West to donate self-blinda to Ukraine

Through daily updates concerning the war, on January 5th the Ukrainian Army said over 800 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded, most of whom during the fighting in the town of Bahmut and other areas of the Ukrainian region of Donjeck.

Radio Free Europe has not been able to independently verify these figures provided by the Ukrainian Army.

As fierce fighting continues, US President Joe Biden confirmed on January 4th that Washington is considering the possibility of being sent to Ukraine of infantry combat vehicles, Bradley. M2 Bradley has been used by the U.S. Army since 1981 and the United States has thousands of such vehicles available.

In the following days, Washington is expected to announce the new aid package for Ukraine.

Beden's comments came after the previous day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a telephone conversation with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. During this conversation, France found it will donate armoured vehicles of the type AMX-10 RC to Ukraine.

Reuters quoted an unidentified French official as saying that “this is the first time that armoured vehicles produced in the West are being given to the Ukrainian Army”. However, more details are known about these shipments.

Earlier, Australia violated Ukraine's 90 Bushmaster-like cars. These armoured cars are against landmines.

Kiev has asked Western governments to donate heavy armoured vehicles, especially American production machines Abrams, and German war tanks, Leopard.

There is no reason that Ukraine is not yet supplied with Western tanks”, Zelensky wrote on Twitter.

A senior US official said on January 4th that fighting around Bahmut is still intense “ ” and predicted that fighting “will continue during the following months”.

Ukrainian officials have warned in recent days that Russia is preparing for new offensives as Ukraine's unprotested Russian invasion nears its anniversary.

There are many indicators that give us reason to say that they will make an effort in February”, said Olexity Danilov, secretary of the Ukrainian Security Council.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said that because of the high number of victims from the ongoing intensive fighting, Russia will likely launch a second military mobilization in the first quarter of this year.

In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin said there is no need for further mobilization.