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On the 355th day of the

, the authorities continue to

damaged by Russia's "massive attack" on Friday, which fired more than 100 missiles and launched 12 airstrikes and 20 bombings, and estimates that only three regions,

,

will not experience additional power outages this Sunday.

Days away from the one

, in the past two weeks

since the first week of the invasion of Ukraine, according to UK Defense Intelligence.

Ukrainian forces

in the eastern

region , including the besieged city of

, with the fiercest battles taking place in the cities of

and

, the top military commander of Ukraine said . Kiev.

The head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner said it could take Moscow

, the capture of which it has declared a key objective of the war.

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote last week that

, a claim rejected by the White House, but which has not stopped Russia from asking NATO to hold an emergency meeting to discuss these. explosions of the pipelines that

"When will an emergency NATO summit meet to discuss the situation?" asks the Russian foreign minister.

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17:22

The IOC president assures that history proves him right about the athletes from Russia and Belarus

After insisting that sports should respect the human rights of all athletes, the president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, denied on Sunday that the organization was on the wrong side of history by helping Russians and Belarusians to participate

.

.

Bach and the IOC have faced widespread backlash from Ukraine and its allies, including comments directed at him by Zelensky, since they laid out a path last month for some athletes from Russia and Belarus to return to international competition even if they did not. the war started by their countries has finished

"History will show who is doing more for peace. Those who try to keep the lines open, to communicate, or those who want to isolate or divide,"

said the IOC leader.

"We have demonstrated this in the past with great success in the Olympic movement," Bach added, pointing to the examples of North and South Korea, Israel and Palestine and Kosovo.

"Our role is to bring people together."

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4:44 p.m.

Pressure on Austria to be tougher on Russia

Austria has been heavily criticized for issuing visas that will allow sanctioned Russian lawmakers to attend a meeting in Vienna of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

The issue highlights the delicate balancing act the European country has engaged in in trying to maintain its position of military neutrality during the

The Austrian government condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago, but also stressed the need to maintain diplomatic relations with Moscow.

Austria is home to several UN agencies and international organizations such as the OSCE,

which was established during the Cold War as a forum for East-West dialogue.

Russia is one of 57 nations from North America, Europe and Asia that participate in this Vienna-based organization.

Moscow plans to send delegates to the February 23-24 meeting of the OSCE parliamentary assembly, including

.

Among them are the deputy chairman of the Duma, Pyotr Tolstoy, and his parliamentary colleague, Leonid Slutsky.

In a letter to the Austrian foreign minister and other officials,

.

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16.00

The Russian army does not satisfy Putin's desire for victory

Russian President

demands tangible results from his army in Ukraine with which to present himself in the crucial state of the nation address, the first he will give in almost two years, but he has achieved nothing more than huge territorial gains .

"We did not start the military actions, we tried to put an end to them. The hostilities were started by the nationalists in Ukraine and those who supported them in 2014," Putin said ten days after addressing parliament on February 21

Putin has repeatedly had to delay his annual programmatic address due to a

battlefield victories.

The decision to annex four Ukrainian regions almost half a year ago did not improve Russia's prospects on the front either.

The proximity of the first anniversary of the conflict -February 24- and the Western promises of heavy offensive weapons to Kiev -from tanks to long-range missiles-

for the first time since April 2021.

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15.22

Russia continues to bombard Ukraine amid heavy advance in the east

Russian forces continued to shell Ukrainian cities over the weekend amid a hard-fought bid to seize more land in the country's east, with Ukrainian authorities saying Moscow is having trouble launching its

.

there.

One person was killed and another wounded on Sunday morning by shelling of Nikopol, a city in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor

.

The shelling damaged four residential buildings, a school and a water treatment plant.

In Kharkov, Ukraine's second-largest city, one person was injured after three Russian S-300 missiles hit infrastructure facilities overnight, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov

.

The Russian military said they attacked armored vehicle assembly workshops at the Malyshev Machinery Plant in the city.

Ukrainian forces also shot down five drones,

, over the partially occupied Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions on Saturday night, the Kiev army reported.

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2:35 p.m.

Albares reaffirms the role of Spanish diplomacy in the war in Ukraine

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation,

, reaffirmed the commitment of foreign action for the Sahel, in Africa, and considered that Spanish diplomacy has been strengthened by the role that the Government has played and plays in the European Union and NATO before the

This was stated in an interview with Servimedia in which he highlighted the advances included in the new Law on Cooperation for

, approved this week with a broad parliamentary consensus.

For the head of the Foreign Ministry, "the recent war in Ukraine and its

have had a very direct impact and all this generates an even deeper underdevelopment that generates migratory movements, unbearable inequality, and destabilization."

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13.20

Seizing Russian assets: a more complicated task than announced

Putting billions of frozen Russian assets into Ukraine to finance the country's reconstruction seems simple, but the plan faces significant

that are holding it back.

After the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago, an unprecedented battery of sanctions against Moscow led to the freezing of some

state assets, foreign reserves and the assets of oligarchs, according to estimates.

