Ukrainian special forces say they have blown up a drilling platform in the Black Sea that Russia was using to extend the range of its drones.. The operation, dubbed Citadel, was carried out at night and also captured “significant enemy equipment.”
Joe Biden told Republicans in Congress to “show some spine” and stand up to Donald Trump and stop playing for Vladimir Putin. He acknowledged that a thoroughly negotiated bipartisan bill that includes security funding for Ukraine has stalled. “All signs point to this bill never even making it to the Senate floor,” the US president said. “Why? The simple reason is because it’s Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump thinks it’s bad for him politically”
Parts of the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka are in a ‘critical’ state as they battle Russian shelling and invasionsaid Vitaly Barabash, the town’s military administrator. “This does not mean that all is lost, that everything is very bad. But the enemy is directing a very large number of troops towards our cities,” he said on Ukrainian television.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has decreed the creation of a separate unit in the Ukrainian Armed Forces specializing in unmanned aerial vehicles.. President Zelenskiy noted the strategic importance of drone production domestically and with partner countries, pledging that Ukraine will produce one million drones in 2024. In comments to CNN last week, Valery Zarzhny, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s military, said the drones were “along with drones.” Other types of advanced weapons Help Ukraine avoid becoming drawn into costly positional warfare.
According to AFP, front-line soldiers have little patience for rumors that Zelensky could soon fire Zarzhny. “It is not appropriate to change commands during combat, especially when the fighting is so intense in our area,” said an Army medic with the call sign “Beria.” Sergeant “Lantic” said the problem was: Damage morale and spread “conspiracy theories of all kinds”. But the military said it would not stop fighting even if Zarzini was removed. “Nothing will change. I will continue to carry out my duties as before,” said the 32-year-old Vitaly.
Staffing levels at Zaporizhia nuclear power plant are being cut to dangerous levels by Russian occupiers, officials warnAs the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, prepares to visit the United Nations on Wednesday.Mr. Grossi said the plant was “We operate with a very small number of operators.”. Ukraine’s energy minister, German Galushchenko, said the Russians had “kept out skilled and, most importantly, licensed personnel” in the hundreds. [operators]. You can’t just take them away. ” Zaporizhzhia’s radioactive fuel is also nearing the end of its useful life and may need to be safely removed and stored. Grossi described the situation at the plant as “very delicate.”
At the United Nations Security Council, the United States and Russia exchanged accusations that illegally supplied North Korean missiles were fired at Ukraine. And the shooting down of a Russian military transport ship. “So far, Russia has North Korea fired ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea into Ukraine at least nine times” said U.S. Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood. Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Neventsia said there was “irrefutable evidence” that a Patriot missile shot down a Russian Air Force Il-76 on January 24. Russia claims it was transporting Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange, but has not produced any evidence to support this claim.
Russia called for a meeting of the Security Council after Ukraine announced an attack on a bakery in Russian-controlled Liszchansk, killing at least 28 people., eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s senior U.N. diplomat, Serhiy Dvornik, blamed Russia. Abuse of Security Council to ‘spread falsehoods’. Russia has admitted that a senior occupation official was killed in a bakery strike, but Ukrainian media reported that the bakery was a supplier to the Russian side and a meeting place for Russian officials. Ta.
A former commander of Russia’s Wagner mercenaries who fought in Ukraine and fled to Norway in 2023 has been denied asylum. But his lawyer said he would not be deported because it would be too dangerous to send him back. Andrei Medvedev fled Russia in January 2023 by crossing the Arctic border with Norway.
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell visited a training program for Ukrainian law enforcement officials whose mission is to restore law and order in territory returned from Russian control.. It not only targets arresting dangerous populations, but also combating war crimes and mass graves. “Finding a mass grave and having to inform the relatives is no joke and can only be done with the right psychological capacity,” Borrell said. The exercise is being run by military police from EU member states including France, Spain, Portugal and Lithuania.
