Slovakia to Provide Fighter Jets to Ukraine

Slovakia on Friday approved plans to provide MiG fighter jets to Ukraine.

Slovakia is the second NATO country, after Poland, to respond to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s multiple requests for aircraft to help his country’s fight against Russian aggression.

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Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger said that his country is “on the right side of history” in providing Ukraine with a retired fleet of 13 MiG-29s.

According to intelligence updates from the British Ministry of Defence, Russian Army and Wagner Group forces have recently secured footholds west of the Bakhmutka River in the town of Bakhmut.

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The river, the ministry said, had recently marked the front line of battle in fighting in the Donbass town of Bakhmut. Reports said Ukrainian forces were defending the western part of the city.

Meanwhile, the report said, Russia is conducting some of its lowest rates of local offensive fighting since January.

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“This is most likely because Russian forces have temporarily reduced their combat strength to such an extent that even local offensive actions are not sustainable at present,” it said.

The Russians would increase their “offensive potential” once personnel and ammunition stocks were replenished. Until then, the ministry said, Russian commanders “will be forced to choose between conducting offensive operations and providing reliable defense of the entire line.”

China is hoping that there will be a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine and is urging Russia and Ukraine to come to the peace negotiating table, China’s foreign minister told his Ukrainian counterpart in a telephone conversation on Thursday.

China’s foreign ministry said in a statement that Qin Gang told Dmytro Kuleba that China has “committed itself to promoting peace and carrying forward dialogue and called on the international community to create conditions for peace talks”. Is.”

Qin also said that “China hopes that all sides will remain calm, reasonable and restrained,” according to the statement, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine recently celebrated its one-year anniversary.