Ukraine Russia conflict newest: Downing of Kremlin airplane reason behind ‘great concern’ as EU leaders meet to ‘crush’ Putin | EUROtoday

At least 4 individuals have been injured after a Russian assault on Dnipro, native officers have reported.

Images under present the aftermath of a strike on town in central Ukraine.

Serhiy Lysak, governor of the area, stated 10 properties and a number of other vehicles have been broken.

“The injured men were 41 and 49 years old,” he wrote on Telegram. “And women – 20 and 60 years old. Everyone is in the hospital.”

Here are a number of the newest photographs from Ukraine.

This is President Volodymyr Zelensky’s response when requested if he would reply a name from Russian chief Vladimir Putin.

The Ukrainian president was requested if he would choose up the cellphone if Putin referred to as him throughout a convention along with his ministers and journalists in Kyiv on Sunday (25 February).

When requested if he would reply Putin’s name, Zelensky laughed.

He replied: “He doesn’t have a mobile, how will he call me? I don’t use the telegram of 1917. He will not call me, he doesn’t want to end this war.”

The interview, filmed 4 years earlier than Navalny died in a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, has been acquired by Sky News.

In the interview, Putin’s largest critic talks about his hope for a greater future for his nation.

The interview, filmed in February 2020, was a part of an unaired documentary collection, After The Fall, directed by Matthew Torne and produced by Andrew Duncan.

Some 20 European leaders will collect in Paris on Monday to ship Russian President Vladimir Putin a message of European resolve on Ukraine and counter the Kremlin’s narrative that Russia is certain to win a conflict now coming into its third 12 months, France stated.

French President Emmanuel Macron has invited his European counterparts to the Elysee palace for a working assembly introduced at quick discover due to what his advisers say is an escalation in Russian aggression over the previous few weeks.

“We want to send Putin a very clear message, that he won’t win in Ukraine,” a presidential adviser informed reporters in a briefing. “Our goal is to crush this idea he wants us to believe that he would be somehow winning.”

After preliminary successes in pushing again the Russian military, Ukraine has suffered setbacks on japanese battlefields, with its generals complaining of shortages of arms and troopers.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Foreign Minister David Cameron, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, in addition to leaders from Scandinavian and Baltic nations, are scheduled to attend the convention.

The United States will probably be represented by U. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Jim O’Brien, and Canada by Defence Minister Bill Blair.

French officers stated the safety convention in Munich earlier this month, which coincided with the dying of Putin’s most formidable home opponent Alexei Navalny, was all about “doom and gloom”, and that Macron was eager to dispel that.

“We’re neither doomy nor gloomy,” the French adviser stated. “We need Russia to grasp that. Russia should depend on us all collectively to finish this conflict and restore Ukraine‘s rights.”

However, the adviser said the working meeting will not be an occasion to announce new weapon deliveries to Ukraine but more to brainstorm ways to be more efficient on the ground, as well as increase coordination between allies and Ukraine.

The French officials said Russia had shown renewed aggressiveness in recent weeks, such as Putin’s flight on a nuclear-capable bomber, in what they view as an try to intimidate Europeans at a time US assist was thrown into doubt by the presidential election.

Russia launched 14 assault drones and a barrage of missiles at Ukraine in a single day, with air defence programs destroying 9 drones in addition to three guided missiles over the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk areas, Ukraine‘s air force said on Monday.

Russia also launched two S-300 missiles from anti-aircraft missile systems and one air-to-surface Kh-31P missile, the air force said on the Telegram messaging app. It was not clear what happened to the missiles and drones that were not downed.

“31,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed in this war. Not 300,000, not 150,000… (Russian president Vladimir) Putin is lying there… But nevertheless, this is a big loss for us,” he stated in a information convention on the Ukraine Year Forum in Kyiv.

Mr Zelensky stated Russia’s casualties – each injured and lifeless – through the invasion stood at 500,000, of which 180,000 have been Russian troopers killed within the conflict, in accordance with Kyiv’s estimates.

Speaking from the Ukrainian capital at an occasion to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Rustem Umerov stated within the “mathematics of war” there are lethal penalties when promised army assist “does not constitute delivery”.

He stated it was additionally unprecedented in historical past {that a} nation was anticipated to battle in opposition to an enemy with such a discrepancy in air energy and army finances. It comes only a week after Kyiv was pressured to tug its forces out of Avdiivka within the east of the nation.

Soldiers on the bottom informed The Independent they blamed the withdrawal on the crippling rationing of ammunition and lack of air defence in opposition to a ferocious assault by Russia who dropped a whole lot of bombs within the remaining push for the city.

“Fifty per cent of commitments are not delivered on time. Whatever commitments do not come on time means we lose people, we lose territories,” Mr Umerov stated grimly, in response to a query posed by The Independent.

President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Sunday that Ukraine had reached the toughest stage for sustaining unity which was essential for the conflict effort in opposition to Russia.

“Now is the most difficult moment for our unity, and if we all fall apart, from the outside and God forbid inside, then this will be the weakest moment. It has not happened yet,” the Ukrainian chief informed a information convention in Kyiv.