“This is a demonstration of strong leadership and a contribution to our common defense of freedom,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video broadcast to the nation.
He thanked the European Union for its support.
“And for our partners, it’s not just an expense or a gift. It’s their contribution to security,” Zelenskyy said. Because protecting Ukraine also means protecting it from new wars and crises that Russia could galvanize if it succeeds in the war against Ukraine. Therefore, collectively we will have to ensure that Russia’s aggression against our state is not successful, neither military, nor economic, nor of any other kind.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s monthly budget deficit is $5 billion “and in the war for freedom, we want quick and sufficient monetary support. “
The United States has announced a shipment of military aircraft worth $100 million to Ukraine, regardless of what comes from the $40 billion approved by Congress. Ukraine since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
Senate sends $40 bill to Ukraine to Biden for signature
– Refuting Turkey, Biden welcomes NATO donations from Sweden and Finland
– The Red Cross registers a lot of Ukrainian prisoners of war leaving the Mariupol metallurgical plant
– Frame camera of a captive doctor the direct horror of Mariupol
Explanation: What will happen to the Ukrainian infantrymen in Mariupol?
UN leader ‘hopes’ grain deal with Ukraine ends food crisis
— The influence of the Russo-Ukrainian war catches the attention of the G7 financial leaders
Russians in US intelligence worry Mariupol abuses will backfire
— Follow AP of the war in Ukraine in https://apnews. com/hub/russia-ukraine
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian troops stepped up their attacks on the Donbass.
“It’s hell there and it’s not an exaggeration,” he said in his video of the night in front of the nation. “The brutal and absolutely far-fetched bombing of Severodonetsk. Twelve dead and dozens wounded there in a single day.
Zelenskyy said Russian movements in the northeastern region of Chernihiv included a horrific attack in the village of Desna, where he said many had died and rescuers were wandering through the rubble.
“The bombings and bombings of our other cities, the air and missile movements of the Russian army are not just wartime army operations. . . This is a conscious and corrupt attempt to kill as many Ukrainians as possible,” Zelenskyy said. mentioned. ” Destroy more homes, public places, businesses. This is what will be called the genocide of the other Ukrainians and for which the occupiers will be brought to justice.
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A veteran Russian rock musician is accused of discrediting the military for comments made at a concert on Wednesday.
The charges against Yuri Shevchuk, a singer of the DDT organization, were referred to an administrative court on Thursday. He could face a fine of up to 50,000 rubles ($800).
After the war began, Russia passed a stricter law punishing 15 years in prison for spreading “fake news” about the confrontation.
At the concert in Ufa, Shevchuk explained the goals of the war and why young Russians and Ukrainians are fighting and dying in a war that is also costing civilian lives.
“The elderly, women and young people are dying,” he said. “For some kind of Napoleonic plans of our last Caesar, yes?”
“TheArray, my friends, is not a president’s ass to lick and fuck all the time. She is a poor grandmother who promotes potatoes at the exercise station. This is TheArray,” he added.
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WASHINGTON — The United States announced a $100 million military apparatus for Ukraine, regardless of what comes from the $40 billion approved by Congress on Thursday.
The newest package includes 18 more howitzers, as well as anti-artillery radar systems, which the U. S. has already had in Ukraine since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the apparatus will be in the hands of Ukraine’s force “very, very soon. “
With this most recent delivery, the United States has provided about $4 billion in military aid since Feb. 24 and $6. 6 billion since 2014, when Russia seized and annexed the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine.
Kirby said the United States will consult with Ukraine, as it has done since the invasion, on what it wants in terms of equipment.
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WARSAW, Poland – Polish President Andrzej Duda, the country’s defense minister and the U. S. ambassador to Poland attended a joint army training called DEFENDER-Europe 22 on Thursday through Polish, American, French and Swedish troops in northeastern Poland.
The task of the troops to cross the Narew River near the town of Nowogrod, in a region about a two-hour drive from the borders of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and russian best friend, Belarus.
Duda said that as Ukraine fights Russia’s invasion, everyone is “aware of the threat” in the region.
