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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not “quite sure” that Russian President Vladimir Putin is still alive and let him make the decisions in Russia: this is what the Ukrainian leader said during his Videolink speech at the Davos Economic Forum. “I’m not sure who and what to talk to. I’m not sure if the Russian president who sometimes speaks out against chroma key is really him,” Zelenskyy replied when asked about the possibility of peace talks . The Kremlin immediately replied: “Russia and Putin exist and will exist,” and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should realize this as soon as possible for the good of his country, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said

The Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has meanwhile announced this Sweden will supply Kyiv with long-range artillery systems Archer, in the day since morning was shot all over Ukraine air raid alarm, according to reports of the head of the Lviv military administration Maksym Kozytskyi. Sweden’s announcement provoked a reaction from Moscow. Western shipments of new weapons to Ukraine could take the conflict to a new level, warned iPeskov, quoted by Tass.

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, has arrived in Kyiv “to discuss all aspects of cooperation,” as he himself announced on Twitter, posting a photo of a hug with Olga Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. “May 2023 be the year of victory and peace,” wrote Michel.

Zelensky also explained in connection with Davos that there are such “Different” theories about the causes of the Ukrainian rescue helicopter tragedy which fell outside Kyiv yesterday, causing the deaths of 14 people, is under investigation. The investigation into the helicopter crash near Kyiv that killed Ukraine’s interior minister and 13 other people yesterday is “evaluating several theories,” Zelensky said. “The investigations are ongoing. Various theories are being investigated and I have no authority to speak about the various hypotheses until the investigation is complete,” added the President of Ukraine. Referring to the tragedy, Zelensky said yesterday, again in the Davos Forum, that “this is not an accident because it is due to war and war has many dimensions, not only on the battlefield. In war there are no accidents, they are all consequences of war”.

In his speech at the economic forum, Zelenskyy reiterated that he intends to retake Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, and called on Western partners to supply more weapons. “Our goal is to liberate all our territories,” he said via videoconference during a breakfast on the sidelines of the forum. “Crimea is our land, territory, sea and mountains. Give us your guns and we’ll get our land back,” he added.

The Ukrainian President has criticized Germany’s reluctance to supply its modern Leopard tanks in Kyiv that this is not the “right strategy”. “There are times when one should not hesitate or confront. If someone says ‘I’ll give the tanks if someone else shares them,'” Zelenskyy said via video link at the Davos Economic Forum. “I don’t think this is the right strategy,” he added. The Ukrainian leader referred to media rumors that Berlin would only deliver Leopard tanks if the United States sent their Abrams tanks.

Four civilians were injured in yesterday’s Russian shelling in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine: Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko announced this, the Kyiv Independent reported. According to Kyrylenko, the wounded were reported in Avdiivka, Chromovo, Ivanivskoye and Chasiv Yar. It is currently not possible to determine the number of people injured or killed in Russian-held Mariupol and Volnovakha, he added.

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council and a close ally of Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, on the eve of the Contact Group meeting at the Ramstein military base in Germany, once again raises the specter of a nuclear war in Ukraine. “Tomorrow at the NATO base in Ramstein, the major military leaders will discuss new tactics and strategies, as well as the delivery of new heavy weapons and attack systems to Ukraine,” the former Russian president and prime minister wrote on Telegram. “And that was right after the Davos Forum, where the patrons of underdeveloped political parties repeated like a mantra: ‘To win peace, Russia must lose.’ And it never occurs to any of them to draw the following elementary conclusion: the defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war can lead to the outbreak of a nuclear war,” stresses Medvedev. “Nuclear powers have not lost any major conflicts on which their fate depends. But that should be clear to everyone. Even a Western politician who has retained at least a trace of intelligence.”

The new US mega-military aid package to Ukraine will be worth a total of about $2.5 billion, reports CNN, citing two well-informed sources. This is one of the largest packages announced by Washington since the war began last February. The package, which has not yet been finalized, will include Stryker combat vehicles for the first time. The new help, the American broadcaster writes on its website, could be completed by the end of the week.