The European Union is studying the possibility of joint ammunition purchases for Kiev, Wagner is claiming a hold near Bakhmout, Macron wants to "
intensify our support
" for Ukraine...
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EU explores possibility of joint ammunition purchases for Kyiv
Members of the European Union are studying ways to make joint purchases of ammunition for Ukraine and the subject will be on the agenda of Monday's meeting in Brussels of the foreign ministers of the 27, AFP learned on Friday. from diplomatic sources.
Estonia presented its partners with a quantified proposal: an endowment of 4 billion euros provided by the Member States to the European Peace Facility (EFF), the fund used for the purchase and supply of armaments to the 'Ukraine.
This endowment would make it possible to buy one million 155 mm shells.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also called on Friday for countries that can deliver combat tanks to Ukraine to "
really do it
", while the shipments mentioned by the allies are slower than expected.
Military support for Ukraine must continue and “
this implies that everyone who can provide such battle tanks really does
,” Olaf Scholz said at the Munich Security Conference.
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Macron: “Intensify our support” for kyiv for “credible negotiations”
"
We must intensify our support
" for Ukraine to move towards "
credible negotiations
", said Emmanuel Macron on Friday, while considering that the time was "not
for dialogue
".
"
We must absolutely intensify our support and our effort to help the resistance of the Ukrainian people and army and allow them to lead the counter-offensive which alone will allow credible negotiations on the conditions chosen by Ukraine, its authorities and its people
,” he said at the Security Conference in Munich, Germany.
"
Today, very clearly, the time is not for dialogue
", admitted the man who has long tried to maintain channels of discussion with President Vladimir Putin, sometimes attracting strong criticism from European countries, Ukraine in particular. head.
“
Now is not the time for dialogue because we have a Russia which has chosen war, which has chosen to escalate war and which has chosen to go as far as war crimes and attacks on infrastructure civilians
,” he admitted.
“
Russia cannot and must not win this war and Russian aggression must fail, because we cannot accept the trivialization of the illegal use of force, because otherwise it
“, he hammered.
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", according to Emmanuel Macron
Auchan crushed by kyiv for its activity in Russia
The French distribution chain Auchan again targeted by Ukraine: Kiev accused it on Friday of being "
a full-fledged weapon of Russian aggression
", after the publication of an investigation by the daily
Le Monde
according to which the group is said to have contributed to Moscow's war effort.
“
Auchan has turned into a full-fledged weapon of Russian aggression.
I intend to discuss it with my French counterpart,
” Minister Catherine Colonna, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kouleba said on Twitter.
Auchan, for its part, “
categorically
” denied these accusations.
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Wagner claims the capture of a locality north of Bakhmout
The leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagnera said on Friday that his troops had taken the Ukrainian town of Paraskoviïvka, a town bordering Bakhmout to the north, the scene of the longest battle in the Donbass for a year.
“
Despite the ammunition blockade, despite heavy losses and bloody battles, the guys took over the entire Paraskoviïvka locality
,” said Yevgeny Prigozhin, quoted by his press service.
AFP was unable to verify these independent source statements.
For more than six months, the Wagner group and the Russian army have been trying to capture Bakhmout, in eastern Ukraine, a city of limited strategic importance but which has gained great symbolic importance due to the duration and the bitterness of the fighting.
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German agent was to deliver information on Ukrainian positions to Moscow, newspaper says
A German intelligence agent arrested just before Christmas, and suspected of spying for Moscow, was to deliver to the Russian secret services information on the positions of artillery and anti-aircraft defense of the Ukrainian army, Der Spiegel said on
Friday
.
According to the German weekly, this was information on the Iris-T anti-missile shield system, supplied by Berlin to Ukraine after the Russian invasion and Himars rocket launcher systems, made available to Kiev by the USA.
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Focus
, another German weekly, believes for its part that this alleged spy, known as Carsten L., disclosed to Moscow secret accesses used by the German federal intelligence services (BND) to penetrate the communication system. Russian.
According to the first results of the Spiegel investigation, the Russian security services (FSB) asked Carsten L., arrested on December 22, to provide them through a suspected accomplice, arrested on January 26 , GPS data on the location of Iris-T anti-missile shield systems and Himars rocket launchers.
But sources familiar with the investigation told the magazine that it was unlikely that such data was ultimately passed on.
The German Attorney General, Peter Frank, is investigating for high treason against the two men, both of whom are remanded in custody.
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