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Marking 341 days of the

, Russian missile strikes killed three people in the southern Ukrainian city of

, while fighting raged in the eastern Donetsk region, where

, control of which would give Moscow forces an advantage in the battle for Bakhmut's stronghold.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine faced a

and needed

, 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

"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

The Washington-based

believes that

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

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

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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,

," the Russian news agency reports. RIA, as reported by Reuters.

Ryabkov claimed that

On Sunday, however, a Kremlin spokesman told RIA that Russian President Vladimir

The Berlin daily

quoted Scholz on Sunday as saying: "I too will talk to Putin again, because it is necessary to talk."

"It is

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

, paving the way for other countries to follow suit.

Although

by various countries , according to Kiev's ambassador to France, they could

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.

are also taking place

between Kiev and its allies over Ukraine's requests for long-range missiles, a senior Zelensky official said on Saturday.

German arms maker

to meet demand from Ukraine and the West, and may start

, 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

, while fighting

, where

, Ukrainian officials said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine faced a difficult situation in Donetsk and needed

, 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,

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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

, were suspended at the last minute in November 2022.

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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

(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:

of varying severity," the Kherson military administration reported on its Telegram channel, Efe reported.

For their part, Russian-imposed authorities in the

southern Ukraine accused Kiev forces of attacking a bridge that was under construction and

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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

, 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

.

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

.

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