Cover image: A soldier patrols in front of a Patriot air defense system during military training at the airport in Warsaw, Poland, February 7, 2023. KACPER PEMPEL / REUTERS
- Since the beginning of 2023, the United States has trained more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers in combat, according to a report mentioned by CNN. In total, since the start of the conflict a year ago, Washington and its allies have now trained more than four thousand members of the Ukrainian army, according to a senior Pentagon official who also said that the training of Ukrainian troops for the use of the American Patriot missile system is coming to an end soon.
- The battle rages for control of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. « The intensity of the fighting is only increasing”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday evening, as the martyred city is now gripped by Russian forces to the north and south.
- The Russian military reported on Tuesday that it shot down several Ukrainian drones that targeted civilian infrastructure, without doing any damage. For the first time, one of them crashed in the Moscow region.
- The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency still worried about the situation at the Zaporizhia power plant. The IAEA experts who have been on site since the beginning of January reported having heard about twenty “detonations” Monday afternoon, “apparently close to the plant, which is located on the front line of an active combat zone”.
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