Wagner Group statements village of Krasna Hora
The head of Russia’s mercenary Wagner Group stated Sunday it experienced taken the village of Krasna Hora, on the northern edge of the embattled city of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
Yevgeny Prigozhin released a brief online video seemingly displaying Wagner fighters future to the entrance indicator to the village.
He also explained it could take two years for Moscow to manage all of the two eastern Ukrainian regions, whose seize it has said as a essential target of the war.
U.S. feel tank the Institute for the Review of War claimed geolocated footage confirmed Russian forces have captured at least portion of the village, in accordance to its latest intelligence report.
On the other hand, Wagner’s statements have not however been independently confirmed.
— Karen Gilchrist
Poland’s president states fighter jets conclusion ‘not easy’
Poland’s president has explained the decision on no matter if or not to provide Ukraine with fighter jets is “not straightforward.”
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Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said the final decision above irrespective of whether or not to ship fighter jets to Ukraine was “not straightforward to get.”
Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Duda said responding to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ask for for F-16 plane is a “extremely really serious decision,” but gave no even further indication of no matter if it would happen.
— Karen Gilchrist
Russian spy services statements U.S. is grooming militants for assault
Russia’s foreign spy support said Monday that it had intelligence that the U.S. military services was grooming Islamist militants to attack targets in Russia and the previous Soviet Union.
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Services, whose head is an ally of President Vladimir Putin, claimed that 60 this sort of militants from teams affiliated with Islamic Condition and al-Qaeda had been recruited and ended up getting educated at an American foundation in Syria.
“They will be tasked with getting ready and carrying out terrorist attacks versus diplomats, civil servants, legislation enforcement officers and staff of the armed forces,” the SVR explained.
It additional that specific attention was remaining compensated to recruiting immigrants from the Russian North Caucasus and Central Asia.
The agency did not publish the intelligence guiding its assertion and the promises could not be promptly confirmed.
— Karen Gilchrist