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On the 341st day of the start of the
war in Ukraine
, from Kiev they continue to demand more arms aid from their Western allies in order to defend their territory against
Russia
.
If the shipment of
Leopard 2
tanks from Europe and
Abrams
from the United States was approved last week, now the Kiev government is demanding air support.
But the request again generates division between the allies.
While French President Emmanuel Macron does not rule out helping Ukraine with combat aircraft, provided certain conditions are met, Joe Biden was resounding in assuring that he is "not" in favor of sending those F16 aircraft.
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12:57
Russia claims it has "liberated" a town close to Bakhmut
Russia has assured that it has taken control of the town of Blagodatne, located in eastern Ukraine and
north of Bakhmut
, where the Russian army intensified its offensive and has been advancing slowly for several weeks.
The Russian Defense Ministry indicated in its daily statement that
"the town of Blagodatne was liberated" after an offensive by "volunteer assault units"
, supported by the air force and artillery.
The Russian army and the Wagner group have been trying to conquer Bakhmut, which had 70,000 inhabitants before the conflict, since last summer.
In recent weeks they intensified their offensive to surround the town.
In January, they captured the nearby town of Soledar and neighboring villages.
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12:47 p.m.
Putin will preside over the events for the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad
Vladimir Putin will chair this Thursday in the city of Volgograd the events on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, which coincides with the current Russian military campaign in Ukraine.
"The trip will be dedicated to the
80th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army in the battle of Stalingrad
. It is a sacred date for everyone in our country," said Dimitri Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, in his daily telephone press conference, collected EFE.
Peskov left the door open for the president, in addition to paying homage to those who fell in one of the bloodiest battles in history,
to socialize with the local population, including veterans of the Great Patriotic War
, as the episode is known in this country. Soviet of World War II.
Since arriving at the Kremlin in 2000, Putin
has attended the anniversary of the battle
that began on July 17, 1942 and ended on February 2, 1943 with the capitulation of Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, head of the Sixth Army , on several occasions.
German, after 200 days of fighting without quarter.
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12:02
Zelensky asks for help to stop Russia's "new offensive"
Volodimir Zelensky has underlined the
intention of reinforcing the country's security with the help of his partners
to stop Russia's intentions to move to a new offensive stage in the spring, as Western intelligence agencies have been predicting for several weeks.
"Ukraine and our partners will do everything necessary to ensure that
Russia's intentions to go to a new stage of the offensive
with the aim of revenge fail," the Ukrainian president said.
Zelensky referred to a tank coalition, which he hopes will get "as many countries as possible" involved in order to succeed on the battlefield against Russia.
Thus, he stressed the urgency that states that decide to collaborate with Ukraine provide what they can.
"
Some countries can provide training, some can provide ammunition. We need to work together
," stressed the President of Ukraine.
In this sense, he warned of the danger of Russia winning the war with the help of mercenaries from the private armed group Wagner, for which reason he demanded that his allies supply tanks.
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11:41
"Extremely aggressive position" of the Baltics
Russia believes that the Lithuanian president's calls to supply Ukraine with fighter jets demonstrate the
"extremely aggressive position" of the Baltic countries and Poland
, and that "major European countries" should counter their stance.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda declared Monday that NATO should stop drawing "red lines" and supply Ukraine with all the weapons it needs,
including fighter jets and long-range missiles
.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, valued these statements: "In general, we see an extremely aggressive position on the part of the representatives of the Baltic countries and Poland. Apparently
they are ready to do anything to provoke an increase in confrontation, without caring just the consequences
"
And he added: "Of course, it is very sad that in these conditions the leaders of the main European countries, who drive all the European processes, unfortunately do not play a balancing role," collects Reuters.
The Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - all ruled by Moscow until they seceded from the Soviet Union in 1991
- have strongly backed Ukraine
, supporting its argument that it needs more advanced Western weapons as soon as possible to head off a feared new offensive. Russian.
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11:28
Russia fines Twitch again
The Taganski court in Moscow has imposed a new fine of 4 million rubles, almost $57,000, on the popular live video platform Twitch, owned by the US giant Amazon,
for refusing to remove "false information"
about the Russian military campaign in Ukraine, reports EFE.
The judge found Twitch guilty of infringing article 41 of the Russian Code of Administrative Misdemeanors, which punishes the refusal to remove "unreliable information that points to the destabilization of the socio-political situation in the country," the Interfax agency reported.
As in the previous fines imposed on October 18, 2021,
the new accusation against Twitch is due to the broadcast of an interview with Oleksiy Arestovich
, a Ukrainian analyst who served as an adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine until the beginning of the year. .
In addition to the two previous fines, Twitch was fined in early October for the same reason.
