Ukraine’s defense lines are resisting the Russian attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his latest video, posted to Facebook on Thursday, adding that there has been no let up in Moscow’s bombing of Ukraine since midnight. in local time.
“We have nothing to lose but our own freedom,” Zelensky said, adding that Ukraine is receiving daily supplies of weapons from its international allies.
He said it’s been two years since Ukraine recorded its first case of Covid-19: “It’s been a week since another virus struck,” he said of the Russian invasion.
Zelensky said Russia’s change in tactics and the bombing of civilians in cities proved that Ukraine was successful in resisting Moscow’s initial plan to claim a quick victory through a ground attack.
He told Russia to study the word “reparations” as Kiev would demand that Moscow make up for everything it destroyed in its invasion.
He also said that Ukraine was paying pensions and offering donations to those unable to work because of the war. He said 16,000 foreigners had volunteered to fight for Ukraine.
In an emotional speech, Zelensky said that Ukrainians had lived through two world wars, the great Holodomor famine, the Holocaust, Soviet terror, the Chernobyl nuclear explosion, as well as Russia’s annexation of Crimea and support for rebels in the east.
“We don’t have the biggest territory, we don’t have nuclear weapons, we don’t supply oil and gas to international markets. But we have our people. We have our land. That’s what we’re fighting for.”
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On the eighth day of the war, Russian troops deployed near Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, on Thursday (3). According to the Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense, the Russians are “stopped” for a regroup before a possible invasion of the capital, or facing challenges such as lack of supplies or resistance from civilians. Despite advances by Russian forces, officials on both sides hope to discuss a possible ceasefire.
Delegations from Russia and Ukraine are due to meet this Thursday (3) for the second time in Belarusto continue negotiations in search of a resolution to the conflict.
The first conversation between the delegations after the start of the attacks took place on Monday (28) and lasted five hours, but ended without any progress. On Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia should stop bombing Ukrainian cities before negotiations can take place.
The Russians took control of Kherson, a strategically important town on a Black Sea inlet with a population of nearly 300,000. The mayor of Kherson, Ihor Kolykhaiev, declared on Wednesday (2) that the Ukrainian military is no longer in the locality and that its inhabitants must now comply with the instructions of “armed people who have come to the administration of the city.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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