“We stop the crowd In the best possible way, the situation in Kiev is under the control of the Ukrainian armed forces and our citizens, said the Secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov, according to reports from independent Kiev.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces said they did Night “attack” repelled by Russian soldiers Opposite one of their locations on Victory Street, one of the main arteries of Kiev. “The attack has been repelled,” the Ukrainian military said in a message on its Facebook account, without providing further details about the exact location of this clash.
behind – on the other side 50 explosions and heavy machine gun rounds They were reported in the Chulyavka regions and near the Kiev Zoo. Loud gunshots were also reported near the Beresteiska metro station, not far from a Ukrainian military facility. The Kiev Independent reports on this. There were reports of violent clashes in the south of the Ukrainian capital.
The United States is ready to help Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky To leave Kiev to avoid being captured or killed by Russian forces. “The battle is here. I need ammo, not a crane.” With these words, the Ukrainian president rejected the American offer. The Associated Press reported, citing US intelligence sources.
Respect and protection of sovereignty and territorial integrity “also applies to Ukraine”: this is one of the five points of the position China On the crisis between Moscow and Kiev revealed by the Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi in phone calls with EU High Representative Josep Borrell, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Emmanuel Bonn, Macron’s diplomatic advisor.
Other points are Russia’s “legitimate security demands,” moderation in the face of escalation, a diplomatic solution (yes to the Ukraine-Russia talks), and the lack of “light” on UN resolutions on the use of force and sanctions, under Chapter VII.
in plain sight US sanctions Meanwhile, Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also ended up. This was announced by the US Treasury, whose list of sanctions also includes President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Some major Wall Street banks are advising Washington not to expel Russia from it Swift: Doing so, in fact, would have a major impact on the global economy. According to Bloomberg, the big banks have suggested that lawmakers and the Biden administration go ahead with other types of sanctions to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
there White House She told Congress she needed $6.4 billion in new money to help Ukraine. About 2.9 billion of the resources will go to humanitarian and security assistance, while 3.5 billion will go to the Pentagon.
Several explosions and gunshots were heard in Kiev, according to Ukrainian media reports
“Tonight they will launch an offensive. The enemy will use all its strength on all fronts to break our defense. Now the fate of Ukraine has been decided,” President Zelensky said in a new video address to the nation. And he adds: “Tonight will be more difficult than today. Many of our cities are under attack: Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, our boys and girls in the Donbass, the cities of the south, special interest in Kiev. We cannot lose the capital.”
Putin called for a coup, appealing to the military in Kiev to “take power” and dismiss the government of the former comedian-turned-head of state, described as Gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis. So suggests the head of the Kremlin, “It will be easier for you to find an agreement with us.” The call to rebellion is the seed of discord among the weary and terrified residents, who spent the night in subways used as anti-aircraft bunkers and today improvise trenches with sandbags. Destabilizing propaganda, a few hours after the opening with the proposed negotiations in Minsk. Talks that “in no case will not cancel the Russian special operation in Ukraine,” Moscow warned, accusing Kiev of having a standing in the beginning, and proposing a meeting in Warsaw, then cutting off communications.
The fate of the Ukrainian leader increasingly appears to be the cornerstone of the conflict. “This might be the last time you see me alive,” he would say last night via video link to EU leaders. The The president swears he won’t give up, he’s looking for every possible diplomatic aspect – In the evening he was upset with Joe Biden and asked Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to mediate with the Kremlin, which immediately closed its doors – but in the meantime he had to stress that he was still in place. “We are here and defending Ukraine,” he said in a video taken by an amateur on the street at a military look during the night in Kiev with four of his loyalists. At the end of the second day of the invasion, Ukraine is resisting, then in the evening it is ready to talk about a ceasefire and peace, Skynews reported, quoting a spokesman for the president and recalling that Zelensky had previously rejected the proposal to meet with Vladimir. Putin in Minsk. The Ukrainians had suggested holding the meeting in Poland. According to Russian news agencies, discussions are underway regarding the date and venue of the possible meeting.
Under attack from all possible fronts, crushed numerically and militarily, and pushed far from the frontiers that it must defend, the Kiev army is fighting with pride. Like the 13 soldiers who became nationalist “heroes” after the audio recording of them insulting the Russian warship that then occupied the small but strategic Snake Island in the Black Sea, went viral on social media.A few miles from Romania. An example of volunteer fighters, such as 9,000 Ukrainians in Poland applied for conscription. Although the attack slows down, the attack does not stop. Moscow claims to have eliminated 211 strategic targets, including 17 command and communication centers.
Ukrainian casualties were reported to be around 300, including, according to the London Defense, at least 57 civilians. According to the same source, about 450 Russian fighters were killed, while Kiev conjures up much heavier budgets (more than a thousand), in an endless propaganda war. The Pentagon is talking about more than 200 missiles raining down across the country, and Ukraine is counting on what it can, inviting citizens to fend off “invaders with Molotov cocktails,” complete with instructions for making the incendiary cocktail.. Nevertheless, Moscow’s forces and pro-Russian paramilitaries are advancing on all fronts, with pincer maneuvers: in the Donbass, where the assault on the port of Mariupol continues with an amphibious assault and the mayor provokes a battle “not only for Ukraine, but for all of Europe”; From the Crimea to the Cherson Territory, a characteristic way to conquer Odessa and block access to the sea; And to the north, around Kiev, in the Oblonsky district and the Gostomel military airfield, 30 kilometers from the capital, where the Moscow parachutes landed at the end of heavy fighting.
And at night, Kiev is more tightly surrounded, with explosions every few minutes near the CHP-6 power plant, 14 km from the center. In these dramatic hours, while the United Nations talks about more than 50,000 refugees and fears an uncontrollable situation, the West continues to beat the path of sanctions. The US, EU and UK have directly hit Putin and his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, and froze their assetsAnd Brussels is considering a third “urgent” package, in an attempt to form the positions of the 27 on the essence of Moscow’s exclusion from the SWIFT system of bank payments. Meanwhile, Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe and Eurovision in Turin. As NATO invited Finland and Sweden to its summit, which provoked the Kremlin’s reaction. All measures are taken to isolate Putin and turn him, as Biden threatened, into a “pariah on the international stage.”
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