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Two months after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, weapons have been at the heart of this war in recent days, as more and more announcements from Western countries. Massive arms deliveries are regarded by Moscow as NATO’s commitment to a war against Russia.
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- German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall has sought government permission to deliver 100 used infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. The German government has indicated that it will soon decide whether or not to approve the delivery of these vehicles.
- For his part, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki acknowledged that his country had sent tanks to Ukraine, without specifying their number. Forty T-72 tanks were part of the equipment provided by Poland to Kyiv, according to Polish media. Mr. announced. Morawiecki on Saturday the transfer to kyiv of military equipment for worth approximately 1.5 billion euros.
- The UK will give Ukraine a small number of Stormer anti-aircraft missile armored vehicles, according to British Defense Minister Ben Wallace. He also said that the anti-aircraft Starstreak missiles promised to the Ukrainians were deployed and used for three weeks to defend themselves and their territory. So far, the UK has supplied Ukraine with 5,000 anti-tank missiles, five anti-aircraft missile systems with more than 100 missiles and 4.5 tonnes of explosives. Recently added for 100 million pounds of other military equipment, 120 armored vehicles, according to analysis provided by Ben Wallace.
- Ukraine can, if it has good equipment, to win the war against Russia, which Washington wants to be “weak” enough so that it no longer launches any intervention like it has done since Feb. 24, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said on Monday after returning from a visit to Kyiv with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
- On the ground, the Russians attacked some of Ukraine’s railway infrastructure to prevent the Ukrainian army from receiving the weapons provided by the Westerners. According to Russia’s RIA agency, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed last night that it used high-precision weapons to destroy six installations allowing the operation of railway lines used to supply weapons to Ukrainian forces.
- In Mariupol, Russia accused Ukrainian authorities of preventing civilians buried with Ukrainian fighters in the besieged Azovstal metallurgical complex from leaving, despite the military’s announcement of a ceasefire. Ukraine has warned that it will destroy negotiations with Russia if its last fighters in Azovstal are killed. Separately, Russia fired two Ukrainian drones near the Ukrainian border, local authorities said. This announcement came shortly after Russian authorities reported the burning of a large fuel depot in a Russian town 150 km from the border that serves as a logistics base for Moscow’s military offensive. The Russians did not specify the causes of this fire.
- Through the voice of its Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Moscow warned of the “real” danger of a third world war while ensuring that the Russians would continue the peace negotiations in kyiv even if they accused the Ukrainian side of pretend speak. For Mr. Lavrov, Western arms supplies to Ukraine mean thatNATO ay engaged in a war with Russia. He added that Moscow considers these weapons as legitimate targets. Storage warehouses in western Ukraine have been targeted more than once (by the Russian military). How will it be different?underlined Mr. Lavrov.
- Russia expelled 40 German diplomats on Monday in retaliation for a similar move Berlin took three weeks ago, believing that expelling its diplomats was not. justified.
- Our special envoy, Jean-Michel Leprince reported that the war in Ukraine had once again heated up tensions between Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox.
- At the judicial level, the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s office, Karim Khan, will participate in the European investigation into major crimes allegedly committed in Ukraine, the first, according to judicial cooperation agency Eurojust.
- On sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country’s economy was in the process of to stabilizeafter being hit by the salvos of Western punishments. Inflation has slowed, weekly price growth is approaching normal and in some products prices have started to fall.said Mr. Putin.
- At the diplomatic level, Europeans are trying to convince India to remove its neutrality vis-à-vis the war with Ukraine. The invasion of Russian forces in Ukraine threatens India’s regional security, said European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen in New Delhi. In particular, he raised the specter of a partnership between Beijing and Moscow to warn of the consequences of war across Europe. Russia and China appear to have formed an unlimited agreement (…) They have declared that their friendship has no borders (…) What can we expect from the new international relations that both have called for?, he was alarmed. India maintains relations with Russia, providing it with a large share of its weapons and energy needs. He refrained from openly condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and from participating in votes to that effect at the United Nations.
With information from France Media Agency, at Reuters
Source: Radio-Canada
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