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Russia has denounced an incursion by “saboteurs” from Ukraine and spoke of a “terrorist attack”. “Measures were taken to destroy the terrorists,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in Moscow on Thursday. President Vladimir Putin will be “continuously informed” about the development of the situation. He emphasized: “We are talking about a terrorist attack”.
Russian authorities and the FSB secret service had previously reported that a group of Ukrainian “saboteurs” had entered the Briansk region on the Ukrainian border. The Russian army is trying to “eliminate” the “saboteurs”.
Kyiv calls allegations “deliberate provocation”
Ukraine has dismissed Russian accusations of incursion by Ukrainian “saboteurs” into Russian territory as “deliberate provocation” from Moscow. “The story about a sabotage group in Russia is a classic deliberate provocation,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Podoliak said on Twitter on Thursday. “Russia wants to scare its people to justify its attack on another country and increasing poverty after a year of war,” he added.
In Copenhagen, the famous statue of the Little Mermaid has been daubed with the colors of the Russian flag. The stone on which the mermaid sits on a promenade in the Danish capital was painted white, blue and red on Thursday night. According to their own statements, the Danish police have initiated investigations into the “case of vandalism” on the landmark.
The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen.
Photo: AFP
The bronze statue of the little mermaid depicts the character from the fairy tale of the same name by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. Since it was erected in 1913, it has repeatedly been the victim of vandalism – the little mermaid was beheaded in 1964 and 1998, and even blown up in 2003 blown up. The statue has also been sprayed and painted several times, most recently in 2020 with the enigmatic lettering “Racist Fish”.
The fact that former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (1998-2005) was close to Russia did not result in party punishment for the Social Democrats.
The arbitration commission of the SPD district of Hanover rejected applications from several SPD branches in the second instance in a decision that was available to the German Press Agency on Thursday. Several media had previously reported about it.
According to the decision, it cannot be “determined with sufficient certainty” that Schröder violated statutes, principles or the party order or was guilty of an dishonorable act. “Perhaps top German politicians have misjudged the dangers of dependence on Russian energy supplies over the past 25 years.” But that also applies to other politicians from the SPD and other parties. “To accuse the opponent of such a misjudgment, however, goes too far.”
Proximity to Russia has not resulted in a party penalty for former Chancellor Schröder.
Photo: Keystone
The SPD branches that had applied for the appeal could now apply for an appeal to the SPD Federal Arbitration Commission. However, it is considered rather unlikely that a further appeal would be allowed after two acquittals in the first instance.
Schröder was satisfied with the decision. He let the star tell about confidants that he was “not surprised” by the decision. It was “legally sound and convincing, as well as politically consistent,” said the ex-Chancellor.
Schröder is considered a close friend of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, whom he once described as a “flawless democrat”. He worked for Russian energy companies for years. With regard to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Schröder stated that it was Russia’s responsibility to end the war. However, the ties to Russia should not be completely severed.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has urged China not to provide weapons to Russia in the Ukraine war. “Do not deliver weapons to the aggressor Russia,” said Scholz in a government statement on Thursday in the Bundestag. Rather, Beijing must use its influence on Moscow “to urge the withdrawal of Russian troops.”
A Russian-born Swiss doctor and midwife with at least two of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin’s children died in Ticino. Natalia Thiebaud Kondratieva, 63, died on February 24, the anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine.
The cause of death was not disclosed in her partner’s ad. Most recently, however, she was in the care of cancer specialists, as reported by the British newspaper “Daily Mail”.
Among other things, she was treated by Federal Councilor Ignazio Cassis’ wife and radiologist Paola Rodoni Cassis, as the obituary showed. Kondratieva was cremated the day after her death.
Four days after her death, media revealed that Kondratieva was the head of the medical team that attended the birth of Putin’s children, 70, with former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, 39. The midwife is said to have attended the births of at least two children of Putin’s Turner lover in Lugano in 2015 and in 2019.
