Developments in Ukraine Kyiv still hopes for continued assistance from Washington

according to the international group Tasnim news agency, Dimitri Koleba In an interview with a Polish newspaper last night, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expressed his hope that the United States will continue to provide financial and military aid to Kiev regardless of who wins the US presidential election in November 2024. .

He said: “Helping Ukraine is in line with the strategic interests of the United States.” We [Ukraine] will win regardless of the party affiliation of the next American president.”

Furthermore, Koleba assured that currently the administration of Joe Biden “He knows what danger threatens us if the aid stops,” so Ukraine’s armed forces should not worry about continued aid from Washington. The Foreign Minister of Ukraine emphasized: “Time passes, but our commitment and determination to defend our country remains. When I said that even if the weapons (sent from Western countries) run out, the Ukrainian military will fight with shovels, I was very serious.”

If the new budget of the American government to help Ukraine is not approved by Congress, it is likely that Ukraine will suffer a severe military defeat within a few months, and the extremely harsh statements of the American president to the members of the American parliament were also due to this concern.

However, according to a poll conducted in late December, only 18% of Americans support increasing aid to Ukraine. 29% considered the current amount to be sufficient, 31% of US citizens said that this aid is too much and 22% did not have an opinion on this issue.

If Breaking down the poll by Republican Party supporters, the numbers are as follows: only 13 percent want to increase aid, 20 percent support maintaining the current amount, 48 percent want to reduce it, and 18 percent disagree. Therefore, the request of the American president to approve additional aid to Ukraine is against the will and desire of the people of the United States. Follow the second day of the war in Ukraine:

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Germany needs war with Russia as a diversionary maneuver

Florian Philippe, the leader of the French Patriot Party, believes that Germany needs to act. military against Russia in order to create this fear among its people and prevent the current social unrest from exploding.

According to this French politician, unrest in Germany Related to explosive social problems, it will intensify from February 2024 and reach its peak in 2025. As Filippo pointed out, the military plan prepared in the Bundeswehr regarding the need to prepare the German army for a possible war between NATO and Russia was chosen “very carefully” and was primarily aimed at the domestic audience in order to prevent a social explosion.

He wrote on his page on the X social network: “Therefore, the risk of war with Russia is only a diversionary maneuver to prevent the uprising of the German people, and war as a way It has been used to create fear and a state of obedience for more citizens.”

Yesterday, Waldemar Gerdt, a former member of the Bundestag and a German political expert, also said that the Berlin authorities are trying to make people to scare them with a war with Russia in order to divert their minds from the social and economic problems inside the country. The regions of the country reported

The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported this morning that the air defense systems of the country were carrying out their duty during the last night, three Ukrainian drones intercepted and destroyed five more over the Varonezh region. According to this information, in addition, four other drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were intercepted and shot down in the sky of the Belgorod region. In the early hours of this morning, Tuesday, the Ukrainian armed forces successfully stopped an attempt to carry out another terrorist attack on civilian targets on Russian soil using aircraft-type drones.

A few hours ago, Alexander Gusev, the governor of the Varonezh region, announced that the country’s air defense systems repelled drone attacks from Ukraine. As a result of the fall of the carcass of one of the drones, the balcony of an apartment in a multi-story residential building caught fire, the windows of several buildings were broken, and a number of residents’ cars were damaged. Rescuers were immediately sent to the place.

After this drone attack, in order to control the situation in the city of Varunzh and Belgorod, a state of emergency was declared and people were asked to Stay calm in your homes and avoid walking in the streets.

Swiss President: Kiev has called for a peace conference

Swiss Confederation President Viola Amherd told reporters last night after her meeting with the President of Ukraine during his trip to Bern that Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked her to organize a high-level peace conference. According to him, his opinion is positive towards this request.

Ms. Amherd said: “Mr. Zelenskiy asked Switzerland to organize a high-level peace meeting and I approve I said that we are ready to organize such a conference.” The organization of the conference “will be carefully studied so that this peace-making effort is successful”.

In addition, he said that he would discuss the results with Zelensky. The fourth meeting discussed the “peace formula” proposed by the President of Ukraine, which was held on January 14 in Davos at the level of national security advisers.

Ministry of Defense Ukraine: Soon the mobilization bill will be presented to the parliament again

Natalia Kalmikova, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine last night, Monday, announced that the Cabinet of Ministers within a few He will present the Basij bill to the Supreme Parliament again next week.

