Ukraine Update…634 days into the Russian move on Ukraine….Crimea Tunnel…Support for the Ukraine?

Ukraine President Zelensky IS watching support for his conflict with Russia begin to soften in America and in Europe….

This while then Ukraine inflicts mass caualities on Russian forces….

The Ukraine is working to send more grain exporets to Africa…..

China and Russia talk about a Russian tunnel to Crimea for Russia against Ukraine drone attacks..…..

 

• Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed “efforts to maintain European unity” in a call with outgoing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte, after far right politician Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) got the most votes in the Dutch election.

• Kajsa Ollongren, the Dutch defence minister, said she hoped military support to Kyiv would continue but also that she was worried due to the PVV’s stance on Ukraine.

• Robert Fico, Slovakia’s populist prime minister, has said he considers the war between Ukraine and Russia a ‘frozen conflict’.

• The British Ministry of Defence said Russian forces in Ukraine continued to suffer mass casualties from Ukrainian long-range precision strikes well behind the frontline.

• Ukraine’s truckers union said hopes of a rapid end to Polish trucker protests at the border were fading.

• Finland temporarily closed all but one of its eight passenger crossings to Russia.

• The Finnish prime minister, Petteri Orpo, said the high flow of migrants via Russia must stop.

• The Ukrainian deputy prime minister, Olha Stefanishyna, said a veto of the country’s European aspirations at an EU summit next month “would be the irresponsibility of the others”.

• Plans to expand the Grain from Ukraine programme further across Africa one year after its launch will be announced on Saturday by Zelenskiy, backed by the appointment of a new series of goodwill ambassadors including Charlotte Leslie, a former Conservative MP with deep contacts in the Middle East….

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A Russia tunnel to Crimea?