The Russian army claimed, Thursday February 22, to have taken the village of Pobeda, in eastern Ukraine, a new claim for conquest a few days after that of the town of Avdiïvka, in the face of a Ukrainian army which suffers from weapons shortages.“Units of the Southern grouping of forces liberated the village of Pobeda”, said the Russian Defense Ministry about this locality, not far from the destroyed town of Marinka, although this sector of the front had been largely unchanged for months. Follow our live stream.
kyiv accuses Moscow of using North Korean missiles against civilian targets.“We are talking about ballistic missiles of the Hwasong-11 (KN-23/24) type (…) According to our investigation, Russian troops fired more than 20 [de ces] North Korean weapons on Ukraine“, declared the SBU (Ukrainian security services) in a statement, specifying that these strikes killed “at least 24 civilians” and left more than a hundred injured.
The international community displays its divisions at the G20 in Rio. On the first day of the G20, Brazilian Minister Mauro Vieira denounced Wednesday the UN Security Council’s blockage on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. He denounced “the unacceptable paralysis of the Security Council”.
Green light from EU states to control imports from Ukraine. The States of the European Union approved on Wednesday the renewal of the exemption from customs duties for Ukrainian agricultural imports, but accompanied by “safeguard mechanisms” strengthened to limit their impact, at the heart of recent farmers’ protests across Europe.