This Tuesday marks 342 days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The United States has begun shipping to Ukraine the first 60 Bradley infantry fighting vehicleswhile you have ruled out sending F-16 fighters that kyiv insistently demands for better protect your sky from Russian bombingwhich, meanwhile, exhibits marginal advances in the eastern region of Donetsk. On the other hand, the controls of the wagner group, who is credited with the latest Russian victories on the Ukrainian front, act with their men as if they were “cannon fodder”. This is how a former commander of the Wagner Group, Andrey Medvedev, told the american chain from Oslo, where he seeks asylum after having defected from the paramilitary organization led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch and trusted man of the President Vladimir Putin.
Mykhailo Podolyak, Zelensky’s adviser: “If Ukraine does not get weapons, the war will spread to the EU”
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has urged Western allies to provide more military support amid renewed calls of top Ukrainian officials for fighter jets, as reported Al Jazeera.
Podolyak has posted on Twitter that some representatives of the European Union “believe that Ukraine should not receive weapons as the war will spread to Europe.” “The war is already in the center of Europe”has added
US and UK rule out sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
The UK joins the US in its decision to not sending F-16s and other western fighter jets to Ukraine shortly after the West agreed to send him tanks.
US President Joe Biden, when asked at the White House late on Monday if his country would provide F-16s, simply replied “no,” though he stressed Tuesday morning that he would continue to talk with Ukraine over its weapons requests. .
The US accuses Russia of breaching the latest nuclear pact between the two countries
The United States accused Russia on Tuesday of being breaching the New STARTthe last nuclear treaty between the two powers, by not allowing US technicians to carry out inspections in Russian territory.
The Government of the US President, Joe Biden, made that accusation against Russia in a report that the State Department sent to Congress to inform them of the status of the New START, which was signed in 2010 and extended in 2021 for five more years.
Belarus is ready to send more aid to Russia in Ukraine
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said his country is “already ready” to offer more help to Russia in its war against Ukraine.
Speaking during a state visit to Zimbabwe, an ally of Russia, Lukashenko has emphasized that Russia You don’t need “any help” right now.
Athens rules out supplying Leopard tanks to Ukraine so as not to alter the Greek “defensive strategy”
The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, confirmed on Tuesday that the Mediterranean country will not supply Leopard model battle tanks to the Ukrainian Armed Forces due to tensions with Turkey.
“We will not ship Leopard 2 for the simple reason that they are absolutely necessary for our defensive strategy“, Mitsotakis has stated in the framework of a visit to Japan, according to state television ERT.
Erdogan will be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Ukraine
The Organization of Turkic States will propose that the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts for peace between Ukraine and Russia, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said today in Budapest.
“There is an initiative of the Council of Wise Men of the Organization of Turkic States which consists of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to President Erdoğan”, Szijjártó told the press after his meeting in Budapest with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Çavusoglu.
Turkey confirms contacts for Russia-Ukraine POW exchange
Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, confirmed on Tuesday that the country is maintaining contacts to promote the exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine and create a humanitarian corridor in the country, which has been at war for almost a year.
“We are talking about this, we continue to maintain contacts at various levels. Sometimes, in fact, small changes are introduced. The initiative to create a humanitarian corridor for the wounded is being addressed“, Kalin explained in statements to the TRT television network. Thus, he has indicated that Ankara hopes to “see results as soon as possible.”
For her part, the Russian Ombudsman, Tatiana Moskalkova, has stated that she hopes that Turkey will clarify “the road map” in question for the creation of this humanitarian corridor.
Previously, Erdogan had expressed that Ankara supports the implementation of this type of measure and has expressed hisu willingness to deal with the issue of the humanitarian corridor.
France to send 12 additional Caesar howitzers to Ukraine
After meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksiy Reznikov in Paris, Lecornu has detailed that the two discussed the Ukrainian pilot training to fly French fighter jets, but that a decision has not yet been made.
