Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is in Kiev for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Sánchez’s office reports. On Wednesday, Spain promised Ukraine six older Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks made in Germany. Delivery is expected in late March or early April.
According to the Spanish government, Sánchez was received in Kiev by Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Spain and the Spanish Ambassador to Ukraine. It is the second visit by the Spanish prime minister to Kiev since the beginning of the war. US President Joe Biden and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Kiev on Monday and Tuesday.
According to British military intelligence, heavy fighting has continued in the area around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut for the past 48 hours. According to the latest secret service bulletin, the city of Wuhledar, further south in the Donetsk region, was again heavily shelled. There is a realistic possibility that Russia is preparing for another offensive in the Wuhledar area.
The Ukrainian military says it has fended off 90 Russian attacks on the north-east and east fronts in the past 24 hours. Russian troops attacked near Kupiansk in the Kharkov region and around Lyman, Bakhmut, Adviyika and Shakhtarsk in the Donetsk region, the military said in the morning. Russia used many soldiers and tried to weaken Ukrainian positions regardless of their own losses.