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WESTERN ARMORED IN MOSCOW’S SIGHTS
Deliveries to Ukraine of armored infantry and other weapons announced last week by several Western countries will only “prolong the suffering” of Ukrainians and will not “change” the balance of power, said Monday the Kremlin.
“Fundamentally, these deliveries cannot and will not change anything. […] These deliveries can only prolong the suffering of the Ukrainian people,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Last week, the United States and Germany said they wanted to deliver armored infantry, France announcing the dispatch of light tanks to kyiv.
PRORUSSIAN SEPARATISTS CLAIM CONTROL OF A VILLAGE
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region claimed on Monday that they had taken control of a village near the town of Bakhmout, the current epicenter of fighting that Moscow’s forces are seeking. to conquer for several months.
The locality of Bakhmoutské, in the Donetsk region, “has been liberated by the Russian armed forces”, indicated the separatists of this region whose Moscow claims the annexation. The village of Bakhmoutské is located northeast of Bakhmout, a town once known for its vineyards and salt mines and which had around 70,000 inhabitants before the start of the Russian offensive last February. It is now the hottest spot on the forehead.
“REARM UKRAINE BUT BUILD PEACE”
“It is time to continue to rearm Ukraine so that it does not lose, and at the same time to build peace”, pleads on LCI General Vincent Desportes, former director of the School of War. “Since the middle of the second millennium, all wars have ended in great international conferences.”
“THE RUSSIAN ARMY REMAINS WEAK BUT IS RECOVERING”
“The Russian army has recovered well for a few weeks, it is in the process of recovering and attacking”, indicates on LCI General Vincent Desportes, former director of the School of War. “Nevertheless, for now, it remains weak and cannot let the Ukrainian strike go unpunished” on New Year’s Day, which killed 89 people, according to Moscow.
By announcing that it had made hundreds of victims in retaliation on Sunday, Russia “suggests” that the Ukrainian strike had killed more than 89 people, continues General Vincent Desportes, who refers to a “communication from Vladimir Putin to show that his army is still strong, that his country is avenged”.
UPDATE ON THE SITUATION
The day following the end of the unilateral ceasefire decreed by Moscow, Russia bombed Ukraine more than 100 times on Sunday, according to the administration of the Sumy region. At the same time, Russian soldiers killed in the Ukrainian Makiivka strike were buried. Here are the highlights of the past 24 hours.
MOSCOW’S “REPRISALS”
Hostilities resumed Sunday in Ukraine following the truce of the Orthodox Christmas, decreed without convincing by Vladimir Putin, at the end of which Moscow claimed to have avenged its losses by killing hundreds in one strike, which was immediately denied. kyiv. In the Sumy region alone, in northeastern Ukraine, the local administration reported in the early evening of more than a hundred bombardments and strikes during the day on Sunday.
“The Russian army carried out 144 strikes during the day”, in particular on the localities of Esmansk, Novoslobid, Myropil, Bilopol and Khotyn which were “under fire”, wrote the head of the regional administration Dmytro Zhivitskiï on the Telegram social network. In Esmansk, the Russian army struck with mortars, Grad multiple rocket launchers and heavy artillery, destroying four houses, a school and a community hall. However, there were no casualties in the region, according to the same source.
Hello and welcome to TF1info to follow the news of the war in Ukraine on Monday, January 9, 2023.
