Hundreds of bombs on Ukraine, Zelensky withdraws Kiev from the Ottawa convention against anti -human mines

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A “Combined attack on vast scaleOf the Russians pierced the Ukrainian night: beyond 500 drones And missiles launched in different regions of the country, including Kiev and the western one of Leopoliwho pushed the Poland to raise his hunting in flight to monitor the boundaries. It is a new record for attack intensity, yet another act of this infinite war without apparent spirals of respite. The Kremlinwho refuses to return to the negotiation if theWest He will still raise the pressure with the sanctions, and confirms it Volodymyr Zelenskywho decided to withdraw Kiev from the international treaty against Anti -man’s mines. Accusing the Russia to continue to use them “against our soldiers and civilians”.

The anti -aircraft defenses of Kievbetween Saturday and Sunday, they were forced once again to the extraordinary in the face of the enemy’s fire power. THE’aeronautics reported about 477 drones And 60 missiles of various types launched by the Russian bombers. Almost all drones e 39 missiles they would have been intercepted, while those who managed to break through have caused the demolition of a hunt F-16 and the killing of the pilot and several wounded among civilians on the ground, according to what reported by the local authorities. Most (11 including 2 children) in the central region of Cherkasybut also a Ivano-Frankivsk in the west. A man was killed aboard a car a Kharkiv. The Russian army instead said that only sites of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex and oil refineries were affected.

On the ground, in the last few days the assaults of the Russian infantry have recorded an advance on the border between the regions of Donetsk And Dnipropetrovskconquering two urban centers. The Ukrainian General Staff estimated 110 thousand soldiers enemies concentrated in this line of the front (compared to 70 thousand of December). Especially around the city of Pokrovskwhere they verify at least 50 clashes on fire a day. The containment of thePutin armed in the north-eastern region of Sumy.

With his armed forces in difficulty, Zelensky He made a controversial decision, which must now be ratified by Parliament: withdraw the country from Ottawa Conventionwhich prohibits signatories (160 countriesbut not United States And Russia) to acquire, produce, or use Anti -man’s mines. Ordigns who according to humanitarian organizations put civilians at risk, remaining unexploded underground for a long time. A similar step had already been taken in recent months by Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estoniaall neighboring with the Russia. The Ukrainian leader, always in the logic of strengthening the defenses, renewed the request to Donald Trump to buy new systems Patriot. From the White house However, an answer has not yet arrived.

Washington In the meantime, keeps the channels open with Fly. The director of theRussian foreign intelligence Sergei Naryshkin made it known to have spoken for the second time in three months with the head of the Cia John Ratcliffe. “We agreed to call us at any time to discuss issues of our interest,” he made it known NARYSHKINin the context of a growing rapprochement between USA And Russia. In any case, however Trump wants to maintain a form of pressure on Putin to push him to seriously treat peace. So much so that he urged the republicans to “move” on the approval of the law that would authorize the White house to impose new sanctions. The senator revealed it Lindset Grahamone of the most powerful and closest to the president.

The spectrum of new economic retaliation agitates Fly. «He wants to defeat us strategically using theUkraine Like Aries but it will not succeed », is the warning of the Foreign Minister Serghiei Lavrov. And “the more serious the measures, the more serious our answer will be”, the spokesman for Putin, Dmitry Peskovin the days when theEU has renewed all the restrictions in force by another six months, while a 18th package.