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Volodymyr Zelenskiy has spoken of putting together “new bilateral agreements” that will “reanimate” the system of international law. He added that new military packages will be delivered “ in the coming weeks and months”.
The UK’s Ministry of Defence has reported that Ukraine maintains a presence on the left bank of the Dnipro River and has continued to repel Russian attacks despite “logistical concerns”.
Russian lawmakers have prepared a bill allowing for the confiscation of money and property from people who spread “deliberately false information” about the country’s armed forces, a senior member of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin said on Saturday, Reuters has reported.
Russia has lost 375,270 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said on Saturday. This number includes 750 casualties over the past day.
Russian troops have reinstalled mines along the perimeter of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in the occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast, the Euromaidan Press website has reported, citing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The wife of a Russian soldier delivered an emotional appeal for his return from Ukraine on Saturday at the election headquarters of President Vladimir Putin – it was a defiant gesture by Maria Andreyeva in a country where open criticism of the war is banned.
Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of the Ukrainian presidency, has referenced a quote from Winston Churchill in an interview with Le Figaro. Discussing the war in Ukraine, he said: “Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”
Romanian protesters have ended their blockade at the Porubne-Siret crossing along the Romanian-Ukrainian border the Kyiv Independent reported, citing the border guard service.
Russian forces launched seven Shahed-136/131 attack drones against Ukraine overnight, four of which were shot down by Ukraine’s air defence, according to a morning update from the general staff.
Russia has accused Ukraine of being behind a drone strike that sparked a huge inferno at an oil depot in western Russia on Friday, the latest in a series of escalating cross-border attacks. Russian officials and news reports said four oil reservoirs with a total capacity of 6,000 cubic metres (1.6m gallons) were set on fire at the oil refinery after the drone reached Klintsy, a city of 70,000 people located about 60km (40 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy has spoken of putting together “new bilateral agreements” that will “reanimate” the system of international law.
He added that new military packages will be delivered “ in the coming weeks and months”.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, he wrote:
Next week will see more international work, including those with our EU partners. We will increase activity. This is also true for security commitments from partners. We are putting together new, strong bilateral agreements. January and February must produce more results in this area. We can already see specific dates when such new and powerful documents may be signed.
I am grateful to our entire team that participates in the relevant negotiations, as well as all leaders and nations that are prepared to take truly ambitious steps. By developing such a new security commitment architecture, we are effectively reanimating the system of international law. And when justice and security are restored in Ukraine, this will also work for the rest of the world.
We are also working with key partners on specific military aid packages that will be delivered right now, in the coming weeks and months. I thank all of Ukraine’s friends around the world who understand that the battlefield cannot simply wait and that life-saving efforts cannot be postponed, as well as those who work to expedite decisions that are needed right now.
Next week will see more international work, including those with our EU partners. We will increase activity.
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) January 20, 2024
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