Ukrainian soldiers were stationed outside Mykolaiv, a day after a Russian rocket attack reportedly killed more than 40 soldiers in a barracks here. Photo Tyler Hicks/The New York Times.
As the first large -scale evacuation of civilians from the devastated Russian -controlled city of Mariupol continues, Western leaders worked on Monday to carry out their increasingly aggressive promises of aid to Ukraine.
European Union energy ministers discussed how to help their countries leave Russia’s energy resources urgently, as the bloc prepares this week to impose an embargo on Russia’s oil.
Despite some reservations within Europe, countries want Hungary seems willing to accept an embargo, one step previously unimaginable for a bloc whose members have long relied on Russia’s energy.
The growing determination to punish Moscow came as a top U.S. diplomat warned that Russia appears to be preparing to integrate the two regions into East Ukraine and possibly third in the south of the country, citing “highly credible” reports of Moscow’s plans.
Doctors from the Norwegian and Swedish armies mimicked the evacuation to a field hospital as part of a military exercise called “Cold Response 2022”. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File photo
Michael Carpenter, the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said the Kremlin was likely to organize “wrong” election“in the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk of eastern Ukraine in mid -May, and may follow a similar referendum in the region Kherson, sal southern Ukraine.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, A few days after becoming the highest American official to visit kyiv since the war began, he met the Polish president in Warsaw on Monday and said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should be punished by “strongest military response possible, the strongest punishment, ”despite Moscow’s threats of retaliation against the West.
Although the Biden administration excluded direct U.S. military intervention in the war, the Senate is expected to accept the president’s request this week. Joe Biden an additional $ 33 billion in military aid for Ukraine, a significant increase in US support that will put the United States on the path to spend big this year to help Ukraine as they did every year in fighting the war Afghanistan.
Other steps:
– Ukrainian officials have promised to continue a large -scale evacuation of Mariupoldespite the bombing of the dawn.
The evacuation is seen as the best and possible last hope for hundreds of civilians trapped for weeks in bunkers under the destruction of the former one of Europe’s largest steel plants.
– A British intelligence agency said that Losses in Russia in the war was shocking and that a quarter of the aggression units deployed in Ukraine were “ineffective for battle. “
– Russia’s missiles fell on Monday in the city of Odessatargeting infrastructure and at least one religious building hours after authorities imposed a curfew on the Black Sea port, fearing that recent events in the neighboring moldova may indicate that Russia is trying to open a new frontier in the war.
-The CIA is looking for Russians with information to share, and on Monday it was published YouTube instructions and various social media platforms on how potential whistleblowers can safely communicate with the agency via the dark web.
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Source: Clarin
