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Tweets On The Russia – Ukraine War
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 1 February 2023
Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/b85G1tkLax
🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/IkFbNiLOIe
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) February 1, 2023
The introduction of #Russian conventional forces to the #Bakhmut frontline has offset the culmination of the #Wagner Group’s offensive and retained the initiative for Russian operations around the city. https://t.co/WzGJdcxLcN pic.twitter.com/zdTFiv7QsB
— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) February 1, 2023
#UPDATE Russia on Wednesday slammed comments by Emmanuel Macron as ‘absurd’, after the French president refused to rule out delivering fighter jets to Ukraine but also warned against the risk of escalation ▶️ https://t.co/AYFpF55oHj
📷 Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (L) pic.twitter.com/KaN5ezrkDB
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) February 1, 2023
Ukraine’s defense minister said Ukrainian lives will be saved by an air-defense radar France is supplying that is powerful enough to spot incoming missiles and exploding drones in the skies over all of Ukraine’s capital and its surrounding region. https://t.co/VOXSri0l6z
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 1, 2023
Ukraine’s army has put in an order for drones from the Bavarian start-up Quantum-Systems, whose investors include the likes of Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel. The German government is funding the deal. https://t.co/pV8MSymIol
— DW News (@dwnews) February 1, 2023
For the first time ever, the EU will hold talks with a candidate state in an active war zone. The decision to travel to Kyiv is considered to be of huge symbolic value.https://t.co/7sthes9ovx
— DW News (@dwnews) February 1, 2023
#UPDATE Ukraine expanded a clampdown on corruption on Wednesday, launching coordinated searches of residences linked to a divisive oligarch and to former interior minister Arsen Avakov (pic, right) as well as tax offices in the capital ▶️ https://t.co/5Gu3ksp6as pic.twitter.com/gq5KtlhWsD
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) February 1, 2023
Halyna Danylchenko was eight months pregnant when she was rescued from the besieged city of Bakhmut in Ukraine. But her six-year-old daughter was left behind. Ukrainian police conducted a rescue operation to reunite the family https://t.co/GP50BLjcHK pic.twitter.com/M7IFz8JvLR
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 1, 2023