Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated on Monday that Russia and Belarus can producing “any type of weapon” and can export such items to 57 nations worldwide, preventing sanctions on weapons production.

“Despite unprecedented sanctions pressure, we produce sufficient quantities of weapons and military equipment to meet the needs of the Belarusian army. This is due to the fact that all we need in terms of military hardware we easily receive from Russia,” the president stated throughout a conference on military procurement that was published on the Lukashenko- lined up Pul Pervogo Telegram channel.

“But as far as microelectronics, optical electronics, optics, etc. are concerned, kudos to those who preserved the legacy of the Soviet Union, and therefore, together with Russia, we are capable of manufacturing any type of weapon,” Lukashenko included.

“We can also afford to export this sort of product to 57 countries of the world. This is what we are doing”, he included.

Lukashenko’s newest remarks begin the eve of his journey toChina The U.S. has actually alerted Beijing versus providing weapons to Russia as Moscow searches for other sources of military hardware.

Belarus has actually looked for to avoid of actively taking part in the war while helping Russia in terms where it can, having actually enabled Russia to release its preliminary intrusion of northern Ukraine from Belarusian area.

Last Monday, Lukashenko stated he had actually purchased the development of a brand-new volunteer territorial defense of as much as 150,000 individuals. And on Friday, he stated he ‘d had a long chat with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on the very first anniversary of the intrusion of Ukraine.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged Monday that the scenario is weakening around Bakhmut, a besieged mining city in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine that has actually been an essential target for Russia for months.

“[In the] Bakhmut instructions – the scenario is getting increasingly more hard,” Zelenskyy stated in his nighttime address. “The enemy is constantly destroying everything that can be used to protect our positions, to gain a foothold and ensure defense,” he included.

Zelenskyy stated those safeguarding Bakhmut and the surrounding location are “real heroes” and stated authorities are doing what they can to make sure Ukrainian forces “have as many weapons, long-range weapons, powerful weapons as possible.”

Russian forces and personal military professionals coming from the Wagner Group have actually been attempting to record Bakhmut for months, with the city and surrounding location a scene of mass damage, although a number of thousand civilians are thought to stay in the city.

Because of the large scale of barrage and workforce tossed at Bakhmut, Russian forces have actually made incremental gains in the surrounding location and have actually slowly surrounded the city.

On Monday, one main declared Russian forces now managed all roadways into Bakhmut, stopping products of ammo and forces into the city, although Ukraine’s militaries stated they’re still fending off attacks.

Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar stated on Telegram Monday that “the situation at the front is difficult. The enemy army is increasing the intensity of its assaults. The most difficult situation remains in the Bakhmut direction.”

— Holly Ellyatt

A peace strategy advanced by China that it thinks might deal with the Ukraine war ought to be regarded, the Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated Monday.

“Any attempts to develop plans that will help transfer the conflict to a peaceful course deserve attention,” Peskov informed press reporters, Russian news firm Ria Novosti stated.

“We treat the plan of our Chinese friends with great attention. As for the details, of course, the details should be the subject of careful analysis, taking into account the interests of the parties,” he included.

Russia counts China amongst the last of its effective worldwide allies, having actually burned bridges with much of the worldwide neighborhood following its intrusion of Ukraine a year back.

On the very first anniversary of the war last Friday, China required a thorough ceasefire in Ukraine and promoted its own 12- point peace strategy that required a cessation of hostilities, the sovereignty of all nations to be appreciated, alerted versus using nuclear weapons, and required nuclear reactor to be protected in addition to requiring a Cold War mindset to be deserted.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he was open to thinking about parts of Beijing’s proposed peace strategy.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russian forces are now in control of all the roadways leading into the Donetsk city of Bakhmut, according to a representative for pro-Russian separatists in the area.

Yan Gagin, a consultant and representative for the acting head of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, a pro-Russian separatist location in eastern Ukraine, informed the Tass news firm that Russian forces had actually cut off the supply of the Ukrainian forces in Artemovsk (the Russian name for Bakhmut).

