War in Ukraine. Latest information on May 25 [papildināts 10:32]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on May 25. For three months now, Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion.

11.28. Three maritime initiatives The 12 member states of the European Union (EU) support Ukraine’s accelerated accession to the EU, President Egils Levits emphasized at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

11.27. The loss of life force of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached about 29,450 soldiers by Wednesday morning, the Ukrainian Army General Staff reports.

Since the start of the invasion on February 24, Russian forces have lost 1,305 tanks, 3,213 armored personnel carriers, 606 cannons, 201 multi-barrel jet launchers, 93 anti-aircraft guns, 206 aircraft, 170 helicopters, 491 unmanned aerial vehicles, 112 helicopters and 2217 cars. and 44 specialized vehicles.

10.32. More than 200 militants in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DTR), established in eastern Ukraine with Russian support, are refusing to go to war in the region’s second separatist, the Lugansk People’s Republic, Ukrainian journalist Denis Kazanski told Telegram.

09.56. On the morning of May 25, Russian forces fired three rockets at the city of Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region, causing significant damage to a factory, Valentin Reznichenko, the head of the district’s military administration, said.

09.25. Most likely, Russia is currently preparing to close a kind of ceasefire with Ukraine, while hoping to deprive it of several areas where there has been active warfare so far, Jānis Sārts, head of NATO’s Center for Strategic Communications Excellence, commented in an interview.

He acknowledged that the war in Ukraine is currently stagnant – at the strategic level, Russia’s offensive has lost its momentum and there may be a moment when Ukraine will be able to take the initiative in many sectors of the front line.

08.20. The supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine is the best investment in maintaining stability in the world, stressed the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.

“The situation in Donbass is extremely complicated. In fact, all the forces that were still left for Russia have been transferred to attack there. Limana, Popasna, Severodonecka, Slovjanska – the occupiers want to destroy everything there,” Zelensky said.

08.05. Russian politicians and the state media are beginning to prepare their citizens for a longer war in Ukraine with information disseminated in the public sphere, Elīna Lange-Ionatamišvili, a senior expert in public diplomacy at NATO’s Strategic Communication Center of Excellence, said in an interview with Latvijas Radio.

07.08. The Czech Republic has handed over impact helicopters to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and, together with Slovakia, is providing repairs to dozens of Ukrainian armored vehicles, the US Wall Street Journal reports, citing the Pentagon.

05.05. Germany had promised to supply Leopard tanks to Poland in place of the tanks that Poland had delivered to Ukraine, but had not kept that promise, Polish President Andrzej Duda was quoted as saying by the German newspaper Die Welt.

02.51. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could mark the beginning of World War III, so the best way for the West to maintain a free civilization is to defeat the forces of Russian President Vladimir Putin, financier billionaire George Soros said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

00.10. Billionaire George Soros has blamed European gas chancellor Angela Merkel’s “special agreements” with Moscow for Europe’s gas dependence.

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