Cover image: A heart-shaped decoration with the word “thank you” in Ukrainian hangs from a stovepipe in the shelter of the State Border Guard Service in Bakhmut on February 16, 2023. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP
- Three men and two women were killed, and nine people were injured, Thursday, after a Russian bombardment in a residential area of Bakhmout, in eastern Ukraine, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk urged the 6,000 residents still there to leave the besieged city.
- More than 150 government representatives meet in Germany on Friday for the Munich Annual Conference, dedicated to international security issues. Western leaders – including French President Emmanuel Macron, US Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg – should renew their commitment to support Kiev for as long as it takes to repel Russian aggression , both financially and militarily.
- Yevgeny Prigojine, the boss of Russia’s paramilitary Wagner, said Bakhmout, the epicenter of the fighting in eastern Ukraine, would not fall before “March or April”taking on the « military bureaucracy », which, he says, is holding back the offensive.
- A third French volunteer fighter was killed Thursday on the Ukrainian battlefield, announced two military sources to the Monde. Andreas Gallozzi, in his twenties, was killed near Svatove, a town in the Luhansk region in the east of the country, while facing Russian forces.
- The United States and its allies are preparing the adoption of new sanctions against Russia on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, a senior American official said on Thursday.
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