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- US President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced $1 billion in additional military aid to Ukraine.. This new support includes, in particular, artillery pieces, shells, surface-to-sea missiles and “advanced rocket launchers, which the Ukrainians need for their defensive operations in the Donbass”.
- The Russians continue their assault on the city of Sievierodonetsk and its neighbor, Lysychansk, two key cities of the Donbass, and other localities in the region. The Ukrainian authorities have admitted in recent days that their troops have been driven out of the city center of Sievierodonetsk, and that they only have “complicated lines of communication” with them after the destruction of all the bridges to Lysychansk.
- Russia on Wednesday accused Kyiv forces of blocking evacuation through a ‘humanitarian corridor’ civilians at a factory in Sievierodonetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine taken over by the Russian army.
- Visiting a NATO base, Emmanuel Macron called on Wednesday to “continue the cooperation equipment effort, the financial effort” towards Ukraine. He judged the time had come to send clear political signals” to Ukraine on the country’s accession to the EU. The French president as well as the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and the Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi, are expected in kyiv on Thursday, according to German and Italian media.
- The United States on Wednesday called on China to stop supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to avoid placing oneself “on the wrong side of history”after a telephone exchange between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu says it is possible to create ‘safe corridors’ to transport Ukrainian wheat across the Black Sea without the need to defuse sea mines near Ukrainian ports.
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