Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy said on Friday there was a big risk that peace talks with Russia would end, and US lawmakers vowed to move quickly on a project to allocate up to $33 billion (164 billion reais). to support Kyiv in further resisting the attack from Moscow.
That said UN SecretaryGeneral António Guterres during a visit to Kyiv on Thursday (28). There were intensive talks about the evacuation of civilians from the Mariupol Steel Plant heavily attacked by Russia as part of its offensive in southern and eastern Ukraine.
One of the soldiers trapped in the city, which is a key target of the Russian invasion, told Reuters.
Zelenskyy’s office said an operation to remove civilians from the steel mill was planned on Friday, but there were no signs of a retreat as night fell. He later expressed pessimism about the prospect of resuming peace talks with Russia, blaming public anger at what he described as atrocities by Russian soldiers.
“The human [ucraniano] wants to kill her. When there is such an attitude, it is difficult to talk about things,” he told Polish journalists, according to Interfax.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Kyiv of changing its stance on instructions from the United States and the United Kingdom.
Zelenski on Thursday praised US President Joe Biden’s offer of aid, which is nearly 10 times the amount Washington has sent since then The invasion began on February 24th. Moscow speaks of a “military special operation”.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers hope to pass a $33 billion aid package “as soon as possible”.
After a failed attack on Kyiv in northern Ukraine last month, Russia is now attempting to seize two eastern provinces known as Donbass. By pledging tens of billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine, Biden has dramatically increased US involvement in the conflict.
The United States and its allies are now sending in heavy weapons, including artillery, with the aim, according to Washington, not only of repelling Russia’s attack, but of weakening its forces so it cannot threaten its neighbor again.
the russian president, Vladimir Putin this week threatened unspecified retaliation against the West for the supply of arms to Ukraine, and Foreign Minister Lavrov warned of the threat of nuclear war. Lavrov said Friday that Russia does not view it as a war with NATO, a retreat from his earlier statements.
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