Zelensky admitted serious losses; "Alarming"; Putin lost another UN Russian official

Zelensky admitted serious losses; "Alarming"; Putin lost another UN Russian official

A rocket attack on the Training Center of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Chernihiv region killed 87 people, said the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking in Davos.

The mobilized forces of the territorial defense of Ukraine were trained in that center.

Speaking at a gathering of business leaders in Davos, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the world was at a turning point and that sanctions on Russia needed to be tightened as a warning to other countries considering using "brutal force", Reuters reported.

"History is at a turning point. This is the moment when it will be decided whether a brutal force will rule the world," Zelensky said in his address.

What have Putin and Lukashenko talked about? "Alarming"

The West has encouraged Belarus to become actively involved in its economy; The West underestimated the sanctions against the Russian Federation and Belarus, and these decisions affected them; The West is taking steps to tear Ukraine apart, Minsk is alarming; Ukrainians will have to ask Minsk and Moscow to prevent the "separation" of western Ukraine. We see that the UN could repeat the unenviable fate of the League of Nations in the near future.

The Russians fired four rockets from a submarine in the Black Sea

Russia's Ministry of Defense announced today that it fired four Caliber rockets from a submarine in the Black Sea with the intention of destroying the military equipment of the Ukrainian Mountain Assault Brigade.

Reuters notes that he could not immediately confirm these allegations. Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said earlier that Russian forces carried out attacks with precise projectiles from the sea in order to destroy the weapons and military equipment of the 10th Ukrainian Mountain Assault Brigade in the Zhytomyr region, which is moving to Donbas, as TASS reports.

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A Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian soldier to life in prison for killing a civilian

A Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian soldier to life in prison for killing a civilian, in the first war crimes trial since Russia’s invasion began in February.

Vadim Shishimarin, 21, pleaded guilty to killing 62-year-old civilians in the northeastern Ukrainian village of Chupahivka on February 28.

Shishimarin “fired several shots through the open window of the car with a Kalashnikov rifle into the head of the victim,” according to the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office. “The man died at the scene just a few dozen meters from his home.”

According to televised footage from the courtroom, Shishimarin remained silent in a glass box with his hands behind his back as the verdict was delivered.

Shishimarin’s lawyers said they would appeal.

The resignation of a Russian diplomat at the UN

Boris Bondarev, a high-ranking Russian diplomat in the permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva, resigned due to his disagreement with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In an open letter of resignation, Bondarev assessed that the invasion of Ukraine was not only a crime against the people of Ukraine, but perhaps "the most serious crime against the people of Russia", assessing that the letter Z highlighted by Russian forces has dashed all hopes and prospects for a prosperous and free society in Russia", the U.S. portal the Daily Beast reported.