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  • Olaf Scholz reiterated that Germany will not allow the war in Ukraine to turn into a conflict between Russia and NATO.

    "We have contributed to ensuring that there is no escalation of the conflict, as this would have serious consequences for the whole world", declared the German chancellor.

  • On International Holocaust Victims Day on 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”.

  • 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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6:45 am: Scholz wants to avoid a Russia-NATO conflict

Olaf Scholz reiterated on Sunday that Germany will not allow the war in Ukraine to turn into a conflict between Russia and NATO.

“We helped ensure that there was no escalation of the conflict, as this would have serious consequences for the whole world.

This would lead, for example, to a war between Russia and the NATO countries, this will not happen, we will prevent it with all our efforts, we have succeeded so far and we will continue to do so”, said the German Chancellor.

06:35: Russian bombings in Kherson and Kharkiv kill 4

Russian bombardments on Kherson, in southern Ukraine, killed at least three people on Sunday and injured six, denounced President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Also yesterday, a Russian strike in Kharkiv killed one person, according to the region's governor.

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On the ground, the front in southern Ukraine, where the Russian army had to abandon Kherson in November, has recently been much calmer than that in the east of countries where fierce fighting is taking place.

However, the shelling from both sides never ceased and fighting resumed last week in the Zaporozhye region.

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