Duda said the training, which had been planned earlier, “would show NATO’s cooperation and effectiveness in collective defense. “
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UNITED NATIONS – The U. N. food leader is warning that the war in Ukraine has created “an unprecedented crisis” of escalating food that has sparked protests.
World Food Programme executive director David Beasley said rising hunger will lead at least 47 million people to the 276 million “anti-famine marches” before Russia invaded its tiny neighbor.
Beasley told a U. N. Security Council assembly Thursday that another 49 million people in 43 countries “were already knocking on the door of famine. “
He noted that conflicts, the effect of climate change, the addition of droughts and floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic were already particularly affecting food security and believed things might not get worse. But then there was the war in Ethiopia, the Taliban’s seizure of power in Afghanistan and finally the war in Ukraine, a breadbasket in the world that he said produces enough food for 400 million people and now has “the longest bread lines in the world. “
He said the leaders helped open Ukrainian ports and increase food production.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte welcomed Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids and said they are confident they will pass despite Turkish opposition.
The two met Thursday in The Hague to discuss the scenario in Ukraine and energy issues, Scholz’s first stop in neighboring Holland.
The two leaders expressed optimism about the Nordic countries joining the military alliance, but did not understand how other members of the alliance could triumph over opposition from NATO member Turkey.
They were less in favour of an accelerated procedure for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, which Kiev demanded after the Russian invasion.
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden has welcomed the “momentary” candidacies of Once-Neutral Sweden and Finland to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Biden on Thursday welcomed Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finnish President Sauli Niinistö to the White House as they met for trilateral talks on NATO’s mutual defense pact and European security concerns.
Biden’s leadership has professed optimism for the candidacies, which would mark an embarrassment for Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.
Biden the two countries “meet all nato requirements, and then some. “
Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that the alliance avoid expanding into Russia’s borders.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says the NATO member will help Finland and Sweden if threatened or attacked in their procedure to join the defense pact.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki did thursday at a convention at the think tank of the Polish Institute of International Affairs.
says Morawiecki. il “would make it transparent that in the event of an attack on Sweden or Finland in their NATO accession process, Poland will come to their aid. “
Poland is on the NATO flank, on the border of Ukraine and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
Morawiecki also said he believes NATO has permanent bases on its eastern flank.
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ISTANBUL — Turkey’s leader opposes Sweden and Finland joining NATO, but the military alliance’s senior official says he hopes the issue will be resolved and the two Nordic countries will soon become members.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that he is “confident that we will take an early resolution to welcome Sweden and Finland to the NATO family. “
Stoltenberg said in Copenhagen, Denmark, that “we are responding to the considerations expressed through Turkey. “
Turkey’s approval of Finland and Sweden’s offer to join the Western Army alliance is very important because NATO makes its decisions by consensus.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a video released on Thursday: “We have told our friends involved that we will say ‘no’ to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, and we will continue on that path. “
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BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers agreed Thursday to strip former Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder of his workplace and after protecting his long-standing ties with Russia and its power sector despite the invasion of Ukraine.
Sven Kindler, a spokesman for monetary policy for the Greens, one of the ruling parties, tweeted that parliament’s budget committee had approved a replacement in regulations that would leave Schroeder’s “inactive. “
The move was expected after lawmakers in Schroeder’s Social Democrat-led coalition, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party, proposed on Wednesday to link some of the privileges enjoyed by former chancellors to office, to their prestige as former leaders.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s team is on Capitol Hill urging U. S. senators to a new sanctions circular against Russians with a more “nuanced” technique that targets mid-level government officials and public figures during the war in Ukraine.
The organization is discussing with senators a list of 6,000 Russians, adding administrative employees of defense and securityArray, governors, deputies, even editors and operations of Russian media for sanctions.
He also plans to meet Thursday with U. S. State Department officials. The U. S. Department of Justice, the Department of Justice and the offices in Washington.
Vladimir Ashurkov, executive director of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation, said the “avalanche of sanctions” imposed so far has an effect on Russia.
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PARIS ( Paris — French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his considerations about the possibility of the war in Ukraine spreading to neighboring countries as he received the president of Moldova, Ukraine’s neighbor.
