THE ESSENTIAL
- Fighting continues fiercely on the outskirts of Bakhmout in eastern Ukraine. Read the abstract.
- Ukraine has been promised new US military aid of 2.2 billion euros, including long-range Western weapons. Read the abstract.
- Volodymyr Zelensky believes that it is “possible” to start official discussions this year with a view to his country’s accession to the European Union.
Ukraine’s accession to the EU: Zelensky considers it “possible” to start discussions this year
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday it was “possible” to start official discussions this year for his country’s membership of the European Union.
“There is an agreement on the fact that it is possible to start negotiations this year on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union,” said the Ukrainian president at the end of the EU-Ukraine summit that took place on Friday in kyiv.
“We discussed and are already discussing as members of the European community,” Volodymyr Zelensky stressed.
EU reaches agreement on price cap for Russian oil products
The European Union reached an agreement on Friday on a maximum price for Russian oil products, the Swedish EU presidency announced in a tweet.
“EU ambassadors today approved the price cap for Russian petroleum products ahead of final adoption by the European Council,” Swedish officials tweeted on behalf of their country, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency.
It is an “important agreement that is part of the ongoing response by the European Union and its partners to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.”
>> Read more here.
US announces more than $2 billion in new military aid to Ukraine
The United States on Friday announced more than $2 billion in new military aid to Ukraine to help it fight off the Russian invasion.
It includes in particular “crucial air defense capabilities to help Ukraine defend its population, as well as armored infantry vehicles,” and munitions for the Himars rocket launch system, the Pentagon said in a statement.
Fighting continues in eastern Ukraine as Bakhmout becomes the epicenter of the fighting.
Clashes continue in the Bakhmout region of eastern Ukraine, which has become the epicenter of the fighting, almost a year after the war began.
An American humanitarian doctor was killed in an attack on his vehicle carrying volunteer rescuers, according to the NGO Global Outreach Doctors, with which he worked.
According to the authorities, this town now has about 6,500 inhabitants compared to 70,000 before the war.
France and Italy to deliver air defense system to Ukraine
France and Italy will deliver a MAMBA medium-range surface-to-air defense system in the spring to help Ukraine “defend itself against attacks by Russian drones, missiles and aircraft,” the French Army Ministry said on Friday.
“The provision of such a system responds to the urgency expressed by Oleksiï Reznikov, Defense Minister of Ukraine, to his French and Italian counterparts, to protect civilian populations and infrastructure against Russian air strikes,” added the ministry in a statement.
>> Our full article can be found here.
The EU wants to try to finance the reconstruction of Ukraine with frozen Russian assets
The European Union (EU) said on Friday it wanted to find a way to use frozen Russian assets in Western countries to finance the reconstruction of Ukraine, a move demanded by Kyiv but legally difficult to implement.
“The EU will intensify (…) its efforts to use frozen Russian assets to support the reconstruction of Ukraine and for reparation purposes, in accordance with European and international law,” the President of the European Council said in a press release. Charles Michel. and the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
Ukraine will get longer-range Western weapons
The United States vowed Friday to drop ground-based bombs into Ukraine that could nearly double the range of Ukraine’s strike force against the Russians.
These are the “GLSDB”, small diameter bombs manufactured by Boeing and Saab, which can fly up to 150 km and therefore threaten Russian positions in the rear.
“The longer our weapons and the more mobile our troops, the sooner Russia’s brutal aggression will end,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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