He said: “The new version of the Basij bill will be sent to the Rada in the near future.” This document must go through an approval process by the government. I want to emphasize that it is imperative that this legislation be passed as soon as possible because it is in the best interests of those who protect us on the front lines. We would like this to happen within the next few days, but we know that it will most likely take several weeks.” The document remains unchanged, so there are no fundamental changes to the bill, however, he said, “the approaches to certain categories of people have changed” and this is the position of all members of the government.

However, according to Kalmykova, the mobilization of people with disabilities remains a controversial issue, she also admitted that the number of people with disabilities has significantly increased over the past two years. Attention has increased.

Last week, The Times predicted that more Ukrainian citizens would flee the country because of the new Basij bill. With the Ukrainian military suffering heavy casualties, fewer Ukrainian men are willing to fight for their country. It is reminded that since the beginning of the military conflict in Ukraine, the security service of this country has detained more than 17 thousand people who were trying to cross the border illegally.

Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a conversation with reporters yesterday about the words of Dmitry Kolaba, The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, who spoke in an interview about his desire to punch his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, commented. Zakharova said: “The indecency of the authorities.” Kiev is no longer a known fact. In fact, the problem is that hard-line and illiterate people have been hired under the guise of ministers to destroy Ukraine for the sake of American money. Maybe it would have been better if Koleba had been invited to fights without rules and not to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!” The Russian Foreign Minister spoke in Turkey and said: “The most difficult negotiations are those when you want to hit the other side in the face, which I had the desire to do two or three times. One of these talks was with Lavrov in Antalya in the spring of 2022.”

In March 2022, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister described his talks with Lavrov in Antalya as difficult. According to Koleba, at that time humanitarian corridors and the issue of a ceasefire “at least for 24 hours” were discussed. He added that Ukraine does not intend to comply with Russia’s demands, but expressed hope that the negotiations will continue.

It was admitted in Kiev: all the precision weapons of the army Ukraine is produced in the West

Vadim Skibytsky, the deputy of the main intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, admitted in a TV interview that all the high-precision weapons produced in Ukraine’s armed forces will be produced by Western countries.

Skybitsky said: “Today, the very precise weapons we have are all made in the West. 155 caliber ammunition is also mainly produced in other countries.”

He also emphasized that Kiev’s allies know that without their help, the conflict with Russia will be “difficult and in some areas It will be impossible. At the same time, this official expressed his confidence that the West will not stop supporting Kyiv. Kyiv

Alexei Danilov, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, expressed concern on Monday that the West only promised 300,000 instead of 1 million. Artillery ammunition has been delivered to Kiev.

He said: “The situation of millions of bullets for Ukraine is a test of the readiness of the major economies of Western countries for military challenges.” The results of the test are very worrying.” Danilov stressed that the world is returning to the situation of needing to prepare for the hot phase of the conflict, and this in turn requires an army. Modern and latest weapons. According to him, such restructuring will happen either on time and consciously or “late and under the pressure of circumstances”. Europe has admitted that defense companies in EU countries aim to produce one million rounds a year, but are unlikely to be able to deliver that number until March as part of an aid program to Ukraine. According to Stano, currently the European Union has sent only 300,000 ammunition to Ukraine.

Bloomberg news agency reported on Monday that the possible confiscation of frozen Russian assets in Western countries could not only provoke a strong reaction from Moscow authorities, but also Fragmentation of the financial markets has resulted and Europe will suffer the most consequences from this situation. They have broken their own taboos: sending weapons and ammunition to one side of the military conflict, refusing to buy Russian gas, as well as imposing unprecedented economic sanctions against Moscow. Meanwhile, the United States has now stepped up its pressure on Europe to influence it to break the next ban that would allow the confiscation of frozen Russian assets.

Bloomberg added: Washington, by supporting the confiscation theory, puts its European allies in a difficult position, because it is in European jurisdictions that 200 billion dollars of Russian assets are blocked. At the same time, asset freezes increase the risk of retaliation, mirror measures and fragmentation of financial markets, which will reduce the scope of Western economic sanctions in the future. Some experts argue that the risk is worth it because the US dollar remains dominant, but the Europeans fear that they will bear the brunt of the costs. Denied about “secret plan” for conflict with Russia

Janice Sartz, director of NATO’s Center of Excellence for Strategic Communications, announced on Monday that the newspaper article German Bild reports on the preparation of the German army for a possible conflict between NATO and Russia, based on a possible exercise scenario that was provided to journalists, and the existence of such a secret plan is not true.

Sartz explained that in the past such scenarios were done with the names of countries and regions that did not exist externally, but now they use real geographical names. This NATO official emphasized in this regard: the document that Bild wrote about is not an analysis of secret information that predicts future developments.