tanks, this means that Western Europe itself must now allocate more modern tanks to Ukraine, so that it can simply defend itself “, as for him pleaded the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

Germany is under increasing pressure from several of its European neighbors to allow deliveries of Leopards.

His new defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said on Thursday the answer would be "clear within the next few hours or Friday morning".

  • 1:16 a.m. CIA Director recently met with Zelensky in Kyiv

US CIA Director William Burns recently traveled to kyiv, Ukraine, to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a US official told Reuters on Thursday.

"Director Burns traveled to Kyiv, where he met with his Ukrainian intelligence counterparts as well as President Zelensky, to whom he reaffirmed our continued support for Ukraine and its defense against Russian aggression," he said. said the US official.

However, he did not specify when this visit took place.

The Washington Post, which first reported the news, said it happened late last week.

According to the newspaper, William Burns presented to Volodymyr Zelensky the military plans that Russia could, in his opinion, develop.

The CIA director also acknowledged that it might, at some point, be more difficult for Ukraine to get help from the United States, the Washington Post wrote.

Volodymyr Zelensky and his advisers, however, felt after this meeting that the support of the United States remained strong, the newspaper said.

  • 12 a.m.: Washington announces another round of military aid to Ukraine of $2.5 billion

The United States on Thursday announced a new round of military aid to Ukraine totaling $2.5 billion, including hundreds of armored vehicles of various types, but no heavy Abrams tanks.

This new tranche provides for the shipment of 59 Bradley armored vehicles, which will be added to the 50 light armored vehicles of this type promised on January 6, and 90 Stryker armored personnel carriers "which will provide Ukraine with two armored brigades", a the Pentagon said in a statement.

With AFP and Reuters

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