The forceful pushback from Russia’s army comes a day after they seized full control of the city center and appointed their own mayor, Reuters reports, citing local authorities. At least four people have been injured Wednesday in the Ukrainian city of Kherson after Russian troops there used tear gas and stun grenades to break up a pro-Ukraine protest, authorities say. Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters that the pair discussed "proposals for humanitarian assistance and evacuation of civilians from conflict zones, namely in relation to the situation in Mariupol."
Turkey's president said Sweden should not expect his country's support after a protest near the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm at the weekend, which included the burning of a copy of the Koran. Whether the number of tanks that are provided is enough is another matter, however. Ukraine previously said it needs hundreds of tanks to stave off Russia's ongoing invasion "not 10-20," as one presidential advisor said earlier this week. Boris Pistorius German defense minister, and Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary general, give a press conference at the German Defense Ministry after a joint meeting on Jan. 24, 2023.



Households across the country have been temporarily disconnected from energy supply under an emergency schedule aimed at stabilizing the nation's fragile electric grid. Russia has beenbombing and destroying civilian infrastructure, ushering in fears of a cold, dark winter. Seven vessels carrying agricultural products left Ukraine's ports Thursday after Russia agreed torejoin the Black Sea grain deal, according to a Ukrainian minister. There’s another grim reminder of where the war stands near the town of Bakhmut as the country groes colder. What’s left of fallen Russian troops lie scattered among the craters, the latest in Moscow’s continued assault on Ukrainian lines in the area. So far as matters on the Black Sea go, rumors of a Ukrainian attack on the narrow Kinburn spit proved true in part after pictures of damage appeared Saturday.
"It's our assessment they have every intention of basically decapitating the government and installing their own method of governance which would explain these early moves towards Kyiv," the official said. Despite Mr. Biden leaving action regarding SWIFT off the table for now, the U.K. Foreign secretary indicated the country is working with allies to exclude Russia from the financial system. "Some staff are being relocated, but some others came in as surge capacity over the past day," Haq said.

Some can’t leave elderly parents or other family members in need of care, he added. Then there’s the simple explanation that networks allow families to stay in touch, that internet and phone connections often mean human connection. In the rubble of bombarded Ukrainian cities, technicians are risking their lives to keep the country online. The biggest issue is that, while Russia has a formidable wheeled military force, Ukrainian soldiers predominately fight on foot. Several Western weapons production companies have agreed to build joint manufacturing facilities in Ukraine, including Germany-based Rheinmetall and Britain-based BAE Systems.
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Those that needed repair but will eventually pass is probably another 30 percent. And the last 50 percent was garbage that requires a lot of work.”57 Thus, cannibalism is imposed on them as a natural way of providing spare parts. Notably, the list indicated that Ukraine, which before the war was almost completely dependent on Soviet-era and Russian-made weapons, wants to fully adopt more NATO-standard Ремонт вихлопних систем weapons in its arsenal. Specifically, Kyiv wants to “transition to Western-origin layered air-defense” systems, Western armored personnel carriers and ammunition for those vehicles, and also transition to Western tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. The mass strikes are the first time since the start of the war that Russian forces have targeted the energy infrastructure so broadly, officials say.

Power Machines said turbines of the same type had operated without problems since 2016 at four power units. It said it was taking all steps to restart the affected unit as soon as possible and working with specialists from the plant to investigate the causes and identify defects. Shutikov said the blades that failed were part of a 1,200MW high-speed steam turbine.
At least six people died and more than two dozen others were injured when a fire broke out at a military research facility in Tver, a city about 110 miles northwest of Moscow. Local officials accused Russian troops of burying the bodies to hide the killings. The region, once home to 1.6 million people, is down to 430,000, with the vast majority of its population displaced, the Kyiv Independent reported. The general’s comments come one day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory over the Mariupol, despite the thousands of resistance fighters that remain bunkered in the southeastern port city.

Britain's Defense Ministry said it had seen an increase in Russian air and artillery strikes on populated urban areas over the past two days. It also said three cities - Kharkiv, Kherson and Mariupol - were encircled by Russian forces. "They know nothing about our capital. About our history. But they have an order to erase our history. Erase our country. Erase us all," he said.
Ukrainian and Russian officials held the first round of talks since the invasion began along the Belarusian border on Monday. Ukrainian President Zelensky had initially rejected the idea of meeting there because Belarus has been allowing Russian troops to gather and launch attacks on Ukraine from within its borders. In Kharkiv, which has a population of about 1.5 million and is Ukraine's second largest city, at least six people were killed Tuesday when the region's administrative building on Freedom Square was hit with what was believed to be a missile. The Slovenian Foreign Ministry said its consulate in Kharkiv, located in another large building on the square, was destroyed. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration has escalated warnings about likely Russian cyber-attacks on American infrastructure and business. More worrying still, cyber alarmists like Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., have suggested that cyber-attacks from the Kremlin could be acts of war that trigger NATO’s collective defense.
The United Nations refugee agency says as many as 4 million people could be displaced by the fighting. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have already escaped Russia's bombardment of their country into neighboring nations, and many thousands more are still trying to get out. Many have walked for miles to get to the nearest border, where they find extremely long lines. A truck loaded with molotov cocktails, made by residents and ready for distribution to civilian defense forces in Kyiv, Ukraine, is seen on February 28, 2022.