Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pleading for more heavy weaponry as Russia advances in the Donbas.
In his nightly address Tuesday, Zelenskyy said that while Ukraine's air defenses managed to"cut the wings" of some Russian missiles targeting the country, others had caused more death and destruction in the Lviv and Ternopil regions in western Ukraine."Our country does not have enough of [these] yet, but it is in our country and right now that Europe has the greatest need for such weapons.
Ukrainian forces have been pushed to the industrial outskirts of the city because of the"scorched earth method and heavy artillery the Russians are using", the AP said, citing Governor Serhiy Haidai. Out of a pre-war population of 100,000, only 12,000 people remain in Severodonetsk, the news agency reported.Russian troops, Haidai said.
"Even in the event that Moscow has to run a budget deficit. It's got plenty of fiscal room to do this. It has an extremely low debt level, it doesn't need to borrow abroad, it can borrow from domestic sources of cash," he explained."And at the moment, it has this very positive cash flow. So for as long as the political will is there in the Kremlin and for as long as export prices remain high, I don't see any immediate financial constraints confronting the Kremlin.
As the globe coordinates global sanctions against Moscow and a segment of Russian society opposes the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin may not be at risk of losing his power. She added that in the scenario in which Putin was to die in office, another autocrat would likely replace him.Abir Sultan | AFP | Getty Images
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