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10:50
Macron receives the Ukrainian Defense Minister
Emmanuel Macron will receive the Ukrainian Defense Minister,
Oleksiy Reznikov
, at the Elysée on Tuesday, as reported by the French Presidency in a statement.
He will also meet with the Chairman of the Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament, Ruslan Stefantchu
k, who is scheduled to speak before the National Assembly at 3:00 p.m., and then, on Wednesday, before the senators.
Emmanuel Macron will receive Oleksiy Reznikov "at the end of the afternoon", around 6:30 p.m., the head of state's entourage specified.
The objective of this meeting is "
to reiterate its full support for Ukraine
in its fight against the Russian invasion and to recall France's availability to respond to the needs of the Ukrainian armed forces," the statement said.
French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu is also scheduled to meet his Ukrainian counterpart.
Macron did not rule out the sending of fighters to Kiev on Monday
, although he specified that there were "criteria" before any decision: a "request made" by Ukraine, that "it is not an escalation" and that "it does not weaken the ability of the French army to protect their own soil".
Paris has set the same conditions for the possible shipment of Leclerc tanks.
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10:18
The Wagner Group uses its troops as "cannon fodder"
The commanders of
the Wagner mercenary group
, to which the latest Russian victories on the Ukrainian front are attributed, act with their men as if they were "cannon fodder", "cornering those who do not want to fight and shooting them in front of their newly arrived", according to what a former commander of this group, Andrei Medvedev, has revealed to the US network CNN from Oslo, where he is seeking asylum after having defected from the group.
"They rounded up those who didn't want to fight and shot them in front of the new arrivals
," the 26-year-old ex-soldier alleges: "They brought two prisoners who refused to go fight and they shot them in front of everyone and buried them right in the trenches that the apprentices had dug".
Medvedev, who says he previously served in the Russian army, joined Wagner as a volunteer.
"
There were no real tactics.
We only received orders about the position of the adversary... There were no definite orders on how we should behave. We just planned how to act, step by step. Who would open fire, what kind of turns we would have... How it would turn out it was our problem," he explained in the interview, which is collected by EFE.
In addition, he denounced that the prisoners who enlisted
were told that their families would receive a pay of five million rubles (about 71,000 dollars) if they died in the war
.
But in reality "nobody wanted to pay that kind of money," Medvedev said.
Many Russians who died fighting in Ukraine were "simply declared missing," he said.
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9:36
kyiv criticizes the Croatian president
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry
has criticized Croatian President Zoran Milanovic
for saying Crimea would never return to Ukrainian control, calling the comment "unacceptable", Reuters reports.
Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. In remarks on Monday detailing his objection to Zagreb providing military aid to Kiev,
Milanovic said it was "clear that Crimea will never again be part of Ukraine
. "
"We consider unacceptable the statements of the President of Croatia, which
calls into question the territorial integrity of Ukraine
," Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Facebook.
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8:15
Russian field hospitals in two Lugansk maternity hospitals
Russian soldiers have turned two maternity hospitals in Ukraine's Lugansk region into field hospitals amid the
increase in servicemen wounded at the front
, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Tuesday.
The Lugansk and Donetsk regions have become in recent weeks the front line for
Ukrainians and Russians trying to control those strategic territories
that Russia has unilaterally annexed without having managed to fully take them militarily.
"The (Russian) enemy continues to suffer heavy losses and
has begun to use additional civilian medical facilities to house the wounded Russian invaders
," the Ukrainian General Staff said in a note reproduced by local agencies, reports EFE.
He specified that the "occupants established field hospitals that treat the Russian military in the facilities" of two maternity hospitals in Lugansk.
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7:58
a group of peace
Meanwhile, in South America,
Lula da Silva, who received a visit from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz,
ruled out sending weapons to Ukraine and instead proposed creating a peace group to end the conflict.
"Brazil is a country of peace," he emphasized at a joint press conference at the Planalto Palace, adding: "My suggestion is that we create a group of countries that sits at the table with Ukraine and Russia to try to reach peace ".
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7:51
US will not send F-16
US President
Joe Biden has assured that he will not send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
to help in its war against the Russian invasion.
"No," the president replied when asked by reporters at the White House if he was in favor of sending those planes, which Ukrainian leaders say top their latest list of wanted weapons.
Last week, after much division, Western nations finally
agreed to send modern NATO-standard tanks
, one of the most powerful weapons in their conventional armies.
That move raised kyiv's hopes that it would soon start receiving F-16 fighter jets to bolster its dwindling air force, but it remains a matter of heated debate in the West.
European leaders have been open to the idea of sending advanced fighter jets, even if Ukraine has yet to formally request them.
Emmanuel Macron does not rule out this option, although he warns of the danger of escalating the conflict
.
The French president held talks with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who has already raised the idea of sending Dutch F-16s.
"There is no taboo, but it would be a big step," Rutte said.
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