NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference on Tuesday that the West must start sending more heavy weapons to Ukraine, which has been called for from the Ukrainian side.
He says NATO representatives will meet in Brussels on Wednesday to coordinate further military aid to Ukraine – including heavy weapons.
Dangerous robots
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj says in a speech that the country lacks modern air defense systems to stop Russian robots. He says he will hold talks with world leaders who have access to the weapons Ukraine needs.
– Even though Russia has fewer and fewer modern robots with each passing day, Ukraine’s need for these systems remains. Russia still has access to many Soviet-era robots, and they are much more dangerous. They are much less accurate and are therefore a greater threat to civilian objects and ordinary residential buildings, says Zelenskyj according to The Guardian.
He says the fighting in the east will determine the outcome of the war.
– Unfortunately, we have painful losses. But we must be strong. This is our country, says Zelenskyj and continues:
– That we stick to there in Donbass is crucial.
Not reached goal
In what is similar to the previous situation in Mariupol, 500 civilians are said to have taken refuge in the Azot chemical plant in Sievjerodonetsk. Russia urges those who remain in the facility to give up, and says it is prepared to organize an evacuation.
The United States believes that Russia has so far failed in its goals in Ukraine, that it was defeated in Kyiv and pushed out of Kharkiv, but that Russia has had greater success in the south and east, even though the Ukrainian resistance has been more intense than expected.
– The Ukrainians remain loyal defenders. There are significant casualties, but it is true on both sides, says Colin Kahl, Secretary of State at the US Department of Defense, according to the Defense Headquarters Pentagon.