Cover image: The city center of Bakhmout bombarded by the Russians, Sunday February 12, 2023. LIBKOS / AP
- Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are meeting in Brussels this week to discuss the next deliveries of armaments and ammunition to Ukraine. “No decision is expected on Tuesday for combat aircraft”, assured several delegations. But “the supply of fighter planes will be discussed”however promised the secretary general of the transatlantic organization, Jens Stoltenberg.
- In the Bakhmout region, the situation is “complicated” near the village of Paraskoviïvka, acknowledged the Ukrainian presidency on Monday. This village is about ten kilometers from the center of Bakhmout, which “faced heavy shelling and assault” Russians.
- The Russian army claims to have captured the village of Krasna Hora, in the immediate vicinity of Paraskoviïvka. It thus continues its attempt to surround Bakhmout. The fortress city of Donbass has acquired the status of a symbol of the struggle between Moscow and kyiv for control of this industrial region in the East.
- In Koupiansk, a liberated city, the fear of a return of the Russians. The Ukrainians recaptured this town in eastern Ukraine in September after a lightning counter-offensive. But with the Russian military just 10 miles northeast of there, Ukrainian forces are on high alert.
- Silvio Berlusconi blames the war in Ukraine on Volodymyr Zelensky. The former Italian prime minister on Monday blamed the Ukrainian president for the Russian invasion that has lasted for almost a year, thus putting himself at odds with the unconditional support of the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, in Kiev.
- Olympics 2024: Russian athletes should only participate if they denounce the war, according to the mayor of kyiv. Russian athletes should take a public stand against the war in Ukraine if they want to be allowed to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, said Monday the mayor of Kiev and former world boxing champion, Vitali Klitschko. “Russian and Belarusian athletes cannot participate in the Olympics in Paris if they do not say “no” to war. If they say so publicly, they will be able to, but they are afraid”he said in an interview with Agence France-Presse.
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