- Russian forceswho have been stepping up their Donbass offensive, announced on Wednesday that they had carried out airstrikes on 59 Ukrainian targets. At the same time, the Ukrainian army recognized minor Russian advances in the region of Kharkov (where three people died and fifteen were injured in shelling) in the north and in the Donbass in the east.
- In Mariupolthe commander of the 36and The Marines Brigade appealed for help again, saying that with it, barricaded in the Azovstal metallurgical complex, were 600 wounded soldiers and hundreds of civilians. In Khersona city that has been occupied since the start of the invasion, demonstrations were dispersed unceremoniously.
- Vladimir Putin again warned against any outside intervention, promising a response “fast and blistering”. In the meantime, Moscow is trying to target Western military aid, as well as the bridges and railways in Ukraine used to deliver it.
- The United Kingdom calledon Wednesday, the allies of Ukraine to demonstrate ” courage “ by increasing their military aidarguing that the war in Ukraine was “our war” and the victory of kyiv a “strategic imperative for all of us”.
- The European Union has accused Russia ‘blackmailed’ after it stopped gas delivery to Poland and Bulgaria.
- Antonio Guterres arrives in Ukraine on Thursday from Moscow, where he pleaded with Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire. The UN Secretary General also said “concerned by repeated reports of possible war crimes”judging that they “require an independent investigation”.
- Canadian MPs passed a motion condemning the “acts of genocide against the Ukrainian people” led by Russia and claiming that there are “clear and abundant evidence of systematic and massive war crimes and crimes against humanity”.
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