Ukraine accuses IOC of being a ‘promoter of war’
Will the Russian athletes participate in the Paris Olympic Games? Volodymyr Zelensky asked Emmanuel Macron on January 24 not to accept Russian athletes during the competition which will start on July 26, 2024.
In the process, the IOC communicated on a roadmap for the integration, under a neutral banner, of Russian athletes in the events.
“The IOC is a promoter of war, murder and destruction. The IOC happily watches Russia destroy Ukraine and then offers Russia a platform to promote genocide” of Ukrainians, the adviser tweeted. of the Mykhaïlo Podoliak presidency, personally targeting Thomas Bach, the German boss of the Committee.
Since the beginning of the war, no international sporting event has been organized or supported in Russia or Belarus and no national symbol of these two countries is displayed during a sporting event.
However, the sanctions do not prohibit Russian athletes from taking part in competitions, even if they have been banned from certain sporting events, such as the FIFA World Cup, the Champions League or Wimbledon.
Germany closes door on delivery of fighter jets
Now that Ukraine has obtained guarantees on heavy tanks, it hopes to receive combat aircraft, in order to reinforce its air force, which is very inferior to its Russian opponent.
Since the start of the conflict, kyiv has been asking for Russian-made Mig-29s from NATO. An option rejected by the allies because “potentially dangerous” because the Ukrainian army could use this equipment to strike Russian territory.
If the export of Mirage 2000 has indeed been on the menu of discussions between France and Ukraine, Paris is for the moment opposed to the idea of acceding to the Ukrainian request.
On Sunday evening, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told him that his country would not send planes to Ukraine to avoid a “war between Russia and NATO”.
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Ukraine urges its allies because “in August or September it will be too late”
Guest of BFMTV Friday evening, the ambassador of Ukraine in France, Vadym Omelchenko, had specified that 321 heavy tanks were promised in kyiv to stand up to the Russian soldiers.
“We need this help as soon as possible. If it waited until August or September it would be too late,” he said, while delivery times vary by country but could take months or weeks.
“Some countries need to do maintenance work, others decide for logistics, others are waiting to receive other models to give those they give,” he said.
Volodymyr Zelensky demands “new weapons options” from his allies
After cannons, armored vehicles and heavy tanks, will Western countries deliver combat aircraft to kyiv? During his speech on Sunday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked NATO countries to speed up their supplies to kyiv and to “open up new armament options”.
“Russia wants the war to drag on and exhaust our forces. So we have to make time our weapon,” he said, conceding that the situation on the front was “very difficult”.
In Bakhmut, Vuhledar and other areas of the Donetsk region, Russian attacks are constant. There are constant attempts to break through our defences,” he said.
NATO chief asks Seoul to ‘step up’ aid
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on South Korea on Monday to “intensify” its military aid to Ukraine, suggesting that it revise its policy of not supplying arms to countries at war.
“If we believe in freedom, in democracy, if we don’t want autocracies and totalitarianism to prevail, then they need weapons,” he said during his visit to Seoul.
South Korea is a growing global arms exporter and recently signed contracts to sell several hundred tanks to European countries, including Poland.
But its laws prevent it from selling it to warring nations, even though Seoul has still provided non-lethal equipment and humanitarian aid to kyiv.
The electricity war for the survival of villages in the Donetsk region
In the region of Donetsk, in the south-east of Ukraine, another war is taking place beside the front: that of electricity. The repairers are trying to restore access to power for the inhabitants of the bombarded villages.
“We work in villages where civilians are dying every day. There is never any guarantee of being safe,” Vitali Olexondrevich, regional director of the energy company DTEK, told BFMTV.
Russian strikes on Kherson and Kharkiv leave at least 4 dead
Russian bombardments on the city of Kherson, in the south of the country, on Sunday killed at least three people and injured six. “The Russian army brutally shelled Kherson all day… A hospital, a post office, a bus station were damaged,” denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Two nurses were injured in hospital. In total, six injuries and three deaths are reported.
The front in southern Ukraine, where the Russian army had to abandon Kherson in November, has recently been much calmer than that in the eastern part of the country, where fierce fighting is taking place, but the shelling from both sides Others never stopped and fighting resumed this week in the Zaporizhia region.
In Kharkiv, in the east of the country, the governor of the military administration of the region reported that a Russian strike on Sunday hit “a four-storey residential building”.
“Fierce” fighting underway for control of Vougledar
Hello everyone and welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the war in Ukraine, 340 days after the start of the Russian invasion.
The weekend was marked by new fighting described by the Ukrainian army spokesman for the eastern zone as “fierce” in Vougledar, south-eastern Ukraine. Moscow is already announcing its forthcoming victory, contested by kyiv.
“The encirclement and future liberation” of this locality will “change the balance of power on the front” by paving the way for an offensive towards Pokrovsk and Kurakhové, localities located further north, judged the leader of separatists from Donetsk, Denis Pushilin.
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