The Western world clings to Ukraine. “We will respond to Moscow’s use of chemical weapons, NATO will respond”, said US President Joe Biden from Brussels. “Putin did not think we would have such cohesion among allies, NATO is more united than ever.” “The allies today decided to provide more assistance to Ukraine – the NATO secretary general had already said Jens Stoltenberg at the end of the extraordinary summit of the Atlantic Alliance –, even from a military point of view. These include anti-tank weapons, anti-missile defenses and drones, which have proven to be very effective. The allies will then assist Ukraine with financial and humanitarian aid “. Stoltenberg also launched a halt to Beijing not to give military support to Moscow.
A Brussels on the day of the G7, NATO and Europe summits, which was also attended by Ukrainian President Zelensky: he asked NATO for “unrestricted military aid”. “The threat of Russia’s large-scale use of chemical weapons on the territory of Ukraine is real,” Zelensky later said in a video link with the G7. And there is information that Russian troops have “used phosphorus bombs against the population in Ukraine,” he added.
The G7 is ready to adopt new sanctions and will continue to work to prevent those already decided from being circumvented even with the sale of gold by the Russian central bank. This is what we read in the conclusions of the G7 leaders’ meeting. “It is not possible to involve neither NATO nor the EU in the guarantee of a no fly zone”, he said Prime Minister Mario Draghi in the margins of the Brussels work. “This is a breach of contract”, the contracts would be considered “violated”, the premier replied on Putin’s claim to receive payments for Russian gas in rubles.
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From Putin’s announcement on February 24 to the massacres of civilians (ANSA)
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THE SITUATION ON THE FIELD – The Russian offensive in Ukraine continues unabated. But after a month of military hammering, with over 1,800 raids, progress on the ground appears slower and slower. If Moscow insists on repeating that “the special military operation is going according to plan”, the Ukrainians now highlight a change of strategy. A “phase of war of attrition”, defined it Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky. A new approach which, for Kiev, is the result of the combined effect produced by the huge losses on the ground – 15,600 soldiers from Moscow were killed, according to the latest Ukrainian budget – and the difficulties in taking control of the strategic centers. For this reason, military reinforcements are on the way to Belarus and Crimea, concentrating forces to try to surround the capital and fully occupy the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in Donbass. Day after day, the Ukrainian resistance is delivering new blows. Like the missile raid that destroyed one of the largest amphibious assault ships in the Russian fleet, the Orsk, moored in the busy port of Berdyansk, on the Azov Sea. A bombardment that interrupted important military supplies for the siege of Mariupol, also affecting two other enemy ships. The fighting continues fiercely from east to south, up to the outskirts of Kiev. The use of phosphorus weapons was reported this time in the Lugansk region, with at least four deaths. In Kharkiv, the second center of the country near the Russian border, six civilians were killed and 15 wounded while they were waiting to receive aid in the battered city, where basic necessities are in short supply, as are water, gas and electricity. The center was attacked with Kalibr cruise missiles launched from the Black Sea, for a total of 44 raids in 24 hours, including rocket launchers.
There is also a battle in Izyum, halfway between Kharkiv and the Donbass, of which the forces of Moscow had initially claimed the conquest. While in Irpin, on the northwestern outskirts of Kiev, the Ukrainian counter-offensive claims to have taken back 80% of the territory. In a country increasingly littered with weapons, there is the risk of dying even away from the clashes. As in the village of Obilne, near Zaporizhzhia, where three children aged 15, 13 and 12 were seriously injured by a mine which they believed was a toy. According to the UN budget, the threshold of a thousand civilians killed was exceeded in a month of war. On the other hand, the alarm for the new fire in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the last of the more than thirty fires reported in the last two weeks, has returned. Meanwhile, the first real exchange of prisoners of war ordered by Zelensky arrived, 10 on each side, as well as 11 civilian sailors rescued after the sinking of a Russian ship near Odessa who were freed in place of 19 Ukrainian counterparts of the ship. Sapphire rescue.
PARLA ZELENSKY – The Ukrainian president intervenes at the NATO assembly reiterating the accusation of the use of phosphorus weapons by the Russian army. Zelensky asked for “unrestricted military aid” at the Brussels summit. “You have at least 20,000 tanks. Ukraine has asked for one percent of all your tanks. Give them or sell them to us. But we don’t have a clear answer.”
First interview of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, with an Italian newspaper, the Republic, after a month of war with Moscow. The Russian blitzkrieg – underlines Zelensky – has failed, Kiev will defend itself to the end but asks for airplanes and air defense means against attacks from the air, Putin will not stop and the ongoing conflict is a conflict that involves all of Europe. a secret location, reiterates that Ukrainians are defending Europe, and believes the entire civilized world will eventually unite with Kiev. He is willing to discuss a ceasefire, as long as he does not suffer ultimatums. And he asks to continue to put pressure on the sanctions. The Russian blitzkrieg has failed, Kiev will defend itself to the end but asks for airplanes and means of air defense against attacks from the air, Putin will not stop and what is underway is a conflict that involves all of Europe.
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