Almost 12 months have passed and more and more Western politicians and activists are pressing for this fortune to be used to

destroyed by the Russian attack.

This month the European Commission called for "stepping up its work to use frozen Russian assets to support the reconstruction of Ukraine" and Estonia is already drafting its own

.

The United States Congress is holding hearings to seek a formula to change the law that allows permanent seizure, although the

administration has been very cautious publicly about this idea.

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13.00

NATO chief plans to step down in October

NATO chief

, in office since 2014, has no plans to extend his mandate, the Atlantic Alliance reported on Sunday.

In March 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization decided to extend Stoltenberg's term

.

His name was then circulating to take the reins of the Central Bank of Norway, but

.

"Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's term has been extended three times and he has served for a total of almost nine years," spokeswoman

.

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12.30

UK weapons could be made in Ukraine under license

British weapons and military vehicles could be made in Ukraine under license, easing

Western allies, the

newspaper reports on Sunday .

The Telegraph

said British defense industry executives had traveled to Kiev to discuss plans to set up

.

Manufacturers in other European countries were also in talks with Ukraine, he said, citing an executive who said there was a race to

.

Ukraine's President

traveled to London and Paris on Wednesday to call for more Western weapons to put down the Russian invasion, including modern fighter jets and long-range heavy weapons.

British Prime Minister

told him "nothing is off the table" when it comes to supplying Ukraine with planes to fight Russia, after a plan was announced to start training Ukrainian pilots to fly jets. NATO standard combat.

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11.58

One dead in Nikopol after a Russian artillery attack on a building

A 53-year-old woman has died this Sunday morning after a Russian artillery attack on

in the city of Nikopol, in southeastern Ukraine, according to the region's governor.

An 87-year-old woman was also injured in the same bombardment.

Nikopol is located on the other side of the Dnipro River where the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is located, occupied by the Russians since the beginning of the war.

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11.39

The 'think thank' of Defense predicts that Ukraine is doomed to "a pyrrhic victory" in the "best of cases"

A report from the 'think thank' of the Ministry of Defense analyzes the evolution of the war in Ukraine and fears a

that will drag the parties into "a blind alley".

In this scenario, he believes that Ukraine, at best, is headed for a "Pyrrhic victory."

The 'Geopolitical Panorama of Conflicts 2022', prepared by the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies (IEEE) and collected by Europa Press, includes a chapter dedicated to the war in Ukraine in which Colonel

analyzes both the background and the They led to the Russian military offensive as the scenarios that arise in the future.

The document stresses that it is a war whose dimension has not been known on the European continent since the end of the Second World War and its severity is increased by the

and "the danger that Europe will be dragged into a war with unforeseeable consequences ".

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10.49

The big offensive promised by Putin, not so big

The secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,

, commented last night that Moscow had already started the "big offensive", but that it would be running into "big problems" at the beginning.

"The offensive they were planning

. But it is not the offensive they expected," he said, speaking to Ukrainian public television.

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10.26

German to instruct Ukrainian soldiers in handling Leopard tanks

The German army will begin next week

(north of the country) the instruction of Ukrainian soldiers in handling the Leopard 2 armored combat vehicles, according to information from the magazine "Der Spiegel".

According to the same media, the first soldiers to undergo training

and part of them come from the front, near the city of Bakhmut,

The German army has planned a quick instruction in which the soldiers learn the fundamentals of the use of the Leopard 2 and the possibilities of combining its action with that of the

.

Also in Munster Ukrainian soldiers are being instructed in the use of the Marder.

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9.18

The Wagner group claims to have northern Bakhmut under its control

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group, stated this Sunday that they have taken control of

, north of Bakhmut, where one of the most important battles is being fought in eastern Ukraine, in the region of Donetsk.

The Reuters agency, however,

.

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08.46

Ukraine and the US set "priorities" for the meeting of allies

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov discussed "priorities," including

, for upcoming

, both sides reported. late on Saturday, collects Reuters.

After getting promises of dozens of modern main battle tanks, including the American M1 Abrams, German Leopard 2 and British Challenger 2, President Volodimir Zelensky and other Kiev officials have been urging allies to send fighter jets

The

, following a conference held on January 20 at the Ramstein Air Base (Germany) that was key to the decision to send tanks.

Austin and Reznikov discussed the

, Pentagon chief spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said in a statement.

Following the call, Reznikov tweeted that "the United States remains unwavering in its support for Ukraine," adding that the two also discussed the situation on the front lines.

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08.29

Ukrainian forces maintain their defenses in Donetsk

Ukrainian forces maintain their defenses along the front line in the eastern

region , including the besieged city of

, with the fiercest battles taking place in the cities of

and

, the top military commander of Ukraine said . Kiev, reports Reuters.

Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said Russia carries out about

a region in southeastern Ukraine that Moscow has been trying to fully occupy.

"We reliably hold the defense. In some areas of the front we have managed to regain lost positions and gain a foothold," Zaluzhnyi said.

