(Finance) – “Victory will be ours”. These are the words spoken by Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyin the 100th day of the Russian invasion of the country. The president posted a short video on Instagram. In the video, lasting 36 seconds, Zelensky stands in front of the presidential administration building in Kiev along with, among others, the prime minister, Denys Shmyhal and presidential adviser, Mykhaylo Podolyak. The war in Ukraine “will have no winners,” he says instead‘Un. “We have witnessed for 100 days what has been lost: lives, homes, jobs and prospects,” she said in a statement. Amin Awad, assistant secretary general and UN crisis coordinator for Ukraine.
According to data released by the Ukrainian State Border Guard on its Telegram channel, about 2 million 700 thousand people entered Ukraine in these first hundred days of war. In the last 24 hours, 33,000 Ukrainians have returned.
Today Zelensky expressed gratitude via Twitter to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and al President of the EU Council Charles Michel “for decisions in support of Ukraine. The sixth package of sanctions – underlined the Ukrainian president – increases the pressure on the Russian Federation by depriving it of oil profits. The abolition of tariffs and quotas on imports from Ukraine for one year supports our producers, our agricultural workers and our economy. “65 Russian personalities and 18 entities are affected by the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions. Among the personalities are Alina Kabaeva, companion of Vladimir Putin, General Mikhail Mizintsev, known as ‘the butcher of Mariupol’ and Colonel Azatbek Omurbekov, known as ‘the butcher of Bucha’.
“Nothing about Ukraine, without Ukraine. It is their territory. I will not tell them what to do and what not to do,” said the American president, Joe Biden -. Only Kiev can decide whether or not to give up part of its territory to achieve peace. At some point, it seems that there will have to be an agreement between Russia and Ukraine. What it will entail, I am unable to say. ”
“We ask President Putin once again – he said US secretary of state, Anthony Blinken – to put an immediate end to this conflict, to all the suffering and global upheaval caused by the war he wanted. Neither the United States nor our allies and partners seek to prolong this war to harm Russia. ”
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, he denounced the attempts to “make Russia the scapegoat” of the global food crisis and denied that Moscow is blocking grain exports from Ukrainian ports. “The situation will get worse, – Putin said – because the British and the Americans have imposed sanctions on our fertilizers “. The head of the Kremlin announced that the Russia will increase its grain exports to 50 million tons. A meeting with the heads of the American media offices in Russia “to explain to them the consequences of Washington’s hostile line and problems of the media in general” announced in a briefing the rofficial representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. Zakharova announced that “Russia will take the hardest retaliatory measures if the work of Russian media and journalists in the United States is not normalized”.
Today – according to Tass reports – two Reuters reporters were injured and their driver was killed in a raid near Severodonetsk, in Ukraine’s eastern Lugansk region. Reporters allegedly were hit in the bombing of a Ukrainian drone against a convoy of cars with civilian plates, which also included Russian reporters from Russia Today. He also lost his life as a “French volunteer fighter”. The man, whose identity was not disclosed, was “fatally wounded by artillery shots” in the Kharkiv region, in the north-east of the country.
On the Russian front, the Conflict Intelligence Team, a Russian investigative NGO, stated that the General Alexander Dvornikov would no longer be in command of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. In his place, General Gennady Zhidko, former commander of the Eastern Military District and Moscow Deputy Defense Minister for Political Affairs, would be appointed. As indicated by analyst Ruslan Leviev, the removal could be linked to a “rotation process” of the operational top management of the armed forces, “like the one seen in Syria”, given that it does not appear at the moment to be the consequence of a management deemed disappointing.