The Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine is proceeding "
successfully
" according to Moscow, the German Minister of Defense on a surprise visit to Kiev, the Senate in France calls for increased aid to Ukraine.
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German Defense Minister makes surprise visit to Kyiv
New German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, whose country announced the upcoming shipment of Leopard 2 heavy tanks to Ukraine, arrived in kyiv on Tuesday for a surprise visit.
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"
The 'first' Leopard 2 has arrived in Kiev
," Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Twitter, posting a photo showing him with Boris Pistorius holding a scale model of the German tank.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian minister confirmed to AFP that the photo was taken on Tuesday in kyiv.
Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine
is proceeding 'successfully', Moscow says
Russia on Tuesday claimed the “
success
” of its recent offensive in eastern Ukraine, as Kiev expects a major Russian attack and demands that the West increase and accelerate its military aid .
The Ukrainian authorities believe that Moscow is preparing a new assault around February 24, the anniversary date of the campaign ordered by Vladimir Putin but which saw the Russian army fail to take kyiv in the spring and have to withdraw to the East and the South in the fall.
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Since January, the Russian army, supported by the paramilitaries of the Wagner group and reinforced by hundreds of thousands of civilians mobilized since September, has gone back to the offensive, in particular in the Donbass, the eastern region of which Moscow claims responsibility. 'annexation.
Western support for Ukraine makes escalation of conflict 'unpredictable', Kremlin says
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned the West against increasing its military aid to Ukraine, which he said could “
lead to an unpredictable level of escalation
” in the conflict.
“
Such measures draw NATO countries into the conflict and can lead to an unpredictable level of escalation
,” he said.
Americans and Europeans have recently decided to send heavy tanks to the Ukrainian army so that it can better oppose a Russian offensive and organize its own.
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The Senate in France calls for the reinforcement of aid to Ukraine, in particular military
The right-wing majority Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Tuesday reaffirming its support for Ukraine and calling on the government to step up the aid provided, “
especially arms deliveries
.”
Less than a week after a speech delivered in the hemicycle of the Palais du Luxembourg by the speaker of the parliament of Ukraine Rouslan Stefantchouk, the vote was won by 324 votes against 16. Only the majority communist group CRCE voted against .
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This non-binding text, proposed by the president of the Les Indépendants group Claude Malhuret, was placed on the agenda at the request of the president LR of the Senate Gérard Larcher.
It was co-signed in particular by the presidents of the groups LR Bruno Retailleau, centrist Hervé Marseille, RDPI with a majority Renaissance François Patriat and RDSE with a radical majority Jean-Claude Requier.
Through this text, the Senate intends to reaffirm "
its full support for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its borders recognized at the international level by the Budapest memorandum of 1994, confirmed by the Russian Federation in 2009
”.
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