785 days ago, Russia's armed invasion of Ukraine began. Ukrainian armed forces attacked the military airport in Dzhankoy, which is located in Russian-occupied Crimea, said President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. We summarize what has happened in recent hours in and around Ukraine.
> It was the Ukrainian armed forces that carried out a precision strike on… military airport in Dzhankoy, which is located in Russian-occupied Crimea, admitted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an evening video speech. Earlier on Wednesday, the independent Russian television Nastoyashchee Vremya reported that there was an explosion at the Dzhankoy military airport, and there were reports on social media of six fire outbreaks at the facility.
> During the extraordinary European Council summit in Brussels, 27 EU leaders emphasized the need to quickly equip Ukraine with air defense. The document added a reservation that military support would be provided “with full respect for the security and defense policies of certain Member States and taking into account the security and defense interests of all Member States.”
> Speaker Mike Johnson announced that he is sticking to his plan to introduce bills regarding it to the House funds for aid to Ukraine, Israel and the countries of the Indo-Pacific region. The fourth project will concern measures “to counter Russia, China and Iran.” Johnson said that votes on this matter would take place on Saturday evening. President Joe Biden supported the proposed package of bills, appealed to both houses of Congress to quickly adopt these bills and announced that he would sign them immediately.
> The crises in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip were the main topics of Andrzej Duda's meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The Polish president, who is in New York, emphasized that everything must be done to prevent Russia from winning the war in Ukraine.
> Each of us recognizes the inviolability of boundaries. This is a nice theory of international law, but I say that The Russians will never give up Crimea and they will never leave Donbas and Luhansk, said Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Wednesday. In his opinion, “there will never be a military solution” to this issue. – There will only be 100,000 more dead on both sides – he added.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during his visit to the Kharkiv regionPRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/PAP/EPA
> It has began withdrawal of Russian soldiers from Nagorno-Karabakh, a former Armenian enclave on the territory of Azerbaijan, announced the Kremlin. According to Politico, Moscow plans to send them to Ukraine. The website writes about a “surprising statement” and recalls the inaction of Russian “peacekeeping forces” in the face of last year's offensive by Azerbaijan in the disputed region, which led to the fall of the self-proclaimed republic and the mass exodus of Armenian refugees.
> About 650 thousand men of military age have left Ukraine since the beginning of the war, escaping the draft, Politico reported on Wednesday in an article describing falling morale in Ukrainian society. The weakening mood is related to insufficient supplies of ammunition and insufficient support from the West, the portal emphasizes.
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