March 29, 2024
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 03:15 Kiev urges India to move away from Russia +++
According to the Financial Times, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is calling on India to stand by Kiev and reconsider its relations with Russia. India’s close ties with Russia are based on a Soviet legacy that is fading, Kuleba said, according to the newspaper. As the minister explained, India can benefit from expanding trade and technology ties with Ukraine. He offered Indian companies a role in post-war reconstruction. Ukraine is now seeking to restore trade with India by resuming exports of agricultural products such as sunflower oil and purchasing more Indian goods itself.
+++ 02:19 Zelensky calls Speaker of the US House of Representatives +++
With a view to the aid package that has been blocked in the US Congress for months, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has now turned directly to the Republican Chairman of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson. “I informed the Speaker of the House of Representatives about the situation on the battlefield, especially about the dramatic increase in Russian air terror,” Zelenskyj explained after a phone call with Johnson on the online service Telegram. “In this situation, the rapid passage of US aid to Ukraine by Congress is crucial,” Zelensky said, according to the minutes of the conversation, which he published on Telegram.
+++ 01:12 Russians attack near Dnipro +++
Russian forces attack infrastructure facilities in the Kamianske district near the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro early this morning. According to the region’s governor, Sergiy Lissak, at least one person was injured in the attack. “The enemy’s main target is our people and vital facilities of the population,” writes Lissak on Telegram.
+++ 00:11 Macron: G20 summit only with Putin if everyone agrees +++
According to French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin should only be invited to the G20 summit in Brazil in November if all participants agree. The meaning of the union of the 20 industrialized and emerging countries is that “there must be a consensus with the other 19 others, that will be the task of Brazilian diplomacy,” said Macron during a visit to Brasília. “If the appointment can be useful, then you have to make it. If it is not useful and leads to division, you should not make it,” Macron explained at a joint press conference with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
+++ 23:03 SPD politician Schwarz: Take historians’ fire letter seriously +++
The SPD member of the Bundestag and budget expert Andreas Schwarz pleads with the “Spiegel” for serious consideration of the criticism of five historians of the party’s Ukraine policy: “The letter should be taken seriously. We have to discuss it in the party and society. A look at the history books should be a reminder to us,” Schwarz tells the paper. He is one of the few Social Democrats in the Bundestag who are calling for the Taurus cruise missile for Kiev. Putin is “a brutal dictator” who relies on the rights of the strongest, Schwarz continues. “The Western world should therefore approach him with unity, toughness and strength. This is the only way to get him to the negotiating table.”
+++ 22:00 British develop new drones for Ukraine +++
The British company Evolve Dynamics is focused on developing drones for the Ukrainian military that can resist electronic warfare. This is reported by the Reuters news agency. Electronic warfare involves jamming the signals of attack or reconnaissance drones by overloading their receivers with false frequencies so that they cannot reach their target. The company is currently developing “alternative radio link algorithms” to circumvent electronic warfare.
+++ 21:22 Russia wants to upgrade Oniks cruise missiles +++
Russia intends to upgrade the Oniks missiles with new active homing devices so that they can engage Ukrainian ground targets with greater precision. This is reported by the TASS news agency. The Oniks are actually anti-ship cruise missiles, but are now also intended to be used against cities. The supersonic cruise missile P-800 Oniks (NATO: SS-N-26 Strobile) was designed in the 1980s but did not enter service until 2002. TASS quoted an unnamed source as saying that “work was underway to make Oniks missiles invulnerable to Ukrainian electronic warfare devices.”
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