The Russian army claimed on Thursday, February 22, to have captured the village of Pobeda in eastern Ukraine, a new claim a few days after that of the town of Avdiivka, in the face of a Ukrainian army suffering from a lack of weapons “Units of the Southern Group of Forces have the village Pobeda liberated,” the Russian Defense Ministry said about this location not far from the destroyed city of Marinka, while this section of the front has remained largely unchanged for months. Follow our live stream.
Kiev accuses Moscow of using North Korean missiles against civilian targets“We are talking about Hwasong-11 (KN-23/24) ballistic missiles (…) According to our investigation, Russian troops fired more than 20 [de ces] North Korean weapons on Ukraine,” the SBU (Ukrainian Security Service) said in a statement, saying that these attacks killed “at least 24 civilians” and injured more than a hundred.
At the G20 summit in Rio, the international community shows its division. On the first day of the G20 summit on Wednesday, Brazilian Minister Mauro Vieira denounced the UN Security Council's blockade of the wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. He denounced “the unacceptable paralysis of the Security Council.”
Green light from EU states to control imports from Ukraine. European Union states on Wednesday agreed to renew tariff exemptions for Ukrainian agricultural imports, albeit accompanied by strengthened “safeguards” to limit their impact, at the center of recent demonstrations by farmers across Europe.