Russia’s foreign minister accused the West of waging a “hybrid war” against Moscow and said the EU had an “aggressive political object. “
EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn explained the plans at a news conference on Thursday.
Vladimir Putin has called on Russia to have at least 8 children, as the death toll in Ukraine continues to rise.
In a speech on Tuesday, he said that expanding Russia’s population and making giant families “the norm” is “our goal for decades to come,” the Independent reports.
“A lot of our peers have the culture of family, where you raise four, five or more kids,” he said.
“Let us remember that in Russian families our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven and eight children. Let us maintain and revive those traditions. “
Russia does not routinely publish the death toll in the war in Ukraine, but Kyiv claims to have killed more than 328,000 enemy infantrymen since the start of the full-scale invasion.
According to British intelligence, a new department of Russia’s vaunted airborne forces, the VDV, will most likely be deployed to Ukraine for the first time.
In the past, the VDV was considered a highly professional unit, specializing in automobiles and heavy weapons.
But like the rest of the Russian military, it suffered major losses in the war in Ukraine.
Now, a new 104th Guards Airborne Division will most likely be sent to Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday.
In its latest intelligence update, the Defense Ministry said the unit is most likely meeting in the Kherson region.
But he adds, “The department is most likely poorly trained and meets the elite standards of the VDV. “
Flashback to February 2022: Readers may remember one notable Russian VDV involvement in the war in Ukraine: the war over an airport just six miles from kyiv.
On the first day of the full-scale invasion, VDV forces introduced an airstrike on Antonov Airport in the hope that it could be temporarily captured and used as a base from which to land troops and overwhelm Kyiv.
But Ukrainian forces put up fierce resistance and lost control of the base for a time; They managed to repel the attack through the supposedly elite Russian troops.
Ukraine participates in discussions on the EU’s defense strategy, the bloc’s leader said.
Smoke rises from what was destroyed after a Russian missile strike.
In footage released by Ukrainian police, emergency crews are seen struggling with a ladder as they searched through rubble after the attack in the city of Novohrodivka.
According to Kyiv, the latest Russian missile strikes in Ukraine have left one dead and ten wounded.
Five other people appear to be trapped in the rubble after the cities of Pokrovsk, Novohrodivka and Myrnohrad were set on fire, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Telegram (see message at 09:39).
President Volodymyr Zelensky made another visit to the front, this time to greet troops near the Kupyansk sector on the northeastern front line.
He announced the scale on Thursday on his social media.
“The fighters of the Kupiansk Front promote the peaceful life of Ukrainians, citizens of the Kharkiv region,” he said.
“I thank the warriors for their service, for protecting our state! I wish them victory, may they stay and maintain the momentum. “
“There is no conflict” between Volodymyr Zelensky and the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, an adviser to the president said.
The claim comes after rumours circulated of a rift between the two men following the army chief’s interview with The Economist.
President Zelensky later rejected claims that the war with Russia is at a “stalemate” but claimed that Kyiv’s progress had been slow and said there was “fatigue” in the face of the conflict.
Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak now insists there is “no conflict” between the two men.
He told Radio Svoboda that there were “situational discussions” and claimed that the two men are constantly communicating.
Ukraine says its air defense systems destroyed 14 of the 20 drones introduced in a Russian attack in the middle of the night.
To put it in context: last night’s attack appears to be an escalation in recent days.
However, there have been hypotheses that Russia would possibly one day try to destroy or compromise Ukraine’s power grid, in a repeat of waves of missile and drone attacks from last year into the colder months.
Russia has criticized Bulgaria for refusing to allow Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s plane to fly over its airspace.