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08.17

Russia registers 824 daily casualties on average in the last week

Days away from the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, in the past two weeks Russia has suffered its highest casualty rate since the first week of the invasion of Ukraine, according to the UK Defense Ministry.

The average for the last seven days was 824 casualties per day

, more than four times the rate reported between June and July 2022. Ukraine also continues to suffer from a high attrition rate.

The Ukrainian General Staff publishes daily statistics on Russian casualties.

Although British Defense Intelligence cannot verify Ukraine's methodology, the trends the data illustrate are likely to be accurate.

El aumento en las bajas rusas probablemente se deba a una variedad de factores, incluida la falta de personal capacitado, coordinación y recursos en el frente; esto se ejemplifica en Vuhledar y Bakhmut, concluye la última actualización de la Inteligencia británica.

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07.56

Rusia dice que la OTAN debe celebrar una cumbre de urgencia sobre las explosiones de Nord Stream

La OTAN debería celebrar una reunión de urgencia para discutir los recientes hallazgos sobre las explosiones de septiembre en los gasoductos Nord Stream, dijo a última hora del sábado la portavoz del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Rusia, Maria Zakharova, informa Reuters.

El periodista de investigación Seymour Hersh, ganador de un premio Pulitzer en 1970, afirmó el miércoles en un blog, citando una fuente no identificada, que buzos de la marina estadounidense habían destruido los gasoductos con explosivos por orden del presidente Joe Biden.

La Casa Blanca tachó de "totalmente falsa y de completa ficción" la afirmación de que EEUU estaba detrás de las explosiones de los gasoductos Nord Stream, que envían gas ruso a Alemania.

Suecia y Dinamarca, en cuyas zonas económicas exclusivas se produjeron las explosiones, han llegado a la conclusión de que los gasoductos fueron volados deliberadamente, pero no han dicho quién podría ser el responsable.

Estados Unidos y la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN) han calificado el incidente de "acto de sabotaje". Moscú ha culpado a Occidente de las inexplicables explosiones que causaron las roturas. Ninguna de las partes ha aportado pruebas.

"Aquí hay hechos más que suficientes: la explosión del oleoducto, la presencia de un motivo, pruebas circunstanciales obtenidas por periodistas", dijo Zakharova en la plataforma de mensajería Telegram.

"Entonces, ¿cuándo se reunirá una cumbre de emergencia de la OTAN para analizar la situación?".

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07.44

Sólo tres regiones de Ucrania no sufrirán cortes de luz el domingo

Tres grandes regiones de Ucrania podrán evitar los cortes de electricidad el domingo, ha aasegurado este sábado el principal productor DTEK, mientras las autoridades trabajaban para reparar las redes eléctricas dañadas por un gran ataque ruso. El Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia dijo anteriormente que sus fuerzas habían llevado a cabo un "ataque masivo" en instalaciones energéticas de importancia crítica.

DTEK dijo en un comunicado que el operador de red Ukrenergo no impuso restricciones adicionales al consumo el domingo, lo que significa que no debería haber cortes de energía en Kiev y la región circundante, así como en las regiones de Odesa y Dnipro.

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07.15

Rusia afirma haber bloqueado el transporte ferroviario de armas y municiones extranjeras al frente

Rusia llevó a cabo un "ataque masivo" contra instalaciones energéticas de importancia crítica del complejo militar-industrial de Ucrania el viernes, dijo el Ministerio de Defensa ruso el sábado.

En una actualización diaria, el ministerio no identificó las instalaciones energéticas que afirmó haber golpeado. El ataque también bloqueó el transporte ferroviario de armas y municiones extranjeras a los campos de batalla ucranianos.

Las fuerzas armadas ucranianas declararon a última hora del viernes que las fuerzas rusas habían disparado más de 100 misiles y lanzado 12 ataques aéreos y 20 bombardeos. Se destruyeron 61 misiles de crucero rusos.

El ministro de Energía ucraniano, German Galushchenko, declaró que Rusia había atacado con misiles y aviones no tripulados instalaciones eléctricas en seis regiones, provocando apagones en la mayor parte del país.

Rusia ha atacado repetidamente infraestructuras civiles lejos del frente, dejando a millones de ucranianos sin electricidad, calefacción ni agua durante días en pleno invierno.

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07.00

Polonia duda sobre el envío de aviones F-16 a Ucrania, según la BBC

El presidente de Polonia, Andrzej Duda, ha reconocido en declaraciones a la BBC británica que enviar aviones F-16 a Ucrania sería "una decisión muy seria" que "no es fácil de tomar". Duda fue entrevistado en Varsovia para el programa "Domingo con Laura Kuenssberg", que se emite el domingo, aunque este sábado se ha adelantado parte de esa conversación.

The Polish president, one of Kiev's closest allies, has told Kuenssberg that the shipment of F-16s would pose

In addition, these combat aircraft require "a lot of maintenance", so it is not just a matter of sending them, but that follow-up would have to be ensured, he declares, according to the advanced text.

The president also argues that since Poland is a member of NATO, any decision to provide fighter jets to Ukraine must be "joint."

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