Zelenski manages to add more European military aid for his counter-offensive

Ukrainian President, Vladimir Zelensky, He continued to seek military help in Europe for his planned counter-offensive this Monday as his troops advanced on the flanks of the eastern city of Bakhmut, making it difficult for Russia to achieve the conquest it saw within reach after more than nine months of fighting.

From London, Zelensky returns to Kyiv with a firm commitment that the UK will deliver hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles and hundreds of attack drones with a range of more than 200 kilometers, which will add to its already powerful arsenal.

So far in 2023, the UK has provided equipment including a squadron of Challenger 2 main battle tanks, self-propelled guns, hundreds of armored vehicles and sophisticated missiles including the Starstreak and Storm Shadow.

“Once again, we repeat that this cannot have a significant and essential impact on the course of the special military operation. [en Ucrania] but, of course, this leads to further destruction and more responses,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said. For Ukraine, he added, “this makes the situation much more difficult,” Efe reports.

On tour in Italy, Germany, France and Great Britain Zelensky, however, failed to make progress in his desire to acquire Western fighters for his air force.it is necessary, according to Kiev, to face Russian supremacy in the air and support the advance on the ground.

Despite this, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Twitter that the UK would open a “new flying school” that would “give Ukrainian pilots the necessary training to operate different types of aircraft, enabling them to better defend Ukraine”. Russian aggression.

Bomb attack in Luhansk

Meanwhile, in Ukraine, the interim interior minister of the Lugansk region, which was annexed by Russia in September, Igor Kornet, was injured in an explosion in the center of the provincial capital, according to the Russian news agency Tass, which states that his status is “serious”. “It was an attack. He is in intensive care,” the agency added, citing police sources.

The Russian-imposed interim governor of Lugansk, Leonid Pasechnik, said on Telegram that at least seven people were injured in the explosion. Four of them were seriously ill, among them the minister and a 17-year-old teenager. In the morning, there was another Ukrainian attack on the pro-Russian region.