The Kremlin chief has not disclosed the existence of children with Kabaeva to the Russian population.
More on this: Russian state secret – Putin’s son was born in Ticino
At the G20 meeting of economic powers, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Russia to end the war of aggression against Ukraine. «Stop this war. Stop violating our international order. Stop the bombing of Ukrainian cities and civilians,” she demanded on Thursday at meetings of the G20 foreign ministers in India’s capital, New Delhi, according to information from delegation circles. She turned directly to Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Annalena Baerbock on the occasion of the UN Security Council meeting on February 24 in New York.
Photo: Keystone
“It is good that you are here in the hall to listen,” Baerbock said to the Russian minister. «Stop the war. Not in a month or a year, but today.” She added, “Because every family that loses a father, a brother, a mother, a child loses a whole world.” There is no right for the fittest to attack their little neighbors. At the G20 meeting last year, Lavrov left the group of foreign ministers so that he would not have to listen to criticism.
Baerbock pointed out that there are different perspectives on the war in Ukraine among the G20 members. “But what unites us all is that there is not a single place in the world where the Russian war has had positive consequences.” This includes Russia itself. This is shown by thousands of people who left Russia and the country’s economic data.
She also expressed concern that Russia wanted to suspend the “New Start” treaty to reduce nuclear weapons. Baerbock urged Lavrov to resume dialogue with the US and return to full implementation of the treaty.
Major challenges such as the Covid pandemic can only be overcome together. Germany is approaching the G20 partners so that they can do what the group was invented for: to give the world hope that the challenges of our time can be solved. The G20 includes large industrialized and emerging countries, including Russia and China.
The situation on the fronts in Ukraine is certainly difficult, but according to President Zelensky it is “under control”. That should sound reassuring. An overview of the events of the night and an outlook on the day.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian armed forces have the situation on the country’s fronts under control. Nevertheless, the military reports of continued Russian attacks in the east of the country – with a focus on Bakhmut. The foreign ministers of the G20 group of leading economic powers want to discuss the future of international conflict resolution in New Delhi on Thursday.
Zelensky accuses Russians of “deliberate terror”.
“We have every area at the front under control,” said Zelenski on Wednesday in his nightly video speech. However, the people behind the fronts would continue to suffer from the Russian attacks. “Deliberate terror,” Zelensky said of the Russian artillery attacks on towns and villages behind the fronts in southern and eastern Ukraine.
“In most of our country, where we have managed to provide relative safety, they (residents) may not understand what life is like for people living in the border areas with Russia and in the south of our country,” said Zelensky. Although the people there are not at the front, they are still directly involved in the war. “Where Russia is constantly trying to destroy everything the people have, constantly – and that’s no exaggeration.”
Kiev: Russian attacks near Bakhmut continue
According to reports from the Ukrainian general staff, the Russian military continued its attacks in eastern Ukraine unabated on Wednesday. The city of Bakhmut, which had been fought over for weeks, was once again the focus of the heaviest fighting, as the Ukrainian army command announced in its daily situation report.
Russian units are already pressuring the town of Bakhmut from three sides.
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A series of Russian artillery and air strikes was also reported from around the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. It was said that there were also civilian victims in rocket attacks. No further details were given. The Ukrainian air defense shot down two so-called kamikaze drones made in Iran in the region.
Russian attacks were also reported from Kremenchuk, southeast of Kiev. The governor of the Poltava region, Dmitro Luni, reported that “civilian and critical infrastructure objects” were hit near Kremenchuk. For the time being, he did not provide any further information on possible victims or damage.
Reports of explosions in Crimea
Several explosions were registered in Russian-occupied Crimea on Wednesday evening. The detonations were heard in Yalta, Bakhchisarai and Gurzuf in the south of the peninsula, social media reported. There were no official statements on this.
