Ukraine President ‘says’ he’s NOT gonna stop fighting until his country can deal with someone who wants to ‘compromise’ which Zelensky says Putin won’t do….
North Korea seems intent on supplying Russia with arms….
Russian fire has damaged hundreds of Ukraine schools….
Japan is joining several countries that will help rebuild the Ukraine after the conflict….
The CIA is looking for Russian defectors
The Pentagon is working with arms dealers that the Justice Dept . might want to lock up, to help the Ukraine fight against the Russians…..But won’t…Selling arms to the Ukraine IS something that pays good right now….
Here’s the latest on the war and its impact across the globe.
In an interview with CNN, Zelensky said there is no possibility of compromising with Putin to end the war. He said that he is willing to talk to “the people who are ready to compromise” but that Putin was not one of them. “When you want to have a compromise or a dialogue with somebody, you cannot do it with a liar,” Zelensky said.
Putin vowed Russia would “continue to systematically build up bilateral communications in all directions” with North Korea. The Kremlin published a letter from Putin to his counterpart Kim Jong Un on Saturday to mark the founding 75 years ago of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Kim plans to visit Putin later this month, probably in the Russian port city of Vladivostok, to discuss possible weapons deals to bolster Russia’s fighting force in Ukraine, The Post previously reported.
Zelensky adviser Mykhailo Podolyak criticized SpaceX owner Elon Musk for cutting off Starlink satellite internet services to Ukrainian submarine drones last year. The drones were launching an attack on a Russian fleet based in Crimea. Musk has defended his decision, saying he did not want SpaceX to be “explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”
In Ukraine, more than 800 educational facilities “have been damaged or destroyed due to the war,” the United Nations human rights office in the country said Saturday. “During war, schools should be a sanctuary for children,” the group said. “Yet in Ukraine, far too often they have come under shelling and attacks by missiles, loitering munitions and airstrikes in the wake of Russia’s large-scale attack.” It added that schools in the regions of Kherson, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv had been especially damaged.
Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi arrived in Kyiv on Saturday, where he will meet with his Ukrainian counterpartDmytro Kuleba, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said. Hayashi is expected to reaffirm Tokyo’s support for Kyiv in the war against Russia while several Japanese business executives will accompany him to discuss Ukraine’s reconstruction, it added.
The CIA has published a video aimed at recruiting disaffected Russian officials. The video, titled “Why I made contact with the CIA: For myself,” shows a Russian government official walking through what appears to be the snowy streets of a Russian city before entering a secured facility, and appears aimed to entice recruits….
Ukrainian troops rely on Starlink services for virtually any task requiring digital communication, The Washington Post reported. From communicating with loved ones back home to directing drones against enemy positions, Ukrainian troops are heavily dependent on the 42,000 Starlink terminals in Ukraine.