There Russia is amassing planes near the Ukrainian border. is thealert launched byintelligence Western, as reported by the Financial Times, citing two informed sources. «Western capitals have warned of a possible Russian air assault on Ukraine, with information from intelligence which indicate that Moscow is preparing to launch its jets and helicopters into war», wrote the masthead, on the day in which in Brussels, NATO hosted a new meeting of the Contact Group for Ukraine, where 54 countries were represented. From there, at the end of the meeting, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin did not confirm the information: “As for whether or not Russia is massing its planes for a massive airstrike, we don’t see it at the moment,” he said at a press conference, after a source from the Financial Times during the meeting he had been “very clear that we have a short amount of time to help the Ukrainians prepare for an offensive and that they have rather specific needs”.
News on sending jets there is none. Defense Minister of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, went to Brussels to put pressure again in this sense, after the pressing of Volodymyr Zelensky last week in the EU: when asked what military aid his country is looking for, he showed the image of a warplane.
But Austin was clear: “I have no announcements to make today about planes,” he said after chairing the Contact Group meeting. Ukraine’s allies, however, have promised more weapons and ammunition. “It’s about delivering all the capabilities we promised. It is about integrating these systems», Austin said, adding that Kiev could also launch its own offensive in the spring.
The secretary general of NATO Jens Stoltenberg said it earlier in the day: “We see no signs that President Putin is preparing for peace. What we see is the opposite. It is preparing for new offensives and new attacks. So it is all the more important that NATO allies and partners provide more support to Ukraine.” And he had already anticipated that “the question of planes is not the most urgent issue now, but it is an ongoing discussion”, underlining that “the type of support we are providing to Ukraine has changed and evolved over time and will continue to change and evolve as this war unfolds.”
Putin sends a nuclear bomber near Alaska while NATO plans to send more weapons to Kiev
Another warning comes fromintelligence from the Norway: Russia has begun deploying ships with tactical nuclear weapons in the Baltic Sea for the first time in 30 years, he said in his annual report quoted by Politico. Norwegian 007 notes that “the key part of the nuclear potential is found in the submarines and surface ships of the Northern Fleet” and that warships of the Northern Fleet regularly went to sea with nuclear weapons during the Cold War era , but this is the first time that the modern Russian Federation has done the same.
The “carnage” of Russian vehicles of the 59th Autonomous Motorized Brigade of Kiev near Donetsk
The reports he adds that while Russia will maintain, modernize and develop its nuclear arsenal, no significant changes are expected in Russia’s nuclear doctrine in the coming years. All this while it emerged that on Monday two Dutch F-35 fighter jets were scrambled to identify and intercept 3 Russian fighter jets flying near Poland’s border with the Kaliningrad exclave. «After identification, it was found that there were three aircraft: a Russian IL-20M Coot-A escorted by two SU-27 Flankers. The Dutch F-35s escorted the remote training,” the Dutch Defense Ministry said.
A Russian T-72B tank passes over anti-tank mines, two soldiers flee from the cloud of flames and smoke
On the field meanwhile the fierce battle for Bakhmut continues, in Donbass. L’intelligence the British announced that in the last three days the forces of the Wagner group have made small advances and gained ground in the northern suburbs of the disputed city, but that “the organized Ukrainian defense continues in the area”. The head of the Wagner group on Telegram he stated that «Bakhmut will not be taken tomorrow, because there is strong resistance», «there will be no celebrations soon». “Even if Bakhmut fell” into Russian hands, this “would not have a strategic impact” on the conflict in Ukraine, is the opinion of the United States, expressed by National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, who nonetheless spoke of “progress incremental” by the Russians.
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The issue of Germany’s delivery of fighter jets to Ukraine “is not at the moment central” but will be discussed in the future, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said in an interview with the ARD broadcaster. The priority is to secure Kiev’s airspace, Pistorius told the German channel. “Only when the skies over Ukraine remain safe for the next three to four months, then can we talk about next steps,” said the minister from Berlin.
Milley: ‘Russia has lost, born ever so strong’
Less than a year into the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has “strategically, operationally and tactically lost.” This is the judgment of the joint chief of staff of the US military forces, General Mark Milley. «Putin – said the senior official in his speech in Brussels – thought he could defeat Ukraine quickly, break the NATO alliance and act with impunity. He was wrong.” “Ukraine – he added – remains free, the Ukrainians remain independent, NATO and its coalition have never been so strong, and Russia is a global outcast”.
Ukraine: media, the Netherlands and Denmark will not give Leopard
The governments of the Netherlands and Denmark have announced that neither country will deliver Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine, according to the German TV channel world. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the only tanks the country could theoretically supply to him were 18 Leopard-2 tanks leased to the country by Germany. But both countries have decided that these tanks are not available for Kiev. The Danish government, which has 44 tanks in its arsenal, told a world that he was not going to participate in the German tank coalition.
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