Russian foreign minister says western weapons are a ‘legitimate target’; about 15,000 Russian troops have been killed since start of invasion, UK defence secretary says
the UN should be the “initiator and guarantor” of any agreement with Russia on evacuating civilians from the steel plant.Today, the Russian side once again announced the existence of a corridor for civilians to leave Azovstal. This could be believed if the Russians had not destroyed humanitarian corridors many times before.A corridor announced unilaterally does not provide security, and therefore is not a humanitarian corridor.
The next several weeks will be very, very critical. They need continued support in order to be successful on the battlefield. And that’s really the purpose of this conference.” US defense secretary Lloyd Austin and secretary of state Antony Blinken at their meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Sunday.But the United States also estimates many Russian units are depleted, with some operating with personnel losses as high as 30% - a level considered by the US military to be too high to keep fighting, officials say.
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