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9:06 p.m .: In his eyes, “no side can fully assert itself. Neither Ukraine nor Russia, because the effects of mobilization are not as significant as expected and even have capacity limits.”
9:05 p.m .: After returning from the Munich Security Conference, the French President granted an interview to France Inter, Le Figaro and the JDD. Almost exactly a year to the day after the beginning of the Russian invasion, he specified his vision for the Ukraine conflict. “I want Russia’s defeat in Ukraine and I want Ukraine to be able to defend its position,” declared the head of state. But I am convinced that in the end it will not be solved militarily some that Russia must be completely defeated, attacked on its soil.
(ODD ANDERSEN / AFP)
9:04 p.m.: “Breaking up Russia has never been France’s position and never will be,” Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with multiple media outlets.
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8:39 p.m .: In an interview with Le Parisien, Sébastien Lecornu does not rule out training Ukrainian pilots like the British do. The question of the delivery of combat aircraft is “not taboo,” asserted the Federal Defense Minister.
8:31 p.m .: The Netherlands today announced the expulsion of a dozen Russian diplomats they accuse of being spies. “Despite many attempts by the Netherlands to find a solution, Russia continues to try to install intelligence officers in the Netherlands under diplomatic cover,” said Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra, “that cannot and will not allow it.”
(EVERT ELZINGA / ANP)
6.45 p.m .: In a forum at the JDD, the Ukrainian President’s chief of staff spoke out against the participation of Russian or Belarusian athletes in the Olympics in Paris. “Allowing Russian athletes to the 2024 Olympic Games would be a disaster,” says Andriy Yermak.
5:30 p.m.: “Thank you for your service, thank you for your life, glory to the hero.” The Ukraine Dijon Besançon club paid tribute to Andreas Gallozzi, this Dijonais in his 20s who was killed by a Russian bombardment in eastern Ukraine. He is the third French fighter to fall on the Ukrainian battlefield since the beginning of the war.
3:20 p.m .: “The biggest risk of all is that Putin wins. If Putin wins in Ukraine, the message for him and other authoritarian leaders will be that they can use violence to get what they want.”
On the second day of the annual security conference in Munich, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said there was “no indication” that Vladimir Putin “has changed his ambitions”. Ukraine’s western allies have pressed again to give Ukraine what it needs to defeat Russia.
2:51 p.m .: Ten Ukrainian regions have been the target of strikes in the past 24 hours, says President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “The Terror State [russe] continues to try to intimidate the civilian population,” he writes, referring to the “dead and injured”.
(VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY / TELEGRAM)
2:10 p.m.: Two Russian cruise missiles flew “dangerously close” to the nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, Energoatom says in a statement (in Ukrainian). The projectiles were fired in the direction of Pervomaisk in the Mykholaïv region, the company continued, denouncing an “act of nuclear terrorism”.
2:37 p.m.: Washington has formally determined “that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine,” said Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States, in a speech at the Munich Security Conference. She added that those who committed these crimes, as well as their superiors, would be “held accountable”.
(THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)
2:35 p.m.: The Russian army, in its daily update (in Russian), claims the capture of the village of Gryanikovka in the Kharkiv region. In this sector, Russian troops have been on the offensive for several weeks, in parallel with movements around Bakhmout and Vougledar. This information was not commented on by Kiev and could not be independently confirmed.
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