2024-01-16 14:24:06
This Tuesday, January 16, Volodymyr Zelensky is expected at the Davos Forum – a first since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. After almost two years of war, Ukraine must remobilize its European and American allies.
Information to remember
⇒ Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory continue
⇒ Zelensky meets Blinken at the Davos Forum
⇒ Switzerland will organize a “summit” on peace in Ukraine
The United States will “maintain” its “support” for Ukraine
“We are committed to maintaining our support for Ukraine and we are working very closely with Congress” on the subject. With these words, American Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed, this Tuesday, the American promise of aid to Ukraine, after a meeting in Davos with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
And Anthony Blinken added: “I know that our European colleagues will do the same thing.” The Ukrainian president thanked the Biden administration and the “bipartisan support” in the US Congress.
He notably mentioned the American Patriot system, which helped Ukraine in its air defense against Russian missile attacks.
Ukraine needs ‘predictable funding’ to win war
Ukraine needs “predictable financing” in 2024 and beyond to win the war, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted on Tuesday, warning against the risk of fatigue among Kiev’s allies in the face of to Russian aggression.
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“Ukraine can win this war,” she said from Davos. “But we must continue to give it the means to resist,” she added.
Ukraine orders evacuation of civilians from around 20 villages in the northeast
Ukraine on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of 26 villages in the Kharkiv region, in the northeast of the country, due to repeated assaults by the Russian army in the area.
“In view of the situation, we are implementing a compulsory evacuation of the population of the communities of Kindrachivska and Kourylivska in the Kupiansk district,” regional governor Oleg Synegoubov indicated on social networks, listing the names of the 26 localities concerned where 3,043 people live there, including 279 children.
Several Ukrainian drones neutralized by Russia
Russia said on Tuesday that it had neutralized several Ukrainian drones overnight over its border regions with Ukraine, describing these attacks as “terrorist”. “Five Ukrainian drones were destroyed and three others were intercepted over the Voronezh region and four more drones were intercepted over the Belgorod region,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
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A little girl born in 2013 was injured by debris from a downed drone, which fell on her building, said the governor of the Voronezh region, Alexander Gusev.
Drone attacks on Russian territory, very far from the Ukrainian front, have increased since last summer when kyiv launched a major counter-offensive to liberate its occupied territories, which ultimately failed.
Zelensky meets Blinken at the Davos Forum
Volodymyr Zelensky is making this year, for the first time, a trip in person to the World Economic Forum in Davos, this Tuesday. The Ukrainian president leads his country’s delegation in person, although he had only intervened by video the previous two years. This time he will be in the official gallery at 1:15 p.m.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised on Tuesday continued American support for Ukraine, after a meeting in Davos with President Volodymyr Zelensky and while negotiations in the US Congress on the validation of an aid package are slipping. .
Use of frozen Russian assets to help kyiv must be a “collective decision” by the G7
On the sidelines of the Forum, the United States special representative for the economic reconstruction of Ukraine, Penny Pritzker, estimated this Monday that the use of frozen Russian assets to help Kiev should be a “collective decision” of the G7 . As a reminder, Ukraine has asked its Western allies to seize the $300 billion in Russian assets frozen since the invasion of its country on February 24, 2022, to finance its reconstruction.
“I think there is enormous hope that Russian sovereign assets will become an easy source of financing,” Penny Pritzker said at Ukraine House, adding that the G7 had asked its ministers to study such a possibility.
The special envoy of French President Emmanuel Macron for the reconstruction of Ukraine, Pierre Heilbronn, recalled, during this conference, that two thirds of the 300 billion dollars were concentrated in Europe.
Switzerland will organize a “summit” on peace in Ukraine
Switzerland has agreed to organize a high-level “summit” on peace at Ukraine’s request, the presidents of the two countries announced Monday at a press conference in Kehrsatz, near the Swiss capital Bern. . “As for the countries that want to participate, we are open to everyone, to all countries in the world that respect our sovereignty and our territorial integrity. So we can deduce who will be invited,” declared Volodymyr Zelensky, suggesting that the Russia would not be welcome at this summit.
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