An ovation greeted and welcomed the intervention of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy before the assembled Chambers. Zelenskyj spoke for about 12 minutes.
Zelensky’s speech “Dear Italians, today I spoke to His Holiness Pope Francis and he said very important words,” said Zelenskyy. “I answered Pope Francis that our people have become an army,” said the Ukrainian president, recalling how much Ukraine saw “the evil that the enemy brings, how much devastation he leaves, how much bloodshed”. Has. “Italy has opened its heart and its doors” to Ukraine.
“Russian invasion destroys families, war continues to devastate Ukrainian cities, some are completely destroyed, like Mariupol, which had half a million inhabitants, is like Genoa, imagine Genoa completely burned down,” Zelensky added. “A week ago I spoke at a meeting in Florence, I asked all Italians to bring the number 79, that was the number of children killed, now it’s 117, because of the postponement of the war. Under Russian pressure, there are thousands wounded, hundreds of thousands of lives destroyed, houses abandoned, the dead in mass graves and parks.”
Draghi’s replica “The resistance” “of all places where President Putin’s cruelty strikes is heroic,” Prime Minister Mario Draghi said at the video meeting in the House of Representatives with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Today Ukraine is not only defending itself, but also our peace, freedom and security,” said Prime Minister Mario Draghi. “We want to show a way to bring Ukraine closer to Europe: it is a long process that consists of necessary reforms. Italy is on Ukraine’s side in this process. Italy wants Ukraine to join the European Union, says Draghi. “In Italy we froze assets of over 800 million euros to Russian oligarchs,” the Prime Minister recalled.
THE WAR CONTINUES Ukraine woke up again today to the alarms of antiaircraft sirens sounding in 17 of the country’s 24 regions. More than 80 artillery shells were registered in Kharkiv overnight. This was announced by the head of the regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, quoted by UNIAN. “We registered 84, Saltivka, Danylivka, Kholodna Hora, Htz districts were affected,” Sinegubov said. According to the head of Ova, more than 600 houses in Kharkiv were destroyed in the bombings. A Russian reconnaissance drone was shot down towards Chuguiv this morning.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Kiev forces have recaptured the urban settlement of Makariv, 60 kilometers west of the capital. The Kiev army says that “according to available information, the Russian occupying forces operating in Ukraine have stocks of ammunition and food for no more than three days”. Officials said the situation was similar with fuel, citing Russia’s inability to organize a pipeline to meet the troops’ needs as an example of their logistical failure.
In Severodonetsk, in the Lugansk region, the Russians did this Focus on people queuing in a supermarket, resulting in deaths and injuries. The head of the regional military administration Serhiy Haidai denounced this on Facebook, as reported by Ukrinform. “Repeat of the case in the supermarket in Kharkiv. The inmates target a shop in Severodonetsk. We have dead and injured, the number is being clarified. Orcs cynically take the lives of Ukrainians! People came just for the products,” Haidai wrote.
THE POPE CALLS ZELENSKY WHO INVITES HIM TO UKRAINE Pope Francis called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this morning, who invited him to Ukraine during the talks. This was reported in a tweet by Ukraine’s Ambassador to the Holy See Andryi Yurash.
MORE THAN 900 CIVILIANS KILLED An attack that, according to the UN, has already claimed at least 925 civilian lives. A number that, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), will soon be corrected upwards.
THE NIGHTMARE CHEMICAL WEAPONS, USARUSSIA COMBAT Fear of chemical and biological weapons has also resurfaced: Russian accusations that Kyiv has such weapons are “false” and a “clear signal” that Vladimir Putin “is considering using them both in the war,” said the US President Joe Biden. Indeed, his Russian counterpart has “his back against the wall and “is preparing new false flag operations, according to the US leader. Moscow denies, responding that the allegations are “malicious insinuations,” according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who, according to the Interfax agency, adds: “We don’t have such weapons.”
THE HYPERSONIC ROCKETS Biden later confirmed that Russia also used hypersonic missiles in the bombing of Ukraine. But “with the same warheads used on the other missiles, they don’t make much of a difference, other than the fact that they’re almost impossible to intercept,” stressed the US President. British intelligence agrees. “It is very unlikely that the deployment of Kinzhal hypersonic missiles will materially affect the outcome of the Russian campaign in Ukraine,” said Mick Smeath, Deputy Marshal of the Royal Air Force (RAF), British Military Defense Attaché.