Thursday, February 2. Russia’s War On Ukraine: Daily News And Information From Ukraine

Forbes Thursday, February 2. Russia’s War On Ukraine: Daily News And Information From Ukraine Katya Soldak Forbes Staff Forbes Ukraine Forbes Staff Feb 2, 2023, 06:55pm EST | Press play to listen to this article! Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – A dead body lies on the ground in front of an apartment building which . .

. [+] was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023.

At least 3 people were killed and 21 wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Yevgen Honcharenko) Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Dispatches from Ukraine.

Day 344. As Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues and the war rages on, reliable sources of information are critical. Forbes gathers information and provides updates on the situation.

National. Donetsk region. Russian forces shelled residential areas of Kramatorsk tonight, reports Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.

Three people were killed and 17 wounded at an apartment building in the center of the city. Rescue services worked at the site through the night, providing first aid and clearing the rubble. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack.

The Ukrainian General Staff says that the air force struck Russian troop concentrations and shot down a Merlin UAV today . In its daily briefing, the General Staff assessed total Russian combat losses as of February 2 as 129,030 (+610 in the past 24 hours) soldiers killed in action, 3,211 (+2) tanks, 2,212 (+5) artillery systems, 222 (+1) anti-aircraft systems and 5,064 (+3) vehicles and fuel tanks destroyed. World.

The European Union will train 15,000 more Ukrainian troops and allocate €25 million for the country’s de-mining , says Josep Borrell, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs. “Glad to announce to PM Denys Shmyhal that EU Military Assistance Mission will train additional 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers, taking the total number of EUMAM trained personnel to 30,000. .

. and will provide €25 million to support demining efforts in endangered areas. Protecting civilians and their livelihood is a priority,” states Borrell.

Along with other Commissioners, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, arrived in Kyiv yesterday for the fourth time since Russia invaded Ukraine . “We are here together to show that the EU stands by Ukraine as firmly as ever. And to deepen further our support and cooperation,” von der Leyen wrote .

She met with President Zelenskyy today to discuss Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction plan and related matters. “We also considered new sanctions against Russia, including the tenth EU sanctions package. ” said President Zelenskyy afterwards, and emphasized the need to prevent Russia from circumventing sanctions.

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Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles confirmed the promised delivery while visiting Latvia last week. The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a statement regarding life-threatening conditions for Mikheil Saakashvili. Once the president of Georgia, Saakashvili, who also is a Ukrainian citizen, is imprisoned in Georgia on charges of abuse of power, a charge that’s been viewed as politically motivated.

After several hunger strikes, he has lost approximately 100 pounds. The Ministry accused the Georgian government, in the “worst tradition” of Soviet secret police, of physically and psychologically abusing him, as well as denying him urgently needed medical assistance, and called on Georgia to send him to Ukraine. On The Culture Front.

I Quaderni del Bardo, the Italian publishing house, has issued ‘ Solar Clarinets,’ an anthology of Ukrainian poetry edited by literary critic Dmytro Tchystiak and translated into French and Italian by Laura Caraviglia and Annarita Tavani . The anthology consists of works by more than 50 Ukrainian writers, classic and contemporary, says Tchystiak. “The fifty poets gathered under this cover give an idea of contemporary trends in Ukrainian poetry, starting with the founder of the new Ukrainian literature Taras Shevchenko, passing through the great representative of modernism Pavlo Tychyna[,] who had a great impact on the generation of neo-modernists of the 60s, the restorers of Ukrainian archetypal structures (‘School of Kyiv’)[,] and up to the generation of the 2010s.

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