9:22 | Berlin: “China calls on Moscow to end the war” | German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock today called on Beijing to “ask the Russian aggressor to end the war in Ukraine”, stating that “no other country has more influence over Russia than China”. “I must frankly say that I wonder why the Chinese position has not yet included a call for the Russian aggressor to end the war,” German diplomatic chief Qin Gang said during a press conference. |
9:43 | 007 Gb: “Ukrainians withdraw from Bakhmut” | The Ukrainian armed forces are facing “significant supply problems” and are “systematically withdrawing from positions” they previously held. Gb Intelligence claims it in the latest daily update. “Ukrainian defenses still control the western districts of the city, but have come under particularly intense Russian artillery fire over the past 48 hours,” the report said, noting improved cooperation between the Russian Defense Ministry and the Wagner Battalion in the city City of Donetsk at the center of bitter fighting for months. |
10:03 | Beijing: “We will not give arms to Russia” | China will not sell Weapons to the parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine. This was underlined by the Foreign Minister from Beijing. Qin Gang responds to US concerns leaked in top secret papers stolen from US. At a joint press conference with her German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, Qin reaffirmed the will of the China is to help facilitate negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, saying all sides should remain “objective and calm”. |
10:30 a.m | Beijing: “The only solution is peace talks” | On the Ukraine issue, “the Chinese side stressed that the only way out of solving the crisis is to hold peace talks.” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said this in reference to the bilateral meeting between Foreign Minister Qin Gang and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock in Beijing. “China stands ready to keep working for peace and hopes all parties concerned will remain objective and calm and work together to solve the crisis through negotiations,” Wang added in the daily briefing. |
10:38 | Ukrainian Ambassador to Italy: “Italy’s role is crucial” | “The role of Italy and personally of Giorgia Meloni is crucial for us in this context and I am pleased that after the Prime Minister’s visit to Ukraine the personal ties between the two leaders of Italy and Ukraine are and will be very strong Day lower when they are on the phone,” Ukrainian Ambassador to Italy Yaroslav Melnyk said in an interview with SkyTg24. |
12:49 p.m | Zelenskyy: “Only victory can stop Russian terror” | Just a military victory of Ukraine will be able to “stop Russian terror,” wrote Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on his Telegram channel today. “There is only one way to stop Russian terror, to restore security in all our cities and towns: from Sumy region to Donbass, from Karkhiv region to Kherson region, from Kiev region to Yalta. And this way is a military victory of Ukraine”. |
12:54 | Kyiv: “Crimea is ours, we will fight by all means” | “Crimea is the territory of the Ukraine and there we will test and use any weapon not prohibited by international law that will contribute to the liberation of our territories,” the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, assured him in a tweet. |
2:22 p.m | Xi Jinping and Lula: ‘Negotiations are the only way out’ | Chinese Presidents Xi Jinping and Brazilian Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva “agreed that dialogue and negotiations are the only viable way to resolve the Ukraine crisis.” This was reported by the state network CCTV and reported on the bilateral meeting of the two leaders in the Great Hall of the People. In addition, “all efforts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis should be encouraged and supported”. For this reason, the two presidents “invited more countries to play a constructive role in promoting the political solution to the crisis and decided” at the same time “to keep their communication open on the matter”. |
2:25 p.m | Medvedev: “With a NATO-Russia war, Poland would disappear” | Dmitry Medvedev launches a very sharp attack on the Polish government: “A fool named Mateusz Morawiecki said that Ukraine has the right to attack Russia and that he is not worried about a NATO war against Russia because the latter will do it quickly would lose. I don’t know who will win or lose such a war, but given Poland’s role as a NATO outpost in Europe, this country is destined to disappear along with its stupid prime minister,” the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council wrote on Twitter. |
3:15 p.m | US documents: “The war has decimated the Russian special forces” | The war in Ukraine has decimated the Russian special forces, the so-called “Spetsnaz”, and it will take “years” to rebuild them. This was revealed by a US intelligence assessment contained in the Pentagon files leaked in recent days and read by the Washington Post. When Moscow launched its invasion last year, secret newspapers said, elite troops, usually deployed in high-risk, covert missions, were sent to the front lines to fight by Moscow generals “who are skeptical of Moscow’s ability to assert itself as ordinary units “. Reason why they suffered so many casualties. |
3.50 p.m | Kiev: 102 settlements attacked by Russians in 24 hours | In the past 24 hours, Russian forces have shelled 102 Ukrainian settlements in eight different regions, killing three civilians and wounding eight. The budget was published on Telegram by the Military Media Center of Ukraine on behalf of the Ministry of Defense in Kiev. Between yesterday and today, the Russians conducted 19 airstrikes and fired 39 rockets, according to data collected by the Ukrainian army. According to reports from the media center, the Moscow army used various weapons in the attacks, including mortars, tanks, heavy artillery, MLRS rocket launchers, S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, drones and fighter jets. Damage to 62 civilian infrastructures was also confirmed. |
17:30 | Kiev: Chinese components in Russian weapons | Ukrainian forces are finding increasing numbers of Chinese components in Russian weapons deployed in Ukraine, Vladyslav Vlasiuk, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, told Portal. “We keep finding different electronics in weapons salvaged from the battlefield. We collect many different things made in China.” |
5:55 p.m | Medvedev: With the NATO-Russia war, Poland will disappear | Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev predicted the “disappearance of Poland” in the event of a war between NATO and Russia. In a tweet, Medvedev also described Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki as “stupid”. |
6.30 p.m | The weapons promised by Denmark are on their way | Denmark is ready to send 19 Caesar artillery systems to Ukraine, promised in January. The weapons will arrive in the next few weeks, the Danish Defense Ministry said. |
7:24 p.m | The leopards promised by Canada have arrived in Poland | The 8 Leopard 2 tanks promised by Canada to Ukraine have arrived in neighboring Poland. This was announced by Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand today. Germany and the UK delivered 18 advanced Leopards and 14 Challenger 2 tanks respectively to Ukraine last month, while Spain has committed six Leopards. The US has promised 31 Abrams tanks, but not before the fall. |
21:13 | Putin signs electronic conscription | Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law providing for the creation of an electronic system for conscripting the military, which will greatly facilitate the mobilization of Russians in the army. The bill includes a crackdown on those who try to avoid military service. |
10:37 p.m | Prigozhin: “Putin stops the war and focuses on the occupied territories” | Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenaries, has suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin stop the war in Ukraine and focus on consolidating Russia’s presence in the occupied territories. “It is necessary for the authorities (of the Russian Federation) and for society as a whole to put some form of bold end to the special military operation,” Prigozhin writes in Telegram. |
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