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  • On International Holocaust Victims Day Friday, Vladimir Putin accused "neo-Nazis in Ukraine" of committing crimes against civilians, rhetoric the Russian president regularly uses to justify his military offensive.

    For his part, the Polish Prime Minister frontally accused Vladimir Putin of “building new concentration camps”.

  • Ukrainian troops are engaged in a "fierce" confrontation with Russian forces trying to seize Vougledar, southwest of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine where fighting has intensified in recent days.

  • A new Russian offensive is reportedly being prepared for Feb. 24, a year to the day after Russia invaded Ukraine, according to Oleksii Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's Defense and National Security Council.

    According to the Institute for the Study of War, Moscow is seeking to “disperse” Ukrainian forces in order to “create the conditions for a decisive offensive operation”.

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8:50 am: Zelensky furious with the IOC

Volodymyr Zelensky is angry with the IOC.

He denounced the “hypocrisy” of the International Olympic Committee which, despite repeated calls from kyiv to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympic Games scheduled for Paris, declared on Wednesday “studying” the possibility of authorizing them to participate under neutral banner.

The Ukrainian president has invited the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach, to visit Bakhmout, one of the hottest points of the war “so that he can see with his own eyes that neutrality does not exist”.

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On the ground, the heaviest fighting moved to Vougledar, southwest of Donetsk.

A "fierce" clash is underway, say both sides.

150 km from Bakhmout, this mining city which had 15,000 inhabitants before the Russian invasion, "serious, brutal" clashes took place and the Russian troops were "established in the south-east and east of the city “, according to an official of the pro-Russian authorities of the Donetsk region, Ian Gagin.

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