Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelenskiy said about 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the seven weeks of war with Russia and that at least 10,000 were wounded. they were killed in battle, which is now the eighth week. Moscow said last month 1,351 Russian soldiers were killed and 3,825 wounded.
Russia’s siege is a port city in the southeast
Fighting has erupted in Mariupol as Ukraine claims to be trying to break the Russian siege of the southeastern port city. Home to 400,000 people before the Russian invasion, Mariupol has been reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians are dead and tens of thousands are still trapped. The situation in Mariupol is difficult and difficult. Fighting is happening right now. Russian troops are constantly demanding more units to attack the city, “Department of Defense spokesman OleksandrMotuzyanyk said in a statement.
Russia has said it has struck a factory on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv that built and repaired missiles, after sinking Thursday in Moskva, the base of Moscow’s Black Sea warships.
The US believes moskva was beaten by Ukrainians
Ukraine said one of its arrows caused Moskva to sink, which is a strong signal against a better-armed enemy. Moscow said the ship sank when it was towed over a stormy sea after a fire caused an explosion and more than 500 sailors were evacuated. The United States believes that Moskva was hit by two Ukrainian arrows and that there were Russian casualties, although the numbers were not immediately clear, a senior US official said.
Zelenskiy said the military situation in the south and east was “still very difficult,” while praising the work of his troops. The success of our troops on the battlefield is truly significant, historically significant. But still they are not enough to clean up our land for the residents. We will beat them again, ”he said in a video message last night, also asking his allies to send heavy weapons and block Russian oil around the world.
Zelenskiy has called on US President Joe Biden for the United States to appoint Russia “as a sponsor of a terrorist regime,” joining North Korea, Cuba, Iran and Syria, the Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the conversation. A White House spokesman responded, “We will continue to consider all possible ways to increase pressure on Putin.”
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and senior finance officials will attend a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington next week. 24 If Moscow captures Mariupol, it would be the first major city to collapse.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said
Russia’s defense ministry has said it has seized control of Illich City. The report could not be verified. Ukrainian defenders are believed to have played a role in Azovstal, another major metalworker. Both plants are owned by Metinvest, Ukraine’s richest businessman and the backbone of Ukraine’s eastern industrialization – told Reuters on Friday it would not allow its businesses to operate under Russia. Moscow has used its naval power to block Ukrainian ports and threaten its potential waters off the coast. Outside of Moskva, the largest naval ship sunk during the conflict from General Belgrano of Argentina in the 1982 Falklands war, its ability to threaten Ukraine at sea could be crippled.
Russia initially described Ukraine’s intentions as a “special military campaign” to disarm its neighbors and defeat the country’s militants there. since 2014. Kyiv and its Western allies say that these are the reasons behind the relentless violence that has driven a quarter of the 44 million Ukrainians out of their homes and resulted in thousands of deaths.
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