Footage posted by Zelensky on Twitter on Sunday showed him, accompanied by an armed escort and dressed in military uniform, greeting a congressional delegation led by Pelosi outside his presidential office the previous day. “Our delegation traveled to Kyiv to send an unequivocal and resounding message to the world: America stands firmly by Ukraine,” said Pelosi, a senior US official who visited Ukraine after the Russian invasion. on February 24th. He condemned the “devilish invasion” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The story goes on under the ad Moscow calls its actions a “special military operation” to disarm Ukraine and rid it of Western-instigated anti-Russian nationalism. Ukraine and the West say Russia has launched an unprovoked offensive war. Western countries have imposed heavy economic sanctions on Russia and are sending increasing quantities of weapons to help Ukraine defend itself. 2:01 Canadian Defense Minister for support in Ukraine, Visit to Washington Canadian Defense Minister for support in Ukraine, Visit to Washington Pelosi said on Friday she hoped to pass a $ 33 billion aid package to Ukraine requested by President Joe Biden “as soon as possible.” The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that it had carried out a missile attack on a military airport near the port of Odessa, destroying a runway and a hangar containing weapons and ammunition supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries. On Saturday, Ukraine said Russian missiles had hit a newly constructed runway at Odessa Central Airport. The story goes on under the ad It was not clear if the same incident was reported and Reuters could not immediately verify the reports.
Some citizens leave the Mariupol factory
Moscow has turned its attention to southern and eastern Ukraine after failing to occupy Kyiv in the first weeks of a war that razed cities, killed thousands of civilians and forced more than 5 million to flee the country. Russia’s Defense Ministry has accused Ukrainian forces of bombing a school, a kindergarten and a cemetery in villages in the occupied southern region of Kherson, Russia’s RIA news agency reported on Sunday. 3:21 Kiev residents reconsider city security after rocket attacks Kiev residents reconsider city security after rocket attacks Read more: Russian war causes more damage in Mariupol, satellite photos show The ministry said civilians were killed and wounded, but gave no further details. There was no immediate response from Ukraine and Reuters could not independently verify the report. Trending Stories
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Russian forces occupied the city of Kherson, 100 km (60 miles) north of Russian-annexed Crimea, in March and have since occupied most of Mariupol, a strategic eastern port city in the Sea of Azov. The story goes on under the ad Mariupol railway station and damaged buildings. Satellite Image © 2022 Maxar Technologies) The Ukrainian army said in a statement on Sunday that Russian forces were fighting to cross the Kherson administrative border and prepare the way for attacks in Mykolayiv and Kryvyi Rih. In Mariupol, Russia declared victory on April 21, although hundreds of Ukrainian troops and civilians took refuge in the bombed-out steel plant in the city of Azovstal, where they were trapped with little food, water or medicine. On Saturday, a Ukrainian fighter said 20 women and children had managed to leave the extensive factory.
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“We are pulling civilians out of the rubble with ropes – they are the elderly, women and children,” said fighter Sviatoslav Palamar. The story goes on under the ad Palamar said Russia and Ukraine respect the local ceasefire. The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that 46 civilians had left the area around the steel plant the previous day. Speaking to thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square for his noon blessing on Sunday, Pope Francis said Mariupol had been “barbarically bombed and destroyed” in a war he called “a macabre setback for humanity”.
East push
To the east, Moscow is pushing for full control of the Donbas region, where Russian-backed separatists already controlled parts of Luhansk and Donetsk provinces before the invasion. Russian forces fired rockets into the south and east on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said. On Sunday, the governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Synehubov, warned residents north and east of the city of Kharkiv to remain in their shelters due to heavy Russian bombing. Reuters could not immediately verify reports of bombings in the area. Serhiy Gaidai, the governor of Luhansk Oblast, in a social media post on Sunday, urged people to stay away as much as possible. 4:51 A couple from Calgary transport refugees to Europe for safety Zelensky said in a speech late Saturday that Russia was “gathering additional forces for new attacks against our army in the east of the country” and “is trying to increase pressure on Donbas.” The story goes on under the ad Despite weeks of peace talks, both sides seemed to be as far apart as ever on Saturday. Ukraine accuses Russian troops of carrying out atrocities in areas near Kyiv from which they have since been repulsed in early April, a claim denied by Moscow. The negotiators last met face to face on March 29 and have since spoken via video link. (Report by Hamuda Hassan and Jorge Silva in Dobropillia, Ukraine, and Natalia Zinets in Kyiv. Additional citations by Reuters Writers Rami Ayyub, Clarence Fernandez, Frances Kerry and Alex Richardson. Edited by William Mallard, David Goodman and Alexandra Hudson )
