2024-01-30 13:48:06
► The EU will support Ukraine with or without Hungary
The European Union will find a solution to support Ukraine, regardless of the position of Budapest which blocks important aid to Kiev, declared Tuesday January 30 the new Polish Prime Minister, two days before the European summit.
“Everything indicates that, one way or another, we will find a solution, with or without (Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor) Orban, to support Ukraine, but it would be better, and we would all feel better then , that the unity of Europe is preserved in this process”said Donald Tusk.
► Emmanuel Macron calls on Europe to make “courageous” decisions to “accelerate” its aid to Ukraine
Europe must take “fair and courageous decisions”even “innovative”in the coming months for “accelerate” and amplify its military support for Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday during his visit to Sweden.
“We must be ready to act, defend and support Ukraine whatever happens”particularly during the American presidential election in November, he insisted in a speech at the Karlberg Military Academy, believing that the ” cost “ of a Russian victory would be “too high for us”.
► Russian night attacks kill at least two people in Ukraine
At least two civilians were killed overnight in Ukraine in air and artillery attacks led by Russia, which for its part was targeted by around twenty Ukrainian drones.
The Ukrainian army said it had shot down only 15 of 35 Russian explosive drones in the South and none of the two missiles that targeted the north, east, center and south of the country. Russia, for its part, claimed to have destroyed 21 Ukrainian drones over the annexed peninsula. “from Crimea (11 drones) and the regions of Belgorod (5 drones), Bryansk (3 drones), Kaluga (1 drone) and Tula (1 drone)”according to the Ministry of Defense.
Furthermore, “the enemy directed part of its attack drones on the territories of the front line, trying to strike energy and fuel infrastructure, civilian and military sites”added the air force, without detailing the damage caused by the twenty drones which were not shot down.
Ukraine also indicated that two S-300 missiles had been fired against the Donetsk region in the east of the country, killing at least one person in Myrnohrad, according to local authorities. “A 38-year-old woman was killed in the attack as she was cycling home from work. A 50-year-old woman was injured »said the Donetsk prosecutor’s office in a press release.
► EU: preliminary agreement to use income from frozen Russian assets
The European Union has reached agreement on the first stage of a plan aimed at allocating revenues generated by frozen Russian assets to the reconstruction of Ukraine, announced Belgium, which holds the biannual presidency of the Council of the EU.
This step advances a long and legally delicate debate over how to use Russian state assets that were blocked by Western institutions almost two years ago. The EU has frozen some 200 billion euros of the assets of the Central Bank of Russia. Some 90% of these funds are managed by Euroclear, an international fund deposit organization established in Belgium.
► Russia: imprisoned opponent Kara-Mourza says he was placed in solitary confinement
Russian opponent Vladimir Kara-Mourza, sentenced to 25 years in prison, wrote that he had been placed in solitary confinement for at least four months, after his relatives and several Western chancelleries became concerned about his situation.
His lawyer, Maria Eismont, forwarded a letter from Vladimir Kara-Mourza published Tuesday by the media Novaya Gazetain which he indicates having been transferred from penal colony No. 6 in Omsk, Siberia, to another, No. 7, in the same city. “On Friday, I was summoned without warning to a “commission” for yet another “malicious offense”, when I did not get up at the signal “Stand up!” (in his cell, Editor’s note) which they did not sound”he wrote.
► Ukraine: Blinken calls on Congress to act, or everything will be “compromised”
The head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken considered it crucial Monday that Congress approves a new budget envelope for Ukraine, otherwise everything that will have been accomplished “will be compromised”.
“Without this, everything that Ukrainians have achieved and that we have helped them achieve will be in jeopardy”Antony Blinken said during a press conference alongside NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
The latter, who is in Washington for a series of interviews, also pleaded for maintaining aid to Ukraine, stressing that “Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine was approaching its second anniversary” and that one “Russia’s victory would only embolden Iran, North Korea and China”.
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