Vladimir Putin suffered a blow in the war when Poland became the first country to supply Ukraine with 4 Leopard tanks.
Alongside Ukrainian President Zelensky, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said: “Poland and Europe are with you. In fact, we will not abandon them, we will be Ukraine until total victory over Russia. “
The G7 also announced that it is contemplating tightening sanctions against Russia as it planned measures against diamond exports, a debatable factor across Europe.
This comes as Vladimir Putin’s losses reach 150,000 victims since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Kiev said.
Volodymyr Zelensky’s armed forces claimed to have killed 650 Russian infantrymen in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 147,470.
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US President Joe Biden has expressed his opinion on China’s involvement in Ukraine and negotiations for a peace plan.
He told ABC News on Friday: “Putin applauds him, so how can he be good?The concept that China will negotiate the final results of a war that is a completely unfair war for Ukraine is simply rational. “
China put forward a 12-point proposal calling for a ceasefire and peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, while caution opposes the use of nuclear weapons.
The G7 pledged to “take action” on any “third country” that supports Russia’s war in Ukraine.
One read: “We call on third countries or other foreign actors seeking to evade or undermine our measures to avoid offering aid for Russia’s war, or facing significant costs.
“To deter this activity around the world, we are taking action against third-country actors who materialize Russia’s war in Ukraine. “
The United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Japan and Italy make up the G7.
British Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer announced that 3,000 tickets for the Eurovision Song Contest would be awarded to Ukrainians after their country was unable to host the contest they won in Turin due to Russia’s invasion.
Ms. Frazer said: “Today’s announcement means that thousands of tickets will be given to other people displaced by the war, so they can take part in an exhibition honouring their homeland, culture and music.
“As always, we stand in solidarity with other Ukrainians and their struggle for freedom. “
Volodymyr Zelensky issued a provocative promise tonight, saying that Ukraine will “lose” its freedom.
In his evening speech, the Ukrainian said: “I can stand up to you, the Danish people, in this way.
“I can deal with the other Ukrainians in this way.
“Yes, and it’s a luxury in today’s world. A luxury that many other people only dream of.
“Our peoples, Ukrainians and Danes, breathe freely. We have freedom, just like most Europeans. And we will lose our freedom, because we only dreamed of it, but we fought for it. We missed the decisive moment. “
A Ukrainian style revealed the devastating moment he returned home: he realized that the city had been devastated by the Russians.
Anna Malygon discovered the building where she grew up completely devastated and shattered by Russian artillery fire.
Collapling buildings, damaged windows and streets pierced by projectiles found the 19-year-old as she returned home from Toronto, Canada.
He visited some of his favorite places, such as his favorite mall, his favorite café, his old school, to locate them all destroyed.
And even on its scale after the Russians were driven out, there were still air raid sirens and bomb blasts.
“This is how other people live in Ukraine right now,” the 19-year-old told The Sun Online.
There is no sign that Russia has been deploying Iranian unidirectional unmanned attack aerial cars (OWA-UAVs) to Ukraine since at least February 15.
This would possibly imply that Russia has exhausted its existing reserves, but possibly to resupply.
The weapons do not have a good reputation for destroying targets, however, Russia would possibly see them as “useful decoys” that can concentrate Ukraine’s air defenses on them than more effective cruise missiles.
This is the update from the UK Ministry of Defence.
The Ukrainian military took stock of Russia’s advances and confirmed that the forces on Friday doubled the number of ships in active service in the Black Sea.
Now they are for planned missile attacks, as the Russian military has already introduced attacks from the Black Sea Fleet.
The Ukrainian army said: “In the Black Sea, the fleet of warships has doubled until this morning: now there are 8 ships.
“In a context of enemy air activity of some kind, this would possibly imply that a missile attack and drone movements are in preparation. “
Vladimir Putin’s cronies childishly interrupted a minute’s silence for the victims of the war in Ukraine.
Members of the UN Security Council were forced to duck when Russia’s envoy continuously tapped on his microphone and demanded a statement.
On Friday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba proposed a minute of silence in memory of the “victims of aggression” on the first anniversary of the war.
But as other members stood up, Moscow’s representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, sat down and began banging his microphone with his pencil.
He then took the ground to do a consultation in New York.
Former professional boxer Wladimir Klitschko shared a video on Twitter showing him the new Leopard tanks that have been donated to Ukraine.
He says: “I never thought a year ago that I was going to drive this ‘cat’.
“A year of in Ukraine. A year of suffering. And a year of will more powerful than ever. “
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that the Wagner Group had captured the village of Yahidne, north of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
The leader of the organization did this in a short audio message.
Zelensky is living his scariest day of the war in Ukraine so far, a year after Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of his country.
The Ukrainian president photographed the day he “saw the devil” and precisely what the bloodthirsty troops of the Russian tyrant were capable of.
The hero Zelensky asked about his scariest day of the war so far, to which he replied “Bucha”.
He referred to the city where a civilian bloodbath took place shortly after its liberation from the Russians.
“What I saw when we vacated it. It’s very scary.
“Because we saw that Satan is not elsewhere, he is on earth. Probably that. “
Oleksandr Zinchenko captained Arsenal in today’s match against Leicester.
The 26-year-old fullback won the armband as a sign of respect after the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine-born Zinchenko has continued to reflect on the devastating war since it began last February.
And he still uses social media to make a crusade for peace in his homeland.
