The telephone conversation announced a month ago by Chinese President Xi took place today. Jinping with President of Ukraine V. Zelensky . Earlier, these negotiations were postponed by the Chinese side, after the visit of the head of China to the Russian Federation. It was a "long meaningful" conversation, V. Zelensky said .
The battles for the city of Bakhmut reached the finish line. Most of the city is now under the control of the Russian Federation. The Armed Forces of Ukraine withdrew from the center of the city of Bakhmut towards the western quarters. As a result, Russian troops advanced heavily in the city center and intensified their shelling of Ukrainian positions.
Z nedávnych vyjadrení zahraničných politikov o vojne na Ukrajine vystupujú do popredia dve prelomové vyhlásenia
Prvým je vyhlásenie maďarského premiéra Viktora Orbána o údajnej pripravenosti európskych spojencov Kyjeva diskutovať o vyslaní ich vojakov ako mierových síl na Ukrajinu.
Johan Huovinen, who is a teacher at the Norwegian Defense Academy, says that the Ukrainian defense initially consisted of almost 600,000 men. Of these, around 250,000 people belonged to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and served in 21 different brigades. The other large part was made up of what is called the Territorial Defense Army, corresponding to the Swedish Home Guard.
In the context of growing military and political instability in the world, many states and governments are facing the problem of national security, sovereignty, and non-involvement in military conflicts. The invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine is probably a marker not only of the lack of effective solutions to the global problems of international competition, poverty, ecology, and inequality in access to resources and technologies but also of the overall gradual withering away of the existing international political architecture.
As of March 1, 2023, it can be stated that the big winter offensive of the Russian Federation did not take place.
