Nancy Pelosi met Volodymyr Zelensky during a visit to Kyiv
The speaker of the House of Representatives in the United States has visited the Ukrainian president, the latter announced in a tweet published this Sunday morning.
“We are visiting you to say ‘thank you for your fight for freedom’. Your fight is a fight for everyone. We promise to be by your side until the war is over”, assured Nancy Pelosi during this meeting.
“The United States is a leader in strong support of Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression. Thank you for helping to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our State!”, Wrote this Sunday morning Volodymyr Zelensky.
Odessa airport runway will be restored ‘after war’, city councilor says
Asked this Sunday morning live on BFMTV, Petro Obukhov, municipal councilor of Odessa, returns to the strike by “intercontinental missile” which destroyed the airport runway on Saturday.
“Our soldiers say that this track is no longer passable. But after our victory, after the war, we will restore it quickly,” he said on Sunday morning.
To explain this type of attack, he recalls the geographical position of the city, located according to him “far from the front line”.
“The only thing left for the Russians are attacks from a distance, with missiles, and unfortunately that will continue,” laments the city councilor.
A curfew will be introduced this evening in the city, it will last until May 3.
Odessa airport runway destroyed by Russian strike
Odessa airport, on the east coast of the country, was targeted by Russian forces on Saturday.
A strike had the effect of destroying the runway of the airport, announced the governor of the region Maxim Marchenko. Still according to him, no victim is to be deplored.
Last week, eight people were killed in Russian strikes on this historic city, so far relatively spared.
France promises to strengthen its material and humanitarian support
During a phone call on Saturday noon, Emmanuel Macron promised his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to “strengthen” humanitarian and material aid.
The stated objective of the French President: to preserve the “sovereignty” of Ukraine.
Emmanuel Macron also assured that the mission of French experts sent to the country to help international justice collect evidence of crimes committed by Russian forces would continue.
About twenty civilians walked out of the Azovstal steelworks on Saturday evening
About twenty civilians were able, for the first time, to be evacuated from the Azovstal factory, an industrial complex located in the city of Mariupol, besieged by Russian forces.
All previous evacuation attempts had failed.
“They have been transferred to an agreed place and we hope that they will be evacuated to Zaporizhia, in the territory controlled by Ukraine,” said Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the regiment in a video on Telegram.
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