Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 365

Because the Russia-Ukraine conflict enters its 365th day, we check out the principle developments.

Ukrainian servicemen of the ninety fifth Air Assault Brigade put together to depart for the entrance line within the Donetsk area [Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP]

Right here is the state of affairs because it stands on Thursday, February 23, 2023:

Diplomacy

• US President Joe Biden, talking in Warsaw on Wednesday, promised that the US “will defend actually each inch of NATO”, the army alliance that features some Jap European international locations bordering Russia.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned Chinese language chief Xi Jinping would go to Russia, including the 2 international locations’ relations had reached “new frontiers”. The US and different Western international locations have voiced considerations over China offering materials assist for Russia’s conflict in Ukraine, the most important land battle in Europe since World Struggle Two.
• In a nationwide tackle, Putin additionally mentioned Russia will “pay elevated consideration to strengthening” land, air and sea nuclear capabilities.
• A senior defence official mentioned Russia will stick with agreed limits on nuclear missiles and maintain informing the US about adjustments in its deployments, regardless of the suspension of the New START treaty – its final remaining arms management treaty with Washington.

• Russia’s defence ministry accused Ukraine of planning to invade Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria area in a false flag operation, the RIA information company reported.
• Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda mentioned he urged Biden to hunt NATO deployment of extra army gear, corresponding to HIMARS artillery or assault helicopters, within the Baltic states.
• UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres denounced Russia’s invasion as a violation of the founding UN Constitution and worldwide legislation, and known as out Moscow’s threats concerning the attainable use of nuclear weapons, saying: “It's excessive time to step again from the brink.”
• Ukraine’s First Girl Olena Zelenska known as on the UN to ascertain a particular tribunal to prosecute crimes of Russian aggression, stressing that “it isn't solely us who want that, we'd like that for everybody”.
• The UN Common Meeting was set to vote on Thursday on a decision calling for “simply and lasting peace in Ukraine”, the most recent alternative for international locations to lodge an official place on the battle.
• European Union international locations couldn't attain an settlement on Wednesday about new sanctions towards Russia, and deliberate extra talks to have the bundle prepared for the primary anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine on Friday, diplomats mentioned.

Preventing

• Two civilians had been killed in Russian shelling of the Kherson area in southern Ukraine and two had been wounded in a missile strike on the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, regional officers mentioned.
• The pinnacle of the Wagner Russian mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, took a bitter public feud with the military high brass to a brand new stage, publishing a grisly picture of dozens of his fighters he mentioned had been killed after being disadvantaged of ammunition.

• Russian prosecutors mentioned they had been continuing with a case towards exiled science fiction author Dmitry Glukhovsky, accused of publishing “false info” about Russian atrocities within the conflict.
• Ukrainian forces repelled 90 Russian assaults within the northeast and east over the previous 24 hours, the army mentioned early on Thursday. Russian troops attacked close to Kupiansk within the Kharkiv area and round Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Shakhtarsk within the Donetsk area, the place, in line with the Ukrainian army, Russia is concentrating its offensive efforts.