EU could increase incentives for ammunition supplies to Ukraine
Countries like Germany could get significantly more EU money in the future if they quickly deliver urgently needed ammunition to Ukraine. In a discussion paper published on Wednesday, the EU Commission proposes that member states reimburse up to 90 percent of the costs from EU funds in the event of prompt deliveries. So far, the reimbursement rate for such applications has usually been significantly lower.
The states stopped ten, in particular to quickly provide artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155 millimeters, according to the paper that is available to the German Press Agency and about which the “Spiegel” initially reported. The transfer must be made from existing stocks or orders pending delivery.
The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell had already called on the defense ministers of the EU states to expand ammunition deliveries last week. The background was concerns that Ukraine could soon lack urgently needed types of ammunition.
According to a background paper from Estonia, Russia fires an average of 20,000 to 60,000 rounds of artillery ammunition per day, while Ukraine only fires 2,000 to 7,000 rounds per day.
That brings Thursday
A good year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the foreign ministers of the G20 group of leading economic powers want to discuss the future of international conflict resolution this Thursday in New Delhi. Before the meeting, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for a clear signal against Russia’s war of aggression.
It is eagerly awaited whether Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will cause a scandal at the meeting in New Delhi, as at the recent G20 foreign ministers’ meeting on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali. At that time he left the hall after his speech and no longer listened to the comments of his critics.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian armed forces have the situation on the country’s fronts under control. “We have every area at the front under control,” said Zelenskyj on Wednesday in his nightly video speech. However, the people behind the fronts would continue to suffer from the Russian attacks. “Deliberate terror,” Zelenskyy said of the Russian artillery attacks on towns and villages behind the fronts in southern and eastern Ukraine.
“In most of our country, where we have managed to provide relative safety, they (residents) may not understand what life is like for people living in the border areas with Russia and in the south of our country,” said Zelensky. Although the people there are not at the front, they are still directly involved in the war. “Where Russia is constantly trying to destroy everything the people have, constantly – and that’s no exaggeration.”
The Ukrainian armed forces are doing their best to restore security to those who have to endure these constant Russian attacks. “Every movement of our flag forward will increase the security of our people.”
Survived a “very difficult” winter
Zelensky also praised his country for surviving a “very difficult” winter in the face of systematic Russian attacks on energy facilities and the cold and darkness that followed. “We got over this winter,” said Selenski on Wednesday in his daily speech.
“It was a very difficult time, and every Ukrainian experienced this difficulty, but we were still able to supply Ukraine with energy and heat,” Zelenskyy said. The head of state added that there is still “a threat to the energy system”.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba had previously stated that Ukraine had survived the most difficult winter in its history. With the beginning of spring on March 1, Ukraine survived the “winter terror” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland has described the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, as a “war criminal”. The US Department of Justice is helping Kiev investigate allegations of war crimes since Russia invaded Ukraine, Garland said in a US Senate hearing on Wednesday, including crimes attributed to the Wagner group.
“In my opinion, Mr. Prigozhin, who is in charge of this matter, is a war criminal,” said the justice minister. Perhaps it is inappropriate to say this before all the evidence is in place. “But I think we have more than enough evidence at this point to justify my feelings,” Garland continued. What the Wagner group is doing in Ukraine is “incomprehensible”.
“I think we have more than enough evidence at this point to justify my feelings.”: US Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Foto: Jacquelyn Martin (Keystone)
Prigozhin, 61, was an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin; Most recently, he made people sit up and take notice with extremely sharp criticism of the Russian army leadership. He accused the Russian general staff of treason because his mercenaries fighting in Ukraine were being denied ammunition.
At the moment, Wagner units are mainly deployed in the fighting around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which has been going on for months. In recent years, Russian Wagner mercenaries have been deployed in many other conflict regions, including Syria and several African countries.
In January, the United States officially classified the Wagner group as a “transnational criminal organization,” putting it on a par with Italian mafia gangs and other organized crime groups.
