DIRECT. War In Ukraine: Kremlin Denies Launching Second Wave Of Mobilization

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4:06 p.m.: A meeting of the “Panzerkoalition” took place. I thank my German and Polish colleagues Boris #Pistorius and @mblaszczak for their unwavering support of Ukraine. Today we signed the Letter of Intent to establish a maintenance and service center in Poland for Leopard 2… https://t.co/hGvh2GmdDz https://t.co/hrFrrUvN9m

4:00 p.m.: Germany, Poland and Ukraine have signed an agreement to establish a maintenance center in Poland for the Leopard 2 tanks delivered to Kiev. Ukraine’s defense minister said he was “grateful” to his counterparts.

3:43 p.m .: “I am confident that they (the Ukrainians) can now make up even more ground”.

The NATO Secretary General wants to have a calming effect while Kiev prepares its counter-offensive against Russian troops.

3:00pm: ✳️ New: I arrived at @RamsteinAirBase for the 11th Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting hosted by United States @SecDef Lloyd Austin. I just announced an additional package of Canadian military aid to Ukraine. ↓ https://t.co/EEaA8UufKO

3:06 p.m.: Canada will provide Kyiv with an additional $39 million in arms and non-lethal military aid, Canadian Defense Secretary announces. This money is used to buy fuel, first aid kits, weapons and radio equipment, among other things.

2:06 p.m.: The Kremlin again denies any intention of launching a second mobilization campaign to send men to Ukraine. “There are no discussions in the Kremlin about a wave of mobilization,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He was responding to a question about reports in Russian media about university students being drafted into military service in Moscow and other cities in Russia.

1:33 p.m.: “I understood that I would have a quick death or a slow death,” Timur, a Russian prisoner, told the New York Times. The quick death was that of the frontline in Ukraine, the slow death that of HIV because his treatment in prison was inadequate. “I chose a quick death,” he concluded.

1:26 p.m .: Around 20 percent of the Russian soldiers recruited in prison are said to be HIV-positive, Ukrainian authorities told the New York Times. This estimate comes from the infection rate among captured Russian soldiers.

1:06 p.m .: The French Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, has arrived in Odessa. The minister confirms that France will supply 25,000 tons of rails for the reconstruction of 150 km of railway tracks destroyed in the west of the country, says Paul Barcelona, our local journalist.

10:18 am: Ukraine’s Air Force announces it has shot down eight of the 12 Iranian-made Shahed drones that Russia launched overnight. The attack, which was aimed in particular at Kiev, claimed no casualties. Follow our life.

10:17 am: Ukraine’s Air Force announces it has shot down eight of the 12 Iranian-made Shahed drones that Russia launched overnight. The attack, which was aimed in particular at Kiev, claimed no casualties. Follow our life.

8:05 a.m.: Farmers regularly find weapons in the fields. Across the country, forces first secured cities, then farmland. At the Epi d’or cooperative in Mykolaiv, none of the 97 workers were injured. “But they were scared, yes. They said to themselves sometimes, ‘What if the deminers forgot something?’

8:02 a.m.: “I think about the danger all the time. When I’m no longer afraid, the worst can happen. In the evenings I try to forget about work, especially since my wife is pregnant.”

The deminers advance in groups of two on each side of the canal. The first man guides the seeker four inches off the ground from left to right. The second, armed with a long staff, pierces the earth at a 45-degree angle when it comes to identifying a threat more accurately.