Here are the cardinal developments connected the 1,083rd time of Russia’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine.
Published On 11 Feb 2025
Here is the concern connected Tuesday, February 11:
Fighting
- A pistillate was injured and 5 houses damaged successful an overnight Russian drone onslaught connected Ukraine’s northeastern metropolis of Sumy, determination authoritative Ihor Kalchenko said. A abstracted onslaught connected a non-residential gathering successful Kyiv besides sparked a fire, the capital’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said.
- Russia’s Defence Ministry said aerial defence units intercepted and destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones overnight. Seven were downed implicit Russia’s confederate Krasnodar region, portion the remainder were destroyed successful the country’s confederate and occidental regions, the ministry said.
- The Ukrainian subject said it changeable down 61 retired of 83 drones launched by Russia overnight, portion conscionable much than 20 of the unmanned aerial vehicles failed to scope their targets, the subject added.
Russian Gas & Oil
- Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Rocean said the country’s pro-Russian breakaway enclave, Transnistria, has rejected the European Union’s 60 cardinal euro ($61.8m) connection to money state purchases. Rocean said, “Russia does not let them to judge European assistance for fearfulness of losing power implicit the region.”
- Transnistria’s leader, Vadim Krasnoselsky, said a Hungarian institution was arranging to proviso state to the separatist enclave with “Russian recognition and functional support”. Recean said state would commencement flowing nether this statement arsenic aboriginal arsenic February 13.
Politics & Diplomacy
- Russian authorities quality bureau RIA quoted the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin arsenic saying that Moscow had not received immoderate satisfactory proposals to commencement a ceasefire speech with Ukraine.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping accepted Russia’s invitation to be commemorations of the Soviet triumph implicit Nazi Germany successful World War II, Moscow’s authorities quality bureau TASS reported. May 9 marks the 80th day of the victory.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to be the Munich Security Conference, wherever Moscow’s penetration of Ukraine volition beryllium precocious connected the agenda. Senior representatives from United States President Donald Trump’s medication volition besides be the conference, which starts connected Friday and wherever talks are expected to instrumentality spot connected the sidelines.
- News website Semafor cited 3 unnamed Western officials arsenic saying that Trump’s peculiar envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, had told allies that helium was preparing options to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine. Kellogg is scheduled to sojourn Ukraine connected February 20, the AFP quality bureau reports, citing a root successful the White House.
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- In a video released by Ukrainian media, Zelenskyy said that “serious people” from the Trump medication would beryllium visiting Ukraine up of the Munich Security Conference. Zelenskyy besides plans to person a gathering with US Vice President JD Vance astatine the information conference, the AFP reports.
- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said determination was nary statement betwixt Moscow and Washington connected high-level contacts betwixt Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump. Ryabkov besides said it would beryllium intolerable to scope an statement connected ending the warfare if basal causes successful Ukraine were not addressed, and the Kremlin was acceptable for dialog “on an adjacent basis”.
- Ryabkov besides said each demands enactment distant by Putin successful June to extremity the struggle with Ukraine indispensable beryllium met earlier immoderate colony is possible. These conditions see Ukraine dropping its NATO ambitions and withdrawing troops from 4 Ukrainian regions claimed by Russia.
- The US determination to frost overseas assistance has begun threatening six investigations by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into Russia’s alleged warfare crimes, the Reuters quality bureau reports, citing 8 sources and a Ukrainian document. The warfare crimes probes are reportedly valued astatine $89m, with funds for astatine slightest 5 of the projects frozen.
- Alice Jill Edwards, the United Nations peculiar rapporteur connected torture, has called connected Moscow to supply contiguous and broad aesculapian attraction to astatine slightest 8 Ukrainian civilians held successful Russia, who are primitively from Crimea. “Urgent enactment is needed to support their lives,” she said.
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