Sunday, February 18, 2024
22:03
AGREEMENTS WILL “DETER” RUSSIA.
In his traditional daily address, the Ukrainian president reviewed the texts signed by Ukraine in recent days and described “very ambitious” security agreements with Germany and France. “I would like to thank Chancellor Scholz and President Macron as well as all members of our teams for preparing these agreements and putting on paper exactly what we needed,” said Volodymyr Zelensky. In the warlord's eyes, these texts not only help “protect” Ukraine today, but they will also “deter Russia in the future.”
9:44 p.m
Prisoners executed?
While Ukraine this morning accused Russia of executing two prisoners of war, the Ukrainian prosecutor's office announced this evening that it had opened two investigations into the alleged execution of a total of eight prisoners of war by Russian soldiers. “The shooting of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Avdiivka and Vesselé: investigation has begun,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said on Telegram.
The first investigation concerns “the circumstances surrounding the death of a group of Ukrainian soldiers captured while leaving the Zenith position on the southern outskirts of Avdiivka,” according to Dmytro Lykhoviy, the Ukrainian military spokesman for the zone. The Ukrainian army had announced the day before that soldiers had been captured during the withdrawal from Avdiivka, without giving details.
Ukrainian ground troops, in turn, accused Russian soldiers of shooting two prisoners of war in another area of eastern Ukraine. In the video broadcast by the ground forces, the authenticity of which we could not immediately verify, a soldier is filmed shooting at close range at two soldiers who are in the same trench as him and do not resist him.
9:41 p.m
TWO DEAD IN KRAMATORSK
A Russian attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk hit homes and killed at least two people, local authorities said. AFP journalists at the scene saw rescuers carrying a body away in a body bag while others cleared away the rubble.
9:39 p.m
OUR STATEMENTS
While the Ukrainian armed forces left the city of Avdiivka to the Russian troops, Kiev explains this withdrawal and the difficulties on the front with a lack of ammunition. But why is there a dangerous shortage of ammunition in Ukraine? Answers in this video. ↓
Ukraine will soon run out of ammunition Source: JT 8 p.m. WE
19:34
RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION
According to the Antibot4Navalny collective, which specializes in identifying and analyzing Russia-related influence operations, a disinformation operation aimed at discrediting actions in honor of Alexei Navalny across Russia is underway. Social network courses. The collective reveals that Kremlin “bots” have begun accusing protesters of supporting extremism. And of all the comments these “bots” have written since Friday, more than 80% were dedicated to the Russian opponent who died in prison.
6:03 p.m
We take stock
Since the disclosure of information “about a serious threat to the security” of the United States, the West has been concerned about Russia's development of a new weapon that it could use in space. So is it a space nuclear weapon? Is it aimed at artificial satellites or at Earth? TF1info takes a look at everything we know about this mysterious project. ↓
18:02
DENMARK IS EMPTYING ITS STOCKS
Denmark announces that it will deliver all artillery shells that the country has in stock to Ukraine. “If you ask the Ukrainians, they ask us for ammunition, for artillery. That is why we on the Danish side have decided to donate all of our artillery,” said Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at the security conference in Munich.
“We have weapons, ammunition and air defense equipment that we do not need to use ourselves at the moment and that we should deliver to Ukraine,” she argued, without specifying what this meant.
5:55 p.m
NEW THREAT FROM MEDVEDEV
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has again threatened to use nuclear weapons against NATO allies if Russia loses the occupied territories. “Attempts to restore Russia’s 1991 borders will lead to only one thing: a world war with Western countries and the use of our entire strategic arsenal against Kiev, Berlin, London and Washington,” the vice president said. President of Security The Russian Council of Russia on his Telegram channel also cited “all the other beautiful historical places that have long been among the targets of the theft of our nuclear triad.”
It is not the first time that the former president has made such threats public. Last March, Dmitry Medvedev posted a video on Telegram in which he warned all countries allied with Ukraine of a “nuclear conflict.”
17:30
WHAT IS BEIJING DOING?
The Chinese foreign minister and his Ukrainian counterpart spoke this Saturday on the sidelines of the security conference in Munich. In an interview, Wang Yi assured Dmytro Kuleba that China does not sell lethal weapons to Russia.
5:10 p.m
RUSSIANS OVERTURN AVDIÏVKA
Russian troops are trying to push further into eastern Ukraine by launching multiple attacks west of Avdiivka, a day after Kiev forces withdrew from the key industrial city, the Ukrainian commander said on Sunday.
“In the Avdiivka region, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 14 attacks by the occupiers near Lastochkyné,” a small village located less than two kilometers from the northern Avdiivka districts of the Donetsk region, the general said on Telegram. Oleksandr Tarnavsky. Further south, in the Mariinka area, Russian forces “tried to break through the defenses of our troops 23 times,” he added, also reporting Russian offensives in the southern Zaporizhia region.
2:55 p.m
Prisoners executed?
The Ukrainian army accused Russia on Sunday of shooting two Ukrainian prisoners of war in the east of the country.
On Sunday morning, the Russians “once again demonstrated their stance against international humanitarian law by shooting two Ukrainian prisoners of war,” the country's ground forces said on Telegram.
1:45 p.m
BEIJING: “NO LETHAL WEAPONS SOLD IN MOSCOW”
As an important partner of Russia affected by Western sanctions, Beijing minimizes the impact of its support in the conflict with Ukraine. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi assured his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on Saturday that China “does not sell lethal weapons to conflict areas or parties to the conflict” to the belligerents in the war in Ukraine, including implicitly to Russia. Remarks made during a meeting in Munich, Germany, on the sidelines of the security conference, said a Chinese diplomatic press release issued on Sunday evening.
10:40
UKRAINE, “A QUESTION OF LIFE OR DEATH,” ACCORDING TO PUTIN
The Russian president assured in an interview broadcast on Sunday that “what is happening in Ukraine” is a “matter of life and death” for Russia, while for the West it is only a question of “improving its tactical position.” .
Vladimir Putin said it was “important” for Russians and foreigners alike “to understand our state of mind, to understand how sensitive and important what is happening around Ukraine is for our country.”
“For (the West) it is an improvement in their tactical position. But for us it is our fate, it is a matter of life and death,” he said, according to an excerpt from an interview by the journalist who interviewed him, Pavel Zaroubine, published on social networks.
10:20
RECORDING FROM AVDIÏVKA: PUTIN CONGRATULATES HIS SOLDIERS
Our correspondent in Moscow, Jérôme Garro, takes stock of the situation this Sunday morning.
Avdiivka: Putin congratulates his soldiersSource: TF1 Info
07:09
UPDATE ON THE SITUATION
On Saturday, Russia claimed “total control” over Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine after Kiev withdrew due to a lack of sufficient military resources.
The White House has also made a connection between this symbolic success that the Ukrainians conceded to Russia and the Republicans' blocking of additional military aid to Kiev by the American Congress. “I spoke to Zelensky this afternoon to let him know that I am confident that we will get this money,” US President Joe Bien wanted to reassure on Saturday evening. “I will fight so that they (Ukrainians) have the ammunition they need,” he assured.
07:04
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