Cover image: In the center of Bakhmout, targeted by Russian strikes. Donetsk region, Ukraine, February 14, 2023. Libkos / AP
- Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), gathered in Brussels for the week, embarked on a logistics race on Tuesday 14 February to speed up their deliveries of arms and ammunition to Ukraine. “The priority, the urgency, is to provide the Ukrainians with the armaments they have been promised to maintain their ability to defend themselves”insisted Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of the Alliance.
- The possible delivery of combat aircraft, claimed by kyiv, remains a subject of debate. It’s not “the most urgent question but a discussion is underway”assured Jens Stoltenberg.
- The United States announced on Tuesday that it had awarded an arms contract for more than half a billion dollars to produce 155mm shells for delivery from March to kyiv.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday reported a situation “extremely difficult” in eastern Ukraine: Russian troops have gained ground, particularly near Bakhmout. In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, “ it is literally a battle for every meter of Ukrainian land”Mr. Zelensky said during his evening video address.
- Russia denied on Tuesday all “Moldova destabilization plan”, Moldovan President Maïa Sandu having accused Moscow the day before of preparing “violent attacks” in his country, a pro-Western neighbor of Ukraine.
- Emmanuel Macron will receive the head of Chinese diplomacy, Wang Yi, in Paris on Wednesday to discuss the war in Ukraine and cooperation in the face of the climate crisis, at a time when tensions are once again heightened between China and the United States.
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