Ukraine urgently calls for heavy weapons to repel Russian forces in the eastern Donbas region, as relentless Russian artillery and airstrikes threaten to turn the tide of war and it appears that support for Kyiv’s continued challenge between some allies in western Europe seem to be shrinking. Ukrainian officials say they urgently need advanced mobile-launched multi-launch rocket systems made in the United States, capable of reaching targets up to 300 km away, to stop Russian advances in Luhansk and Donetsk.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has admitted that not all land that Russia has seized since the annexation of Crimea in 2014 can be recovered militarily. While he is confident that his country will regain the territory that Russia has claimed since its February 24 invasion, he said no other territory could be recaptured by force. “I do not think we can restore our entire territory by military means. If we decide to go this route, we will lose hundreds of thousands of people, ”he said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claims to have captured the strategically important city of Lyman and several other smaller cities and surrounded Sievierodonetsk, which Ukraine denies. Zelenskiy said in a televised speech on Saturday night that conditions in the Donbas were “indescribably difficult” and thanked Ukrainian defenders for resisting the attack.
At least six UK-sanctioned Russian oligarchs have been “overshadowed” by ocean-tracking systems, disappearing from global maps used to locate marine traffic. Owners of these yachts will almost certainly realize that they are at risk of being attacked in a global search for the assets of Russia’s super-rich.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ruled out a maximum age limit for military recruits in the face of growing losses in Ukraine, Tass reported. UK intelligence estimates that Russia had lost about a third of its ground forces this month.
Officials in the southeastern port city of Mykolaiv say at least one person has been killed and at least six injured in Russian bombings. Two rounds landed in the courtyards of tall buildings and a shell fell near a kindergarten, CNN reported.
Boris Johnson and Zelenskiy discussed food supply concerns in a phone call. A Downing Street spokesman said Johnson told Zelenskiy that the UK would continue to support Ukraine’s armed resistance, even supplying equipment. He added that the UK was involved in “intense work … with international partners to find ways to resume Ukraine’s grain exports to avert a global food crisis”.
Putin spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and told the Kremlin that the continuation of arms supplies was “dangerous”, warning of the risks of further destabilization. aggravation of the humanitarian crisis “. Russia said it was ready to discuss ways to make it possible for Ukraine to resume grain shipments from Black Sea ports.
Spain is sending a battery of surface-to-air missiles and about 100 troops to NATO’s advanced presence mission in Latvia, joining some 500 compatriots already present in the Baltic state, El País reported.