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 that we would have such cohesion among allies, NATO is more united than ever.” Jens Stoltenberg at the end of the Extraordinary Atlantic Alliance Summit , also from a military point of view. These include antitank weapons, antimissile systems and drones, which have proven to be very effective. The allies will then help Ukraine with financial and humanitarian assistance.” Stoltenberg also stopped Beijing so as not to provide Moscow with military support.
TO Brussels on the day of the G7, NATO and Europe summits, which were also attended by Ukrainian President Zelenskyy: he asked NATO for “unrestricted military assistance”. “The threat of Russia’s largescale use of chemical weapons on the territory of Ukraine is real,” Zelenskyy later said in a video link with the G7. And there is information that Russian troops “have used phosphorus bombs against the population of Ukraine,” he added.
The G7 is ready to pass new sanctions and will continue to work to ensure that the sanctions already passed are not circumvented even with the sale of gold by the Russian central bank. That’s what we read in the conclusions of the meeting of the G7 heads of state and government. “It is not possible to involve neither NATO nor the EU in ensuring a nofly zone”, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on the sidelines of the Brussels work. “This is a breach of contract,” the contracts would be considered “violated,” the prime minister said in response to 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)
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 to be slowing. If Moscow insists on repeating that “the special military operation is going according to plan,” the Ukrainians are now emphasizing a change of strategy. A “phase of the war of attrition,” defined Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A new approach, which for Kyiv is the result of the combined effect resulting from the huge losses on the ground according to the latest Ukrainian budget 15,600 soldiers from Moscow were killed and the difficulties in capturing the strategic centers. Because of this, military reinforcements are on their way to Belarus and Crimea, concentrating forces to try to encircle the capital and fully occupy the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of the Donbass. Day after day the Ukrainian resistance carries out new blows. Like the missile attack that destroyed one of the largest amphibious assault ships in the Russian fleet, the Orsk, anchored in the busy port of Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov. A bombardment that cut off important military supplies for the siege of Mariupol and also took a toll on two other enemy ships. Fierce fighting continues from east to south to the outskirts of Kyiv. The use of phosphorus weapons was reported this time in the Lugansk region with at least four deaths. In Kharkiv, the country’s second largest center near the Russian border, six civilians were killed and 15 injured while waiting for help in the stricken city, where basic necessities like water, gas and electricity are in short supply. 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 at Izyum, halfway between Kharkiv and the Donbass, which Moscow’s forces initially claimed to have captured. While in Irpin, on the northwest outskirts of Kyiv, the Ukrainian counteroffensive claims to have retaken 80% of the territory. In a country increasingly riddled with guns, there is a risk of dying even outside of clashes. As in the village of Obilne near Zaporizhzhia, where three children aged 15, 13 and 12 were seriously injured by a mine they mistook for a toy. According to the UN budget, the threshold of a thousand civilian deaths was exceeded in a month of war. On the other hand, the alert 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 POWs ordered by Zelensky arrived, 10 on each side, as well as 11 civilian sailors rescued after a Russian ship sank near Odessa and instead of 19 Ukrainian counterparts of the ship Sapphire were freed rescue.
SPEAK ZELENSKY The Ukrainian President intervenes at the NATO meeting and repeats the accusation that the Russian army has used phosphorous weapons. Zelenskyj asked for “unlimited 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 to us or sell them to us. But we don’t have a clear answer.”
First interview of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with an Italian newspaper, the Republic, after a month of war with Moscow. The Russian blitzkrieg stresses Zelenskyy has failed, Kyiv will defend itself to the end, but demands aircraft and air defenses against attacks from the air, Putin will not stop, and the ongoing conflict is a conflict that affects all of Europe Location, reiterates, that Ukrainians are defending Europe and believes that the entire civilized world will eventually unite with Kyiv. He is willing to talk about a truce, provided he doesn’t endure ultimatums. And he calls for continued pressure on the sanctions. The Russian blitzkrieg has failed, Kyiv will defend itself to the end but demands planes and air defenses against air attacks, Putin will not stop and what is going on is a conflict involving all of Europe.
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