A “combined attack on vast scale” of the Russians pierced the Ukrainian night: over 500 drones and missiles launched in different regions of the country, including Kiev and the western one of Loopoli, who pushed Poland to raise his hunting to monitor the boundaries. It is a new record for attack intensity, yet another act of this infinite war without apparent spirals of respite. The Kremlin makes him understand, who refuses to return to the negotiation if the West will still raise the pressure with the sanctions, and confirms it Volodymyr Zelensky, who has decided to withdraw Kiev from the international treatise against anti -human mines.
Accusing Russia of continuing to use them “against our military and civilians”. The anti -aircraft defenses of Kiev, between Saturday and Sunday, were forced once again to the extraordinary in the face of the enemy’s fire power. The aeronautics reported by 477 drones and 60 missiles of various types launched by the Russian bombers. Almost all drones and 39 missiles would have been intercepted, while those who managed to break through have caused the demolition of an F-16 hunting and the killing of the pilot and several injured among civilians on the ground, according to what reported by the local authorities. Most (11 including 2 children) in the central region of Cherkasy, but also to Ivano-Frankivsk in the west.
Ansa agency The Pope: ‘Everywhere you note weapons, peace through dialogue’ – News – Ansa.it ‘The Lord give peace to the Ukrainian people’. Today the feast of the saints Peter and Paul: ‘They invite to fraternity, unity in diversity’ (ANSA) A man was killed aboard a car in Kharkiv. The Russian army instead said that only sites of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex and oil refineries were affected. On the ground, in the last few days the assaults of the Russian infantry have recorded an advance on the border between the regions of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk, conquering two urban centers. The Ukrainian General Staff has estimated 110 thousand enemy soldiers concentrated in this line of the front (compared to 70 thousand December). Especially around the city of Pokrovsk, where at least 50 fire clashes per day verify. The containment of Putin’s army in the north-eastern region of Sumy is better. With his armed forces in difficulty, Zelensky has made a controversial decision, which will now have to be ratified by Parliament: withdraw the country from the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the signatories (160 countries, but not United States and Russia) to acquire, or use anti -human mines.
Ordigns who according to humanitarian organizations put civilians at risk, remaining unexploded underground for a long time. A similar step had already been taken in recent months by Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, all bordering Russia. The Ukrainian leader, always in the logic of strengthening the defenses, has renewed the request to Donald Trump to purchase new Patriot systems. However, an answer has not yet arrived from the White House. In the meantime, Washington keeps the channels open with Moscow. The director of Russian foreign intelligence Sergei Narlyshkin has announced that he has spoken for the second time in three months with the CIA head John Ratcliffe.
“We agreed to call us at any time to discuss issues of our interest,” said Narlyshkin, in the context of a growing rapprochement between the USA and Russia. In any case, however, Trump wants to maintain a form of pressure on Putin to push him to seriously treat peace. So much so that he urged the Republicans to “move” on the approval of the law that would authorize the White House to impose new sanctions. Senator Lindset Graham revealed it, one of the most powerful and closer to the president. The spectrum of new economic retaliation agitates Moscow. “He wants to defeat us strategically using Ukraine as ram but he will not succeed”, is the warning of the foreign minister Serghiei Lavrov. And “the more serious the measures, the more serious our answer will be”, the spokesman for Putin, Dmitry Peskov, echoed him, on the days when the EU has renewed all the restrictions in force by another six months, while a 18th package is on site.
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