Cover image: A woman with a child walks in the center of Lviv, Ukraine, Monday, February 20, 2023. Petros Giannakouris / AP
- Vladimir Putin proclaimed on Wednesday that Russia is fighting in Ukraine for its “historic lands”, in front of tens of thousands of Russians gathered in Moscow. On Tuesday, he announced the suspension of his participation in the New Start treaty on nuclear disarmament, saying he was also ready to resume nuclear testing. Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the Russian Security Council, justifies this decision, and the Russian Parliament approved it on Wednesday.
- Joe Biden criticized once more on Wednesday Russia’s suspension of its participation in the New Start treaty nuclear disarmament: “It is a serious mistake to have done this, it is not very reasonable”said the American president during an interview with > and Poland, before returning to Washington. He added that he “don’t see” in the decision announced by President Putin of elements indicating “that he is thinking regarding using nuclear weapons or something like that”.
- Westerners are “ready to plunge the whole world into the abyss of war” to inflict “a defeat to Russia in any way possible”Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said on Wednesday at the UN General Assembly.
- The boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner on Wednesday urged the Russians to put pressure on the army, to provide ammunition to his men, an unprecedented call, which illustrates the extent of the tensions between the mercenaries and the Russian general staff.
- Several explosions were heard in Kharkiv. According to Oleh Synehoubov, the governor of Kharkiv oblast, at least Two people were injured by shootings on Wednesday. Several missiles were reportedly fired from Belgorod, Russia.
- US President Joe Biden met with the group of nine leaders of NATO countries from Central and Eastern Europe in Warsaw on Wednesday.in the presence of the Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, to assure them of the support “unwavering” of Washington once morest Moscow.
- Moscow and Beijing display their agreement. The head of Chinese diplomacy met Vladimir Putin. The latter praised the Russian-Chinese relationship, judging that it “stabilized the international situation”. Wang Yi expressed Beijing’s willingness to “strengthen the strategic partnership (…) and all-out cooperation” with Moscow.
- The United Nations General Assembly has been meeting since Wednesday on the anniversary of the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv and its allies hope to garner the broadest support for a resolution calling for peace “just and sustainable”.
- Spain will give Ukraine six Leopard tanks, announced Margarita Robles, the Minister of Defense, to the Congress of Deputies, without giving details on the timetable for this shipment.
- Ukraine’s president is expected to visit Vilnius in July to attend a NATO summitsays Petro Beshta, the Ukrainian ambassador to Lithuania, in an interview with the Lithuanian news agency BNS.
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