After the green light to the tanks leopard and abrams, calls on Ukraine partners to deploy long-range missiles, including MGM-140 tactical missile systems (ATACMs), to stop “Russian terror”. The same ones who, according to Politico, are the president Volodymyr Zelenskyy he asked unsuccessfully during his meeting with the President of the United States Joe Biden to Washington on 12/21 Not to motivate that Use, the fear of an escalation and that military means could be used to attack Russian territory. but Kyiv reiterates its urgency: “Ukraine – he said Zelensky – needs long-range missiles to prevent the occupiers from positioning their rocket launchers far from the front line and thereby destroying Ukrainian cities”, further that there should be no “taboo” on supplying arms to Ukraine to protect against Russian aggression to protect. “We will do everything to open our partners to it deliver vitalincluding delivery of atacms and other similar weapons,” he said. And his advisor Mykhailo Podoliak stated that negotiations on sending to Ukraine of fighters and missiles “Speed up” long-haul routes through allied countries. “Our partner they understand how the war develops. They understand that attack aircraft are badly needed to cover them troops hey vehicles armored they offer us. Likewise e.g to reduce drastically the key tool of the Russian army, the artillerywe must rockets“. The missiles Himar Currently deployed by Ukraine, they have a range of 80 kilometers and cannot reach many of the Russian-held areas. Until now Washington it has refused to supply Atacms missiles with a range of 300 kilometers and Glsdb missiles with a range of 150 kilometers.
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Scholz: “I will continue to speak to Putin” – On the diplomatic front, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz He stated that he would continue to try to end the war in Ukraine through direct negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I will call Putin again because it is necessary to talk to each other. It is up to Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine and stop this horrible senseless war that has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives,” he said scholz stresses that Russia is continuing the war with the current level of aggression location it will not change. the Chancellor he then remembered that you compose them conversations phone with Putin “They weren’t rude,” but stressed that the Russian leader had repeatedly made it clear that he wanted to “forcibly annex parts of his neighboring country,” which e.g scholz, is “unacceptable”. According to the Kremlin spokesman, there is no phone call between the two heads of state on the agenda Peshkov He let it be known that Putin is open to communication. “So far there are no planned talks. Putin was and is open to contacts,” said the spokesman when asked whether such a talk was already planned and whether the Russian President generally had the desire or intention to speak to the German Chancellor.
Attacks in the Donbass – Meanwhile, attacks on Ukrainian territory continue. According to reports from Ukrainska Pravda, which quotes the Ukrainian authorities, massive bombings took place in Kherson, also hitting the regional clinical hospital and injuring a nurse, while a total of three people died. Even the city Konstantynivkain part of the region of Donetsk still under Ukrainian control, it was bombed by the Russians. “The Russian army,” declared the Ukrainian president, “has hit a residential area. At the moment the list of victims counts 17 people14 of whom are injured,” he continued Zelensky in his daily address to the nation. “Unfortunately, bombings of this kind happen every day,” added the Ukrainian leader, “but it is possible to stop them terrorism Russian when they supply our military rockets appropriate“. The regional governor of Donetsk, Paul Kyrylenkosaid that a Konstantynivka a four-story apartment building, a hotel, some garages and parked cars were hit. Regarding military supplies a FlyNorth Korea refused to surrender after the United States that’s what they stated Pyongyang is said to have supplied rockets and missiles to the private Russian military group Wagner, which Washington has described as a transnational criminal organization. there White Housethe Guardian recalled showing US intelligence photos showing Russian train cars entering North Korea, picking up missiles and infantry missiles, and returning to Russia.