•  1:13 p.m .: kyiv claims to have repelled an attack near Blahodatne, which Wagner says he controls

The Ukrainian army claimed on Sunday, January 29, to have repelled an attack near the village of Blahodatne, located in the Donestk region (eastern Ukraine), while the private pro-Russian paramilitary group Wagner claimed to have taken control.

kyiv troops "repelled attacks near (...) Blahodatne" and thirteen other localities in the Donestk region, assured the Ukrainian general staff in its daily press release.

  • 11:13 am: North Korea denies supplying weapons to Russia

North Korea has denied supplying weapons to Moscow, after Washington accused it of delivering rockets and missiles to the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, engaged in Ukraine.

Last week, White House Security Council spokesman John Kirby released US intelligence footage showing alleged Russian train cars returning from North Korea loaded with military equipment, including rockets for Wagner.

In the process, the United States designated Wagner as a “criminal organization” and declared to transmit these recordings to the UN as part of the sanctions aimed at Pyongyang.

  • 9:29 a.m.: Zelensky castigates the neutrality of sport in times of war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denounced the idea of ​​neutrality in sport at a time when Ukrainian athletes are fighting and dying in battle and Russian sportsmen could be allowed to participate in sports competitions.

Redoubling his efforts to defend his "marathon of honesty" to deprive Russian athletes of participation in the 2024 Olympics, Volodymyr Zelensky believes that the presence of these athletes would amount to normalizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"Neutrality does not exist when such a war is going on. And we know how many times tyrannies try to use sport for their ideological interests," the Ukrainian president said in a video address broadcast on Saturday evening.

Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that Ukraine would launch an international campaign to prevent Russia from participating in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

With AFP and Reuters

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