Macron said Thursday that “an extension of the confrontation to neighboring countries will be ruled out,” pointing to “recent incidents” in Moldova’s Transnistria region, where Russian troops are already stationed and where there have been explosions.
“France remains attentive to the security scenario in the region,” the French leader said.
He praised Moldova’s assistance to Refugees from Ukraine. The small former Soviet republic with a Western tendency is facing an influx of refugees. Macron called on European leaders to give a first reaction to Moldova’s request for the European Union club.
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BERLIN — The U. N. nuclear watchdog says Ukraine has informed it that new wildfires near the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant pose a radioactive risk to people.
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that Kiev had told it that the gamma dose rate degrees near the plant, those of the 1986 nuclear disaster, “did not exceed the reference degrees. “
He said past delights suggest such fires may lead to a “very small increase” in the radioactive concentration in the air, but the IAEA supports Ukraine’s assessment that this would not endanger human health. He noted that “spontaneous fires” occur in the region at this time of year.
Russian forces took Chernobyl at the beginning of the invasion in February and withdrew at the end of March.
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BERLIN – The Group of Seven countries are launching a new Global Alliance for Food Security that aims in part to address the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
German Development Minister Svenja Schulze said Thursday after meeting with her counterparts from major G7 economies that the goal of better coordinating aid donor efforts and making sure the crisis is not overlooked.
He said the G-7 will seek to bring in as many partners as possible, adding emerging countries that would possibly have supplies. The alliance “is open. It’s not a closed club,” Schulze said. The World Bank is helping to implement the project.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to a sharp drop in food and energy prices. Both countries are primary exporters of wheat, barley and sunflower oil.
The head of the UN’s progression programme, Achim Steiner, said: “Right now we want everyone to be on deck. That is, can we put everyone on deck to paint also in a well-coordinated way?”
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MOSCOW – The Kremlin has said its long-term status will depend on citizens of Ukrainian regions controlled by Russian troops.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that other people living in those places will have to “determine how and with whom they need to live. “
Peskov made the call during a convention with reporters after being asked about some Russian officials who said Russia could take steps to incorporate the captured Kherson region into southern Ukraine.
The Kremlin spokesman responded by saying the government is focused on providing basic facilities to citizens of Russian-controlled areas.
When asked about a plan he allegedly proposed through Italy for a political settlement of the fighting in Ukraine, Peskov said the Kremlin was not aware but had only learned about it from the media.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s fitness minister vowed on Thursday to help Ukraine with its fitness system, which has come under heavy pressure from the war with Russia.
Karl Lauterbach said Ukraine’s Health Minister Viktor Liashko briefed his counterparts from the major Group of Seven democracies at an assembly on Thursday.
Lauterbach said Germany would identify specialized centers in Ukraine for others suffering severe burns and trauma from the war.
Liashko also asked for more prostheses to help other people who lost limbs in the war.
“It’s sad but true that many civilians have lost limbs,” Lauterbach said. “Among them are many children. “
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BRUSSELS ( European Union lawmakers are calling for more budget to help citizens cope with the influence of sanctions against Russia and economic aid for aid to Ukraine.
In a solution approved Thursday by show of hands, lawmakers defended EU sanctions against Russia and Belarus but said the measures hurt the post-pandemic economic expansion and “pose a serious risk to the EU’s recovery. “
The solution is to help families and businesses, in all likelihood through a tax on the profits of electricity companies or a revision of the EU budget, in order to “keep citizens for movements that oppose Russia and other movements to Ukrainians. “
Lawmakers have also called for the resignation of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s European allies, such as former German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder.
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KYIV, Ukraine – A Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the start of the war in Ukraine testified that he shot and killed a Ukrainian civilian on the orders of an officer.
Vadim Shishimarin could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted of shooting a 62-year-old man in the head through an open window in a village in the northeastern soumy region on Feb. 28, four days after the invasion began.
The 21-year-old soldier told a Kiev court on Thursday that the officer insisted that the man, who was talking on a cell phone, could report his location to Ukrainian forces.
