Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine is unfoldingsuccessfullyAccording to Moscow, the Minister of Defense of Germany is on a surprise visit to Kyiv, the French Senate calls for strengthening aid to Ukraine… Le Figaro This Tuesday, February 7, summarizes the latest information related to the war in Ukraine.
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“In the next few months” 100 Leopard 1 tanks will be sent to Ukraine.
Ukraine will receiveat least 100 Leopard 1 A5 tanks (…) in the coming months“, the defense ministers of Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark announced in a joint press release on Tuesday. These Leopard 1s, which are older than the Leopard 2s, of which Berlin has promised to donate 14 examples to the Bundeswehr to Kiev, come from industrial stocks and will be refurbished.
The German minister is on a surprise visit to Kyiv
The new Minister of Defense of Germany, Boris Pistorius, whose country announced the upcoming delivery of Leopard 2 heavy tanks to Ukraine, arrived in Kiev on Tuesday on a surprise visit. “The “first” Leopard 2 has arrived in KyivUkrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov announced this on Twitter, publishing a photo with Boris Pistorius holding a scale model of a German tank. A spokesperson for the Ukrainian minister confirmed to AFP that the photo was taken on Tuesday in Kyiv.
Russia’s offensive in the east of the country is “successful”, according to Moscow
Russia announced on Tuesday.hitIn its latest offensive in eastern Ukraine, as Kiev anticipates a major Russian offensive and demands that the West increase and speed up its military aid.
Ukrainian authorities believe Moscow is preparing for another attack around February 24, the anniversary of a campaign ordered by Vladimir Putin that failed to capture Kiev in the spring and forced the Russian army to retreat east and south. In autumn.
Since January, the Russian army, supported by the Wagner group’s paramilitary leaders and hundreds of thousands of civilians mobilized since September, has returned to the offensive, particularly in the Donbass, the eastern region of which Moscow assumes responsibility. .
Western support for Kiev makes an escalation of the conflict “unpredictable”, the Kremlin says
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has warned the West against increasing military aid to Ukraine, which he says couldlead to an unpredictable level of escalationof conflict. “Such measures involve NATO countries in the conflict and can lead to unpredictable levels of escalation.“, he said.
The Americans and Europeans have recently decided to send heavy tanks to the Ukrainian army so that it can better withstand the Russian attack and organize its own.
The French Senate calls for increased aid, particularly military aid
The right-wing Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Tuesday that reaffirmed its support for Ukraine and called on the government to increase aid.particularly arms supplies“. Less than a week after Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk’s speech in the semi-circle of the Luxembourg Palace, the vote won by 324 votes to 16. Only the majority communist CRCE group voted against.
This non-binding text, proposed by the president of Les Indépendants group, Claude Malhuret, was put on the agenda by the president of the Senate, L.R. At the request of Gerard Larche. It was signed, in particular, by LR Bruno Retailleau, centrist Hervé Marseille, RDPI with a majority Renaissance Francois Patriat and presidents of the RDSE groups Jean-Claude Requier with a radical majority.
Through this text, the Senate intends to reaffirm “its full support for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders under the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, which was ratified by the Russian Federation in 2009;“.
Source: Le Figaro
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