PUTIN CRITICISM OF NATO
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused NATO of participating in the conflict in Ukraine by supplying arms to kyiv forces, in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
“They are sending tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine. This is really participation”he said in an interview with the Rossiya-1 channel.
ALGERIA TO REOPEN ITS EMBASSY IN kyiv
Algeria, a traditional ally of Moscow, has decided to reopen its embassy in Kiev, closed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine a year ago, the Algerian Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday. Algiers and Moscow have long-standing privileged relations. In 2021, trade between the two countries reached three billion dollars.
“This decision comes within the framework of safeguarding the interests of the Algerian state in this country as well as those of the national community,” the ministry said in a statement.
The reopening of the embassy, which will be headed by a charge d’affaires, will be done “as soon as possible”, added the same source.
CHARGE OF “DESTABILITY”
Russia on Saturday accused Westerners of having “destabilized” the G20 economic summit in India.
According to Moscow, the United States and the members of the European Union tried to have the “blackmail” a passage in support of Ukraine in a joint statement.
REPORTAGE
Ukraine entered its second year of war on Friday, February 24. It is particularly violent in the Bakhmout region, in the Donbass.
Our team of journalists was able to accompany helicopter pilots above combat zones.
WAGNER CLAIMS A VILLAGE NORTH OF BAKHMUT
The boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Evguéni Prigojine, claimed this Saturday the capture by his men of the village of Yaguidné. This territory is located on the northern outskirts of Bakhmout.
The capture of Yagidné further encloses the Russian stranglehold around Bakhmout, the village being located less than two kilometers from the center of this fortress city. The town of Bakhmout has become a symbol of the struggle for control of the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
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