“No alternative to victory”assures Volodymyr Zelensky. On the sidelines of this Security Conference, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the allies to “accelerate” support for his country. “We need speed. Speed to conclude our agreements, speed of deliveries to strengthen our fight, speed of decisions to limit the Russian potential. There is no alternative to speed, because it is from her what does life depend onhe argued. “There is no alternative to Ukraine’s victory. No alternative to Ukraine in the European Union. No alternative to Ukraine in NATO.”
Wagner claims an advance on the Bakhmout front. The leader of the Russian paramilitary group, Yevgueni Prigojine, said his troops had taken Paraskoviïvka, a Ukrainian town bordering the city of Bakhmout to the north, the scene of the longest battle that has raged in the Donbass for a year. “Despite the ammunition blockade, despite heavy losses and bloody battles, the guys took the entire settlement of Paraskoviïvka”said the militia boss, who does not see Bakhmout being captured before “March or April”. AFP could not verify these statements from an independent source.
First step towards the Special Court of Ukraine. THE “international coordination center for the prosecution of the crime of aggression” committed by Russia in Ukraine, based in The Hague, will be “operational” in July, said EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders. He is destined to “to collect and preserve the evidence of the crime of aggression and to allow discussions between prosecutors (…) not only on the investigations, but on the possible prosecutions”, explained the Belgian Commissioner, alongside the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriï Kostine. This kind of prosecutor’s office is a first step before the establishment of a special tribunal to try the highest Russian officials, a request from kyiv.