This information was provided by Sébastien Lecornu, French Defense Minister. According to Lecorn, Ukraine currently has 49 CAESAR howitzers. – Our goal is to produce 78 CAESAR howitzers in 2024, encouraging Europeans and our allies to participate in this project – underlined Lecornu. The minister added that Ukraine has just purchased six of these howitzers with its own funds. A howitzer costs between 3 and 4 million euros.
Roman Mroczko, head of the city’s military administration, published a video on his Facebook profile showing the effects of the numerous Russian bombings on Kherson which occurred on Wednesday evening. Kherson was also reportedly attacked by kamikaze drones.
OMV will defend its assets in Russia in court. The Kremlin appropriated them and donated them to its companies, including Gazprom.
In the direction of Kupańsk-Łymański and Bakhmucki, the Russians would lose over 300 soldiers and 136 pieces of equipment within 24 hours. In the Kupanya-Lymany direction the Russians were supposed to repel 27 Russian attacks, in the Bakhmuki direction – 6 – said the spokesman for the Land Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As Vadym Filashkin writes, three residential buildings were damaged in the night attack on Avdiivka.
Gabrielus Landsbergis said in Davos that Ukraine needs 400 HIMARS launchers to win the war with Russia and “a thousand, not 80 tanks.” Lithuania’s foreign minister said it would be good to support Ukraine “with everything it needs to win.” -This will be a deterrent signal for Putin, he said.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has canceled a visit to France scheduled for Thursday for security reasons, Le Monde reports.
Umerov was due to meet French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecorn during a visit to the Caesar howitzer factory. France had previously announced it would produce an additional 78 firearms for Ukraine.
The Defense Intelligence Service of Ukraine conducted a special operation during which Ukrainian drones attacked an oil depot in Leningrad Oblast at night, Ukrinform reports.
After meeting with his counterparts from Latvia and Estonia, Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis said that the Baltic countries support the inclusion of Russian and Belarusian wheat in the EU sanctions package.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron believes that current world events are reminiscent of the pre-war 1930s, when the West tried to please Adolf Hitler and is now repeating the same mistakes with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
“The only thing we can do is demonstrate during this year that Putin will not win,” he said.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that the Senate can expect a new package on Ukrainian border security as early as next week.
Republicans in the US Senate had previously blocked a replenishment bill that included $61 billion in aid for Ukraine.
The Russian military command continues to convict officers in cases related to attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In this way it is hoped that discipline in the Russian army will be improved, say analysts from the Institute for War Studies (ISW).
In the last 24 hours, 20.2 thousand people entered Poland from Ukraine. people. At the same time, 18.3 thousand people left Poland for Ukraine. people and, as of February 24, 2022, over 16.746 million people.
The air alert concerns the take-off of a MiG-31K heavy bomber from a Russian airport.
A 50-year-old woman was injured in the attack. This information was provided by the governor of the region, Oleksandr Prokudin. The information he provided also shows that in 24 hours the Kherson region was bombed 116 times, and in these attacks two people were killed and seven injured.
The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced that one person was injured in the morning shelling of Belgorod by the Ukrainian army. The injured person was a woman hit in the knee by shrapnel. The woman was taken to a hospital in Belgorod.
From February 24, 2022, Russia will lose in Ukraine approximately 373,600 soldiers, 6,147 tanks, 11,410 armored vehicles, 8,835 artillery sets, 966 rocket launchers, 653 anti-aircraft systems, 331 aircraft, 324 helicopters, 6,925 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,818 cruise ships . missiles, 23 surface units, one submarine, 11,794 vehicles (including tankers) and 1,380 units of special equipment.
Ukrainian air defenses shot down 22 of the 33 drones. The Ukrainian Air Force Command also reports that the Russians fired two missiles from S-300 anti-aircraft systems towards Kharkiv Oblast.
This information is provided by the governor of Belgorod Oblast, Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to information provided on Telegram, Russian anti-aircraft defense shot down 10 missiles over Belgorod and other parts of Belgorod Oblast. A missile alert was previously announced in the region.
This information is provided by the Sumy Regional Military Administration.
The recording was published on the Facebook profile of the Ukrainian General Staff.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office reports that the man was also sentenced to confiscation of assets. The convict was supposed to provide the Russians, at the end of 2022, with information on critical infrastructure and units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the Izmail port. The Russians were interested in, among others, the location of energy substations and control points of the Ukrainian army, its fortifications, its weapons and the number of soldiers. The convict also collected information on the work carried out in the shipyard.
The explosion occurred during an airstrike on the perimeter.
A statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense said that two Tochka-U missiles and three Ukrainian drones were shot down in the region.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that around 1:30 am Moscow time “an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned aerial vehicles on the territory of the Russian Federation was foiled.” “Anti-aircraft systems destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle on the territory of the Moscow Oblast,” the statement said. The second drone was reportedly intercepted in Leningrad Oblast.
This was the situation on the Ukrainian front on the 693rd day of the war
“During the meeting, President Biden stressed the importance of Congress transferring necessary resources to Ukraine, including anti-aircraft systems and artillery (…). The President discussed the strategic consequences of inaction for Ukraine, the United States, and the world,” the White House said in a statement. The President reportedly said that Congress’ failure to act “puts the national security of the United States and NATO is at risk.” Biden called for a quick consensus to transfer additional funds to Ukraine. Previously, the White House had asked Congress to agree to provide more than $60 billion in additional aid to ‘Ukraine.
Russia’s war with Ukraine. Day 693
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. President Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will visit Ukraine in February.
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