(Finance) – Message from the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky to people around the world invited to protest publicly today, March 24, exactly one month from the start of the Russian invasion.
“Russia’s war is not just the war against Ukraine. Its meaning is much broader”, says Zelensky, delivering his English speech for the first time in the traditional evening video message on the street in Kiev. “Come to your squares, to your streets. Make yourself visible and see to it that you are heard freedom is importantthe people matterpeace it’s important. Ukraine is important “.
And, while there is now fighting within Mariupol, he returns to the exchange of accusations spectrum of chemical weapons and the threat of nuclear power. In the evening, meanwhile, the Kiev authorities informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that a forest near the nuclear power plant Chernobyl is on fire.
Ukraine asks NATO to send “medium range missiles”, because “we cannot win a war without offensive weapons”. Almost the entire city of Irpin, on the northwestern outskirts of Kiev, – the mayor of Kiev quoted by the BBC says – has returned to Ukrainian hands. Vitalij Klitshcko claims that the counter-offensive repelled the Russian attack also in Makariv, another town about seventy kilometers west of the capital. The Ukrainian army “destroyed the plan to surround Kiev,” added Klitshcko. And according to the Wall Street Journal which cites a senior NATO executive it could come to 40 thousand the number of dead Russian soldierswounded, taken prisoner or missing in the war in Ukraine.
The squeeze on the sanctions. “Biden will announce new sanctions on Russian political figures, oligarchs and entities.” American national security chief Jake Sullivan said so. United Kingdom ready to deliver another 6,000 missiles to Ukraine: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced this. “The UK will work with (his) allies to increase the military support and economic to Ukraine “, he said ahead of the leaders of the NATO and the G7 scheduled in Brussels, one month after the start of the Russian invasion. The Premier also announced aid of around 30 million euros for the Ukrainian army.