Friday marks the 688th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian drones, responding to Russian attacks on cities across Ukraine, are striking targets in Russia. Former Russian President and current Security Council Vice President Dmitry Medvedev decided to warn Ukraine on his Telegram channel that Moscow will use nuclear weapons if Kiev targets missile launchers in Russia. Follow the live broadcast of Wirtualna Polska.
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- Human resources on the front in Ukraine are dwindling. The country is facing – as General Stanisław Koziej says in an interview with WP – the key problem of this war. – Every war reaches its crisis point. When it comes to personnel for the army, Ukraine is not far from this point, he estimates.
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Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics announced on January 11 a new military aid package for Ukraine, including howitzers, drones and ammunition. The statement was made during a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
– Today I also informed the President of Ukraine about another aid package, which includes howitzers, 155 mm ammunition, anti-tank weapons, rockets, grenades, helicopters, drones, communication devices, generators and (other) equipment –
President of Latvia Edgars RinkevicsFighting at the front in Ukraine© East News | BULENT KILIC
2 hours ago01/12/2024 05:18
“Experts from the Institute for Warfare Studies (ISW) concluded that Russian troops manage to carry out the planned rotations thanks to their advantage over the entire territory of eastern Ukraine and the lack of pressure from Ukrainian counteroffensive activities,” we read in a report on the Ukrainian Pravda website.
2 hours ago01/12/2024 04:45
Russian media have reported that Russia wants to convene the United Nations Security Council in connection with attacks by the United States, Britain and allies on Houthi bases in Yemen.
5 hours ago12/01/2024 02:24
Zelensky noted that Russia does not want peace at all and is gathering people for the army.
– We know where they’ll get them from. They still have 300,000. prisoners,” she observed.
He also drew attention to the mobilization of young people in the occupied Ukrainian territories.
5 hours ago12/01/2024 02:01
– Ukraine is not making great progress because they (the Russians) control the sky, Zelensky admitted.
– If we don’t open the sky, we will stay where we are and they will prepare the counteroffensive – added the Ukrainian president.
5 hours ago01/12/2024 01:57
The President of Ukraine assessed that the situation on the front is currently very difficult and that Ukraine does not have sufficient weapons.
– If the Russians did not control the airspace and if we had enough air defense systems, we would destroy their aviation, Zelensky said.
7 hours ago01/11/2024 11.46pm
– Russia could send 300,000 more to fight against Ukraine. prisoners, this is a very large number, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj said at a press conference for the media of the Baltic countries in Riga on Thursday.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of Latvia Edgars Rinkevics (Photo of the Ukrainian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)© GETTY | Anadolu
7 hours ago01/11/2024 11.45pm
NATO’s secretary general should be a person from a country that spends enough on defense, Latvian Foreign Minister Kriszjanis Karinsz, who is interested in replacing former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, said on Thursday. of the Alliance.
8 hours ago11/01/2024 10.41pm
Residents of the southern regions of Ukraine have been warned of the threat posed by attack drones.
9 hours ago11/01/2024 10.01pm
During a joint press conference with Volodymyr Zelensky, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics announced another aid package, which includes howitzers, 155 mm ammunition, anti-tank weapons, rockets, grenades, helicopters, drones, communication devices, generators and other equipment .
10 hours ago01/11/2024 9.19pm
A new Pentagon report finds that more than $1 billion worth of missiles, kamikaze drones and night-vision goggles sent by the United States to Ukraine were not properly tracked by American officials, raising concerns they may have been stolen or smuggled . By law, shipments should be closely monitored because their battlefield impact, sensitive technology and relatively small size make them attractive prey for arms traffickers.
But the Defense Department inspector general’s report, released Thursday, found no evidence that the weapons were misused after they were shipped to a U.S. military logistics center in Poland or moved to the front lines in Ukraine.
10 hours ago01/11/2024 9.15pm
American military aid to Ukraine has been poorly monitored, according to a Pentagon report released Thursday and described by the New York Times. The report found that U.S. officials and diplomats failed to quickly or fully account for the nearly 40,000 weapons sent to the front.
10 hours ago01/11/2024 20:53
During his speech in Riga, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the West for delays in the delivery of weapons, especially air defense systems.
– How can you live in peace and sleep if you know that you have dozens of Patriot systems and if Ukraine received seven such systems today, people in Kharkov, Kherson, Odessa would not die? Can you live with this? – asked Zelensky.
10 hours ago01/11/2024 20:40
20 percent of imported parts are produced in Western countries, but reach Russia through intermediaries in China, Hong Kong, Turkey or the United Arab Emirates. Some are sent directly to Russia due to inadequate export controls or manipulation of customs documents.
The report, published on Thursday by the Ekonomiczna Pravda website, also notes that deliveries to Russia of components used in weapons production have hardly decreased. During the 9 months of 2023, only 9.1% was imported. less than the same period in 2022.
10 hours ago01/11/2024 20:40
44 percent of all electronic components that Russia imports to make weapons were made in Western companies, according to a study conducted by, among others, the Kiev School of Economics.
The researchers analyzed data on the import to Russia of 2,797 parts used in the production of Russian weapons, including: sensors, microchips and navigation systems.
In particular, these are elements produced by the American companies Intel, Analog Devices, AMD and Texas Instruments. When it comes to digital tools, Germany’s Siemens is the leader.
Analysts point out that most of the parts used to produce weapons are produced in the factories of these companies in third countries, for example in China, which makes it easier for the Russians to evade sanctions.
11 hours ago01/11/2024 20:12
Former Russian President and current Deputy Chairman of the country’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, on his Telegram channel warned Ukraine that Moscow will use nuclear weapons if Kiev targets missile launchers in Russia.
Medvedev wrote that Ukraine, considering striking the launch sites, “risks violating paragraph 19 of the foundations of Russian state policy in the field of nuclear deterrence.” This paragraph establishes the conditions under which the Russian president would consider using nuclear weapons.
Generally, they say they should be used in response to an attack with nuclear or other mass destruction weapons, or in response to the use of conventional weapons against Russia, “when the very existence of the state is threatened.”
“This is not a right to self-defense, but a direct and obvious justification for our use of nuclear weapons against such a state. All the heirs of Hitler, Mussolini, Pétain in today’s Europe, who support the Nazis in Kiev, they should remember this,” Medvedev wrote.
11 hours ago01/11/2024 20:00
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