Every day, Midi Libre takes stock of the situation in Ukraine. This Tuesday, May 21, 2024, discover the latest news around this conflict.
Hesitation on aid to Ukraine threatens Western security, Berlin says
The head of German diplomacy Annalena Baerbock estimated on Tuesday, during a visit to Kiev, that the hesitation on the military aid to be provided to Ukraine in the face of Russia. “threat” the security of the West.
“Any hesitation and delay in supporting Ukraine costs innocent lives And any hesitation in supporting Ukraine also endangers our own security“said Mrs. Baerbock during a press conference with her counterpart Dmytro Kouleba.
Kiev calls on its Western allies to shoot down Russian missiles
Ukraine proposed on Tuesday that its allies shoot down Russian missiles targeting it from their territory, if “by all means necessary” to do so they are not provided to the Ukrainian forces, which lack air defense systems.
The proposal came from the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kouleba, during a press conference in Kiev with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock, who estimated that the hesitations about military aid to Ukraine “threaten” the security of the West. “There is no legal, security or moral argument that prevents our partners from shooting down Russian missiles over the territory of Ukraine from their territory”said Dmytro Kouleba.
Zelensky welcomes “tangible results” in the Kharkiv region
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Kiev’s army was achieving “tangible results” in the Kharkiv region (northeast), where the Russian army has been conducting an offensive since May 10.
“In the Kharkiv region, our forces destroy the occupier, the results are tangible”, he said during his evening speech, while specifying that the situation remains “extremely difficult” in the places of Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk and Kurakhove in the Donetsk region (east) where, according to him, “most of the fights are currently going on”.
Russian general, fired after criticizing operations in Ukraine, arrested for “fraud”
Russian General Ivan Popov, former commander of the 58th Army fighting in Ukraine, who was dismissed last summer after, according to him, warning of difficulties on the front, was arrested for “fraud”, the agencies of Russian news reported on Tuesday.
This official “he was taken into custody on May 17 on suspicion of ‘large-scale fraud'”, a military court in Moscow told the state agency TASS, specifying that he will be placed in preventive detention for at least two months. According to the corresponding article of the penal code, he faces ten years in prison.