Developments in Ukraine Kiev's attempt to get 10-year US support

According to Tasnim International News Agency, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Kiev is negotiating with the United States to continue providing financial and military aid to the country for the next 10 years.

“We are trying to get certain levels of American support this year and for the next 10 years,” he said on his Telegram channel, without giving details.

In particular, Zelensky noted that Kyiv and Washington are discussing “certain bases of security and cooperation”. According to him, these agreements include military, financial and political support as well as the joint production of weapons.

A few days ago, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu blamed the United States for its role in starting the military conflict in Ukraine and prolonging it, and emphasized that the West's attempt to impose a strategic defeat on Russia is doomed to failure.

In the following, you can follow the developments related to the 796th day of the Ukrainian war:

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Ukrainian commander: Russian army has superiority and tactical successes

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Sirsky, admitted that the Russian army has a significant superiority over the Ukrainian Armed Forces in terms of the number of troops and military facilities.

He wrote on his Telegram channel: “The situation on the front has become worse than before. In an effort to seize the strategic initiative and break our defense lines, the Russian army has concentrated its main efforts in several specific directions and for this purpose has a significant advantage in terms of the number of troops and military equipment.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army added: “The Russians are actively attacking on all the front lines, and in some areas they have achieved tactical successes, as well as a military-technical advantage.”

He emphasized the need for military aid to strengthen the defense capabilities of the Ukrainian armed forces.

The Prime Minister of Slovakia: military aid to Kiev will continue the conflict and increase the victims

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico reiterated that his country is in favor of a quick ceasefire in Ukraine. In an interview with a TV channel last night, he emphasized: We always prefer a peaceful solution to the conflict and a ceasefire at any cost.

Fico also believes that providing arms to Ukraine is not the right solution to help this country and the funds spent for this purpose are simply wasted.

In addition, the prime minister spoke skeptically about the initiative groups to collect financial aid for Ukraine, considering it futile.

The Slovakian Foreign Minister Yuri Blanar had previously called for a quick end to the conflict in Ukraine and the achievement of peace.

North Korea's Ministry of Defense: America's defeat in Ukraine is only a matter of time

According to a report this morning by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the head of the Foreign-Military Affairs Department of the Ministry of Defense of North Korea announced that Western military aid and the provision of ultra-modern weapons will not help Ukraine to defeat Russia.

This military official wrote in a statement: “The United States, which gradually expanded the scope of its military assistance to Ukraine after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, including the supply of depleted uranium bullets, cluster bombs and advanced tanks, this time even gave its henchmen in Kiev missiles It has provided long-range missiles that are capable of attacking deep into Russian territory. “These are only the worst measures devised to change the situation of the conflict in Ukraine, which has recently been developing in a more unfavorable direction, at any cost.”

According to him, the United States secretly sends long-range missiles to Ukraine, which causes serious concern of the international community: ATACMS tactical missiles were delivered to Ukraine on the direct order of the President of the United States to attack Russian territory.

This North Korean Defense Ministry official added: The US government, which has been passive in sending long-range missiles to Ukraine and apparently did not encourage Ukraine to attack the Russian mainland, has now taken the path of supplying these missiles, which is not pacifistic in nature. They and the incitement of more military conflict in this country has become more obvious.

Zelensky deliberately hides the losses of Ukrainian forces

The “Washington Post” newspaper wrote on Sunday, referring to the words of an unnamed Ukrainian lawmaker, that the estimate of the casualties of the Ukrainian armed forces announced in February by the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, may have been significantly underestimated. be

The member of the Ukrainian parliament believes that Zelenskiy significantly underestimated the real casualties in the Ukrainian armed forces and announced it as 31,000 soldiers, while this number is much higher. According to him, Zelenskiy is hiding the data on the casualties because he fears that it will have negative consequences for the mobilization of men in the country, which “is already going hard.”

Burrell: Europeans are not ready to “die” for Donbass

Josep Borrell, the head of the European Union's diplomacy, announced on Sunday during a speech at the special meeting of the World Economic Forum in Riyadh that the European people are not ready to go to Ukraine to die for the freedom of Donbass, but the European Union should still support Kiev.

Burrell mentioned that many citizens of European countries are interested in knowing how long they should give their financial resources to Kyiv. Nevertheless, he emphasized that the EU intends to support Ukraine whenever necessary.

Protests against NATO and military aid to Ukraine were held in Paris on Saturday evening, and activists tore the flags of NATO and the European Union in protest.

Warsaw: Ukraine must take action to return its servicemen

Radoslaw Sikorski, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, announced that the government of Ukraine will take the initiative to return men of military service age from abroad, and that this is not the duty of the neighboring countries.

“Ukraine really needs to take the initiative on this, because for us it is morally ambiguous, although we “We certainly know that Kyiv needs defenders to defend its homeland.”

The Polish Foreign Minister added that he is not yet aware of Ukraine's plan to return these people. However, Sikorsky called “interesting” the proposal to limit social payments to Ukrainians who include conscription.

Kremlin's assurance of Russia's victory in the military conflict in Ukraine

Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, expressed confidence in a TV program yesterday that Russia will win the special military operation in Ukraine.

He pointed to the increase of panic among the Ukrainian soldiers on the front and said: “The result is definite and certain. The current dynamics of the situation on the front show this fact and we will win.”

Peskov also believes that Vladimir Zelensky is a special president for a special country, which the West needs in the current situation.

Peskov called the confiscation of Russian assets “a nail” in the coffin of the Western economy

The press secretary of Vladimir Putin likened the confiscation of Russian assets in Western countries to driving a strong nail into the future coffin of the Western economic system and emphasized: If this happens, if such a dangerous precedent is created, it will be a strong nail into the future coffin of the entire Western economic coordinate system. Was.

Peskov warned that if assets are seized, Russia will defend its interests, including in international courts. At the same time, he did not announce what actions he might take if Moscow's assets are seized, but he noted that Russia has foreign financial resources for this purpose.

A Kremlin spokesman warned that foreign investors and governments that have frozen Russian assets should “think ten times before investing this money,” because the world community's trust in them would be lost.

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