(Finance) – The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky deliver to Matti Maasikas – head of the European Union delegation to Ukraine – a completed questionnaire to get it country status candidate to join the European Union. “We recognize this to be a formal passage for Ukraine in the process towards the European Union. We know ours people she has long felt European. We believe we will receive support and become candidates for admission. After thatwill begin the next phase, the final one“.
“Today we took another step for our country’s accession to the European Union. What our people are going and fighting for “, commented the Ukrainian president in a broadcast video on social media for to communicate there news.
In the meantime, it would begin the assault on the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol by Russian special groups This was stated by the representative of the Militia Donetsk People’s Party Eduard Basurin to the television channel Rossiya 24, reported by the Russian news agency Ria Novosti denying that in the steel plant they are also hiding civilians.
Instead on Telegram, the town Council from the port city states that they are at least 1,000 civilians who are hiding in the shelters under the steel mill Azovstal, mostly women with children and the elderly. And the mayor Vadym Boichenko he said some 40,000 civilians had been “forcibly deported” from the city to Russia or Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine. Numbers that have been “verified through the municipal register “explained the mayor.
For the Kremlin, meanwhile, the West does everything to extend the conflict. On the diplomatic front, the White House has announced that US President Biden will hold one this afternoon video call on the Ukrainian crisis with its allies and partners. No evacuation corridor for civilians is planned for today in Ukraine, due to lack of agreement with the Russian side, and this for the third consecutive day. Beijing: ‘China will continue to rise strategic coordination with Russia regardless of international volatility ‘