Volodymyr Zelensky is not “totally sure” that Russian President Vladimir Putin is still alive And let him make decisions in Russia. The Ukrainian president said this during his speech via video link at the Davos Economic Forum. Asked about the possibility of peace talks, Zelensky responded: “I’m not sure who I’m talking to and what. I’m not sure if the Russian president, who sometimes appears against the chroma key, is really him.” Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin responded immediately, saying: “Russia and Putin exist and will exist” and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should realize this as soon as possible for the good of his country.
Meanwhile, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Christerson announced this Sweden will supply long-range artillery systems to Kyiv Archer, that day, since the morning, was shot all over Ukraine air raid alarm, According to reports from the head of the Lviv military department, Maxim Kozitsky. Sweden’s announcement provoked a reaction from Moscow. Western supplies of new weapons to Ukraine may raise the conflict to a new level, iPeskov warned, citing TASS.
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, arrived in Kyiv “To discuss all aspects of cooperation,” he himself declared on Twitter, posting a photo of an embrace with Olga Stefanyshina, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine. Michel wrote: “May 2023 is the year of victory and peace.”
# Kyiv to discuss all areas of cooperation.
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– CharlesMichel January 19, 2023
Zelensky in contact with Davos also made it clear that there “Different” theories about the causes of the Ukrainian emergency service helicopter tragedy Which fell yesterday at the gates of Kyiv, causing the death of 14 people under investigation. Zelensky said “several theories are being evaluated” in the investigation into the helicopter crash near Kyiv that killed the Ukrainian interior minister and 13 other people yesterday. “The investigation is underway. Various theories are under investigation, and I am not authorized to talk about the different hypotheses until the investigations are over,” the Ukrainian president added. Referring to the tragedy, Zelensky said yesterday, again at the Davos Forum, that “This is not an accident because it is because of war and war has many dimensions not only on the battlefield. In war there are no accidents, these are all the results of war.”
In his speech at the Economic Forum, Zelensky reiterated his intention to recover Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, and asked Western partners to provide more weapons. “Our goal is to liberate all our lands,” he said via video conference during an iftar banquet on the sidelines of the forum. “Crimea is our land, our land, our sea and our mountains. Give us your weapons and we will take back our land,” he added.
The Ukrainian president criticized Germany’s reluctance to provide modern Leopard tanks In Kyiv, noting that this is not the “correct strategy”. Speaking at the Davos Economic Forum via video link, Zelensky said: “There are times when you should not hesitate or be confrontational. When someone says ‘I’ll give the tanks if someone else shares them too’: ‘I don’t think that’s the right strategy to follow.'” The Ukrainian leader was referring to media rumors that Berlin would only deliver Leopard tanks if the United States sent Abrams tanks.
Four civilians were wounded during yesterday’s Russian bombing of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine: Governor Pavlo Kirilenko announced this, Kyiv Independent reports. Kirilenko stated that the wounded were reported in Avdiivka, Khromovo, Ivanevskoye and Chasev Yar. He added that it is not possible at this time to determine the number of wounded or dead in Mariupol and Volnovaka occupied by Russia.
The deputy head of the Russian Security Council and close ally of Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, once again raises the specter of nuclear war in Ukraine on the eve of the Contact Group meeting at the Ramstein military base in Germany. “Tomorrow, at the NATO base in Ramstein, senior military leaders will discuss new tactics and strategies, as well as the supply of heavy weapons and new offensive systems to Ukraine,” the former Russian president and prime minister wrote on Telegram. “And this was immediately after the Davos forum, where the sponsors of backward political parties repeated like a slogan:” In order to achieve peace, Russia must lose. “And it never occurred to any of them to come to the following preliminary conclusion: the defeat of the presence of a nuclear power in a conventional war could lead to the outbreak of a nuclear war,” Medvedev emphasizes. “The nuclear powers have not lost major conflicts on which their fate depends. But this should be obvious to anyone. Even a Western politician who has preserved at least a trace of intelligence.”
The massive new US military aid package to Ukraine will total about $2.5 billion: CNN reports, citing two informed sources. This is one of the largest packages announced by Washington since the beginning of the war last February. The package, which has yet to be finalized, will include Stryker combat vehicles for the first time. And the American broadcaster wrote on its website that the new aid could end by the end of the week.
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