“Artemovsk [Bakhmut] has actually lastly fallen under a traditional functional environment, our forces entirely manage the roadways resulting in the city. The supply of ammo to the fort of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has actually been interrupted and stopped, the rotation and supply of replenishment of workforce has actually been stopped,” he stated, in remarks equated by Google.

CNBC was not able to right away validate the claims however the remarks are the current in a string of claims made by Russian authorities that Bakhmut is coming under their control.

Ukraine and Russian forces have actually been taken part in intense battling around Bakhmut for months, turning the city and surrounding location into a landscape of death and destruction. Both forces declare that the opposite is losing numerous soldiers every day since of battling around Bakhmut.

Russian forces have actually been seen to have actually gradually surrounded the city, triggering the concern of whether Ukraine would select to tactically withdraw from the city in order to conserve its staying soldiers.

Kyiv’s leading basic checked out the front-line town of Bakhmut on Sunday and onMonday The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated in an upgrade Monday that “the Russian army continues to keep its main efforts on the offensive actions in the directions of Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Shakhtarsk.” It stated that, over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian army had actually fended off 81 attacks in those locations.

— Holly Ellyatt

The future world order is being chosen today, Russia’s foreign minister stated Monday, including that Moscow has actually irritated the West’s strategies “to isolate, and even dismember” the nation.

Speaking at a conference of local agents of his ministry on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that “at the moment, the configuration of the future world order is being decided.”

“[This determines] Russia’s location in the democratic, reasonable, polycentric system that is being formed now and for which there is no and can not be an option,” he stated according to remarks reported by news firm Tass.

“I want to emphasize that we managed not only to disrupt the plans of the collective West to isolate, and even dismember Russia, but also to ensure ongoing cooperation with the overwhelming majority of members of the international community. We now call it the world majority,” he stated in remarks equated by Google.

Lavrov mentioned closer ties with nations like China and India and “many other international partners” consisting of post-Soviet states like Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and the BRICS countries (that include Brazil and South Africa).

Lavrov’s remarks parrot comparable remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday in which he stated the West wishes to beat and divide Russia.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine’s flying force stated the nation was targeted by a series of drone attacks over night.

“On the night of February 27, the enemy attacked Ukraine with Iranian-made Shahed-type attack drones from the north,” the Air Force stated in a Telegram upgrade Monday.

It stated as much as 14 unmanned aerial automobiles were released which air defense groups damaged 11 of them.

Russia has actually released numerous drone strikes on Ukraine, with much of the nation’s energy facilities harmed by drone attacks. Iran at first rejected providing drones to Russia however in November it acknowledged for the very first time that it provided Moscow with the UAVs, however stated they had actually been sent out to Russia prior to the war in Ukraine.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated Moscow needs to consider NATO’s nuclear abilities and declared once again that the West wishes to remove Russia.

“Where the leading NATO countries have proclaimed their main goal to be the strategic defeat of Russia, in order for our people ‘to suffer’ as they put it, how, in these conditions, could we not take into account their nuclear potential?,” Putin asked throughout an interview with Pavel Zarubin on the Rossiya -1 television channel on Sunday, according to an NBC translation.

Putin stated the West is complicit in “crimes” being devoted by Ukraine by providing the nation with weapons which completion objective is to ruin and divide Russia.

“They have one goal – to destroy what was the Soviet Union and it’s central part – the Russian Federation. After that they may indeed accept us into the so-called ” household of civilized countries”, but only separately, each part separately. Why? To order around these parts and to put them under their control,” Putin stated, declaring that strategies to ruin the Russian individuals are “on paper,” without providing proof.

Putin has actually consistently blamed the West for beginning the dispute inUkraine In a speech recently ahead of the very first anniversary of the start of the war, Putin attempted to validate Russia’s intrusion by declaring it has actually been trying to permit residents in the objected to Donbas area in eastern Ukraine to speak their “own language.”

— Holly Ellyatt