Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken out in favor of establishing joint military training centers with Belarus.Image: IMAGO / ITAR-TASS / imago images
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After more than eleven months of war in the Ukraine the Ukrainian army is again under massive pressure from Russian attacks. For example, the city of Cherson in the south and Kharkiv in the east are facing heavy shelling.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyj is therefore calling for weapons aid again, but is confident of victory despite the fierce fighting. meanwhile has Russia because of the planned Western tank deliveries to the Ukraine, declared peace negotiations to be hopeless.
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31 January
12:42 p.m .: Putin wants to build military training centers with Belarus
Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken out in favor of establishing joint military training centers with Belarus. In a decree published Tuesday, Putin instructed defense and foreign ministers to start talks with the neighboring country and sign an agreement to set up the training centers.
Fears are growing that Minsk could enter the Ukraine conflict and fight alongside Moscow. Belarus has already allowed Russia to use Belarusian territory as a launch pad for last year’s Ukraine offensive. Despite increased military cooperation with the Russian government, Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko insisted that he would not send his soldiers to Ukraine.
10:55 a.m.: Human Rights Watch condemns use of landmines
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized the widespread use of banned landmines in Ukraine. “Ukraine should investigate the alleged use by its own military of thousands of rocket-launched anti-personnel mines in and around the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum, which were scattered during the Russian occupation of the area,” HRW said in a statement on Tuesday. Isjum was occupied by Russian troops from April to September. At the same time, the Russian military has been criticized for laying such mines.
Kyiv: A Ukrainian soldier walks in a field near a post warning of landmines.Image: dpa / Natacha Pisarenko
According to HRW, it is about the scattering of so-called anti-aircraft mines by rockets or artillery. These mines couldn’t distinguish between soldiers and civilians, explained Steve Goose, the department’s director weapons at the organization. “Russian forces have repeatedly used anti-personnel mines and committed atrocities across the country. However, this does not justify Ukraine’s use of these banned weapons.” The mines would result in the displacement of civilians, hampering agriculture and the delivery of humanitarian goods.
7.13 a.m .: Macron does not rule out the delivery of fighter jets in principle
French President Emmanuel Macron does not rule out the delivery of fighter jets to Ukraine in principle. “In principle, nothing is forbidden,” he said on Monday in The Hague when asked whether France may supply fighter jets to Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden have differing views on fighter jet deliveries to Ukraine.Image: www.imago-images.de / IMAGO/Ting Shen – Pool
However, Macron set some conditions against which Ukrainian requests would be assessed on a case-by-case basis: First of all, Kyiv must make an “official request”. In addition, the weapons should not have an escalating effect and should not touch Russian soil, but should only be used for defense. Nor should the French army be weakened by arms deliveries.
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12:31 a.m .: USA will not deliver F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine
the USA will not supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, according to President Joe Biden. When asked by a reporter whether the US would make F-16s available to Ukraine, Biden replied “no” in Washington Monday. So far, the US government has not ruled out any specific weapon system. It will be “discussed very carefully,” it said last Friday.
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Russia has produced a first series of Poseidon torpedoes, according to state media. Observers call it a “doomsday drone” and consider it one of the “most inhumane weapons”.
Russia has produced a first series of Poseidon torpedoes, reports Russian state media this week, citing a source close to the Russian military. The underwater weapons designed to create radioactive, tsunami-like waves would soon be sent to the Belgorod submarine. Belgorod is the world’s largest submarine and the first carrier of underwater nuclear torpedoes.
