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Ukraine fiercely resists Russian assault on Bakhmut: mercenary chiefMOSCOW, March 1 (Archyde.com) – Ukrainian forces are fiercely resisting Russia’s attempt to take the small town of Bakhmut and are sending huge reserves into the bloody battle, Yevgeny Prigozhin declared on Wednesday , founder of the Russian mercenary force Wagner.
Prigozhin’s men have led the assault in eastern Ukraine for months and Moscow sees Bakhmut, which it calls by its Soviet-era name of Artyomovsk, as a useful springboard to seize larger cities like Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
Ukraine’s armed forces said Russian troops were advancing near Bakhmut, while President Volodimir Zelensky said all fronts were under control. Archyde.com could not immediately verify the accounts.
Ukraine’s army may withdraw from Bakhmuth, a key stronghold in the east of the country, an aide to the Ukrainian president said Wednesday, in remarks suggesting Russia could capture the city that has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance.
Kremlin forces have launched a bloody and protracted offensive to capture Bakhmut, a salt and gypsum mining town in eastern Ukraine that has become a ghost town.
“Obviously, our army is going to assess all the options. For the moment, they have controlled the city, but if necessary, there will be a strategic withdrawal,” Alexander Rodnyansky, an economic adviser to Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky, told CNN television. “We’re not going to sacrifice all our people for nothing.”
The adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency, Mikhailo Podoliak, has denounced that there are still important European companies that continue to operate in Russian territory and that, with their taxes, “are financing the war”, for which reason they should be sanctioned.
Podoliak pointed directly to Raiffeisenbank, the Russian subsidiary of the Austrian bank Raiffeisen Banking Group; the German multinational Metro; or the French group Auchan, according to the Ukrinform agency. “By paying taxes to Russia, they are actually financing the war as such (…). And it looks, to put it mildly, a little strange. So, of course, there are many more companies that need to impose sanctions,” Podoliak said.
The United States anticipated today that it will not meet with the representatives of Russia or China during the meeting of foreign ministers that takes place until tomorrow in New Delhi, the capital of India, in a meeting with an agenda marked by deep divisions and friction over the conflict in Ukraine that increase the uncertainty about whether a joint declaration will be adopted.
The head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, has already warned that he will not meet with his Russian counterpart, Serguei Lavrov in this two-day meeting of the 20 largest economies in the world, and that he does not plan to meet with the Chinese either. , Wangyi.
“I have no plans to see either of them at the G20,” Blinken told reporters in Uzbekistan before traveling to New Delhi, though he said he would participate in working groups with them.
The United States is confident that the G20 foreign ministers, who are meeting in India, will condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a senior official accompanying Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on Wednesday.
“I think we will see a speech that reflects the majority, if not the overwhelming majority of the G20, which continues to oppose the war in Russia,” said the official on board the plane that takes Blinken to New Delhi.
He Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign AffairsSergei Ryabkov He said Moscow could not review its suspension of the New START nuclear arms treaty with the United States until the United States changed its policy on Ukraine.the agency reported Interfax.
Vladimir Putin announced last week that Russia was suspending its participation in the deal, while accusing the United States of trying to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia in Ukraine.
The Russian army said today that it shot down ten Ukrainian drones in an attempted “massive” attack against facilities in the annexed Crimean peninsula, after a similar incursion the day before with those devices in Russian territory. “A massive drone attack attempt by the kyiv regime on facilities in the Crimean peninsula was thwarted”announced the Russian Ministry of Defense it’s a statement.
According to the agency, the Russian anti-aircraft defense shot down six Ukrainian attack drones and another four were disabled by electronic means. Yesterday, the Russian territory was subjected to a drone strike that left no damage. For the first time, one of these devices crashed in Moscow. While another three drones were shot down at night on Tuesday morning in other regions.
The president of belarus, Alexander Lukashenkoan ally of Russia, said today in Beijing thatsupports China’s proposals to find a way out of the conflict in Ukraine. “We actively militate with proposals for peace”the official stated in talks with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.
”Today’s meeting takes place at a very difficult time that requires new and unusual proposals and responsible political decisions. They must be aimed above all at avoiding a global confrontation that will have no winners,” added Lukashenko, quoted by the Belarusian presidency’s press service.
Last Friday, one year after the start of the Russian offensive against Ukraine, Beijing published a twelve-point plan, which includes a call for Moscow and kyiv to start peace talks.. However, this role of mediator that China seeks to have is questioned by Western countries that criticize its ties with Russia.
