Zelensky cries for weapons; Ukrainian MIG 29 downed; Severodonetsk hasn't fallen yet?
Russian forces pushed the Ukrainian army out of the center, destroying all bridges to the city.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Sweden has taken important steps to meet Turkey's demands for Stockholm membership in the Alliance.
An important visit of the leaders of France, Germany and Italy to Kyiv is announced this week. None of them have been in Ukraine since the break out of the war.
Despite the introduction of six packages of sanctions, Moscow emphasizes that in the first 100 days of the war in Ukraine, it earned 93 billion euros from oil and gas exports, and most of the fossil fuels were sent to the European Union.
Russians "organize" evacuation?
The Russian military announced on Wednesday that it would establish a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians captured at the Azot chemical factory in the besieged Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk.
"The Russian armed forces and formations of the Lugansk People's Republic, guided by the principles of humanity, are ready to organize a humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians for transport to the separatist region of Lugansk," the Russian Ministry of Defense announced today.
The Ministry also stated that it offers Ukrainian fighters who took refuge in Azot tomorrow the opportunity to surrender. He added that Ukraine had asked Russia to establish an evacuation corridor to help civilians leave the factory, "now that Russian forces have destroyed all bridges connecting Severodonetsk with Ukrainian-controlled territory."
Russia has not yet blocked Severodonetsk, although it controls 80 percent of the city
Severodonetsk, the main hotbed of fighting in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks, has not yet been blocked by Russian troops, although...
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