- The Russian Ministry of Defense admitted having evacuated the entire crew of the cruiser Moskvawhich Ukrainian authorities announced they had hit with Neptune missiles on Wednesday evening. “The Missile Cruiser Moskva was seriously damaged due to detonation of ammunition caused by fire”, announced the Ministry of Defense, quoted by the state news agency TASS. The ministry also said that an investigation was underway to determine the causes of the fire, refraining from making the link with Ukrainian military activities.
- The United States announces a new military aid of 800 millions of dollars including 18 M777 Howitzer guns, latest generation artillery pieces, 300 Switchblade drones, 500 Javelin missiles and “thousands of other anti-tank systems”. The United States had so far been reluctant to deliver the heavy equipment requested by the Ukrainians, fearing to fuel tensions between Washington and Moscow.
- At the same time, Washington defended the use of the term “genocide” speak president, Joe Biden, to qualify Russian operations in Ukraine. “I think that once we can gather all the evidence, we will eventually come to the same conclusion as President Biden, because what is happening on the ground is not an accident”declared on the CNN channel the number three of the American diplomacy, Victoria Nuland.
- Ukraine denies the fall of the city of Mariupol. More than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered to Russian forces in the city of Mariupol, a strategic port in the Sea of Azov besieged for weeks, the Russian defense ministry said. But Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the Ukrainian president, said on Facebook that a hundred soldiers, members of naval units, had made a breakthrough and joined the Azov regiment. He added that the city of Mariupol was not completely under the control of Russian troops. This information could not be verified.
- The presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in Kyiv. Arrived in Ukraine for ” sustain “ the government “at a decisive moment for this country”. The visit to kyiv of the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is, it, always wished urgently, let know Wednesday one of the advisers of Volodymyr Zelensky.
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