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This Monday was marked by the arrival of Vladimir Poutinie in Belarus.
Not enough to reassure Ukraine, which fears a new massive Russian offensive on kyiv which would be launched from this allied country, repeating the scenario of February 24.
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Vladimir Putin has traveled to Belarus for talks with President Alexander Lukashenko, his ally in the war with Ukraine.
This summit between the Russian and Belarusian heads of state comes as the Ukrainian authorities say they fear in the first months of 2023 the possibility of a Russian offensive on kyiv which would be launched from Belarusian territory, repeating the scenario of the beginning of the invasion on February 24.
Adding to concerns, the Russian military said on Monday it would take part in "tactical" maneuvers in Belarus, after the announcement in October of the formation of a joint force of several thousand men.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, denied that Vladimir Putin went to Belarus to convince Minsk to directly participate in the conflict in Ukraine, calling the allegations "stupid" and "baseless".
đź”´ INFO - #Belarus: Vladimir #Putin visited Belarus today for the first time since June 2019. Presumably he arrived to persuade dictator #Lukashenko of his direct involvement in the war in #Ukraine.
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— FranceNews24 (@FranceNews24) December 19, 2022
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sentence of the day
There is no indication that Putin has given up on his goal of controlling Ukraine.
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These are the words of Jens Stoltenberg, taken up in an interview with AFP, published on Monday.
The head of NATO invites him not to underestimate Russia, even after the succession of defeats that Ukraine has just inflicted on the Kremlin, allowing it to liberate whole sections of its territory.
"We see that it is mobilizing more forces, that it is also ready to suffer many losses, that it is trying to have access to more weapons and ammunition," he said.
We must understand that President Putin is ready to be in this war for a long time and to launch new offensives.
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The number of the day
4.
Like the four American Harm anti-radar missiles that the Russian army claims to have shot down on Monday, above its territory, in the sky of the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine.
The United States supplied Ukraine with an unspecified number of AGM-88 HARM missiles.
Asked by AFP about the Russian assertions, the Pentagon indicated "not being able to confirm this information".
And if we continue on the battle of numbers, we could have also taken the thirty, such as the number of Iranian-made Shahed drones that the Ukrainian air force said it shot down last night, out of the 35 launched by the Russia.
The trend of the day
As this conflict sinks into the Ukrainian winter, the country's power plants are becoming a strategic issue.
Power cuts have hit kyiv and ten regions of the country after a new wave of drone attacks launched by Russia, Ukrainian national operator Ukrenergo announced on Monday.
Already on November 29, Jens Stoltenberg castigated Vladimir Putin's strategy of using winter as “a weapon of war” against Ukraine.
He then denounced "deliberate attacks" against civilian infrastructure to deprive the country of heat, electricity and water, before estimating that Russia's goal was "to inflict as much suffering as possible on Ukrainian civilians »
our file on the war in Ukraine
As a reminder, French President Emmanuel Macron said last Thursday that he intended to call his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about the Russian bombings and drone attacks in Ukraine and when it will be necessary to finalize an agreement on the security of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. .
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