“This is exactly what we need”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday evening welcomed the payment of a new tranche of military aid announced earlier by the United States. Estimated at more than 3 billion dollars (2.81 billion euros), this aid includes in particular 50 armored infantry of the Bradley type and dozens of other armored vehicles. Follow the news of the day on Saturday January 7 in the file of the war in Ukraine live on franceinfo.
The “highest tranche of military aid” ever promised by Washington. These three billion dollars, which include the supply of Bradley armored infantry vehicles, personnel carriers and howitzers, constitute the “highest tranche of military aid in total value that we have pledged so far”welcomed Laura Cooper, deputy deputy secretary of Defense, in charge of Russia at the Pentagon.
Clashes continue in Bakhmout. Artillery duels continued on Friday in Bakhmut, the frontline hotspot in eastern Ukraine, and shelling in other areas despite Moscow’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire of 36 hours.
kyiv does not believe in the Moscow ceasefire. Ukraine questioned the sincerity of the Russian initiative, seeing it as a “act of propaganda”. According to its president Volodymyr Zelensky, it is a “apology in order to at least stop the advance of our troops in the Donbass”a vast industrial region in the east, and to supply equipment and ammunition to Russian soldiers, while making them “bring closer” Ukrainian positions.