A White House official told Portal, as reported on its website, that the United States had no intention of sending troops to fight in Ukraine, a hypothesis put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron for the future, and that it There are also no plans for NATO to send troops to fight in Ukraine.
“NATO allies are providing unprecedented support to Ukraine. We have been doing this since 2014 and have intensified it after Russia's large-scale invasion.” “But there are no plans for NATO combat troops on the ground in Ukraine.” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the Associated Press, again in connection with yesterday Hypothesis put forward by Emmanuel Macron to send soldiers from the Atlantic Alliance to Ukraine.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that “no soldiers” from European or NATO countries will be sent to Ukraine. In a press conference, Scholz explained that “what was decided between us from the beginning also applies to the future,” that is, that there will be “no troops on site, no soldiers from European states or NATO on Ukraine’s soil.” “.
“We are aware of public statements by some Member States that the deployment of ground troops to Ukraine could be considered. This has not been discussed at EU level,” said EU foreign policy spokesman Peter Stano during the Commission’s daily press conference.
Sending NATO troops to Ukraine “would not be in the interests” of the West: this was stated by the Kremlin, commenting on the hypothesis put forward yesterday by French President Emmanuel Macron.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a direct military conflict between NATO and Russia would be “inevitable” if soldiers from Western countries were sent to Ukraine. Tass reports it. “In this case, we need to talk not about the probability, but about the inevitability, and this is how we assess it,” Peskov said, according to the official Russian news agency, in response to a question about how the Kremlin assesses the likelihood of such an event Direct conflict between NATO and Russia in the event of sending Western troops to Ukraine.
At a summit in Paris called by French President Emanuel Macron to close ranks with Ukraine, the idea of sending Western troops to Ukraine was met with no enthusiasm. This was announced by Polish President Andrzej Duda, as RBC-Ukraine reported, citing Polish radio. “The most heated discussion – says Duda – took place around the issue of sending soldiers to Ukraine. And here too there was no agreement at all.”
The team and family of Alexei Navalny It was not possible for them to get a room for the public farewell to the opponent, said today his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, who launched a call for a room to be made available yesterday. “We called most private and public funeral homes, commercial establishments and funeral halls,” Yarmysh wrote on X. “Somewhere they say the room is occupied. Somewhere they refuse to mention Navalny's name. At one point we were told this directly. “Funeral directors were prohibited from working with us.”
Russian dissident Leonid Volkov, a friend and associate of Alexei Navalny, said he was convinced that a protest rally on March 17, the last day of the Russian presidential election, was Navalny's “last testament.” The Guardian reports on it.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov described calls for protests by Alexei Navalny's supporters as “provocative,” claimed they were “calls to violate the laws” and threatened “legal consequences” for “those who somehow respond to these calls.” “. This was reported by the Interfax agency.
The Moscow court sentenced dissident Oleg Orlov, former co-president of the Memorial Foundation, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, to two and a half years in prison.
During the night, the Russian army fired a hail of drones and missiles into the eastern, western and central Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Khmelnytska and Kirovograd. This was reported by the Kiev Air Force, quoted by Rbc-Ukraine. “The Russians attacked with 13 Shahed kamikaze drones, Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, four Kh-59 guided-air missiles and one Kh-31P anti-radar missile. “Eleven drones and two missiles were destroyed by anti-aircraft missiles fired at Ukraine,” the Air Force said.
Analysts from the independent Ukrainian project DeepState report that Russian forces are advancing west and northwest of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region and have captured the settlements of Stepnoye and Severnoye after Lastochkino. This was reported by Ukrainska Pravda. “The enemy advanced near Orlovka, Berdichev and Tonenkoye. He occupied Stepnoye and Severnoye. Where is the command of the Ukrainian Tavria unit now, according to which the defense lines are 'prepared'?” writes DeepState.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) claims to have foiled a planned terrorist attack in the Zaporizhzhia region, which Ukrainian secret services prepared using a chemical weapon. Tass reports it. “The Russian Federal Security Service has thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian intelligence services to carry out a terrorist attack in the Zaporizhzhia region using a substance similar to the NATO-classified chemical warfare agent Bz. Three Ukrainian citizens were arrested,” read the FSB statement.
“At night, one of the drones launched by the Russian army, targeting the Odessa region, crossed a very difficult maneuver … a provocative route, it crossed the border on the Ukrainian-Moldovan route: we recorded the crossing of the border “After flying tens of kilometers (over Moldovan territory), the drone returned to Ukrainian airspace and was destroyed by Kiev's air defense forces,” Natalia Humeniuk, spokeswoman for the South Ukrainian Defense Forces, said on television. UNIAN reports it.
Seoul, Kim's factories are at full capacity to supply weapons to Moscow
While North Korea's weapons factories “are generally operating at 30% capacity due to raw material and energy shortages, some are operating at full capacity, producing mainly weapons and projectiles for Russia,” Defense Minister Shin Won-sik said in a meeting with the media in the Yonhap report . The North is estimated to have shipped about 6,700 containers to Russia since the summit between leader Kim Jong-un and President Vladimir Putin in September, Shin added. These are sufficient volumes to carry approximately 3 million 152mm artillery shells or 500,000 122mm shells.
EP's final approval of the €50 billion fund for Kiev
Green light from the European Chamber for the so-called “Instrument for Ukraine”, as a measure within the framework of the revision of the multiannual financial framework. The text was adopted with 536 votes in favour, 40 against and 39 abstentions. The facility consists of a multi-year plan of €50 billion in grants, loans and guarantees for Ukraine. With the green light from the House of Representatives, the approval process for the legislative package is completed.
Zelensky on CNN: Russia can win without US help
“Without American help, Russia could win and millions of Ukrainians would die,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with CNN. The Ukrainian president said he spoke with Mike Johnson and the House speaker told him “he will do everything he can to support Ukraine.” “I have to trust him,” he added. “American money largely ends up in US military production and not in our budget,” he continued, but promised reforms for transparency and the fight against corruption.
“I can't understand how Trump can be on Putin's side. He doesn't understand that Putin will never stop… if he supports him, it will go against Americans and US interests,” Zelensky said in an interview with CNN.
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