Ukraine can count on urgently needed ammunition in the Russian war of aggression: the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is proposing to the member states an “extraordinary aid package of one billion euros” that is to be used to supply 155 millimeter caliber guns, according to a paper which is available to the news agency AFP in Brussels. The EU countries should therefore hand over the guns from their own stocks to Ukraine. In a second step, Europe’s warehouses are to be replenished through a joint order.
The caliber 155 millimeters corresponds to the NATO standard for artillery. Such guns are used, among other things, in the Panzerhaubitze 2000, which Germany has supplied to the Ukraine. The delivery of ammunition to Kiev is “urgent,” according to Borrell’s presentation for the informal meeting of EU defense ministers in Stockholm next week.
Borrell proposes joint ordering of new guns
The supplying EU countries are to be compensated from the so-called peace facility. So far, the member states have delivered weapons worth 3.6 billion euros to Ukraine from outside the EU budget. Including the ammunition, it would then be 4.6 billion euros.
To close the “gaps” that have emerged in Europe’s armies, Borrell proposes a joint order for new guns through the European Defense Agency (EDA). According to Borrell’s paper, 25 member countries and Norway have expressed an interest in this. The advantage is “significant savings” compared to individual orders to the defense industry, emphasizes the EU foreign policy representative – similar to the joint procurement of vaccines in the corona pandemic.
In a third step, according to Borrell’s ideas, the EU must significantly increase its armaments production. Funds from the EU budget are also to be used for this purpose.
According to reports from the Ukrainian general staff, the Russian military continued its attacks in eastern Ukraine unabated on Wednesday. The city of Bakhmut, which had been fought over for weeks, was once again the focus of the heaviest fighting, the Ukrainian army command said in its daily situation report. Russian units are already pressuring the city from three sides.
A series of Russian artillery and air strikes was also reported from around the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. It was said that there were also civilian victims in rocket attacks. No further details were given. The Ukrainian air defense shot down two so-called kamikaze drones made in Iran in the region.
Russian attacks were also reported from Kremenchuk, southeast of Kiev. The governor of the Poltava region, Dmytro Luni, reported that “civilian and critical infrastructure objects” were hit near Kremenchuk. For the time being, he did not provide any further information on possible victims or damage.
According to Russia, it has repelled a “massive drone attack” by Ukraine on the annexed peninsula of Crimea. Six drones were shot down and four others were “disabled” by electronic means, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Russian authorities reported the destruction of several combat drones over their own territory – including one in the region of the capital Moscow. According to the Russian Defense Ministry and regional governors, the drones were part of a Ukrainian attack on “civil infrastructure facilities”.
The path from Finland to NATO is clear, at least from the Finnish side. Parliament in Helsinki on Wednesday voted by a large majority in favor of a government proposal on legislation needed for the country’s entry into the Western Defense Alliance. (Read about this: Putin has convinced the Finns of NATO)
Finnish President Sauli Niinistö.
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President Sauli Niinistö still has to approve the whole thing, but has already announced that he intends to do so immediately after the vote. However, Finland’s accession has yet to be ratified by Turkey and Hungary, whose parliament on Wednesday began a debate on the acceptance of the accession protocols.
Finland shares a 1340 km border with Russia. In the face of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU’s northernmost country had in May 2022 just like that neighboring Sweden applied for NATO membership. All 30 NATO members must ratify the admission of the two countries, all but Turkey and Hungary have already done so.
Le Hungarian approval is expected in the coming week. Things are more difficult with Turkey, which has long blocked NATO’s northern expansion. She justifies this attitude primarily with the fact that Sweden does not take sufficient action against terrorist organizations.
Fighting for the strategically important city of Bakhmut continues in eastern Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian military, the city with a population of 70,000 in the Donetsk region is under Russian fire.
