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France and Australia have reached an agreement to supply 155 mm shells to Ukraine to support it in its war against Russia, French army ministers Sébastien Lecornu and Australian Richard Marles announced on Monday.
“Several thousand 155mm shells are going to be jointly produced,” said Sébastien Lecornu, while Richard Marles spoke of a “multi-million dollar Australian project”, a “new cooperation between Australian defense industries and French”.
“This is part of the supporting efforts that Australia and France are providing to Ukraine to ensure that it is able to hold on to this conflict and end it on its own terms,” the official said. Australian minister.
"The idea is to provide significant assistance, and an effort that is continuous over time," said Sébastien Lecornu, aiming for first deliveries during the first quarter of 2023, but refusing to go into further details. contract for these artillery shells.
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At one point he kind of threatened me and said, 'Boris, I don't want to hurt you, but with a missile it would take a minute' or something like that”
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recounts in a BBC documentary that Russian President Vladimir Putin "sort of threatened" him before the invasion of Ukraine, saying: "A missile would take a minute ".
The Kremlin reacted Monday morning by accusing Boris Johnson of "lying".
"It's either a deliberate lie, but then for what purpose?"
Either it is an unintentional lie, insofar as he did not understand what President Putin was saying to him,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
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4%.
This is the share of Poland's GDP dedicated to national defence.
The Prime Minister of this neighboring NATO country of Ukraine, Mateusz Morawiecki, announced it on Monday.
“The war in Ukraine means that we have to be armed even faster.
For this reason, we will make an unprecedented effort,” he explained.
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Ukraine denied on Monday that Russian troops were advancing, as Moscow claims, near the town of Vougledar, a new hot spot on the front in eastern Ukraine where fighting has intensified lately.
“Our units continue to advance (…) Units have established themselves in the east of Vougledar and the work continues in the surroundings”, said in the morning the head of the Russian occupation in the Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, quoted by Russian agencies.
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A spokesman for the Ukrainian army in charge of this area, Yevguen Ierine, assured AFP that the Russian attacks in the area had failed.
According to him, the Ukrainian forces were able to repel the Russians using "firearms and artillery".
“The enemy had no success and fell back.
We have not lost our positions,” maintained Yevguen Ierin.
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