Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 347

Because the Russia-Ukraine conflict enters its 347th day, we check out the primary developments.

Black smoke rises after shelling in Bakhmut [Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP]

Right here is the scenario because it stands on Sunday, February 5, 2023:

Combating

• In an in a single day tackle, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the scenario on the entrance strains within the east was getting more durable.
• Ukraine officers reported shelling within the Chernihiv, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv Luhansk, Donetsk and Mykolaiv areas
• Russia and Kyiv traded about 200 prisoners of conflict in a swap, each side stated, with the our bodies of two British volunteers – Chris Parry and Andrew Bagshaw – additionally being despatched again to Ukraine.
• Germany has collected proof of conflict crimes in Ukraine, the nation’s prosecutor basic stated in a newspaper interview, including that he noticed a necessity for a judicial course of on the worldwide degree.
• Odesa restored energy to important infrastructure after a fireplace broke out at an overloaded substation, leaving practically 500,000 individuals within the Ukrainian port metropolis with out electrical energy after months of Russian assaults on Ukraine’s vitality grid. Officers stated repairs might take weeks.

Ukrainian servicemen fireplace a mortar on a entrance line in Bakhmut, Donetsk, Ukraine [File: Yan Dobronosov/Reuters]

Diplomacy

• US President Joe Biden will go to Poland, the Polish president’s international coverage adviser stated. This comes amongst experiences that Biden’s European journey may coincide with the February 24 anniversary of Russia’s invasion.
• British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Zelenskyy agreed on the significance of the worldwide neighborhood rushing up help for Ukraine, Sunak’s workplace stated after the 2 leaders spoke.
• Portugal will ship Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Prime Minister Antonio Costa stated, with out specifying what number of.
• Canada shipped the primary of 4 promised Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Canadian defence minister Anita Anand stated on Twitter.
• Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated the availability of extra superior US weaponry to Ukraine will solely set off extra retaliatory assaults from Russia, as much as the extent of Russia’s nuclear doctrine.
• The US warned Turkey just lately about exporting to Russia chemical substances, microchips and different merchandise that can be utilized in Moscow’s conflict effort in Ukraine, saying it might transfer to punish Turkish corporations or banks contravening sanctions.
• Zelenskyy revoked the citizenship of a number of former influential politicians within the newest step to “cleanse” Ukraine of pro-Russian influences.
• State media stated they included a number of prime politicians from the workplace of Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s pro-Russian president who was faraway from workplace in 2014.