War in Ukraine, live: “If Ukraine had been part of NATO, there would have been no war,” says Zelenskyy to French students

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• Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Tuesday evening that the Russian threat was receding Kharkov, The second largest city in Ukraine has been shelled since the end of February. “The villages of Cherkassy, ​​Tychky, Rusky Tychky, Rubizhne and Bairak were liberated” in the region of this major city in the north-east of the country, the Ukrainian general staff said. “Thus, the enemy was pushed back even further from Kharkiv”, but “the intensity of the shelling in the Kharkiv district increased”.
• In the southeast, Russian forces again shelled the Azovstal steelworks. Mariupol, where dozens of people, soldiers and civilians, are still hiding. “Dozens of strikes”, “every hour”, wrote Piotr Andriouchchenko, deputy mayor of this port city, which was taken by the Russians and almost completely destroyed, by telegram.
• NearOdesa“Psychological pressure on the neighboring population of Transnistria continues” with “the possible blockade of the region due to the closure of the Dniester bridge, which was again attacked by rockets,” stated the Ukrainian command for the south. According to Washington, Russian President Vladimir Putin will not stop in Donbass and wants to “expand” the conflict. Transnistriaa region of Moldova that seceded in 1990.
• On the side of American aid to Ukraine, the House of Representatives passed a staggering nearly $40 billion on Tuesday night, followed by Joe Biden in his unwavering support for Kyiv. The text chosen by elected representatives from both camps contains an economic and humanitarian component, but also arms and ammunition. It must now be voted on in the Senate later this week or early next week before it will be announced by the US President.
• HAS Kyivemptied of the majority of its residents at the start of the Russian invasion, nearly two-thirds of the capital’s 3.5 million residents have returned, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Tuesday.
• Leonid Kravchuk, the first President of independent Ukraine, has died at 88 years. He was the last leader of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1990 to 1991 and the first president of independent Ukraine from 1991 to 1994.

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