Zelensky wants the Baltic coun tries to band together to produce arms…
Poland and Ukraine are still at odds over cheap Ukraine grain exports…
Uk let slip that they DO have some military operators IN the Ukraine…..
They aren’t the only one’s…..
The NY Times did a piece a few days ago on the extensive CIA and other US military Intel and Enforcement opereators in Ukraine also…
Russia is making same gains of territory in Ukraine…
Russia is shooting rockets at Ukraine again…
Ukraine says it will have to wait for months for the American Congress to finally approve aid for their ammo needs…
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Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, on Wednesday urged European politicians and officials to investigate financial flows in the west linked to Russian president Vladimir Putin and his allies. “Putin is the leader of an organised criminal gang. This includes poisoners and assassins but they’re just puppets. The most important thing is the people close to Putin – his friends, associates and keepers of mafia money,” she told the European parliament in Strasbourg.
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The EU should consider using profits from frozen Russian assets to buy military supplies for Ukraine, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. Von der Leyen also told the European parliament in a speech that the threat of war for the EU “may not be imminent, but it is not impossible”.
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The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony, will take place on Friday in Moscow after several locations declined to host the service, his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said. “Come in advance,” Yarmish wrote on X. However, it remains unclear whether the authorities will allow mourners to gather freely at the funeral on Friday.
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called for Balkan allies to assist the country through joint arms production at a two-day summit in Albania. “We are interested in co-production with you and all our partners,” Zelenskiy told top delegations from Albania, Serbia, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia and Moldova in his opening remarks at the summit. Zelenskiy arrived in the Albanian capital of Tirana on Wednesday for the summit.
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Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday the government was mulling a “temporary” closure of the border with Ukraine for goods, amid tensions over low-priced Ukrainian grain. “We are talking with the Ukrainian side about a temporary closure of the border, the cessation in general of trade,” Tusk told reporters. “I will also discuss this with Polish farmers tomorrow. This solution would only be temporary … and mutually painful,” he added.
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Russian attacks against Ukraine killed one person and injured another on Tuesday, regional authorities reported. Multiple localities in Zaporizhzhia were attacked, said its governor Ivan Fedorov.
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The UK said on Wednesday that how Kyiv uses donated cruise missiles is “the business of the armed forces of Ukraine,” after comments by Germany’s Olaf Scholz about possible UK and French involvement in targeting. The UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson on Tuesday told reporters that the UK has “a small number of personnel in country supporting the armed forces of Ukraine, including for medical training”. But the MoD declined to provide further details.
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Emmanuel Macron has faced criticism from France’s Nato and EU partners and a warning of conflict from Russia after he suggested it might be necessary to send ground troops to Ukraine. After a high-level meeting in Paris of mainly European partners to discuss what urgent steps could be taken to shore up Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s recent frontline advances, the French president had told a press conference he did not rule out sending troops.
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The committee that decides the winner of the Nobel peace prize, said on Wednesday that the sentencing of human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov in Russia to a prison term was an attempt to “silence” critics. The 70-year-old Orlov – a key figure of the Nobel prize-winning Memorial group – was sentenced to two and a half years in jail for denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday.
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Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov will attend a diplomacy forum in Turkey from Friday, the countries’ governments said. Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that Lavrov will meet Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan at the gathering.
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Ensuring Ukraine’s success against Russia is “the biggest test of our generation”, the UK’s Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell said on Wednesday. He added: “At the G20 foreign ministers meeting it was clear there are few illusions about what Russia is doing and that the UN and Britain underlined how dangerous Putin’s actions are for the entire world.”
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“Britain will support Ukraine until it prevails,” the UK shadow foreign secretary David Lammy has said. Lammy also urged the government to turn “rhetoric on seizure into action” in relation to frozen Russian assets and welcomed the government highlighting the case of Russian-British journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza.
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The Russian defence ministry claimed on Wednesday that its forces had captured Petrovske, formerly renamed by Ukraine as Stepove, in eastern Ukraine, according to the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti.
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Russian drones and S-300 missiles attacked Ukraine over Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Ukraine’s air force said. All 10 drones were shot down, claimed the air force. It did not say whether the missiles reached their targets.
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A court in southern Russia jailed a Ukrainian man for 11 years and six months after convicting him of espionage for trying to procure secret missile components for Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday.
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The Russian-backed breakaway region of Transdniestria asked Russia at a congress of senior officials on Tuesday to help protect it from what it what described as concerted pressure on its economy by the Moldovan government.
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The US embassy in Russia said on Wednesday that US consular officials have visited Paul Whelan, a US Marine Corps veteran who is imprisoned in Russia for espionage, in prison in the Mordovia region.
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China’s Eurasia envoy Li Hui will visit Russia, Ukraine and the headquarters of the EU this week for talks. The trip will represent “the second round of shuttle diplomacy on seeking a political settlement of the Ukraine crisis”, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement, adding Li would also go to France, Germany and Poland.
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Ukraine is expected to remain short of ammunition and on the back foot in its war with Russia for several months until the west agrees further steps to support Kyiv, the head of Britain’s armed forces has acknowledged. Adm Sir Tony Radakin, speaking at a conference in London, did not directly comment on a French suggestion of deploying western ground troops in Ukraine, but instead emphasised an urgent need to increase industrial assistance…..
Feb 27, 2024 – ISW Press
Russian forces are attempting to exploit tactical opportunities offered by the Russian seizure of Avdiivka and appear to be maintaining a relatively high tempo of offensive operations aimed at pushing as far as possible in the Avdiivka area before Ukrainian forces establish more cohesive and harder-to-penetrate defensive lines in the area. Russian forces temporarily decreased their tempo of operations as they cleared Avdiivka following the Russian seizure of the settlement on February 17, but have since resumed a relatively high tempo of assaults further west and northwest of Avdiivka.
The idea that any other country would send combat troops to Ukraine is laughable.
Talk about “ ain’t gonna happen?”
That’s really one ain’t!