Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday delivered an emotional address to the US Congress, appealing for help from Americans to fend off the Russian invasion even as talks between the adversaries appeared to make some progress. President Joe Biden spoke at the White House hours later, promising more weapons for Ukraine.
Russia sticks with plans for Urals crude
Ollongren said the Netherlands had already increased spending by about 25% with the new government at the start of the year to bring the country in line with the European Union average. But those plans were drafted before the war in Ukraine broke out. Rockets hit a convoy of civilians who were trying to evacuate from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia, according to the Defence Ministry, which said there were a number of deaths and those injured included children.Latvia has been “heard and together with our allies, we have started working” on getting an anti-missile defence system, Defence Minister Artis Pabriks said in a tweet.
Nearby rocket strikes blew out windows and damaged walls at Ohmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv on Wednesday, according to the hospital’s Facebook page. The hospital said no one was wounded in the attack.Nato allies are maintaining a constant flow of weapons into the Ukrainian capital because Russian forces have not succeeded in completely encircling the city, according to two senior Nato military officials.
The link won’t enable the trade of electricity, but will help Ukraine keep its electricity system stable, homes warm and lights on, according to the European Commission. It’s “a historic milestone for the EU-Ukraine relationship — in this area, Ukraine is now part of Europe,” said Kadri Simson, EU energy commissioner for energy.During his address to the US Congress, Zelensky played a graphic video of the destruction in Ukraine that ended with the words: “Close the sky over Ukraine.
Zelensky continued his calls for a no-fly zone over his country, his biggest request that US and European countries have so far resisted. “If this is too much to ask, we offer an alternative,” Zelensky said, stressing that the country needs more air defence systems like the Russian S-300.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said any diplomatic solution to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would have to include assurances that a pullback by Moscow would be “in effect, irreversible”.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has confirmed that Russia’s demands for Ukraine’s neutrality in the future are under serious discussion, according to the state-owned Tass news agency, but Russia’s demands are broader. The talks with Ukraine aren’t going easily, he said, but there are hopes to reach a compromise.
“Occupiers began to fire on columns of buses, fire on residential areas and points where people gathered for evacuation,” she said. Vereshchuk added that Russian troops captured a hospital in Mariupol and were firing outward from the building. There was no immediate response from Russia.Ukraine’s direct losses from the Russian war were estimated at $565-billion, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at a meeting with the prime ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic in Kyiv.
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