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13 February 2023
President of Poland Andrzej Duda and Minister of National Defence of Poland Mariusz Błaszczak have visited a tank training ground in Świętoszów (southwestern Poland) and met with the Ukrainian tank crew members, who are undergoing training on Leopard 2 tanks there, and their instructors.
On the eve of the ninth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in the Ramstein format, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi held a phone conversation with NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander of the United States European Command, General Christopher Cavoli.
Russian troops have shelled the Kherson region’s village of Inhulets. As a result, a woman was killed, and a man was injured.
The Air Force of Ukraine’s Defense Forces has launched 14 strikes on enemy personnel and military equipment clusters in the past 24 hours.
NATO Allies will not involve in the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine, but the Alliance may send warplanes to Ukraine so that the country can defend itself.
NATO allies intend to increase industrial production of weapons and ammunition to replenish own stockpiles depleted by Russia's war against Ukraine, as well as to help Ukraine in the future.
As part of the Drone Army project, 1,765 drones have been purchased for a total sum of $3.4 billion, and 3,500 military personnel have been trained to operate them.
Ukrainian soldiers have arrived in Poland to undergo training on Leopard 2 tanks.
Part of Snake Island defenders, as well as a significant part of those who defended Mariupol and the Azovstal steelworks, are still in Russian captivity. Work on their release continues.
American astronaut and United24 ambassador Scott Kelly called on SpaceX founder Elon Musk to return full access to Starlink satellite internet functionality to Ukraine, to which Musk replied that the company “will not enable escalation of conflict that may lead to WW3.”
Austrian Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner denied the possibility of the Ukrainian military being trained in Austria to operate Leopard 2 main battle tanks.
Units of Ukraine’s Naval Forces on February 12 eliminated five Russian invaders and destroyed two main battle tanks, a Msta-B trailed howitzer, and an ammunition depot.
Commander of the Naval Forces of Ukraine, Oleksiy Neizhpapa, has to decide when the two Sandown-type minesweeping vessels purchased in Britain should be deployed in the Black Sea.
Russian barracks and four trucks loaded with ammunition have been hit in the urban-type settlement of Nikolske near the city of Mariupol.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has left for another meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base to discuss the protection of the Ukrainian sky, the development of ‘tank coalition’, and the formation of ammunition stocks.
Russia is preparing another massive missile attack. Given the tendency to take a break of about two weeks between attacks, Russian troops are likely to launch another missile attack on February 24.
Denmark has handed over all of its CAESAR self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Army’s breakthrough in Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk would seriously challenge the viability of Russia’s ‘land bridge’ with Crimea and further undermine Russia’s professed war aim of ‘liberating’ the Donbas.
In the morning of February 13, 2023, Russian troops again shelled the Kharkiv region’s city of Kupiansk, having caused damage to the housing stock.
On February 12, 2023, Russian troops opened fire on the Kherson region 42 times. Casualties among civilians were reported.
Around 22:00 yesterday, three loud explosions rang out in Mariupol. Russian locations in Nikolske village and in a school were reported to be hit.
Yesterday, February 12, Russian troops killed one civilian and wounded another in Donetsk region.
From February 24, 2022, to February 13, 2023, the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 138,340 Russian invaders, including 560 soldiers over the past day.
The lack of winter uniforms in the Russian army led to a significant increase in frostbite cases. In healthcare facilities of Horlivka, Donetsk region, up to 30% of all wounded have such a diagnosis.
Over the past day, Russian aggressors fired more than 50 mortar and artillery shells at the border communities of Sumy region, northern Ukraine.
12 February 2023
On Sunday evening, Russians launched a reconnaissance UAV and several balloons with corner reflectors over Dnipropetrovsk region.
All elements of the Russian system that are involved in the war, in providing terror and financing aggression, must be isolated from the global system.
Enemy drones are attempting to attack the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Nikopol, Marhanets and Myrove communities in the Dnipropetrovsk region came under enemy fire on Sunday, February 12.
Some 69 Russian soldiers were killed and 126 wounded in the Lyman area on Sunday, February 12.