2024-01-21 14:07:45
At least 25 people were killed and around twenty injured in a Ukrainian strike on a market in Donetsk, a large city in the east of the country under Moscow’s control. Follow the latest information on the conflict.
15:07
NORTH KOREA “LARGEST WEAPONS SUPPLIER” TO MOSCOW?
In an interview with Financial Times, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR), Kirill Budanov asserted that “North Korea is currently Russia’s largest arms supplier.” “She transferred a significant amount of artillery ammunition, which gave Russia some breathing room. It gave Russia some breathing room. Without their help, the situation would have been catastrophic,” he said. -he accuses.
14:23
“BARBARIC TERRORIST ACT”
Russia has accused Ukraine of being behind a strike in Donetsk that left at least 25 dead and 20 injured, “a barbaric terrorist act” which it says shows “the need to achieve all the objectives” of the assault in the country. “The neo-Nazi regime in kyiv, supported by the United States and its satellites, has once again committed a barbaric terrorist act against the civilian population of Russia,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
12:54
25 DEAD IN DONETSK
The toll continues to rise in Donetsk: at least 25 people were killed and 20 others injured Sunday in a Ukrainian strike on a market in the city, according to a new report communicated by the head of the Russian occupation of the region, Denis Pushilin.
“At present, reports of 25 deaths have been confirmed. At least 20 other people were injured, including two children in moderate condition,” he said on Telegram. A previous report from the authorities installed by Moscow reported 18 dead and 10 injured.
11:50
THE ASSESSMENT GROWS IN DONETSK
The toll continues to rise in Donetsk: at least 18 people were killed and around ten injured on Sunday in a Ukrainian strike on a market in this large city in eastern Ukraine under the control of Moscow, according to a new report given by the head of the Russian occupation of the region.
“The data on the consequences of the terrible shelling of the Kirov district is being updated. Currently, there are 18 dead and 13 injured,” Denis Pushilin said on Telegram. This is one of the deadliest tolls in Donetsk in recent months. “Operational services are working on the site, information on the dead and injured continues to be received and verified,” he detailed.
Located around 20 kilometers from the front line, the city of Donetsk came under the control of pro-Russian separatists led by Moscow in 2014 and has since been regularly bombarded by the Ukrainian army.
10:14
A SMALL LOCALITY IN RUSSIAN HANDS IN EASTERN UKRAINE
The Russian army claimed Sunday the capture of a small town in the Kharkiv region, in eastern Ukraine. “The village of Krakhmalnoye, in the Kharkiv region, was liberated thanks to the successful active operations carried out by the units of the ‘West’ group of troops in the Kupiansk zone,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily bulletin of operations in Ukraine. This locality, where some 45 inhabitants lived before February 24, 2022, is located 30 kilometers southeast of Koupiansk, a target for months of attacks by Russian forces.
A spokesperson for the Ukrainian land forces, Volodymyr Fitio, interviewed on Ukrainian television on Sunday, this capture “has no strategic importance” on the front. This announcement, however, illustrates the increased pressure exerted by Moscow’s forces on the front in recent weeks. On Thursday, the Russian army had already announced the conquest of another small town, Veseloye, in the Donetsk region, in the east of the country.
09:40
THIRTEEN DEAD IN DONETSK
At least 13 people were killed and ten others injured Sunday in a Ukrainian strike on a market in Donetsk, a large city in eastern Ukraine under Moscow control, the head of the Russian occupation of the region announced, Denis Pushilin.
“At least 13 people were killed and ten injured following a terrible bombing on a market in the Textilshchik district of Donetsk,” he said on Telegram. A previous report from the pro-Russian authorities reported 12 deaths, without providing information on the injured.
08:57
A RUSSIAN GAS TERMINAL RAVAGED BY FLAMES
A fire broke out at a gas terminal at the port of Ust-Luga on the Russian Baltic Sea, the region’s governor said on Sunday morning. The site, which is 110 kilometers west of St. Petersburg near the border with Estonia, is managed by Novatek, Russia’s largest natural gas producer.
“No injuries as a result of a fire at the Novatek terminal at the port of Ust-Luga. Staff have been evacuated,” wrote the governor of the Leningrad region, Aleksandr Drozdenko, on Telegram, his message accompanied by a short video showing a huge fire and smoke. “A high level of alert has been declared in the Kingiseppsky district” which includes the port, he added.
Russia’s TASS agency and other state media said the cause of the fire was not known. According to LCI correspondent on site Jérôme Garro, Russian media Fontanka 2, two drones were seen heading towards Saint Petersburg shortly before the fire.
07:08
LATEST INFORMATION
“Ukraine can count on France,” assured the new Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Séjourné in the columns of Le Parisien. “France has always helped the Ukrainians with deliveries of comprehensive capabilities useful in Ukraine’s fight for its defense. We will continue,” affirmed the head of diplomacy, estimating that “the repercussions of a Ukrainian defeat would be important”. He also insisted that no French mercenaries are fighting in Ukraine, accusations from Vladimir Putin which he described as “gross manipulations”.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Saturday that “Ukraine is not an independent and sovereign country” but “under the total control and influence of the United States.” He is due to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Denys Chmygal on Wednesday in a town located on the border between the two countries. “I will tell him that I am against Ukraine’s membership in NATO and that I will veto it. It would trigger the third world war, nothing more, nothing less,” he told the channel public television RTVS. He added that he wanted to confirm to Denys Chmygal that the latter “will not receive weapons from the army and the Slovak state”. A NATO member, Slovakia is one of the most pro-Russian countries within the European Union.
North Korea’s top diplomat affirmed that her country was “ready to receive” Russian President Vladimir Putin, the official KCNA agency reported on Sunday, the latest sign of the rapprochement displayed between Pyongyang and Moscow. Vladimir Putin expressed “his desire to visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (official name of North Korea, Editor’s note) soon”, specifies the press release relayed by the agency. According to the same document, Russia conveyed to North Korea its “deep thanks (…) for providing its full support and solidarity to the position of the Russian government and people on the special military operation in Ukraine” , name given by Russia to its offensive.
06:57
WELCOME
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“France has always helped the Ukrainians with deliveries of comprehensive capabilities useful in Ukraine’s fight for its defense. We will continue, Ukraine can count on France,” assured Saturday at Parisian the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Séjourné. “It is also an important message for the French because the repercussions of a Ukrainian defeat would be significant.”
“The objective was to reaffirm our long-term support. This is important because Russia is seeing the weakening and fatigue of the allies,” he said about his visit to kyiv, adding “to work” pour “a certain number of announcements that there may be on site, during Emmanuel Macron’s trip in February”.
For its part, Russia will examine next week a bill aimed at confiscating the money, property and valuables of anyone found guilty of having disseminated “false information” about its army, an official announced on Saturday. senior parliamentary official. Moscow made criticism of the military illegal shortly after launching its assault on Ukraine in February 2022. Thousands of opponents of the conflict have since been jailed.
The bill, which state media say has the support of all major parliamentary groups, will be presented to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, on Monday, its speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said.
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