“The friendship and collaboration between Ukraine and the US are stronger than ever,” Zelensky tweeted, without giving more details about the meeting that took place at press time. Earlier he had said talks with his visitors would be about the “heavy and powerful weapons” Ukraine needs to retake territory and the pace of deliveries.
As Christians in Ukraine celebrated Orthodox Easter, there is no end in sight to a war that has killed thousands, uprooted millions more and reduced several cities to rubble. Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the eastern Luhansk region, said the Easter holiday was affected by the conflict. According to him, seven churches in his region were “mutilated by Russian artillery.”
Pope Francis called for a truce at Easter: “Stop the attacks to help the exhausted population. Stop,” he exhorted.
The United States and NATO allies have been increasingly willing to supply heavier equipment and more advanced weapons systems. Britain has promised to send military vehicles and said it is considering sending tanks to Poland to free up Russian-designed T-72s from Warsaw for Ukraine.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said after speaking with Zelensky by phone that Ankara is ready to help in negotiations with Russia. Zelensky claimed that he discussed with Erdogan the need for the immediate evacuation of civilians from the southern city of Mariupol and an exchange of troops.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych assured that Russian forces are trying to assault the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol by land, with the support of aerial and artillery bombardments. “Russian troops are trying to wipe out the defenders of Azovstal and more than 1,000 civilians hiding in the plant,” Arestovych wrote on Facebook. On Saturday he said troops at the steel complex were trying to fight back. Moscow had previously declared victory in the city and had said that it did not need to take the plant.
The capture of Mariupol, the site of the conflict’s biggest battle, would unite pro-Russian separatists who control parts of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions – which make up the Donbass – with the southern Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow seized. in 2014.
Source: Ambito
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