Battle for Bakhmut gets SERIOUS…..
Civilians ordereed out by Ukraine military….
Russian forces make small gains across the the Ukraine front ….
Ukraine soldier’s learning fast how to use the Leopard tanks coming their way….
If those tanks arrive months away?
They maybe too late to stop the Russian offence brewing right now….
Moldavia leaders are warning that Russian President Putin is trying to stop it from joining the EU thru violence and topple it’s Government….
US Military and Biden official’s have launched an effort to convince Zelensky to figure out what is most important to his country in the conflict with the Russians….
Pentagon analyst’s have told the Ukraine that with over 300,000 troops, even mostly untrained, the Russian’s will most likely be able to simply overrun the Ukraine forces on several fronts from the Belarus border to the Crimea….
Zelensky has indicated that he wants to push the Russian’s back to the original borders….
It’s Zelensky’s fight …
But as I have indicated here several times….
The US and Europe do NOT want a long war, something Putin can do because he can sacrifice millions of soldier’s to get what he wants….
President Biden has China to worry about…
The Europeans have there economies to worry about and millions of Ukraine emigré’s…
Here’s what we know:
As Russia’s monthslong campaign to seize the strategic city in eastern Ukraine intensifies, Kyiv’s forces said the danger to aid workers had become too great.
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The order for aid groups to leave Bakhmut could be a prelude to a Ukrainian withdrawal.
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Volunteers have taken great risks to keep working in Bakhmut.
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A visit to Belarus upends attempts at isolation by Hungary’s fellow E.U. nations.
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As Ukraine awaits more Western weapons, it wants to stop Iran from bolstering Russia’s arsenal.
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Ukrainian troops showed off their training on new German tanks in Poland.
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Biden plans to visit Poland for the anniversary of the start of the war.
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The mayor of Kherson isn’t giving up, even as Russia shells her city relentlessly….
Earlier Monday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine’s allies should urgently provide it with more weapons as Russia embarks on a new offensive in the country’s east. The fresh fighting has already caused big losses for Russian forces, he said, but is also “putting pressure on Ukraine.”
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
- Sandu credited Kyiv for sharing intelligence about the alleged Russian plot that “involves the use of foreign nationals for violent actions.” This fall, the Kremlin planned to cause Moldovan discontent by cutting energy supplies, Sandu said in a Monday news conference, and it has since plotted to send military-trained disrupters into the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the European Council last week that he had given Sandu intelligence about the alleged plot.
- There are concerns that the West’s own stocks of weapons are being depleted after a year of supplying Kyiv. “The war in Ukraine is consuming an enormous amount of ammunition,” Stoltenberg said before a gathering of NATO defense ministers scheduled for Tuesday in Brussels. “This puts our defense industries under strain.” The current rate of ammunition consumption is higher than the current rate of production. As such, he argued, allies must ramp up production and invest in production capacity.
- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will host a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which is made up of senior military officials from more than 50 nations that have been providing Ukraine with weapons and other aid. While many members of the group represent NATO-aligned nations, it is not affiliated with the military alliance.
- The group will address Ukraine’s request for fighter jets, Stoltenberg said, adding that the conversation about NATO countries sending jets to Ukraine “will take time.” But Western jets are unlikely to arrive in Ukraine soon.
- The Russian military has shown a recent uptick in the Middle East, according to the top U.S. military officer overseeing air operations in the region. Lt. Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, who leads Air Forces Central Command, told reporters that Russian pilots were “fairly assertive” during a military exercise between U.S. and Israeli militaries over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Even then, he said, U.S. and Russian forces in the region appear to be trying to avoid pushing the war in Ukraine into a larger conflict.
- Russian forces deployed tanks, missiles and rockets in an offensive push spanning four regions of Ukraine, Kyiv’s armed forces said Monday. While Ukraine said it managed to repel attacks on 10 settlements over the previous 24 hours, Russian military officials claimed to have made small gains in the past four days, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported.
- The threat of further Russian air and missile strikes across Ukraine “remains high,” Ukraine’s armed forces said. Such attacks have pummeled Ukraine’s energy and other critical infrastructure throughout the winter, in a Kremlin bid to weaken Ukrainians’ resolve to fight by depriving them of light, heat and water.
- Three people are dead after Moscow’s troops shelled targets in Kherson, officials in the southern Ukrainian region said Monday morning. Residential buildings, warehouses and an entertainment venue were among the buildings struck, according to the official. The Post could not immediately verify the claims.
- Russian intelligence services will pose the greatest threat to Norway in 2023, the Nordic country’s police security agency (PST) said Monday in its annual threat assessment. Relations between Russia and Norway “have deteriorated significantly,” the agency said. Because Norway is an energy supplier to Europe, PST “expects that in 2023, Russia will try to gather intelligence about most aspects of Norway’s oil, gas and energy sector,” the report said….