April 10, 2024
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 00:25 Zelensky visits front positions in Kharkiv +++
According to an insider, the USA will sell Ukraine equipment for the repair and upgrade of the “Hawk” air defense system. The value is 138 million dollars, as the Reuters news agency learned from circles at the US State Department. The business will be handled as part of an emergency program. Republicans in Congress are currently blocking billions in military aid to Ukraine.
+++ 22:16 Zelenskyj: Trump’s alleged peace plan “very primitive” +++
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed skepticism about Donald Trump’s alleged peace plan in an interview. According to a report in the Washington Post, the former US president is said to have outlined this in private conversations. Accordingly, the plan envisages putting pressure on Ukraine to give up some areas. Selenskyj now says in an “Bild” interview: “If the deal is that we simply give up our territories and if that is the idea, then the idea is very primitive,” criticizes the Ukrainian president. “I think if Trump actually has his own approach to end the war quickly, then I would be very happy to listen to the idea. But we need strong arguments. We don’t need a fantastic idea, but a real one. This is about human lives “We can’t make jokes and we can’t take risks,” said Zelensky.
+++ 21:50 prison sentence for Navalny employee increased to nine and a half years +++
In Russia, the sentence against a former employee of the dead Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny has been increased by two years to nine and a half years in prison. A court in the city of Ufa followed a complaint by the public prosecutor’s office against the June 2023 verdict for, among other things, the alleged creation of an “extremist organization” and increased the punishment for Lilia Chanysheva. This is what Navalny’s team announced. Chanysheva had led the team of Navalny supporters in Ufa for four years, but said she stopped her work when the Russian judiciary classified the organization as “extremist” in 2021 and thus effectively banned it.
You can read all previous developments here.