“The situation on the front in Ukraine has not changed significantly in the last 24 hours. There is a completely heroic protection of Donbass. “We are now trying to attract additional resources in the direction of Donbass. As in the direction of Kherson, they are relocating new units there to stop our activities,” said Zelensky.
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He noted that most of the Russian occupiers are well aware that they have no prospects in Ukraine, as evidenced by the intercepted telephone conversations.
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The President reminded that more than 31 thousand Russian soldiers have already died in the senseless war in Ukraine and that the time will come when Russia’s losses will exceed the allowable limit.
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Current situation on the front
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- Zelensky announced on Tuesday night the launch of an information system called “Benzy Book”, which collects confirmed data on war criminals. “There is another piece of news that can now be reported. A special” Book of Bans “is planned to be launched next week – an information system that collects confirmed data on war criminals and [citiem] criminals from the Russian army. I have repeatedly emphasized that they will all certainly be held accountable. And we are approaching it step by step, “the president said in a video address. The development of such an information system has been going on for some time, explaining that it contains specific facts about certain people guilty of certain serious crimes against Ukrainians.” The book “is one of the foundations not only for the responsibility of the direct perpetrators of war crimes, the soldiers of the occupying army, but also for the responsibility of their commanders. Those who gave orders. Those who made possible everything they did in Ukraine. In Buča, Mariupol, in all our cities, in all the communities they reached, “summed up Zelensky.
- The United States is working with international partners to supply anti-ship missiles to Ukraine, a White House administration official said.
- According to UN-confirmed figures, 4,253 civilians, including 272 children, have been killed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion on February 24, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UHCHR) said. The number of civilian casualties is 5,141.
- The World Bank Council on Tuesday approved additional funding of $ 1.49 billion for Ukraine to help it pay government and social workers’ salaries. The new funding complements more than $ 2.5 billion in previously promised support. As a result, the World Bank’s total pledged support for Ukraine has exceeded $ 4 billion.
- The World Bank said the new funding was backed by financial guarantees from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Latvia. The project is also supported by parallel funding from Italy and a new investment in the Multilateral Donor Trust Fund.
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