From kyiv, Ukrainian officials say they have successfully weathered “(Vladimir) Putin’s winter of terror”. Dmytro KulebaForeign Minister in Volodimir Zelensky’s cabinet, stressed that this is the fifth defeat for the Russian president.
”We have overcome the harshest winter in our history. We were in the dark and cold, but we were indomitable, ”Kuleba said in a message through her Facebook account. “The European Union also won despite Moscow’s actions, and they did not freeze without Russian gas”he added.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar announced that reinforcements were sent to Bakhmut in the face of advancing Russian troops. “The front of that city continues to be the most active area of the war,” insisted the official and, therefore, “the commander of the Ukrainian Land Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, decided to move additional units there”.
In statements made in the news broadcast by Ukrainian television and broadcast by local agencies, Malyar explained that “The situation in Bakhmut is complicated and tense”. “The Russian occupation forces concentrated their main efforts there. They want to try to fully capture the Donetsk region” and, in particular, Bakhmut, a strategic point to create a corridor in the east to move troops and ammunition.
A military drone tried to attack a gas installation in the Moscow regionaccording to a senior Russian official, and photos of the wreckage suggested it was Ukrainian-made, indicating a rare attack attempt hundreds of miles behind Russian lines.
The alleged attack was one of several reports of successful attacks or attempted attacks with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in at least four regions of Russia.
Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov confirmed that a UAV crashed in the town of Gubastovo, near the capital, and was apparently aimed at a “civilian infrastructure site.”
The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, received this Tuesday in Caracas Nikolay Patruchev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, an important ally of the Venezuelan president. “We received the pleasant visit of Nikolai Pátrushev at the Miraflores Palace,” Maduro wrote in Twitter.
“We review the different levels of cooperation that our nations maintain in favor of shared development”, he added.
There are no details of his agenda in the country, beyond the fact that his visit will serve to “hold a meeting between the Security Council of the Russian Federation yla Secretariat of the Defense Council of the Nation of Venezuelawhich seeks to consolidate agreements in different strategic areas,” according to a statement.
Patrushev visited Venezuela in 2013 to discuss security and military cooperation issues, specified the text. Russia has been a key ally of Venezuela since the time of the late former president. Hugo Chavez and continued with the current president, who, shielded by this relationship, has been able to circumvent international sanctions against him.
Maduro has also expressed his support for Russia during the invasion of Ukraine, which has earned President Vladimir Putin wide international rejection. The two countries have signed energy and military agreements, but also tourism, with which the Caribbean nation expects thousands of Russians to visit each year.
As reported by the English media The Guardian, The United States does not see Russia achieving significant territorial gains in Ukraine anytime soon.
This was stated by the United States Undersecretary of Defense, Colin Kahl. The military described the front lines as “hard work” in a hearing of the House of Representatives.
“I don’t think there’s anything to suggest that the Russians can sweep the Ukraine and make any significant territorial gains anytime in the next year or so.the official said.
As reported through the information on the portal The Kyiv Independent, the last Russian bombing of in the city of Kupansk killed a civilian. The Russian attack on the aforementioned city in Kharkiv Oblast at around 10:30 a.m. on February 28 killed a 63-year-old man.
So what the Office of the Attorney General, Russian shelling also damaged residential buildings, a kindergarten, and a park.
In the last few hours, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense shared, as it does weekly, the count of neutralized Russian weapons and the number of casualties on the Kremlin army. The data provided by the Defense Ministry indicate that 149,240 soldiers have died in Ukraine since the start of the invasion in February 2022.
Volodimir Zelensky, the President of Ukraine announced that he met with International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan in Kiev and stressed that Russian crimes committed in Ukraine should not be overlooked and those responsible should face legal consequences, he reported. the middle The Kyiv Independent.
“We have heard signals from you about your support and the importance of justice. It was important for us to hear this because it means that we are not alone in our desire to achieve justice for Ukraine,” Zelensky said.
According to the press release, Zelensky said that Ukraine is prepared to help the ICC establish a prosecutor’s office in the country to investigate Russian war crimes.
As reported by the ANSA news site, Sirens are sounding in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Poltava, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad regions and in the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The head of the Poltava regional military administration, Dmytro Lunin, said in Telegram that a Russian pilotless aerial vehicle was shot down in the Poltava region.
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