Cover Photo: U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands following their meeting in Jerusalem Monday, January 30, 2023. Debbie Hill/AP
- This was confirmed by the Prime Minister of Ukraine on Tuesday the holding of a summit between Ukraine and the European Union on Friday in Kyiva day after “intergovernmental consultations” between Kyiv and the European Commission, which will take place “for the first time in our history”.
- France delivers 12 additional Caesar guns to Kyiv. These medium-range guns, in addition to the eighteen already supplied by France and the nineteen promised by Denmark, “will be financed under the support fund of 200 million euros,” announced the French Armed Forces Minister.
- Ukraine will receive 120 to 140 western tanks from a coalition of 12 countries in a “first wave” of deliveries. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba clarified that these tanks would include the German-made Leopard 2, the British Challenger 2 and the American Abrams, and that Ukraine is also “really” counting on the delivery of French Leclerc tanks.
- Joe Biden categorically rejected the idea of sending American F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine on Monday, whose list of weapon aids is growing. The President of the United States finally declared on Tuesday that he [allait] Conversation” with Volodymyr Zelenskyy about his requests for additional military aid.
- Russia claimed responsibility for capturing the village of Blahodatne north of Bakhmout on Tuesday., in eastern Ukraine, where his army has been making slow progress for several weeks. Evgueni Prigojine, leader of the Wagner group, had claimed on Saturday his men’s capture of Blahodatne, which Kyiv had denied.
- The Russian army carried out three airstrikes, four rocket launches and about sixty shots from multiple rocket launchers, which in particular aimed at residential buildings in Kherson and Ochakivin southern Ukraine, the staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Tuesday reported reporting civilian casualties without specifying the number.
- Kyiv demands the exclusion of all Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Paris 2024 Olympics. The Baltic countries and Poland backed that motion on Tuesday, embarrassing the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which is working to reintegrate them under a neutral banner.
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