Netanyahu plans military aid to Ukraine

Cover image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in Jerusalem, January 30, 2023. Debbie Hill / AP

Ukraine’s prime minister confirmed on Tuesday the holding of a Ukraine-European Union summit on Friday in Kyivi.e. one day following “intergovernmental consultations” between Kyiv and the European Commission which will take place for the first time in our history.
France to supply 12 additional Caesar guns to kyiv. These medium-range guns, in addition to the 18 already delivered by France and the 19 promised by Denmark, will be “financed as part of the support fund of 200 million euros”announced the French Minister of the Armed Forces.
Ukraine will receive 120-140 Western tanks during a “first wave” deliveries from a coalition of twelve countries. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba said these tanks would include the German-made Leopard 2, the British Challenger 2 and the American Abrams, and that Ukraine also had ” really “ on the supply of French Leclerc tanks.
Joe Biden on Monday categorically refused the idea of sending American F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, whose list of arms assistance is growing to drive Russian forces out of its occupied territory. The American president finally declared on Tuesday that he “was going to talk” to Volodymyr Zelensky for his requests for additional military assistance.
Russia claimed responsibility for capturing the village of Blahodatne, north of Bakhmout, on Tuesday., in eastern Ukraine, where its army has been making slow progress for several weeks. Evgueni Prigojine, leader of the Wagner militia, had claimed on Saturday that his men had taken Blahodatne, which kyiv had denied.
The Russian army carried out three aerial bombardments, four missile launches and around sixty rounds of multiple rocket launchers, which notably aimed at residential buildings in Kherson and Ochakivin the south of Ukraine, reports the staff of the Ukrainian forces on Tuesday, reporting the civilian victims without specifying the number.
kyiv calls for the exclusion of all Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The Baltic countries and Poland supported this request on Tuesday, embarrassing the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which is working to reintegrate them under a neutral banner.