Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 352

Because the Russia-Ukraine warfare enters its 352nd day, we check out the primary developments.

European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European Council President Charles Michel shake fingers on the finish of a information convention through the European leaders' summit in Brussels [Yves Herman/Reuters]

Right here is the state of affairs because it stands on Friday, February 10, 2023:

Combating

• An air-raid alert was declared in all of Ukraine on Friday as officers warned of potential Russian missile assaults, urging residents to take shelter. “There's a large menace of the missile assault. I need to stress once more – don't ignore the air alert sirens,” mentioned Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv metropolis army administration.
• Kyiv says it expects Moscow to broaden its offensive with a giant push because the February 24 anniversary of the invasion nears.
• Russian forces launched a sequence of in a single day raids which have knocked out energy provides in elements of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second metropolis, native officers mentioned. There was no phrase on casualties.
• Russia mentioned it had destroyed 4 Ukrainian artillery depots within the japanese Donetsk area. Ukraine’s army mentioned that over the previous 24 hours, Russian troops maintained offensives within the areas of Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Novopavlivka and Vuhledar.
• Serhiy Haidai, Ukraine’s governor of the largely Russian-occupied japanese Luhansk province, described a serious new Russian assault round Kreminna, alongside a northern stretch of the japanese entrance.
• Reuters couldn't instantly confirm the battlefield accounts.

Diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has addressed the European Parliament saying that his nation’s struggle with Russia was one for the liberty of all of Europe. He was in Brussels to attend a summit of the European Union.
• Whereas Zelenskyy mentioned that “Free Europe can't be imagined with out free Ukraine”, he heard from European Council chief Charles Michel that Ukraine’s highway to EU membership could be lengthy and exhausting.
• “Europe will probably be with us till our victory. I’ve heard it from plenty of European leaders … concerning the readiness to present us the required weapons and assist, together with the plane,” Zelenskyy advised a information convention in Brussels, with out naming the nations.
• Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki mentioned NATO should act collectively on jets for Ukraine.
• Presidents of Poland and Ukraine met in Rzeszow, southeast Poland, on Thursday and mentioned the state of affairs within the area, the workplace of the Polish president mentioned on Friday on Twitter.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned it might be Ukrainians who are suffering if Britain or different Western nations provide fighter jets to Kyiv, and that the road between oblique and direct Western involvement within the warfare is disappearing.
• Moscow doesn't consider Kyiv’s pledges that it's going to not use long-range Western arms to strike deep into Russian territory, Alexei Polishyuk, a division head at Russia’s overseas ministry, advised state-owned RIA information company.

Nord Stream pipelines

• Russia’s overseas ministry mentioned European nations had been making an attempt to cover the outcomes of their investigations into final yr’s explosions on the Nord Stream fuel pipelines, accusing them of masking up who was in charge.

Economic system/Society

• President Vladimir Putin mentioned Russia’s economic system had overcome the worst results of sanctions and was anticipated to indicate modest progress this yr, regardless of what he mentioned had been makes an attempt to undermine sure industries.
• 1 / 4 of Ukraine’s inhabitants is vulnerable to growing a extreme psychological well being situation because the nation grapples with the year-long Russian invasion, a senior well being official mentioned.