January 9, 2023 11:34 am
Kremlin: “Arms deliveries to Kyiv prolong the suffering of Ukrainians”
The supplies of tanks and other weapons to Ukraine, announced by several Western countries last week, would only “prolong the suffering of Ukrainians” and would not “change” the balance of power. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Last week, the US and Germany said they would supply tanks for the infantry, while France said it would send light tanks to Kyiv.
January 9, 2023 11:32 am
The Kremlin denies renewed partial mobilization
Commenting on the rumors about an allegedly newly incoming partial mobilization, the Kremlin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that “the main source of information about the mobilization is the official government under the leadership of the President of Russia”, and urged not to pay attention to what is going on written to some Telegram channels. Ria Novosti reports it.
January 9, 2023 10:52 am
Filorussi: “Ukrainians withdraw from Soledar”
According to the official representative of the People’s Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk Republic Ivan Filiponenko, there is a mass withdrawal of the Ukrainian military from Soledar. This was reported by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. “We are witnessing a mass exodus of the enemy in Soledar,” Filiponenko told Rossiya 24 TV channel.
January 9, 2023 10:49 am
Zelenskyi: “Russian attacks on Bakhmut repulsed”
Ukrainian forces repel continued attacks on the town of Bakhmut in the eastern Donbass region and hold their positions in nearby Soledar in very difficult conditions. That’s what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address, adding that Bakhmut “resisted despite everything”.
January 9, 2023 8:50 am
Zelenskyy: “While Moscow spoke of armistice, it attacked Kherson”
“During Fly spoke of the “alleged ceasefire” Kherson was hit with incendiary ammunition while other attacks took place in Kramatorsk and other US cities Donbass“. The President of Ukraine said in his late night telegram speech: Volodymyr Zelensky. “No attempt by Russia to manipulate diplomacy and politics will ever work again,” he added.
January 9, 2023 8:50 am
The pro-Russians: “Captive Bakhmut, in Donetsk”
According to the territorial defense headquarters of the self-proclaimed republic DonetskRussian troops liberated the settlement Bachmut. This was reported by the Russian news agency Tass. “To date, Bakhmut has been released,” pro-Russians said. Fierce fighting with mercenaries has been going on around the city in eastern Ukraine for the past five months Wagner groupfounded by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ally Evgeny Prigozhin is attacking Ukraine’s defenses to breach defenses around Bakhmut and the Soledar suburb, the epicenter of the battle.
January 9, 2023 8:48 am
Podolyak to Italy: “Hurry up, supplies to save us from the Russians”
“We don’t have time, Ukraine needs these weapons now.” To say it in an interview with Repubblica, it is like that Mykhailo PodoliakChief Advisor to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which relates in particular to the delivery of the Sign Kyiv with the protect Samp T, also delivered to Italy. In recent days, the United States has asked Italy to deliver Samp-T to the Ukrainians. “Don’t listen to Russian propaganda: weapons – explains Podolyak – are not intended to ‘prolong the conflict’. We need them for defense and counterattack, just to end the war in the right way: Russia must lose, only this will guarantee the world and Europe and restore international law in relations between states. These weapons serve precisely to limit the conflict, to localize it only in the occupied Ukrainian territories; They are the way to shrink and cool it by preventing it from expanding. They are the way to minimize losses for Ukraine, shorten the duration of the war and hasten its end. And Ukrainian society is not ready for a peace that does not include the liberation of the occupied territories.”
January 9, 2023 8:47 am
Berlin: “Leopard tanks to Kyiv not ruled out”
German Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister Robert Habeck does not rule out Germany opting for a future delivery Leopard tank to Ukraine. This was reported by the Russian agency Tass. “No, of course that can’t be ruled out,” Habeck told ARD when asked about the possibility of making such funds available to Kyiv. “We are studying the situation, we are coordinating our measures with other countries. We will observe how the discussion “on this topic in Germany develops,” said the minister. According to him, depending on the development of the course of hostilities in Ukraine, the dynamics of arms supplies to Kyiv will change.
The Russian embassy in Berlin condemned the German authorities’ decision to send armored personnel carriers to Kyiv, calling it a further step in the escalation of the Ukraine conflict. The diplomatic mission in Moscow added that the German authorities took this step “particularly under heavy pressure”. Washington“.