Brussels (EFE).- The European Union awaits the visit to Brussels of the President of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, this week, coinciding with the summit that will be held by the heads of State and Government on Thursday and Friday, according to what EFE has learned.
The trip is not completely guaranteed for security reasons, but if confirmed, the Ukrainian leader is also scheduled to participate in a session before the European Parliament.
For months the European institutions have invited Zelensky to visit Brussels and asked about it last week, during the summit that the EU held with Ukraine in kyiv, the Ukrainian president said that he “really” wanted to travel to the community capital , although at the same time he affirmed that there are “great risks” due to Russia’s “desire for revenge.”
If it occurs, it would be Zelensky’s second trip abroad since the invasion began, following his visit to the United States in late December, where he met with President Joe Biden and delivered a speech in Congress, and the that he returned to kyiv with the promise of more military aid from Washington.
Pro-Russians in Donetsk accuse kyiv of using “chemical weapons” against Russian military
On the other hand, the interim leader of the Ukrainian Donetsk region imposed by Russia, Denis Pushilin, today accused the Ukrainian Army of using chemical weapons against the Russian military in fighting near the cities of Artiomovsk (Russian name for Bakhmut) and Vuhledar. , in eastern Ukraine.
“We have cases of use of chemical substances that generate discomfort among our military,” he told the Russian channel Rossiya 24.
According to Pushilin, this was confirmed by the military and commanders of various units fighting in the vicinity of Bakhmut and Vuhledar.
The Ukrainian military launches these chemical substances “with drones over the positions of our units,” he specified.
“In fact, these complaints have been reaching me for at least three weeks,” he added.
Pushilin confirmed the information given the day before by the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, noting that the fighters of these units “has established themselves in the northern part of this town.”
Iraqi foreign minister calls for ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine
The Iraqi Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, invoked the need for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and stressed the importance of the visit to Iraq by his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, as it is an opportunity to “learn the point of view from the Russian side” on the conflict.
In a joint press conference with Lavrov, Hussein welcomed the visit of the Russian delegation to Baghdad, calling it “an important opportunity to learn the point of view of the Russian side in different cases,” referring to the invasion. Ukrainian Russian.
Lavrov, for his part, stressed the importance of protecting Russia-Iraq economic cooperation from the sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West over the war in Ukraine.
More than 16,000 Ukrainian minors have been deported to Russia, according to kyiv
A total of 16,220 Ukrainian children have been deported from the country since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, which will be one year old on the 24th, reported the Ukrainian Ombudsman.
The institution reports on its Facebook profile the total number of minors who have been deported up to February 6 and which is collected by the Ukrainian state portal Children of the War.
They also ensure that during this period another 350 children have been reported missing and a total of 9,510 minors have been located and have been untraceable since the conflict began.
