Ukraine War News | Russian soldiers must shoot their own people trying to escape

475th day since the start of the war: Russian troops reportedly shoot the fleeing comrades. Putin honors wounded soldiers. All information on news blog.

2:13 am: US has expressed concern over possible arms sales from North Korea to Russia. A US State Department spokesman says North Korea sent arms including anti-personnel missiles and rockets to the Wagner mercenary group in November 2022, despite reports to the contrary by the government in Pyongyang. “We are concerned that the DPRK plans to supply more military equipment to Russia.” The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is the official name of North Korea. In March, the United States said Russia was trying to get more weapons from North Korea in exchange for food aid. They imposed sanctions on a man who allegedly tried to broker North Korean weapons to Russia. North Korea wants closer ties with the Kremlin and defends Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

12:10 am: President Olaf Scholz spoke in principle for security guarantees for Ukraine. “We need something like that. And we need it in a very concrete form,” he said ahead of meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish President Andrzej Duda in Paris.

11:47 PM: According to “RTL Direkt”, Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) has announced further military aid to the country in the wake of reports of the destruction of 2 Leopard tanks in Ukraine. “We cannot replace every non-functional tank now. But what we are doing (…), we will continue to supply repaired Leopard 1 A5 tanks from July,” the broadcaster quoted the minister as saying. They said. “By the end of the year it will be over 100.” Unfortunately, it is part of the nature of war that weapons and tanks are destroyed and people are killed. “That’s why our support for Ukraine is so important.”

11:06 PM: According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian armed forces are advancing despite rain and heavy fighting. “The fight is fierce, but we are moving and that is important,” he said in a video address. “All we need is enemy casualties.”

9.45 pm: Polish President Andrzej Duda has appealed to NATO member states to give Ukraine a perspective in the security alliance. “Ukraine is waiting for a clear signal of a clear opportunity for NATO membership,” Duda said Monday after talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and before a joint meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholes (SPD) in Paris.

This is the expectation of the Ukrainian leadership and soldiers defending the country attacked by Russia. He hopes the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius will bring the “light at the end of the tunnel” that Ukraine has been longing for, Duda said.

Trilateral meetings between Germany, France and Poland are known as the “Weimar Triangle”. The debate format was established in Weimar, Thuringia in August 1991 by the then foreign ministers Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Roland Dumas and Krzysztof Skubiszewski. It initially served primarily to bring Poland and other Eastern European countries closer to the EU and NATO.

9:25 pm: According to French President Emmanuel Macron, the Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian troops could last “weeks or months.” “We hope he will win as much as possible so that we can start the negotiation phase under good conditions,” Macron said at the start of a meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholes (SPD) and Polish President Andrzej Duda in Paris on Monday.

The goal is to “help Ukraine recover territory, but never attack Russia.” “We continue to deliver and try to keep the delivered items operational,” Macron said, referring to support provided to Ukraine through arms deliveries and maintenance.