After months of stalemateunheard appeals, portions of territory torn away from Russia and thousands of perhaps avoidable deaths, the approval of the new aid package for Kiev worth over 60 billion dollars by the US House brings a sigh of relief to Ukraine. Moscow, annoyed, exorcises the renewed American commitment by evoking the defeat in Vietnam and continues to bombard relentlessly across the board from Zaporizhzhia to Odessa.
The first supplies of weapons and ammunition could arrive in Ukraine as early as next week thanks to the Pentagon’s storage network in the United States and Europe which already contain some of the material Kiev urgently needs.
Aid to Kiev is a topic that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban likes less and less: “We are one step away from the West sending troops to Ukraine.”
Meanwhile on the front line Moscow gives no respite. The Zaporizhzhia region in southeastern Ukraine suffered 390 attacks yesterday by Russian forces who used a total of 124 drones.
According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russian forces could intensify attacks by exploiting the time window before the arrival of new military aid. According to Zelensky, Russia wants to mobilize 300,000 fighters to send to Ukraine by June 1st and by May 9 they aim to occupy the town of Khasiv Yar, in Donetsk Donbass
Ukraine will also be at the center of the meetings that Antony Blinken will have in China in the coming days. The US Secretary of State will issue a warning to Beijing explaining that the US is ready to impose sanctions on China if it does not stop the supply of dual-use technologies to Russiacivil and military, to help its armed forces such as semiconductors and machinery.
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Zelensky: “USA avoided second Afghanistan”
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Zelensky: “The Russians want to conquer Chasiv Yar by May 9th and want to conscript 300,000 men by June 1st”
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11.22am
NATO: President Poland, ready to host nuclear weapons
Poland is ready to welcome nuclear weapons onto its territory should NATO decide to do so. This is what the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, said in an interview with the local newspaper Fakt. “If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons within the framework of nuclear sharing also on our territory to strengthen the security of NATO’s eastern flank, we are ready. We are an ally of the North Atlantic Alliance and we also have obligations in this sense, that is, simply implementing a common policy,” Duda said.
10.19am
Kiev, 007 boss Budanov: “In difficulty since May, but no Armageddon”
“According to our assessments, in the near future we will be faced with a rather difficult situation. But not catastrophic, and we must understand this. There will not be Armageddon, as many are starting to say. But there will be problems starting from mid-May” : the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR), Kyrylo Budanov, told BBC Ukraine.
08:12
Orban: Brussels in favor of war, playing with fire
What is at stake in the next European elections is war: this is the opinion of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, according to whom “there are two paths ahead of us: pro peace or pro war”, he said in a TV interview Hungarian of which he published an excerpt on his profile strong majority for peace in Europe, this is what is at stake in the elections”.
07:15
Ukraine, Kiev: 6 Russian drones shot down over the Odessa region
Ukrainian defense units destroyed five Shahed drones and an Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone that Russia launched over the country last night, the Kiev Air Force reported this morning, cited by local media. The drones departed from Crimea and were intercepted over the Odessa region, it was specified.
07:12
Zelensky: the US has avoided a second Afghanistan
By finally approving the military aid package for Ukraine, which had been stalled in Congress for a long time due to opposition from part of the Republican Party, the United States has “avoided a second Afghanistan”. President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in an interview with US TV channel NBC. “This is an important aid that will strengthen Ukraine today. It is an important signal to the Kremlin that there will not be a “second Afghanistan” and that the United States will remain with Ukraine, for the protection of democracy and of freedom in the world: it is a manifestation of the leadership positions of the United States.” “As long as Ukraine resists, there will be no war in the NATO countries.” In this regard, in the interview Zelensky recalled that “if Ukraine does not resist, Putin will certainly invade the Baltic states, he wants to return to the influence of the Soviet Union. Whether they are in NATO or not, he does not care. he is afraid of the NATO countries. After the Baltic states, Poland and part of Germany will also be under attack,” he added.
01:18
Zelensky: “USA avoided second Afghanistan”
By finally approving the military aid package for Ukraine, which had been stalled in Congress for a long time due to opposition from part of the Republican Party, the United States has “avoided a second Afghanistan”. President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in an interview with US TV channel NBC. “This is an important aid that will strengthen Ukraine today. It is an important signal to the Kremlin that there will not be a “second Afghanistan” and that the United States will remain with Ukraine, for the protection of democracy and freedom in the world: it is a manifestation of the leadership positions of the United States.” “As long as Ukraine resists, there will be no war in NATO countries.” In this regard, in the interview Zelensky recalled that “if Ukraine does not resist, Putin will definitely invade the Baltic states, he wants to return to the influence of the Soviet Union. Whether they are in NATO or not, he does not care. He is not afraid of NATO countries. After the Baltic states, Poland and part of Germany will also be under attack,” he added.
00:33
Zelensky: “The Russians want to conquer Chasiv Yar by May 9th and want to conscript 300,000 men by June 1st”
Russia wants to mobilize 300,000 fighters to be sent to fight in Ukraine by June 1st and before that, by May 9th, the day on which the Russians celebrate the victory over Nazism in the Second World War, they aim to occupy the town of Khasiv Yar, in Donetsk, Donbass: this was stated in his evening speech by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, commenting on the US Chamber’s green light for war aid to Kiev. “I was recently in the region and talked to the fighters. The fighters do not have the equipment to fight Russian reconnaissance drones, which accurately correct Russian artillery fire, and there is also a shortage of shells artillery. I expect that we will be able to withstand the arrival of weapons in time and we will be able to repel the enemy. And then destroy Russia’s plans for a full-scale counteroffensive in June,” Zelensky stressed, quoted by Ukrinform. .
