Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday it did not see the conflict with Russia come to an end in the short term. Today is the 77th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Right now, the Kremlin’s [governo russo] He plans to end the war in Ukraine in the near future,” he said.
Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the “special military operation” – the way Russia handled the invasion – was “going according to plan”.
Also today, the governments of the Kursk and Belorod regions near Russia’s border with Ukraine extended the yellow level of the terrorist threat in force since April until 25 May. There are three levels of terrorist threat in Russia. Yellow is intermediate between the blue and red levels.
UN (United Nations) Secretary General António Guterres also said today that he has not seen a peace talks between Russia and Ukraine at the moment. “I don’t see it in the near future. But I can say one thing. We will never give up,” he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow does not want a war in Europe, but that Western countries support Russia’s defeat in the confrontation with Ukraine.
“Make your own conclusions,” he added.
azovstal
Fighters who took shelter at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol said that since yesterday the complex has been the target of at least 38 attacks by Russian forces. The Russian bombing attacks were confirmed by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
The port city has been besieged by Russian forces for two months and the facility is the last stronghold of resistance in the region.
Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said today that the country is not in a position to withdraw Russian forces from Mariupol.
Wives of soldiers from the Ukrainian Azov battalion asked Pope Francis to “save the lives” of the soldiers in Azovstal.
Also recorded today:
- One person was killed and three others were injured in a Ukrainian bomb attack in the Belgroda region in southwestern Russia;
- missile attacks Slavyanka (in the region Donestsk);
- Bombing a warehouse containing ammonium nitrate slovianskin eastern Ukraine;
- Explosion of an infrastructure near its entrance zaporizhzhiaalthough Russian missile attacks on the city were repelled;
- Notice of the liberation of four villages near the city of Kharkiv by the Ukrainian authorities;
- Statement from pro-Russian officials in the region hersonin southern Ukraine, he said, they would ask Putin to annex it.
With information from AFP, ANSA and Reuters
source: Noticias
