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War in Ukraine Ukraine resists mounting Russian pressure on Donetsk in hopes of more aid
Marking 341 days of the
war in Ukraine
, Russian missile strikes killed three people in the southern Ukrainian city of
Kherson
, while fighting raged in the eastern Donetsk region, where
Russia again shelled the key city of Vuhledar
, control of which would give Moscow forces an advantage in the battle for Bakhmut's stronghold.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine faced a
difficult situation in Donetsk
and needed
faster arms supplies and new types of weaponry
, just days after the allies agreed to provide Kiev with heavy main battle tanks.
"We must make time our weapon"
, the president has said in his new appeal to the West.
Ukraine has also requested
American F16 fighters.
"The situation is very tough. Bakhmut, Vuhledar and other sectors of the Donetsk region are under constant Russian attacks," Zelensky said in his usual late-night speech since the start
of the Ukrainian war.
The Washington-based
Institute for the Study of War
believes that
delays in military aid to Ukraine
have limited its ability to carry out larger counteroffensives in the face of Russian military failures.
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09.46
The United Kingdom considers that Russia could carry out another mobilization for the offensive
In its daily report, the UK Ministry of Defense considers that Russia, faced with a major offensive in Ukraine, could be preparing
another new partial "mobilization" initiative.
In addition, it has minimized the influence of internal dissent on the development of the war.
On January 22, 2023, the media reported that Russian border guards were preventing Kyrgyz migrant workers with dual passports from leaving Russia, telling them that their names were on the mobilization lists, the report added.
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08.59
Supply delays have weighed on Ukraine in the face of Russian military mistakes
Ukraine has seen its ability to take advantage of the failures of the Army in its counteroffensive operations limited by the delay in the supply of weapons, according to the
Institute for the Study of War.
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08.45
Moscow says there was no point in Russia talking to kyiv or its 'puppet masters'
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Monday that since the United States had decided to supply Ukraine with tanks,
it made no sense for Russia to talk to Kiev or its Western "puppet masters
," the Russian news agency reports. RIA, as reported by Reuters.
Ryabkov claimed that
no one in the West has come up with serious initiatives to resolve the Ukrainian crisis.
On Sunday, however, a Kremlin spokesman told RIA that Russian President Vladimir
Putin was open to contacts with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The Berlin daily
Tagesspiegel
quoted Scholz on Sunday as saying: "I too will talk to Putin again, because it is necessary to talk."
"It is
Putin's responsibility to withdraw troops from Ukraine to end this horrendous
and senseless war that has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives," he added.
Russia claims it launched its "special military operation" in Ukraine to fend off a hostile West and "denazify" the country.
Ukraine and its allies claim that the invasion was an unprovoked act of aggression.
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08.41
Heavy tanks will take months to reach the battlefield
After weeks of wrangling, Germany and the United States announced last week that they would send dozens of
tanks to Ukraine to help push back Russian forces
, paving the way for other countries to follow suit.
Although
Ukraine had been promised a total of 321 heavy tanks
by various countries , according to Kiev's ambassador to France, they could
take months to appear on the battlefield.
Ukraine wants to speed up the delivery of heavy weapons
as both sides of the war are expected to launch spring offensives in the coming weeks.
Talks
are also taking place
between Kiev and its allies over Ukraine's requests for long-range missiles, a senior Zelensky official said on Saturday.
Ukraine has also requested American F16 fighters.
German arms maker
Rheinmetall is willing to significantly increase production of artillery and tank ammunition
to meet demand from Ukraine and the West, and may start
manufacturing HIMARS multiple rocket launchers in Germany
, chief executive Armin Papperger told Reuters.
HIMARS systems are currently manufactured in the United States and have been used to devastating effect by the Ukrainian military.
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08.34
All-day Russian shelling of Kherson leaves three dead
Extinguishing work after a Russian bombardment in Kherson.GENYA SAVILOV |
AFP
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07.50
Talks on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant are difficult
Negotiations on the creation of a security zone around Ukraine's Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant are tough, and kyiv appears to be just buying time, RIA Novosti quoted Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister as saying on Monday. Sergey Ryabkov.
"While consultations with the IAEA continue, it would not be correct to make public the information on the possible parameters of the ZNPP protection zone. The negotiation process is not advancing easily," Ryabkov said in an interview with the agency, which is reported by Reuters .
"We have delivered our proposals to Rafael Grossi, the agency's director general. As far as we know, kyiv has not yet given a clear response to the IAEA director's initiative. Apparently, it is stalling."
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07.40
Zelensky calls for accelerating supplies and opening new weapons options for Ukraine
Russian missile strikes killed three people in the
southern Ukrainian city of Kherson
, while fighting
raged in the eastern Donetsk region
, where
Russia again shelled the key city of Vuhledar
, Ukrainian officials said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine faced a difficult situation in Donetsk and needed
faster arms supplies and new types of weaponry
, just days after the allies agreed to provide Kiev with heavy main battle tanks.
"The situation is very tough. Bakhmut, Vuhledar and other sectors of the Donetsk region are under constant Russian attacks," Zelensky said in a videotaped speech late on Sunday, Reuters reported.
"Russia wants the war to drag on and exhaust our forces. So we have to make time our weapon. We have to speed up events,
speed up supplies and open up new weapons options for Ukraine."
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07.28
Russia says nuclear arms treaty with US may end after 2026
Russia's deputy foreign minister said in an interview published Monday that it was "highly possible" that the New START nuclear arms control treaty with the United States would end after 2026.
"This is quite a possible scenario
," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the RIA news agency in an interview reported by Reuters.
Talks between the United States and Russia on resuming inspections under the
New START treaty, which expires in February 2026
, were suspended at the last minute in November 2022.
Neither side has agreed on a timetable for the new talks. .
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07.26
Russian bombardments against Kherson leave at least 3 dead, according to kyiv
The Ukrainian authorities affirmed today that the Russian artillery attacks against the
city of Kherson
(south) have caused the death of at least three civilians throughout the day on Sunday." At this time we are aware of about eight victims of the Russian attacks:
three people have died and five have been injured
of varying severity," the Kherson military administration reported on its Telegram channel, Efe reported.
For their part, Russian-imposed authorities in the
Zaporizhia region of
southern Ukraine accused Kiev forces of attacking a bridge that was under construction and
killing four workers.
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07.25
Control over Blahodatne gives Moscow forces advantage in battle for Bakhmut
The Wagner Group claimed to have taken control of the town of Blahodatne, in the
eastern Donetsk region
, which would give Moscow forces an advantage in the battle for the Bakhmut stronghold, while Kiev claimed to repel Russian attacks in that area. .
"Wagner units have taken Blahodatne. Blahodatne is under our control," according to the head of the private military company, Yevgueni Prigozhin, quoted by his press service, reports Efe.
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07.30
Scholz: "There is no country that supports Ukraine more than Germany"
The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, assured this Sunday that "there is no country that supports Ukraine more than Germany" and that the war "should not be a competition over who sends more aid", during his tour in Latin America, with Argentina as the first destination, reports Efe.
"Germany is one of the European countries that sends the most weapons and, with the most recent decisions, we are going to be in the front line," said Scholz, after this week his Executive authorized the
shipment of Leopard 2 type tanks to Ukraine
.
The German chancellor, who is making his first Latin American tour and appeared at a press conference together with Chilean President Gabriel Boric, also said that the war "is not merely a European issue, but a
challenge for the entire international order "
.
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