"We have not broken, we have overcome many obstacles and we will win. We will hold to their responsibilities all those who have brought Evil, this war to our land, terror, killings, torture, looting. Russia has chosen the path of 'murder, the road of terror and torture, looting - there will be state responsibility for all this terror," wrote President Volodymyr Zelensky in Telegram on the eve of the first anniversary of the war.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian media announced a
February 24
press conference by
Zelensky .
The theme will be "A Year of Invincibility".
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Kiev has raised the alarm that Russian troops are preparing provocations near the border of the Chernihiv region
, in northern Ukraine.
"This is evidenced - writes the Northern Operational Command of the Ukrainian army on Facebook - by intelligence data that recorded the movement of military columns with personnel wearing uniforms without identification marks and similar to those of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" .
A statement that comes as local media talk of a strong explosion that was felt in the western part of Kiev.
A journalist from the Kyiv Independent specified that the air raid alarm was activated a few minutes before the explosion.
Explosions were also clearly heard in Mariupol, the martyred Ukrainian city occupied by the Russians since last May: this was indicated by the (pro-Russian) city council, quoted by the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainska Pravda,
"Kiev is preparing an armed provocation against Transnistria,"
the Russian defense ministry said on Telegram, quoted by RIA Novosti.
"According to available information, in the near future the Kiev regime is preparing an armed provocation against the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic which will be conducted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including with the involvement of the Azov formation," the ministry said.
"As a pretext for the invasion, Kiev plans to stage an offensive from the territory of Transnistria. The saboteurs will wear Russian military uniforms," the department said.
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Moldova's denial was immediate.
"State authorities do not confirm the information released this morning by the Russian Defense Ministry," reads a message on the Moldovan government's official Telegram channel.
"We call for calm and invite the population to follow the official and credible sources of the Republic of Moldova. Our institutions cooperate with foreign partners and in case of danger for the country they will inform the public without delay".
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1,500 Russian soldiers and weapons in the Moldovan strip of land (ANSA)
On the eve of the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a
new resolution in favor of peace
will go to the UN vote
, from which massive support is expected in Kiev.
The document calls for a "global, just and lasting peace in Ukraine in line with the principles of the UN Charter", recalled Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, speaking among the first in the assembly and embracing his Ukrainian counterpart Kuleba at the end of his speech.
The minister reaffirmed the government's unity on this issue, urging diplomatic efforts to be redoubled for a solution to the conflict.
However, the League is holding back on new arms shipments to Kiev, while tensions persist over Berlusconi's words on the war and Zelensky's reaction
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'A battle is underway in Ukraine for our people': the tsar's speech after meeting with Wang Yi (ANSA)
Vladimir Putin rewrites the lines of Russian foreign policy, revoking a 2012 decree which urged the development of good relations with the EU, the US and NATO and promised, among other things, to collaborate in a solution to the Transnistria problem in "respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity" of Moldova.
At the same time, with the visit of the Chinese envoy Wang Yi to Russia, Moscow is relaunching the strategic axis with Beijing, which reiterates its intention to mediate a political solution to the Ukrainian conflict.
Putin's intervention in the redefinition of foreign policy is a consequence of "profound changes in international relations", explains the Kremlin website.
Rereading the instructions that the Russian leader gave to his diplomats 11 years ago, one seems to live in another world: among other things, Putin's aspirations included the creation with the European Union of "a single economic and human space from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean" and the development of "relations with NATO".
But also, precisely, the recognition of Moldovan territorial integrity, questioned by the pro-Russian separatists of Transnistria, a strip of territory along the border with Ukraine that hosts a contingent of about 1,500 Moscow soldiers.
The revocation of this part of the guidelines is bound to increase tensions with Moldova, whose president, pro-European Maia Sandu,
Moscow, Putin arrived at the patriotic concert at the Lushniki stadium
And after all today he went back to explaining the intervention in Ukraine as a battle "on our historical borders, for our people".
The president said these words to inflame the Russians who flocked to the Lushniki stadium in Moscow for a patriotic concert for Defender of the Fatherland Day, i.e. the armed forces.
A jubilation of flags and songs against the Ukrainian government in which, according to official estimates, 200,000 people would have participated, despite the temperature around 15 degrees below zero.
A fact that is difficult to verify, as is the spontaneity of participation, given the organizational skills of the authorities who have conveyed many state employees to the stadium on board buses.
Before going to the stadium, Putin met with Wang,
the head of diplomacy of the Chinese Communist Party, sent to Moscow by President Xi Jinping with a proposal for mediation on the Ukrainian conflict.
To the Russian president, who said he was expecting a visit from Xi to Moscow, Wang expressed "appreciation" for what he called Russia's willingness to "resolve the Ukraine issue through dialogue and negotiation", and assured that China will play the role of mediator from "an objective and fair position".
But at the same time the parties reaffirmed their intention to develop their strategic cooperation with the aim of building "a multipolar world in opposition to any form of unilateral and overbearing behavior".
Namely the policy of the West.
In this regard, Beijing has once again stigmatized the accusations made against it of wanting to arm Moscow.
"The United States and other NATO countries are constantly spreading the idea that China can supply weapons to Russia, a ploy that was used and debunked at the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. .
In the meantime, the two chambers of the Russian Parliament approved today in record time and unanimously the suspension of the New Start treaty with the United States for the limitation of nuclear weapons, announced yesterday by Putin.
But for Russia, underlined Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, an atomic war remains "unacceptable".
Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.
In the meantime, the two chambers of the Russian Parliament approved today in record time and unanimously the suspension of the New Start treaty with the United States for the limitation of nuclear weapons, announced yesterday by Putin.
But for Russia, underlined Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, an atomic war remains "unacceptable".
Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.
In the meantime, the two chambers of the Russian Parliament approved today in record time and unanimously the suspension of the New Start treaty with the United States for the limitation of nuclear weapons, announced yesterday by Putin.
But for Russia, underlined Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, an atomic war remains "unacceptable".
