The Kremlin has announced that President Vladimir Putin will personally oversee today’s cruise and ballistic missile launches.

The Russian defense ministry assured this Friday that these military maneuvers were the ones that were canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Joe Biden met yesterday with the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania and Canada, as well as the European Union and NATO. The goal is to improve coordination, among key allies, of a coordinated response to a possible attack by Russia on its neighbors: a possible attack that everyone seems to be increasingly considering.

“There is a situation of a lot of disinformation, psychological warfare, and therefore, without lowering our vigilance at any time, this firm and firm commitment through these diplomatic channels requires the careful and responsible responsibility of all of us, a permanent evaluation of the situation and does not generate any kind of alarmism. , said Robles.

The head of the US mission to the OSCE, Michael Carpenter, made this forecast public during an entity meeting this Friday in Vienna, where Russia was not present. “We assess that Russia may have amassed between 169,000 and 190,000 troops in and around Ukraine,” Carpenter said. And he added that as of January 30, the number was about 100,000 soldiers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that Russia is willing to pursue a path of negotiation with NATO on its security demands.

Putin has asked Ukraine to sit down for talks with pro-Russian separatists who control the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The leaders of the self-proclaimed separatist republic have advanced to a possible Ukraine attack by announcing the evacuation of civilians, and Putin believes that Kiev holds the key to de-escalating tensions.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin held a telephone conversation on Friday and discussed “international security for the common good”.

The call comes a day after Moscow would threaten Washington with technical military action if it continued to ignore its security concerns in Europe.

“Current international security issues of common interest have been discussed,” according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Despite these reports, for now, there are no casualty figures on either side, although international observers confirm that there has been no level of this war since 2015, following the annexation of Crimea to Russia.

Sánchez chose not to “advance events” and hoped that an open war between Russia and Ukraine “did not happen”, nor did he consider it important that US President Joe Biden did not call on him to tackle the crisis in Eastern Europe.

Russia has deployed 100,000 troops, artillery and heavy equipment.

Coupled with another 40,000 troops located in Belarus.

Kiev requested emergency assistance from the European Union which could include medical supplies, electricity generators and other first aid kits needed in the event of an attack by Russia.

EU countries, which have so far avoided sending arms to Ukraine, are exploring the possibility of meeting this request through EU civil protection mechanisms.

Bolsonaro insisted that his visit to Russia, and then to Hungary, had “purely commercial purposes” and assured that he had not spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the crisis with Ukraine.

According to sources from the Elysee yesterday after a joint meeting between Macron and several key Western allies, the French head of state will hold telephone conversations with Zelenski on Saturday and with Putin on Sunday.

“At this point I believe he has made up his mind,” Biden said at a White House news conference. The US president ruled out that Putin was contemplating “even remotely” using nuclear weapons, though he stressed that he was focused on “trying to convince the world that he has the ability to change the dynamics in Europe.”

According to a spokesman for the British Foreign Office “the attack demonstrates a continued disregard for Ukraine’s sovereignty. This act is another example of aggressive action against Ukraine.”

The vehicle is located near the Donetsk government headquarters.

Tensions between Ukraine and Russia began in 2014. Since then, Ukraine has been battling pro-Russian separatist groups in the Donbass region. These groups are allegedly backed by Vladimir Putin’s government.

The Donbass region was annexed to the Crimean peninsula through a referendum, which the international community considers illegal.

The European Union is considering imposing sanctions on Belarus as well if it takes part in the invasion of Ukraine.

“Yes, we are considering sanctions against Belarus if it participates in the attack on Ukraine,” the EU spokesman said.

“Our concern right now is the deployment of Russian troops in Belarus, on the border,” he admitted before recalling that the most direct way for Russia to reach Kiev is via Belarus.

Twenty-seven will once again tackle the crisis that has unsettled Europe due to escalating clashes in the Donbass between pro-Russian separatist forces and the Ukrainian Army.

The self-proclaimed separatist Republic of Donetsk (DPR) has urged its population to participate in the start of a “massive” evacuation of residents to Russian territory, fearing a possible attack by Ukrainian state forces.

The leader of the House of Representatives, Denis Pushilin, yesterday assured that “from today a massive centralized departure of the population to the Russian Federation has been organized, first for women, children and the elderly,” according to Russia’s official news agency TASS.

This computer attack mainly affected the banking sector and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

“We believe that the Russian government is responsible for the widespread cyberattacks on Ukrainian banks,” White House Deputy National Security Adviser for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies Anne Neuberger said at a news conference.

Good morning and welcome to new coverage of everything that is happening in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, as well as reactions between the United States, the European Union and NATO.