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News about the Russia-Ukraine war: That happened on Tuesday night (January 24)

2023-01-24T02:50:15.114Z


According to Kyiv, two million compatriots have been deported to Russia so far. Apparently a school is destroyed every other day in Ukraine. Olaf Scholz gets support from Luxembourg. Recent Developments.


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A Ukrainian army tank drives through the destroyed city of Seversk in the east of the country

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That says Kyiv

The Ukrainian President has looked back on the 11 months since Russia's war of aggression began.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized the cooperation with the allies, especially with the USA.

The eleven months of "Russia's predatory all-out war" have brought Ukraine, the United States and all other allies together as closely as possible, he said in his daily video address on Monday evening.

"We fight every day to protect our people, our borders and our values, and we managed to stop the spread of Russian aggression." He can now say with confidence that "this evil on Ukrainian soil" can be overcome .

Zelenskyj also specified the term he used of a "predatory war".

He didn't choose those words by accident.

Zelenskyy said there was looting throughout the territory of Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russian troops.

“Everything they don't destroy, they steal and take to Russia.

All."

"The Russians are stealing grain and agricultural machinery from Ukrainian farmers, the occupiers are dismantling the factories and exporting the equipment to Russia." Warehouses, shops and homes are also being looted.

"And they steal people - they see people as a resource." According to him, around two million Ukrainians were deported to Russia.

Zelenskyj also announced that he would reshuffle his government.

There are already some decisions, he said on Monday;

others would be felled on Tuesday.

After allegations of corruption against a deputy minister who had already resigned and dubious practices in the Ministry of Defense became known, Zelenskyy declared on Monday that he would not tolerate corruption.

Moscow says so

In its new plan, the Russian army takes into account a possible expansion of NATO to include Sweden and Finland.

This is what the new Russian supreme commander in Ukraine, Valery Gerasimov, said.

"The plan has been approved by the President of the Russian Federation (Vladimir Putin) and can be adjusted as soon as the threats to the Russian Federation change," he told the news site Argumenti i Fakti.

Possible dangers are currently an expansion of NATO to include Finland and Sweden or the use of Ukraine as a means of waging a "hybrid war" against Russia.

humanitarian consequences

The Russian war of aggression has so far affected the education of more than five million children, the United Nations children's fund Unicef ​​reported on Tuesday.

Children in eastern Ukraine have also been suffering from the conflict with Russia for eight years.

Fighting in residential areas has now resulted in thousands of schools and other educational institutions across the country being damaged or destroyed.

At the same time, many parents did not let their children go to school for safety reasons.

Today, Tuesday, is International Education Day.

The aid organization Save the Children also spoke out on this occasion.

According to this, a school has been destroyed every other day since the start of the school year in the Ukraine war.

"The war has made it incredibly difficult for children in Ukraine to access education," said Sonia Khush, Save the Children's Ukraine country director.

According to the organization, 3,025 educational institutions – schools, kindergartens and universities – have been bombed and shelled since the beginning of the war.

406 of them were completely destroyed.

According to Save the Children, they rely on figures from the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science.

“Millions of children have had to study at home due to the constant threat of shells and rocket attacks, and now even online learning is being further hampered by frequent power and internet outages,” Khush said.

Debate on tank supplies to Ukraine

The

German armaments group Rheinmetall

could deliver a total of 139 Type 1 and Type 2 Leopard tanks to Ukraine.

This was announced by his spokesman to the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" (RND).

"We still have 22 Leopard 2A4 vehicles that we could prepare for use and deliver to Ukraine," said the company spokesman.

»The repair of these vehicles would take almost a year.

Delivery would be possible at the end of 2023/beginning of 2024.

In addition, there are 29 Leopard 2A4s that we are working on for the ring exchange projects and that we will have ready by April/May 2023.« Rheinmetall could make 88 Leopard 1 vehicles available.

The idea behind the ring exchange model is: Central European countries such as Poland or the Czech Republic quickly send easy-to-use Soviet-style weapons to the Ukraine - and the Germans replace the weapons with high-quality NATO equipment in return.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

emphasized NATO's unity in the debate about supplying Western-style main battle tanks to Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the war there had been "an unprecedented level of support" in the alliance, including Germany, Stoltenberg said on the TV station Welt when asked whether the alliance was divided at a crucial phase of the war.

There is now a consultation process on what kind of equipment should be supplied to Ukraine.

Sometimes it also takes some time to consult confidentially with the Allies.

Meanwhile, Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn

defended German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

»The enemy is not Chancellor Scholz, the enemy is called Putin.

And that's what we should focus on," said Asselborn on Monday evening in the ZDF "heute-journal".

Scholz has been criticized at home and abroad for the unresolved tank issue, but has been silent for days.

Several EU countries criticized the federal government on Monday at the meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels, in some cases very clearly.

Asselborn now pointed out that Scholz had not yet said no to the delivery of Leopard tanks that Kyiv had been requesting for months – but he had not said yes either.

Incidentally, Germany is not as isolated on this issue in the EU as is sometimes portrayed in the German media.

There are also other "big countries and border countries" that are reluctant to take this step.

US State Department spokesman

in Washington

, Ned Price, said on Monday that Germany is a loyal and reliable partner.

The delivery of military equipment is a sovereign decision of each partner.

And Germany has already provided a lot of help, Price said, repeating his government's official position of the past few days.

However, Price indicated that Germany's position on the Leopard tanks could change soon.

"When I read the headlines, I have the impression that we could hear more from our German partners in the coming hours or days." At the weekend, the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reported on a rift between the USA and Germany over the hesitation of Federal government reported with a view to the Leopard tank.

what is happening today

  • Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe at around 12 noon.

    The assembly meets several times a year.

    Today, among other things, Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine will be discussed.

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Source: spiegel

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