In the usual evening message the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky throws another request they thank all the countries that are helping Kiev: “Weapons on the battlefield. A weapon that protects our sky. New sanctions against Russia. But we must also work even more actively to create a court on the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine. Only weapons neutralize terrorists. In particular, we are expanding our tank coalition. To date we have 12 countries and a few hours ago the news that Canada also joined the coalition of tanks ".
Zelensky now wants effective air defense. The request is to have modern fighter aircraft equipped.
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Moscow's response to the provocations due to the shipment of new weapons to Ukraine was immediate. According to the monitoring group Belarusian Gayun, two Russian Air Force aircraft took off yesterday morning from the Machulishchy base in Belarus. A surveillance plane and a MiG-31K, equipped with hypersonic missiles Kinzhal. We are talking about hypersonic ballistic missiles capable of flying at speeds close to Mach 10, tracing trajectories designed to saturate the calculation capabilities of the opposing anti-missile systems, drastically reducing the probability of interception.
Ukraine managed to intercept and shoot down 47 of the 55 missiles fired by the Russians. In Odessa, according to local authorities, two unidentified energy infrastructures were hit by the rain of missiles. The Ukrainian Defense Forces reported “missiles also in the direction of Vinnytsia and the Kiev region. Some missiles flew through the Kharkiv region, others through Vinnytsia in a westerly direction”,
The population has been asked to remain in shelters, according to the first reports yesterday's strike caused at least 11 civilian victims.
Kiev is in the dark. This was announced by a Ukrainian energy operator: "The power supply to Kiev and three regions of Ukraine has been cut off following Russian attacks this morning“. Emergency blackout also in the Odessa region. According to the main private supplier in Ukraine Dtek the power outage could last several days. Dtek explained that due to the damage caused to the region's energy infrastructure by yesterday's Russian attacks, the repair work could take a long time.
The first tanks of the West as early as the end of March
Germany plans to deliver its Leopard tanks to Ukraine”at the end of March, beginning of April", according to the forecasts of the German government. “I am convinced that Poland will deliver Leopard tanks to Ukraine within a few weeks”. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of National Defense Wojciech Skurkiewicz speaking to the Polish broadcaster Radio Plus, relaunched by the Ukrainian media. “As soon as they are trained, we will be ready to hand over this equipment to the Ukrainian side”, added the deputy minister, recalling that Warsaw is ready to send a company of 14 German-made tanks to Kiev.
Italy and France close to the agreement for the Samp-T system
As reported by Ansa, France and Italy are close to defining the technical details for the supply of the air defense system Samp-T to Ukraine. Two diplomatic sources told Reuters, although it is not clear how quickly a final decision will come. French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu he will travel to Italy today to meet his counterpart Guido Crosetto, Reuters adds.
Zelensky does not want to meet Putin: "For me he is nobody"
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky he said, in an interview with Sky News, of “don't be interested” to meet Vladimir Putin for peace talks. The Russian president is "nobody", he lives in an "information bubble" and does not know what is happening on the battlefield. Meeting Putin “is not interesting to me. It's not interesting to meet, it's not interesting to talk. Because? Because we had a meeting with him in Normandy format, it was before the invasion: I saw him say one thing and then he did another"Zelensky explained. “I can't understand: are his decisions or someone else's? So meet for what, shake hands? I am not interested. Speak? I really don't understand who makes the decisions in Russia”, he added. “After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he is nobody, nobody for me.”