Ukraine’s defense minister said he was confident that Western allies would agree to supply fighter jets to fight the Russian invasion.
Oleksii Reznikov told a news conference that Ukraine has already earned everything from its “Santa Claus wish list” for airplanes.
“There will also be planes,” he said. He’s exactly what guy. . . Consider that this project is already over. “
Several Western leaders have expressed fear that the provision of fighter jets could galvanize the Kremlin and drag their countries into deeper conflict.
Kyiv says the planes will challenge Russia’s air superiority and have good luck in the face of a Russian offensive that Reznikov said could begin around the war’s first anniversary on Feb. 24.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will travel to Mali this week, Mali’s Foreign Ministry announced.
He said the two-day stopover at that beginning was born out of a shared preference for strengthening defense and security ties.
This will be the first time a Russian foreign minister will officially arrive in the West African country.
Since a coup in 2020, Mali’s ruling army junta has turned to Moscow.
Mali is engaged in a fight against militants linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State and last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow pledged to strengthen cooperation with the country to help eradicate the militants.
As discussed earlier, Lavrov is lately in Baghdad to talk about bilateral relations and cooperation in power.
These photographs show infantrymen from Ukraine’s 43rd Heavy Artillery Brigade firing a German Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzer, called “Tina,” across the unit, near Bakkhmut in the Donetsk region.
Today we report on Russian rocket attacks in the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s largest city.
Kharkiv Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said four other people were wounded when a Russian S-300 missile landed near a building and others were wounded when a missile hit a high school building.
This came just days after the Ukrainian government said the southern city of Kherson had also been bombed through Russia.
Residential buildings bombed, a hospital, a school, a bus station, a bank and a post office.
Today, Ukraine’s first, Olena Zelenska, said that “there is no army logic” in what Russia is doing and that her preference is to “turn villages into ruins and kill. “
She said: “This is genocide, which will have to be perceived throughout the world as senseless terror and absolute evil.
While Ukraine expects an imaginable Russian primary offensive this month, it turns out the war has no end in sight.
But how has the struggle replaced the Kremlin’s checkpoint in Ukraine?
On June 1 last year, Russia occupied Kherson and much of the flank.
Russian troops were advancing towards Mykolaiv in the south.
June 1, 2022
However, February 3 this year, is very different.
A map shows that Ukrainian forces have pushed forces back to the northwestern region near Kupyansk and are retaking territory.
They also pushed back Russian forces from the town of Kherson and halted advances towards Mykolaiv.
February 3rd
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is visiting Baghdad to discuss bilateral relations and cooperation in power, Iraq’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Lavrov, who heads a delegation of representatives of oil and fuel companies, will also meet his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein on Monday, Ahmed Al-Sahhaf said in a statement.
M. Al-Sahhaf said the scale in the will to “strategic relations with Russia and inspire investment opportunities, especially in the energy sectors. “
On Monday, Russia’s foreign minister will also meet with senior Iraqi officials, Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani, President Abdul Latif Rashid and the speaker of parliament.
The Russian Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of blowing up buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk and later accused Moscow of committing war crimes and targeting civilians in a false flag operation.
In a message on Telegram, the ministry said Kyiv planned to blow up three medical buildings (clinics and a hospital) and “accuse Russia of an alleged ‘deliberate attack’ on civilian objects. “
“According to data shown through various independent sources, the Ukrainian special intends to carry out a large-scale provocation in the short or long term to accuse Russia of committing war crimes,” he said in a statement.
“To this end, the Kyiv regime has planned a controlled bombing of the buildings of local narcology and oncology clinics in the city of Kramatorsk to accuse Russia of an alleged ‘deliberate coup’ against civilian objects. “
He also said that “in the context of the Ukrainian army army,” the Kyivan government sought to “increase pressure on public opinion in Western countries with such provocations to expand the diversity of fashionable weapons materials and military equipment. “””.
The Ministry of Defence has not provided evidence of these allegations.
Other photographs of the destruction left after Russian forces fired missiles at the Kharkiv region continue to emerge.
The region’s governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said four other people were wounded when Russia’s S-300 missile fell near a building, and others were wounded when a missile hit a higher school building.
Russian troops seized giant swathes of the northeastern Kharkiv region in the months after the invasion of its neighbor last February.
But a Ukrainian counteroffensive that began in August recaptured Russian-occupied territory, Kharkiv added.
The EU has imposed a ban on Russian diesel fuel and other subtle petroleum products to boost dependence on Moscow.
The ban is accompanied by a value limit agreed by the allied democracies of the Group of Seven (G7).
The goal is to allow Russian diesel to continue to be transported to countries like China and India and a sudden price hike that would hurt consumers around the world, while reducing profits by funding Moscow’s budget and war.
Diesel is for the economy as it is used to force cars, trucks carrying goods, agricultural appliances and factory machinery.
Diesel prices have been high due to the recovery in demand from the COVID-19 pandemic and refining capacity constraints, contributing to inflation of other products worldwide.
The new sanctions create valuable uncertainty as all 27 EU countries locate new US diesel materials. The U. S. , Middle East and India to upgrade those from Russia, which at one point provided 10% of Europe’s overall diesel needs.
Five other people were wounded in Russian rocket attacks in central Kharkiv, officials said.
Kharkiv Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said four other people were wounded when a Russian S-300 missile landed near a building, and some others were wounded when a missile hit an upper school building.
Local media reported that the construction affected the National Academy of Urban Economics, about 700 meters from the city’s central square.
Meanwhile, heavy fighting has continued in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, one of 4 regions that Russia illegally annexed last year, although its forces do not fully occupy the region.
Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said five civilians were wounded in overnight rocket attacks in the city of Druzhkivka and that the city of Avdiivka and its environs were also under fire.