The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austinis leading a meeting with his allied counterparts at the US base in Ramstein, Germany, to speed up arms deliveries to Ukraine.
Although in March the Ukrainian forces managed to repel the Russian offensive against the capital, KyivRussia is advancing slowly in the south of the country and in the donbas (East), an area partially controlled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014, two regions that the Russians seek to fully control.
With everything, Ukrainians “can win if they have the right equipment, the right support”Austin said on Monday, a day after his visit to kyiv with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, in what was his first trip to Ukraine since the start of the conflict, on February 24.
Having declined to supply offensive weapons to Ukraine, both the United States and the United Kingdom, France and the Czech Republic they took the step
Even Germany took a turn and announced the shipment of “Gepard” type tanks, specialized in anti-aircraft defense.
The tanks would come from the warehouses of the German defense industry and not from the limited reserves of the German military, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said. At the moment it was not specified how many will be delivered.
Mike Jacobson, a civilian artillery specialist, noted that Westerners want Ukraine to be able to respond to long-range Russian bombardment, intended to drive Ukrainian forces back before deploying tanks and soldiers and occupying the ground.
In the longer term, “we want to see Russia weakened to the point where he can’t do things like invade Ukraine,” Austin said Monday.
This Tuesday, the Secretary General of the UN, Anthony Guterresvisits Moscow, where he is due to meet with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrovand with the president Vladimir Putinas part of a tour that will also take him to kyiv.
“What interests us a lot is to find the means to create the conditions for an effective dialogue, create the conditions for a ceasefire as soon as possibleGuterres declared, before his meeting with Lavrov.
On Monday, the head of Russian diplomacy had assured that Moscow wants to continue negotiating but blamed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyof “pretending” that he wants to dialogue with Russia when in reality he does not want to do so.
The conflict has already forced nearly 13 million Ukrainians from their homes, of whom more than five million have left Ukraine, according to the latest UN figures.
But on Tuesday, the organization estimated that the number of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country could reach 8.3 million.
On the Donbas front, the situation is complicated and “in terms of morale, the situation is complicated. It’s not all rosy,” Irina Ribakova, a press officer with the 93rd Ukrainian brigade, told AFP.
Various locations like Izium Y Kreminna fell in the last two weeks and the russian army continues to gain groundredoubt by redoubt, while the Ukrainians have been trying for days to limit that advance.
In the south, two Russian missiles hit the city of Zaporizhiacausing at least one death and one injury, reported the regional administration.
To Zaporizhia, an eminently industrial town on the banks of the Dnieper River, where the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine is also located, a multitude of Ukrainian civilians who fled the siege of Ukraine have arrived in recent weeks. Mariupol (south).
However, the city is now preparing for an attack by Russian forces from the coast, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
The situation seems blocked in Mariúpol, with the city practically controlled by Russia but where 100,000 civilians are still trapped, according to kyiv.
Russian forces continue to shell the large metallurgical complex Azovstalwhere the last Ukrainian fighters with, according to them, almost 1,000 civilians, the governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kirilenko, said on Facebook on Tuesday.
Source: Ambito
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