Volodymyr Zelensky said he expected to see “decisive action by Rosatom and the Russian nuclear industry. “
The Ukrainian leader’s demands came after the EU’s smartest diplomats agreed on Friday to a new sanctions circular on Russia.
A former commander of Putin’s vicious army, the Wagner Group, has been arrested after allegedly attacking a policeman after a bar fight.
Andrey Medvedev was reportedly involved in the fight in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, where he fled last month after claiming he had escaped Putin’s brutal band of mercenaries.
The former commander of a branch of the Wagner Group arrested after a drunken fight near a downtown bar, and for alleged acts of violence against police officers during his detention.
Incriminating documents that the alleged combat occurred on the night of February 21.
After resisting arrest, Medvedev allegedly beat a police officer.
The text reads: “On Wednesday, February 22, 2023, around five in the morning, when several policemen and other law enforcement officials pulled him [Medvedev] out of a police car in the courtyard of the central detention center, he resisted and kicked one or more officials. “
The leader of Poland’s largest oil company, PKN Orlen, Daniel Obajtek, showed on Twitter that they had stopped receiving oil from Russia’s Druzhba pipeline.
He said: “We are securing the raw materials well. Russia has cut off oil materials to Poland, for which we are perfectly prepared. “
“Only 10% of the crude arrived here from Russia and we will update it with oil from other directions. This is the effect of the diversification we have done in recent years.
“We will get more data on Poland’s oil at Tuesday’s convention on progression projects. “
India’s G20 president said top members “strongly condemn” the war in Ukraine.
They issued a statement, much like they did in November when the bloc met in Bali.
He also added that the G20 is the forum where security issues are resolved, although he acknowledged that those problems can have significant consequences for the global economy.
“The peaceful resolution of clashes, efforts to resolve crises, as well as international relations and dialogue, are vital. Today’s era will not have to be one of war,” the statement said.
Reuters reported that Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko had a verbal exchange with Vladimir Putin on Friday.
A social network connected to Lukashenko’s press service quoted him as saying: “I’ll tell you a secret, last night he and I talked at length about issues,” without elaborating.
The Kremlin has yet to make a decision on the talk.
More organizations accused of supporting the war in Ukraine, spreading propaganda or supplying drones to Russia will be subject to new EU sanctions.
The Swedish EU presidency said the sanctions “are directed against the military and political decision-makers, corporations that support or operate within the Russian military industry and commanders of the Wagner Group.
“Transactions with some of Russia’s largest banks are banned. “
The assets of 3 other Russian banks and seven Iranian entities, companies, agencies, political parties or other organizations that manufacture army drones have been frozen, as the EU suspects they were used in the war.
A rally organized by others on the left and right is expected to take position Saturday in Berlin as it calls for peace talks to end the war in Ukraine.
The rally is organized by Sahra Wagenknecht, a lawmaker from the former Communist Left Party, and prominent feminist Alice Schwarzer, who told German news firm dpa that the war deserves not to drag on any longer.
She said, “What’s stopping us from starting negotiations now from waiting another 3 years?”
Medvedev said Russian factories had increased army output “dozens of times” to meet peak demand for defense orders while mocking Ukraine’s concept that Moscow lacked missiles.
“It was amusing to hear Kiev’s fantasies reasoning that ‘missiles are over’ in Russia or ‘production stopped. ‘Reality convinced them in a different way: they still can’t overcome the impact,” Medvedev said in an article published Saturday. in the monthly magazine National Defense.
“We’re just expanding production, but we’re also introducing the newest technologies, literally perfecting them ‘on the move. ‘”
The head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Andriy Yermak, wrote on Telegram that 3 civilians were injured in Russian artillery shelling in Kherson, southern Ukraine.
He wrote: “Today, due to the artillery shelling of the town of Kherson, 3 local citizens ended up in the hospital. Russian terrorists are fighting the civilian population. “
In a separate message, Kherson’s regional army leadership said two rescue people were also wounded in the shelling.
Both men were injured by shrapnel and were hospitalized while receiving medical assistance.
On Saturday, Emmanuel Macron showed he would go to China in early April when he called on Beijing to “help us put pressure on Russia” to end the war.
The French president added that peace is only imaginable if “Russian aggression is stopped, troops are withdrawn and the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine and its other peoples is respected. “
Giancarlo Giorgetti under pressure on Saturday that it is “unacceptable” for the G20 to melt its stance against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In November, the G20 leader said that “most [G20] members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine,” but admitted that some countries had other views.
Giorgetti said: “We cannot question what was agreed in Bali and any other solution would be an unacceptable setback. “
UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has announced that 3,000 tickets for the Eurovision Song Contest will be awarded to Ukrainians after their country was unable to host the contest they won in Turin due to the Russian invasion.
Ms. Frazer said: “Today’s announcement means that thousands of tickets will be given to other people displaced by the war, so they can take part in an exhibition honouring their homeland, culture and music.
“As always, we support other Ukrainians and their struggle for freedom. “
Zelensky’s senior adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, posted a reaction to the Chinese peace plan on Twitter, calling it “unrealistic. “
He said: “If you claim to be a global player, you are not proposing an unrealistic plan. He is not in an aggressor who has damaged foreign law and will lose the war. This is not farsighted. “
“As someone who has been making plans for decades does not play ‘Russian 3-day games’. China, the ‘window of opportunity’ is not infinite. “
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