The armed forces in Kyiv also said on Wednesday that snipers shot dead a group of Russian reconnaissance officers who were attempting to advance towards Ukrainian positions during the night. Seven Russians were killed and three injured. The information could not be independently verified. Only a few thousand civilians remain in Bachmut today.
More Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine than in all Russian wars combined since World War II — including Chechnya and Afghanistan, one shows Analyse des Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from the USA.
According to the study, the average monthly rate of Russian soldiers killed is at least 25 times higher than in Chechnya and 35 times higher than in Afghanistan.
Those: CSIS
Responsible for this is therefore that the war in Ukraine has become a war of attrition, which is characterized by entrenched forces, trenches, human wave attacks, artillery fire and heavy casualties on both sides en is marked. In addition, Ukraine did “extraordinarily well” against an opponent with a significant advantage in material resources.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has emphatically spoken out in favor of a criminal investigation of the Russian war of aggression against his country at international level. “We will smash this entire Russian genocidal system – from the cogs to the architects – and bring it to justice,” Zelensky said in his daily video address on Tuesday evening. But this is not an easy task.
At a meeting with chief prosecutor Karim Khan from the International Criminal Court in Kiev, Zelensky said, among other things, that he was hoping for help in determining the number of war victims. “We don’t even know the official number of civilians killed in the Russian-occupied territories,” the president said in a statement.
Action by the International Criminal Court against Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, for example, is currently not possible because neither Russia nor Ukraine are contracting parties to the Rome Statute as the legal basis for this court. Kiev is campaigning for international support for a special tribunal.
Ukraine: Deaths and injuries from Russian shelling
Meanwhile, according to the military leadership in Kiev, fighting between the Ukrainian army and Russian units in the Donbass continues. In its evening report, the Ukrainian general staff mentioned fighting near the village of Bohdanivka and in the area of the town of Chasiv Yar. That would agree with Russian reports, according to which the connecting roads from the besieged city of Bakhmut to the west are already acutely endangered. There were also battles on other sections in the Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions. “The most difficult situation is still Bachmut,” said Selenski.
According to the local administration, four people were killed and five injured in Russian shelling in the Cherson area. The information could not be independently verified.
IAEA again alerted to fighting at Ukrainian nuclear power plant
Artillery fire around the Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhia again alarmed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Around 20 detonations were apparently heard near the plant on Monday, said IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, citing the UN agency experts stationed in the power plant. In the recent past, there has been an increasing security presence on the premises. “This is a worrying trend that demonstrates the urgency and importance of establishing a nuclear safety and protection zone at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.”
More people in Kiev than before the war began
Despite the Russian war of aggression that has been going on for more than a year, more people live in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev than before the war began. “There are about 3.5 million people in the city right now,” First Deputy Mayor Mykola Povorosnyk told the Ukrinform state agency. Among them are around 230,000 officially registered internally displaced persons. Shortly before the outbreak of war, the official population was just under three million. By mid-March 2022, fewer than 800,000 people remained in Kiev.
Prime Minister of Ukraine: “The most difficult time of the heating season” is over
According to Prime Minister Denis Schmihal, after repeated heavy Russian air raids on Ukrainian infrastructure, the country has “the most difficult time of the heating season” behind it. “We resisted the Russian energy terror and provided warmth in the homes of the Ukrainians,” said Schmyhal. There have been no power outages in the country’s energy grid for 17 days. “And it’s not likely to happen either – unless there’s a massive missile attack.” From October, massive Russian missile and drone attacks had led to problems with electricity and water supplies in large parts of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian parliament is trying to contact the parliament in Bern. According to media reports, the issue is the re-export of Swiss war material. Meanwhile, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council (APK-N) received a letter from the Ukrainian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. The letter arrived at the end of last week, Commission President Franz Grüter (SVP/LU) confirmed media reports on Tuesday evening.
