The eastern city of Bakhmut is where Moscow is focusing all of its efforts, according to Ukraine, which described the situation there as “tough” but claimed it was holding out despite Russia’s numerical superiority. Serhiy Cherevatyi.
A spokesman for Eastern Military Command, claimed that Ukraine was in control of the situation in Bakhmut, knew Russian aims, and that Moscow had tactical success in some locations but was incurring heavy costs as a result.
The West Bank of the Bakhmutka River has likely been taken over by Russian forces, according to earlier statements.
Made by the UK Ministry of Defence in its daily intelligence briefing. West of the town, a vital supply line for Ukraine is probably seriously jeopardised.
The New York Times says that the Pentagon is looking into a security breach that resulted in documents detailing US and NATO preparations to assist Ukraine in getting ready for a spring operation against Russia being leaked to social media sites.
According to the Times, the documents—which were shared on Twitter and Telegram—contain graphs and information regarding weapon supplies, battalion strengths, and other sensitive data.
The most recent document, which is dated March 1, has information that is at least five weeks old, according to the study.
The documents also include expenditure rates for weapons that are in Ukraine military control. Such as the US-made artillery rocket system Himars, which has shown to be very effective against Russian soldiers.
According to a report in the New York Times, military analysts warn that it appears that some documents have been altered as part of a Russian misinformation campaign.
In one document, Russian fighting casualties are downplayed while Ukrainian army deaths are exaggerated.
At a meeting, the supreme command of the Ukrainian armed forces’ headquarters addressed ways to stop military information breaches.
There was no mention of a leak in the presidential statement. Kiev also characterised the leaked documents as a Russian ploy to spread misinformation.
Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, and Mevlüt avuşolu, the foreign minister of Turkey, discussed what Lavrov referred to as a “failure” to put the terms of the Black Sea grain initiative into effect during a news conference on Friday.
Lavrov said that obstacles to Russian agricultural exports were getting tougher.
Before the agreement could be extended further, avuşolu claimed he agreed with Russia that export restrictions on Russian grain and fertiliser needed to be lifted.
According to the new Polish agricultural minister Robert Telus, grain imports from Ukraine would temporarily be banned to lessen the impact on prices, although transit will still be permitted.
Thousands of farmers have been protesting across Romania about the effect of Ukrainian grain imports on prices, blocking traffic and border checks with tractors and trucks, and calling on the European Commission to step in.
According to the Russian state-run news outlet Tass, Russian security services claim to have “detained a member of the Ukrainian security service and his accomplice.
In the Kherson region, who were gathering information on the deployment and movement of soldiers.”
In order to end the conflict with Russia, which annexed the peninsula in 2014, Ukraine has rejected the idea made by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil.
On Friday afternoon in Guangzhou, the Chinese president Xi Jinping will meet with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, informally.
When French president Macron encouraged Beijing to reason with Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. Xi signalled his willingness to speak with Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday, according to the chairman of the European Commission.
Xi responded by saying he hoped Moscow and Kyiv could hold peace talks as soon as possible.
Xi has attempted to position China as a potential mediator in the conflict but is seen by the West as favouring Russia.
The likelihood of peace talks beginning this year, according to a Putin adviser, was rated as “zero,” and a top Ukrainian official rejected the idea of negotiations with Moscow until it withdrew all of its troops.
This decision was made in response to a colleague who had advocated for negotiations to end the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
The Washington Post is running an advertisement calling for the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in Russia on suspicion of spying.
Gershkovich has received the highest press freedom award from the US National Press Club. The fourth-largest city in Russia, Ekaterinburg, saw the arrest of 31-year-old Gershkovich on Thursday.
He is the first US correspondent detained on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War. The Journal refuted the accusations.
Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, and Vladimir Putin spoke Thursday in Moscow about enhancing defence relations and enhancing economic cooperation between the two nations.
Senior Russian and Belarusian officials conducted talks at the Kremlin on Thursday, which came after the presidents’ private meeting on Wednesday.
