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news of the day
A spokeswoman for the Ukrainian army, Natalia Goumenyuk, spoke of a “fairly difficult” but “stabilizing” situation on the front in the south, while the Russian army launched a “local offensive” in Orekhiv. In the same region of Zaporozhye, “the intensity of hostilities has greatly increased”, recognize the Russian occupation authorities.
sentence of the day
Such deliveries [de chars] cannot fundamentally change anything, they will create new problems for Ukraine”
For Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, Western announcements of deliveries of heavy tanks to Ukraine will not be enough to change the balance of forces on the front line. They would even only maintain the “illusion” of a possible victory for Ukraine, in other words delay the deadline for an inevitable victory, as announced by Vladimir Putin.
The number of the day
7. This is the number of “Russian agents” that the Ukrainian security services (SBU) claim to have arrested in Dnipro. According to the SBU, “the detainees gave the Russians the coordinates of Ukrainian critical infrastructure” and “gathered intelligence on […] the movements of units of the (kyiv) forces in the region” before communicating them to the Russian army. Their “possible involvement in the attack on a residential building in Dnipro on January 14”, which killed at least 45 people including six children, is “being verified”, also indicated the Ukrainian security services.
The trend of the day
The United States expects a counteroffensive from Ukraine in the spring, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Friday, stressing that it was for the allies to help kyiv prepare for it. . “We have a window of opportunity here between now and spring… As soon as they start their operation, their counter-offensive,” he told reporters at a meeting of Ukraine’s allies in Germany. . “It’s not a long time and we need to get the right skills together,” he added.
The delivery of Western tanks could be decisive to launch this possible offensive. But Berlin still cannot resolve to deliver its tanks. “No decision was taken” during the meeting of the allies in Ramstein, indicates the new German Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius. Poland and Finland have offered to deliver such armaments, but any shipment of German war material must receive the green light from Berlin.