This February 12 marked the 353rd day of conflict in Ukraine. Here is a summary of the most important elements:
- According to the daily bulletin of the British Ministry of Defence, “Over the past two weeks, Russia has probably suffered its highest number of casualties since the first week of the invasion of Ukraine.”
- During the day, the leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner claimed that his troops took the Ukrainian town of Krasna Hora, a few kilometers north of Bakhmout. AFP might not verify these statements from an independent source.
- The President of the Open VLD wants the refugees ukrainians are oriented more quickly towards a job.
- The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in office since 2014, said he don’t want to extend a new time its mandatebeyond the scheduled term of October.
- More than 1,200 medical facilities, including 540 hospitals, were damaged in Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict, according to the Ukrainian Minister of Health.
- Argentina investigates the many pregnant russian women who travel to the country. They were more than 5,800 in 2022. The country fears the presence of a criminal network behind these arrivals.
- 200 people affiliated with Russia have been sanctioned by Ukraine this Sunday.
- According to our colleagues from the Guardian, Iran smuggles weapons into Russia.
- The former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconiclose to Vladimir Putin and whose party is part of the government coalition, engaged in a all-out attack on the Ukrainian president. Asked regarding the Thursday meeting in Brussels between Ms Meloni and Mr Zelensky, he replied: “Me talking with Zelensky? If I had been the President of the Council, I would never have gone there”. The italian government reacted in recalling its support for Ukraine.
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