During his nightly video address to his people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Thursday that, 'With every day of our defense, we are getting closer to the peace that we need so much.
, Ukrainians have kept up stiff resistance. Ukraine has accused Moscow of forcibly taking hundreds of thousands of civilians to Russia so they could be used as "hostages" to pressure a surrender. But Russia said they've been going of their own free will.Are Ukrainians being forced into Russia?
The ministry said the Russians intend to "use them as hostages and put more political pressure on Ukraine."But Russian Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev said the roughly 400,000 people evacuated to Russia since the start of the war were from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow separatists have been fighting for control for nearly eight years.
Photos and video after the naval attack showed fire and thick plumes of smoke. Russian TV reported earlier this week that the ship, the Orsk, was the first Russian warship to enter Berdyansk. The port was going to be used to deliver military equipment for the Russians, the report said.Ukraine also claimed two more ships were damaged and a 3,000-ton fuel tank was destroyed when the Orsk was sunk, causing a fire that spread to nearby ammunition supplies.
Chernihiv has been further cut off after a vital pedestrian bridge over the Desna river was damaged by shelling, the local governor said Friday. The tall and narrow concrete bridge had become a vital link to the outside world after the main road bridge over the Desna was destroyed earlier this week by a Russian airstrike. That severely hampered efforts to get supplies in and civilians out on a highway leading south to the capital, Kyiv.
Germany’s economy minister said Friday that his country has forged contracts with new suppliers that will allow it to significantlyHe said Germany also expects to be able to become almost entirely independent of Russian gas by mid-2024. To do this the government has secured the use of three "floating" terminals capable of regasifying LNG brought in by ship and is working hard to build permanent LNG terminals for long-term imports.
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