{"id":235204,"date":"2023-02-18T12:43:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T10:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=235204"},"modified":"2023-02-18T12:43:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T10:43:46","slug":"day-359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/day-359","title":{"rendered":"Day 359: Zelenskyi speaks at Munich Security Conference; NATO, EU, Ukraine to hold first trilateral meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Russian Goliath to lose already this year, Zelenskyi says, speaking to Munich Security Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, February 17, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that the \u201cRussian Goliath\u201d began to lose ground and will fall \u201calready this year\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing a comparison between Ukraine\u2019s war with Russia and the biblical story of David and Goliath, President Zelenskyi said: \u201cUkraine still hasn\u2019t received the David\u2019s Sling from Israel, but I believe it\u2019s just a matter of time.\u201d The \u201cRussian Goliath\u201d will definitely fall this year, Zelenskyi said, we can achieve that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian regime \u2014 Goliath, is trying to buy itself time and is bargaining with the world. The international community needs to \u201churry up\u201d. \u201cWe need speed \u2013 speed of our agreements, speed of our delivery, speed of decisions to limit Russian potential. There is no alternative to speed because it is the speed that life depends on,\u201d Zelenskyi said. Russia can break the security of everyone present at the Munich Security Conference \u2014 \u201cdelayed decisions of the world is what Putin\u2019s dictatorship lives on\u201d, he added. \u201cGoliath must lose. There is no alternative to that!\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is no alternative to Ukrainian victory\u201d, Zelenskyi said. There is no alternative to Ukraine in the EU and NATO, he added. People, Europe and freedom cannot be the \u201csubject of compromise,\u201d he added. Allies\u2019 support for Ukraine should get stronger and be quick. \u201cSo that the next year we would gather here, in Munich, for the first post-war security conference with free Ukraine, free Europe, and free world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As allies\u2019 assistance will make Ukraine stronger, Kyiv will be able to retake the occupied territories quicker, Zelenskyi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia pounds Kharkiv region with missiles, artillery<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, at least 12 towns and villages came under attack. Six people were wounded and one more was killed as the Russian forces used combat aviation and artillery against Vovchansk, local authorities said. A 44-year-old woman was wounded in Velykyi Burluk, and taken to hospital. Ukraine\u2019s defense forces repelled Russia\u2019s attacks near Hryanykivka and Synkivka. After 11 p.m., the Russians hit Kharkiv\u2019s Kyivskyi and Osnovyanskyi districts with missiles. According to preliminary reports, Russia launched S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from Belgorod region. A shock wave from one of the blasts damaged a workshop at an industrial site, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration Oleh Synehubov said. The strike on critical infrastructure facilities also damaged railroad tracks and some vehicles, the regional office of the Prosecutor General in Kharkiv said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO, EU, Ukraine to hold their first trilateral meeting<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, and Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will meet at NATO\u2019s headquarters in Brussels on February 21. They will hold a joint news conference after the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will be the first trilateral meeting between Ukraine, the European Union, and NATO. \u201cI look forward to meeting Jens Stoltenberg and Josep Borrell to strengthen our partnership and cooperation in defending Ukraine and Europe,\u201d Kuleba said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

russia\u2019s next steps in confrontation with collective West. Ukraine in Flames #344 <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Unlike western leaders vladimir putin doesn\u2019t have to answer to the public or media, which means he can make unpopular decisions, take dangerous turns and prepare for a long destructive war. Watch Ukraine in flames #344 to find out what steps russia is willing to take next  based on global alignment of power in the world and a combination of various geopolitical factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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