Ukraine will receive 140 main battle tanks in the ‘first wave’ of deliveries
Earlier this month, Ukraine obtained commitments from a group of Western countries to supply battle tanks to help the kyiv forces to fight Russia.
Putin approves creation of military training centers with Belarus
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the government’s proposal to sign an agreement with Belarus on the creation and operation of joint military training centersaccording to an order from the head of the Kremlin published on Tuesday.
Putin instructed the Russian Defense Ministry to initiate negotiations with his Belarusian counterpart with the participation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and sign an agreement to create the centers.
According to the draft agreement, the centers are intended, among other things, for increase the combat skills of the military personnel of Russia and Belarus.
UK rules out sending fighter jets to Ukraine because ‘it’s not practical’
The Government of the United Kingdom has ruled out on Tuesday the possibility of sending fighters to improve the military capacity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since it considers that “not practical” because of the long time required for training only to fly this type of aircraft.
Hours after the president of the United States, Joe Biden, confirmed that Washington is not considering supplying planes to Ukraine, a Downing Street spokesman explained that London will not do the same either with teams like the F35 or the Typhoonas reported by the British newspaper Guardian.
Russia announces the seizure of the Ukrainian town of Blahodatne
The Government of Russia has assured this Tuesday that its forces have taken control of the Ukrainian town of Blahodatne, in the Donetsk region, scene of its main military offensive in recent weeks. The spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, has indicated that the seizure of Blahodatne has taken place “as a result of successful offensive actions” by “assault detachments made up of volunteers with the support of operational and tactical aviation and the missile troops and artillery of the Southern Group”.
The President of Lithuania asks to send military planes to Ukraine: “You have to cross the red lines”
The President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda, has raised this Tuesday the possibility of sending military aircraft to Ukraine, as demanded from kyiv, despite the reluctance that leaders such as the American Joe Biden and the German Olaf Scholz have publicly expressed. “You have to cross the red lines,” Gitanas Nausėda said in a television interview in which he recalled that it would not be the first time that governments like Germany’s end up authorizing something to which they were initially reluctant.
Map of the situation in Ukraine from British Intelligence
The illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is continuing.
The map below is the latest Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 31 January 2023.
Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/9phnJRIFlA
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— Ministry of Defense ?? (@DefenceHQ) January 31, 2023
Russia tries to advance in the Donetsk region, according to London
Russian troops are trying to push into the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine and divert Ukrainian forces away from Bakhmut’s surroundings, according to the UK Ministry of Defense. “There is a realistic chance that Moscow will continue to make local gains. However, it is unlikely that it has enough troops to achieve it, ”says British Intelligence in its latest report, published this Tuesday.
Latest Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 31 January 2023
Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/LEQzjzWkCH
?? #StandWithUkraine ?? pic.twitter.com/DpJv5iBb6b
— Ministry of Defense ?? (@DefenceHQ) January 31, 2023
Data update of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”
plutarchTotal combat losses of the enemy from Feb 24 to Jan 31: pic.twitter.com/rU2fmg37qw
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) January 31, 2023
Ukraine figures at more than 127,000 Russian soldiers “liquidated” since the start of the invasion
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have claimed on Tuesday to have “liquidated” 850 Russian soldiers during the last day of fighting and have brought the total number of Russian soldiers killed since the start of the invasion to more than 127,000, a figure that contrasts with that provided by Moscow, which has not updated its casualty balance for weeks.
The Wagner Group uses its troops as “cannon fodder” and kills those who do not fight
The commanders of the Wagner Group, to which the latest Russian victories on the Ukrainian front are attributed, act with their men as if they were “cannon fodder”. This is how a former commander of this group, Andrey Medvedev, narrates it to the American chain from Oslo, where he seeks asylum after having defected from the group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch and a trusted man of President Vladimir Putin. “They rounded up those who did not want to fight and shot them in front of the new arrivals. They brought two prisoners who refused to go fight and they shot them in front of everyone and buried them right in the trenches that the apprentices had dug”alleges the 26-year-old ex-military.
