“The Russian enemy is shelling entire residential areas of Kharkiv, where there is no critical infrastructure, where there are no positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that the Russians could aim at.” russiaukrainewar ukraine ukrainecrisis
border early on Tuesday morning Australian time with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky demanding an immediate ceasefire and that all Russian troops leave his country ahead of the talks.Ukraine had initially rejected attending talks in Belarus because Russian forces stationed there have joined the invasion. But then Ukrainian officials agreed to send a delegation to the meeting in Gomel, a city near the borders of Russia and Ukraine.
The conflict is causing a major humanitarian crisis for Europe, with hundreds of thousands of refugees crossing Ukraine’s border with Romania, Poland and Moldova. The United Nations estimates about 500,000 people have fled in recent days, making it the most intense week of human flight within Europe’s borders since at least the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
He thanked EU countries that had decided to supply arms to Ukraine over the past few days and said he had spoken to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, to urge her to take “even stronger steps”.
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