Looking calm, Shishimarin said that he had to obey the officer’s orders. He asked the victim’s widow, who is also in court, to forgive him for what he had done.
The woman, Kateryna Shelipova, said she saw her husband, Oleksandr Shelipov, shot dead just outside their home.
Shelipova told the court that Shishimarin deserved life in prison for killing her husband, but added that she would not worry if he were exchanged as part of an imaginable exchange by Ukrainian defenders of the Azovstal metal plant in Mariupol.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Portuguese government says Russia will expel diplomats from its embassy in Moscow, a day after the Kremlin also expelled diplomats from Spain, France and Italy.
Portugal’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that Russia’s resolution is “unjustified” and that it is only one step ahead after Portugal expelled Russian diplomats from the Lisbon embassy last month.
“Unlike the corps of Russian workers expelled from Portugal, those bodies of Portuguese workers were involved in strictly diplomatic tasks,” a Portuguese Foreign Ministry official said.
Several European countries expelled Russian diplomats last month after accusing Russian forces in Ukraine of killing civilians in Bucha and other cities outside Kiev. The Kremlin has denied the allegations.
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BRUSSELS – European Union lawmakers have voted to suspend importing all Ukrainian exports for a year into the war-torn country’s economy.
The European Parliament said Thursday that the transitional resolution followed by 515 votes to 32, with 11 abstentions.
The measure covers commercial products, fruits, vegetables and steel. The EU is Ukraine’s main trading partner, accounting for more than 40% of its overall product industry last year.
Before the war, Ukraine was the EU’s fifteenth largest trading partner and accounted for around 1. 2% of the EU’s total trade.
“We will have Ukraine in all grades with all the equipment at our disposal: not only with weapons and sanctions, but also with the power of our industry,” said lawmaker Sandra Kalniete. “Giving Ukraine what it wants to protect itself does not prevent it from on the battlefield; this means ensuring that the Ukrainian economy remains resilient and competitive.
In 2016, the EU and Ukraine signed an Association Agreement to open Up Ukrainian markets and deepen the country’s ties with Europe.
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ISTANBUL – Turkey’s president opposes Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO and says Ankara would say “no” to his candidacy.
Addressing an organization of young Turks, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the two countries, and in particular Sweden, of being “a hotbed of terror, the hotbed of terror. “Video of their verbal exchange was released Thursday.
Erdogan’s objection to Sweden and Finland stems from Turkey’s complaints about aid received from Stockholm, and to a lesser extent with Helsinki, for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and an armed organization in Syria that Turkey sees as an extension of the PKK. Turkey also accuses them of harboring aides to U. S. -based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara said was a failed military coup attempt in 2016.
Turkey’s approval is because the army alliance makes its decisions by consensus. Each of its 30 member countries can veto those they can join.
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BERLIN ( German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended his country’s resolve to supply Ukraine with weapons to fight Russia, saying it “constitutes an escalation. “
In a speech to lawmakers on Thursday, Scholz downplayed considerations raised by some in Germany that arming Ukraine could lead to a broader conflict. Arm Ukraine “with a contribution to repel the attack and thus end the violence as soon as possible,” he said.
Scholz added that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “wrong” to think that peace can be imposed on Ukraine by force.
“There will be no peace dictate, because the Ukrainians will not settle for that and neither will we,” he said. “Only when Putin understands this, that he understands that he cannot break Ukraine’s defense, will he be seriously negotiating peace. “
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GENEVA — The International Red Cross says it has registered “hundreds” of Ukrainian prisoners of war who have left the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday that searches of Ukrainian prisoners of war, which included wounded fighters, began Tuesday as part of a deal between Russia and Ukraine.
He said a team from the Geneva-based humanitarian agency, which has delighted in treating prisoners of war and exchanging prisoners, did not send them to “the places where they are being held,” which he did not specify.
The registration process, which continued on Thursday, consists of recording private data such as name, date of birth and relatives, so that the Red Cross can keep in touch with the relatives of prisoners of war.
The Red Cross cited regulations under the Geneva Conventions that allow the organization to interrogate prisoners of war “without witnesses” and that visits with them are not “unduly restricted. “
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