THE ESSENTIAL
- Volodymyr Zelensky once again called on the West to speed up its arms deliveries, explaining that the “situation is very difficult” on the ground. read our article
- Russian shelling in the cities of Kherson and Kharkiv killed at least 4 people on Sunday. read our article
- If Germany ended up authorizing the delivery of Leopard 2 heavy tanks to Kyiv, it closes the door on sending fighter jets to Ukraine. read our article
- Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Vladimir Putin “threatened him in some way” and his country before the war started. read our article
NATO chief calls on Seoul to “step up” aid
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on South Korea on Monday to “intensify” its military aid to Ukraine, suggesting it review its policy of not supplying arms to countries at war.
“If we believe in freedom, in democracy, if we don’t want autocracies and totalitarianisms to prevail, then they need weapons,” he said during his visit to Seoul.
South Korea is a growing global arms exporter and recently signed contracts to sell several hundred tanks to European countries, including Poland.
But his laws prevent him from selling it to warring nations, even though Seoul has still provided non-lethal equipment and humanitarian aid to Kyiv.
The electricity war for the survival of the peoples of the Donetsk region
In the Donetsk region, in the south-east of Ukraine, another war is taking place on the front lines: that of electricity. Repairmen are trying to restore access to power for the inhabitants of the bombed villages.
“We work in villages where civilians are dying every day. There is never a guarantee of being safe,” Vitali Olexondrevich, regional director of the DTEK energy company, told BFMTV.
Russian attacks in Kherson and Kharkiv leave at least 4 dead
Russian shelling on the southern city of Kherson on Sunday killed at least three people and wounded six. “The Russian army brutally shelled Kherson all day… A hospital, a post office, a bus station were damaged,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced. Two nurses were injured at the hospital. In total, six injured and three dead are reported.
The front in southern Ukraine, where the Russian army had to abandon Kherson in November, has been much quieter recently than in the eastern part of the country, where fierce fighting is taking place, but shelling from both sides has never stopped and the battles. resumed this week in the Zaporizhzhia region.
In Kharkiv, in the east of the country, the governor of the region’s military administration reported that a Russian strike on Sunday hit “a four-story residential building.”
“Fierce” fighting underway for control of Vougledar
Hello everyone and welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the war in Ukraine, 340 days after the start of the Russian invasion.
The weekend was marked by renewed clashes described by the Ukrainian army spokesman for the eastern zone as “fierce” in Vougledar, southeastern Ukraine. Moscow is already announcing its next victory, contested by Kyiv.
“The encirclement and future liberation” of this town “will change the balance of power at the front” by paving the way for an offensive towards Pokrovsk and Kurakhové, towns located further north, judged the leader of the Donetsk separatists, Denis Pushilin.
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Source: BFM TV
