Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the primary batch of U.S.-made M1 Abrams tanks is “already in Ukraine.” The tanks will “reinforce our actions towards the occupiers. And it will likely be a major reinforcement,” he stated Monday in his nightly handle.
President Biden dedicated in January to sending 31 of the superior battle tanks. U.S. army officers have stated that the deliveries could be gradual however that they anticipated all of them to reach in coming weeks.
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Fewer than half of the anticipated M1 Abrams tanks have arrived to date, a senior Ukrainian army official stated, talking on the situation of anonymity to debate delicate army preparations.
Some Ukrainian residents have been tortured to loss of life underneath Russian occupation, a U.N. panel introduced Monday. “In some circumstances, torture was inflicted with such brutality that it brought on the loss of life of the victims,” Erik Mose, chairman of the Fee of Inquiry on Ukraine, informed the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva as his crew introduced its newest findings. Mose, a Norwegian choose with expertise in worldwide human rights, additionally stated that Russian troopers “raped and dedicated sexual violence towards girls of ages starting from 19 to 83 years” in Kherson, with members of the family typically stored subsequent door to listen to the abuses. Russia didn’t reply to the fee’s requests for communication, Mose added.
A city close to the southern Ukrainian metropolis of Kherson was shelled in a single day, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin stated early Tuesday. Not less than 4 folks had been injured.
Russian forces shot down two Ukrainian drones within the Kursk area late Monday, the Russian Protection Ministry stated, in what it described as Kyiv’s try to hold out a “terrorist assault.” The drones had been shot down about 11 p.m. native time, it stated.
Zelensky stated Ukraine would retaliate towards Russian assaults following a strike Monday on Odessa that left not less than two folks useless. Ukraine will retaliate for “each strike towards our cities and villages, towards each Ukrainian neighborhood. For Odessa, for Beryslav and Kherson, for Donetsk, Kharkiv and Sumy areas,” he stated in his nightly handle.
The Canadian speaker of the Home of Commons apologized after praising a 98-year-old Ukrainian man who had served in a infamous Nazi army unit throughout World Conflict II. Speaker Anthony Rota launched Yaroslav Hunka following Zelensky’s handle to Parliament on Friday, calling him a “Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero.” Jewish teams condemned the glory. Zelensky has family who had been killed within the Holocaust.
Russia’s Ministry of Inside Affairs added the president of the Worldwide Prison Court docket to its needed listing on Monday. The ministry didn’t publicly specify the costs towards Piotr Hofmanski, the Polish lawyer who was elected the court docket’s president in 2021. The ICC beforehand issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of illegal deportation of youngsters from Ukraine.
Russia assaults Odessa port, in newest assault on Ukrainian grain: A Russian assault on Odessa was the most recent assault on Ukraine’s important agriculture sector as Moscow seeks to take advantage of divisions between Kyiv and its European neighbors over grain exports, Alex Horton and Kamila Hrabchuk report. The strike killed not less than two folks, destroyed granaries and broken port services.
Russian disruptions to Ukraine’s use of the Black Sea as a freeway for exporting meals have compelled Kyiv to discover overland routes, however Ukraine has confronted resistance from a few of its closest neighbors. Officers in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia concern that low cost Ukrainian grain would flood their markets, drive down costs and harm native farmers.