Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 342 of the invasion - The Guardian

The United States volition not supply the F-16 combatant jets that Ukraine has sought successful its combat against Russia, President Joe Biden said connected Monday, arsenic Russian forces claimed a bid of incremental gains successful the country’s east.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s astir elder adviser, Andriy Yermak, has suggested Poland is consenting to proviso Ukraine with the F-16 fighters. Yermak said Ukraine had had “positive signals” from Warsaw successful a Telegram posting, though Poland’s premier minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, was cautious to accent his ain state would lone enactment successful consultation with Nato allies, arsenic Ukraine’s lobbying for the combat jets steps up lone a fewer days aft Germany and the US agreed to nonstop implicit tanks.

Zelenskiy has called for occidental weapons to beryllium supplied much quickly. Speaking successful his nightly address, the Ukrainian president said Russia was hoping to resistance retired the war, and exhaust his country’s quality to defy the invaders. “So we person to marque clip our weapon. We indispensable velocity up the events, velocity up the proviso and opening of caller indispensable weaponry options for Ukraine,” Zelenskiy said.

The Kremlin warned the west’s supplying of further weapons to Ukraine would lone pb to “significant escalation” of the conflict. Kyiv “demands much and much weapons” portion Nato countries were “more and much becoming straight progressive successful the conflict”, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, after Ukraine’s lawman overseas minister, Andriy Melnyk, called connected Germany to nonstop his state a submarine.

Russian forces continued attacks connected positions crossed the frontline adjacent the eastbound cities of Bakhmut and Donetsk. Moscow’s troops person been pounding Bakhmut successful the Donbas for respective months, but successful caller days the invaders appeared to person opened up a caller effort to summation crushed astir the colony of Vuhledar, 30 miles south-west of Donetsk city.

The concern successful Bakhmut and Vuhledar was “very tough” with some areas and different parts of the Donetsk portion “under changeless Russian attacks”, Zelenskiy said. Vuhledar is adjacent to the junction with the confederate Zaporizhzhia beforehand and considered a hinge constituent for some sides, but remains held by the Ukrainians contempt a assertion by the person of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic to the contrary.

Ukraine’s subject and Russia’s Wagner backstage subject radical are some claiming to person power successful the country of Blahodatne, eastbound Donetsk region.

Dmitry Medvedev, semipermanent state of Vladimir Putin, and presently lawman president of the information assembly of Russia, has boasted that sanctions are having small effect connected the Russian economy.

Nato main Jens Stoltenberg and Japan’s premier Fumio Kishida pledged connected Tuesday to fortify ties, saying Russia’s penetration of Ukraine and its increasing subject co-operation with China had created the astir tense information situation since the 2nd satellite war.

A Russian tribunal has fined the streaming work Twitch 4m roubles (£46,200/$57,000) for failing to region what it said were “fakes” astir Russia’s penetration of Ukraine.

Ukraine’s overseas ministry criticised the president of Croatia, Zoran Milanović, for saying Crimea would ne'er instrumentality to Ukrainian control, describing his remark arsenic “unacceptable”. On Monday successful remarks detailing his objection to Zagreb providing subject assistance to Kyiv, Milanović said it was “clear that Crimea volition ne'er again beryllium portion of Ukraine”.

Russia and Belarus person started a week-long league of unit grooming for the associated bid of their determination grouping of forces, the Belarusian defence ministry said connected Tuesday.

The Russian authorities connected Monday banned home lipid exporters and customs bodies from adhering to western-imposed terms caps connected Russian crude. The measurement was issued to assistance enforce President Vladimir Putin’s decree of 27 December that prohibited the proviso of crude lipid and lipid products from 1 February for 5 months, to nations that abide by the caps. The caller Russian enactment bans corporates and individuals from including lipid terms headdress mechanisms successful their contracts.

The UK’s defence minister, Ben Wallace, has said that the tanks donated to Ukraine volition get connected the frontline “this broadside of the summer”. Britain should beryllium “really proud” of having led the satellite successful supporting Ukraine and lasting up to Russian aggression, premier curate Rishi Sunak has said.