3:40 p.m. ET, February 16, 2024
Navalny had denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from jail. Learn up on conflict traits right here
From The Gentleman Report’s Haley Britzky, Olga Voitovych and Nadine Schmidt
Since he was once imprisoned in 2021, Russian opposition determine Alexey Navalny condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by the use of social media and inspired anti-war protests around the nation.
The loss of life of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s maximum high-profile critic punctuates a crackdown on dissidence in Russia that has speeded up all over the conflict.
Right here’s the newest on Russia’s conflict in Ukraine:
Assaults proceed: A minimum of 5 folks have been killed and 5 injured in Russian assaults within the Kharkiv, Kherson and Donetsk areas of Ukraine prior to now 24 hours, native officers stated Friday.
Frontline combat: Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Attack Brigade stated no less than 15,000 enemy troops are preventing at the entrance line within the the town of Avdiivka, situated within the jap Donetsk area. Russia has been pummeling the the town with airstrikes and artillery, whilst launching wave after wave of floor attacks by way of armored cars and squaddies. Ukraine’s new military leader Oleksandr Syrskyi and Ukraine’s Protection Minister Rustem Umerov this week visited squaddies at the entrance strains there.
A senior US protection respectable stated Friday that Ukrainian forces preventing in Avdiivka are “working quick on crucial provides, in particular ammunition.”
Unsure long run: The senior US protection respectable issued a stark caution on Friday that if Congress does now not approve extra investment for safety help to Ukraine, the United States won’t be able to supply Ukraine extra air defenses, which is able to result in extra towns being “bombarded.”
“We will be able to see extra civilians demise, and we will be able to see Ukraine suffering to give protection to their crucial infrastructure and their ahead line of troops,” the respectable stated, of permitting investment to lapse.
Price of conflict: The US estimated the conflict in Ukraine has value Russia as much as $211 billion in efforts to maintenance operations, a senior protection respectable instructed newshounds on Friday, and it has value Russia an anticipated $1.3 trillion in misplaced financial expansion.
All of this is along with body of workers losses, the respectable stated. Officers estimate Russian forces have misplaced 315,000 folks. The respectable additionally stated Ukrainian forces have “sunk, destroyed, or broken” no less than 20 “medium-to-large Russian Federation Army vessels” and one Russian tanker within the Black Sea.
Settlement with Germany: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday secured new army assist and signed a long-term safety settlement with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin. The safety settlement, which is able to closing for 10 years, commits Germany to supporting Ukraine with army assist and hitting Russia with sanctions and export controls, and making sure that Russian property stay frozen.
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