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However, Russian artillery has fired almost non-stop artillery fire into Kharkiv, and three people were killed in an attack on Wednesday, local officials said.
“Among them was a 13-year-old boy,” regional governor Oleg Sinegubov said in a statement on social media.
Ukrainian counteroffensives in the south have gradually slowed down Russian territory, largely thanks to long-range artillery supplied from the west, while the brunt of Ukraine’s recent war has been concentrated in the Donbass. I returned it.
Lavrov said Western arms supplies to Ukraine were one factor in Moscow’s decision to focus beyond the east, and that its ambitions could grow larger if supplies continue.
“We allow the part of Ukraine controlled by Zelensky, or his replacement, to have weapons that directly threaten our territory and the territory of the republic that has declared independence. You cannot do that,” Labrov said in an opinion in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Lavrov also rejected the idea of further peace talks with Ukraine, claiming that previous rounds had shown that Qi was not ready to negotiate “seriously”.
“It doesn’t make sense in the current situation,” he told state media. Still, Russian and Ukrainian delegations are expected in Istanbul in the coming days for further talks on the blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that he expected a deal to be reached “this week”.
Western countries responded with a series of sanctions packages that hurt Russian aggression. This resulted in Russia cutting off natural gas supplies to the bloc, creating a supply and consumption crisis. In the latest punitive package on Wednesday, the EU targeted gold exports and asset accumulation at Russia’s biggest bank, Sberbank.
Brussels has called on EU member states to cut demand for natural gas by 15% to limit supplies from Russia, which accounted for 40% of EU imports last year. However, Zelensky in his speech criticized these measures for their inadequacy.
KYIV – The United States on Wednesday pledged to send more precision missile systems to Kiev after Moscow signaled its desire to seize more Ukrainian territory beyond the eastern Donbass industrial zone.
The announcement came as the European Commission urged EU member states to cut demand for natural gas to reduce Russia’s dependence on energy and Brock agreed to ban Russian gold imports. I did. Lloyd Austin, Chief
Washington will also send four more M142 high-mobility artillery rocket systems, Himmers, the Pentagon said. “Ukraine needs firepower and ammunition to defend and counterattack this barrage,” Austin told reporters, adding that the new shipment would bring to 16 the total number of U.S. Himalayan ships sent to Kiev.
Hours earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview that Moscow’s army no longer seized control of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions, which had been partially dominated by pro-Moscow rebels for years. He said, he is not focused.
“The geography is different now. It’s not only about DNR and LNR, but also about Kherson region, Zaporizhia region and many other regions,” he explained to state media.
On Tuesday, the United States said Russia had “started to roll out a version of what you might call an engagement playbook” — citing the same areas mentioned by Lavrov.
Russian forces, since invading Ukraine on February 24, have advanced steadily into each of these areas, wreaking havoc as they capture key cities and encountering fierce Ukrainian resistance.
In recent weeks, they have also hit civilian targets in Ukraine in towns and cities far from the frontline, killing scores of civilians, in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called a terrorist campaign.
In an emotional speech before the US Congress on Wednesday, Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska described the suffering of millions of Ukrainian parents and children and asked Washington for air defense measures to counter Russian missiles.
Zelenska, stepping into a more public role after being sheltered in the first weeks of the war, exhibited images of children killed or maimed by Russia, including a four-year-old child killed in an attack on the city of Vinnytsia.
Photos of her blood-spattered pink stroller and footage of her last moments have gone viral on social media.
“Help us stop this terror against Ukrainians,” Zelenska said. Later in the day, Zelensky expressed hope that Kiev’s pleas for an anti-missile system would be heard, saying: “I hope the answer to our request will not be long in coming.”
The steady advance of Russian troops in the east comes after Moscow’s forces failed early in an offensive to capture the capital Kyiv and retreated from Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv.
