Cover image: US President Joe Biden holds a speech at the Royal Castle after meeting Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, Ukraine, Tuesday February 21, 2023. MANDEL NGAN / AFP
- Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the strike on Kherson which killed at least five people, ensuring that the Russian army “kill without mercy” civilians in this town in southern Ukraine, recaptured by the Ukrainian army in November.
- Vladimir Putin gave his annual grand speech before the Russian political elite. In front of Parliament, he justified the invasion of Ukraine: “Russia intervened to defend the inhabitants of our historical regions, to ensure the security of our country, to eliminate a threat that came from the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine which came to power following the 2014 coup, the decision has taken to conduct a special military operation. » Putin said Moscow has made intense efforts to peacefully resolve the crisis that has prevailed in eastern Ukraine since 2014. He once again accused the West and NATO of being behind the conflict, and assured that Russia will continue its offensive: « We will settle step by step, carefully and methodically, the objectives that arise before us. »
- Washington denounces “absurdity” Vladimir Putin’s accusationswho claimed that the Western threat to Russia was the cause of the invasion of Ukraine.
- Russia suspends its participation in the New Start treaty, but does not withdraw from it. “A disappointing and irresponsible announcement”, according to Antony Blinken, the head of American diplomacy. NATO and the EU said they regretted this decision. Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, called on Russia “to reconsider its position”. Mr Putin also called on the Ministry of Defense and the federal atomic energy agency Rosatom to stand “ready for nuclear weapons testing” if the United States made it first.
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrived in kyiv by train from Poland. According to Italian media, Mme Meloni must first go to Boutcha and Irpine before meeting Mr. Zelensky.
- According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, 461 children have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the war almost a year ago, and 924 have been injured. The highest number of casualties was recorded in Donetsk Oblast in the east of the country, where 445 children were killed or injured. According to the prosecutor, these figures are provisional.
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