A physical exchange with Swiss parliamentarians is not desired, but a virtual one, Grüter told the Keystone-SDA news agency. It is now being checked with the parliamentary services how this exchange from APK to APK should take place. It could be that he first talks to the President of the Ukrainian APK, Grüter said.
The Foreign Policy Committee of the National Council with President Franz Grüter (SVP/LU/l.) and Vice President Hans-Peter Portmann (FDP/ZH) at a media conference in Bern.
Photo: Peter Schneider (Keystone/January 16, 2023)
A visit is not planned, the parliamentary services also wrote on request. The reply to the Ukrainian Commission is in preparation but has not yet been made. An online meeting seems possible. The online portal Watson.ch had previously reported, citing the Wall Street Journal, that a delegation from the Foreign Policy Commission of the Ukrainian Parliament wanted to travel to Bern and advocate a change in the Swiss position on the subject of export regulations for Swiss war material.
The Swiss position is internationally disputed. Parliament recently addressed the issue of indirect arms exports to Ukraine. Several proposals for adjusting the legal framework are currently being discussed.
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Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko has arrived in China for a three-day state visit. Lukashenko told the Chinese news agency Xinhua on Tuesday that he was looking forward to meeting his “old friend”, China’s head of state Xi Jinping. The state-run Belarusian news agency Belta published images of Lukashenko’s reception at the airport by Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu. Before Lukashenko’s visit, China had touted its “weatherproof and comprehensive” partnership with the former Soviet Republic of Belarus.
Lukashenko is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. His visit is at the invitation of Chinese President Xi. At the end of last week, China published a twelve-point position paper on the war in Ukraine. In it, Beijing reaffirms its intention to be a neutral party and calls for dialogue between the two sides.
Alexander Lukashenko (gr) is welcomed by a Chinese delegation at the airport in Beijing.
Photo: Maxim Gutschek (AFP/February 28, 2023)
Before his visit to the Xinhua agency, Lukashenko praised Beijing’s position paper as “a testament to its peaceful foreign policy and as a new and independent step that will have far-reaching effects on the whole world”. Today, “not a single problem in the world can be solved without China,” Lukashenko said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the last major nuclear disarmament treaty with the United States. To this end, Putin has signed a corresponding law, the Kremlin announced on Tuesday in Moscow. The president announced the move in his February 21 address to the nation.
Putin had stressed that this was not an exit from the agreement. However, he had previously repeatedly warned that an end to the agreement, which expires in 2026, could lead to a new nuclear arms race. For the time being, Russia wants to continue to adhere to the agreed upper limits for nuclear weapons.
Announced: Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends “New Start”.
Foto: Gawril Grigorow (Sputnik/Kremlin Pool/Keystone/28. Februar 2023)
The New Start disarmament treaty is the only remaining major arms control agreement between the United States and Russia. The treaty limits the nuclear arsenals of both countries to 800 delivery systems and 1,550 operational warheads each. In addition, it is regulated that Washington and Moscow can exchange information about their strategic nuclear arsenals and hold up to 18 verification visits per year.
According to the Kremlin, achieving the war goals in Ukraine takes precedence over possible peace negotiations. So far there have been no signals from Kiev to start negotiations with Moscow, said Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov on Tuesday. So far, such talks are legally impossible because the Ukrainian government has ruled them out. “In this case, achieving our goals is the most important thing, it’s our absolute priority.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has rejected negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin by decree and has repeatedly confirmed this.
According to Kremlin spokesman Peskov, Ukraine must recognize for possible negotiations that the four regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Cherson are now also enshrined in the constitution as parts of Russia. “These are very important realities,” said Peskov. However, Russia has not yet fully controlled any of these illegally annexed regions.
In addition, there are certain war goals that Russia is still pursuing, Peskov said. As a goal, Russia had also mentioned the demilitarization of Ukraine, which had been equipped with weapons and ammunition by the West.
War goals are paramount: Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov.
Photo by Valery Sharifulin (Keystone/Sputnik/December 22, 2022)
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