Nearly eleven months after the start of the Russian invasion, the UN Security Council is due to meet again on Friday January 13 at 9 p.m. (French time) to discuss the war in Ukraine. Follow our live.
Volodymyr Zelensky promises ammunition and “everything necessary” to defend Soledar and Bakhmout. Ukraine’s president promised on Thursday to provide “all the necessary in a fast and uninterrupted way” to the soldiers resisting the Russian assaults in Soledar and Bakhmout, two towns in the east of the country that Russia is trying to conquer at all costs to change the course of the war, even as thehe situation in Soledar has been for a few days “difficult” for the Ukrainian army.
Five years in prison for a Russian soldier who refused to fight. On Thursday, a Russian court sentenced a contract soldier to five years in prison for refusing to fight in Ukraine. The trial took place at the military court in Ufa, in the republic of Bashkortostan (Urals). not wanting “to participate in the special military operation” Russian in Ukraine, Marsel Kandarov, 24, did not appear in May at his place of duty, said the unified press service of the courts of Bashkortostan. Found, he was found guilty of having evaded his military service for more than a month during a period of mobilization.
Upcoming meeting of European commissioners with the Ukrainian government. More than half of the members of the European Commission are due to travel to kyiv on February 2 for a meeting with members of the Ukrainian government, on the eve of an EU-Ukraine summit, a spokeswoman for the executive said on Thursday. European. The EU-Ukraine summit, bringing together Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Presidents of the European Council Charles Michel and of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen, is scheduled for February 3 to discuss in particular European financial and military support in the context of the war. triggered by Russia.
