Poland is the first NATO country to meet repeated requests from Kiev for the supply of fighter jets. “In the coming days we will deliver 4 MiG-29 aircraft to Ukraine,” announced President Andrzej Duda. A “sovereign decision” that the United States “respects”, said the spokesman for the National Security Council, John Kirby, but which “does not change our assessments with respect to the F-16”, which “are not on the table now” , and “our sovereign decision does not change”.
Poland will be the first NATO country to supply military aircraft to Ukraine. President’s announcement
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has released footage of the clash between the Russian fighter and the American drone over the Black Sea. The 42-second video shows a Russian Su-27 jet approaching the rear of the MQ-9 drone and starting to release fuel as it passes. Then the fighter strikes and damages the propeller of the drone. The operators of the aircraft then made it glide over the Black Sea and crash into the waters. Moscow has so far denied that a collision had occurred. The United States has been “transparent” and the images “clearly demonstrate” what happened to the MQ-9 Reaper, Kirby said, “at best” it was “reckless” behavior by Russian pilots, “in the worst case scenario” of “reckless and incompetent” behavior. However, he stressed, the US cannot establish with certainty that it was “intentional”. “We don’t want a conflict with Russia”, the escalation “is not inevitable”, added Kirby, the channels of communication with Moscow “remain open”, but “we want to continue to support Ukraine”.
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The Kremlin, with its spokesman Dmitry Peskov, for its part announced that the Russian army will recover the drone if it deems it “necessary for our interests and our security”. Kiev’s army, on the other hand, shot down a Mugin-5 drone in eastern Ukraine, an unmanned aircraft for commercial use of Chinese production adapted and transformed into a weapon. According to CNN, these aircraft are known as ‘Alibaba drones’, as they can be purchased for $15,000 on Chinese e-commerce sites including Alibaba and Taobao. Mugin Limited, the company that makes the drone, said it condemned the use of its products for military purposes and stopped selling to Russia and Ukraine earlier in the war, but Russian officials said in January they had shot down also a Mugin-5 launched by Ukrainian forces. Chinese companies, including one linked to the government, have sent Russia 1,000 assault rifles and other equipment that could be used for military purposes, including drone parts and bulletproof vests, Politico said.
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The fighting continues on the ground, and Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine, including systematic torture and killings in the occupied regions, amount to war crimes, according to a UN-commissioned and supported investigation. The report calls repeated attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure since the autumn and the “systematic and widespread” use of torture as potential crimes against humanity. The report’s authors also noted a “small number” of apparent violations by Ukrainian forces.
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A ceasefire “now” would be “another violation of the UN Charter”, according to the US National Security Council spokesman, while Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, in a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, he said Beijing hopes “all sides will maintain calm, rationality and sobriety, resume peace talks as soon as possible and push for a return to the political solution track.” China, according to Qin, “will continue to play a constructive role in reaching a ceasefire, ending the war, mitigating the crisis and restoring peace”. Kuleba instead underlined with his Chinese counterpart the question “of the meaning of the principle of territorial integrity”, on which Beijing has so far maintained an ambiguous position, and relaunched President Zelensky’s peace formula.
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“There is no evidence from reports on threats to Crosetto”
The Authority responsible for the security of the Republic has no evidence of concrete threats against the Minister of Defence, Guido Crosetto. The undersecretary and delegated authority for the Security of the Republic Alfredo Mantovano would have responded in this way, according to what is learned, in a letter sent to the president of Copasir Lorenzo Guerini. Government sources report it. After the news circulated about the threats to the minister, in fact, the president of the Committee had asked for information on the case
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