Cover image: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba during an interview with the Associated Press agency, December 26, 2022, in kyiv. Efrem Lukatsky/AP
- In an interview with AP, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Monday that his government wanted a summit of ” peace “ by the end of February at the United Nations (UN) with Secretary General Antonio Guterres as mediator. However, he plans to talk to Moscow on the sole condition that Russia is first brought before a war crimes tribunal.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the official RIA Novosti news agency that Russia “has never followed the conditions set by others. Only our own common sense”.
- The US government has drawn up a special plan to train Ukrainian troops in Patriot air defense missiles in less than six months that Washington planned to deliver to kyiv, according to Dmytro Kuleba.
- On Monday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation on the Donbass front in eastern Ukraine was “difficult and painful”. “The occupier is deploying all the resources at its disposal – and they are considerable – to extract at least some advances, he added. Bakhmut, Kreminna and other parts of Donbass require the greatest strength and concentration. »
- Ukraine on Monday called for Russia’s exclusion from the United Nations, more than ten months after the start of the invasion by Russian troops. A request with little chance of succeeding, Moscow having a right of veto in the UN Security Council.
- Russian air defense downed a Ukrainian drone as it approached an air base in the south of the countrythe debris of the device killing three people, Russian news agencies reported on Monday. Moscow also said on Monday that a group of “saboteurs” Ukrainians had tried to enter Russian territory on Sundayin the Briansk region, bordering Ukraine, in possession of weapons and explosives.
- According to the latest report from the Governor of Kherson Oblast, Yaroslav Yanushevich, eleven people died in the Russian attack that hit the center of Kherson on December 24. “Sixty-four people (…) were injured, eighteen people are currently in serious condition”he said in a message posted on Telegram on Monday.
- Ukrainian cybersecurity services have neutralized more than 4,500 Russian cyberattacks against their country since the beginning of the yearIllia Vityuk, head of the cybersecurity department of the SBU, the Security Service of Ukraine, said on Monday. “We know by name most of the Russian special services hackers working against us. After the victory of Ukraine, they will have to appear before an international military tribunal”warned Mr. Vityuk.
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