Zelensky lamented this Wednesday the lack of specificity regarding the entry of Ukraine on the UE and has pointed out that the country will not be able to remain in uncertainty permanently. The president of Ukraine during a conference at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris has also pointed out that it was a mistake not to allow the country to enter the OTAN.
“For years, Europe feared Ukraine’s accession to the OTAN because if war broke out with Russia, they said, everyone would have to fight it. Against her? I would say for Ukraine. But isn’t that the goal of NATO? You may wonder. Isn’t that “all for one”?Zelensky wondered during the conference.
In his opinion, the country’s entry into the alliance it would benefit and strengthen the rest, because its army has already demonstrated its capacity in this war. While the Russian army continues its offensive in the east and south of the country. This is Odessa after the bombing this Tuesday. According to the Deputy Prime Minister of Defense of Ukraine the war has entered another phase.
“After the heroic defense of kyiv and the kyiv region, the war has essentially entered the next phase, as the enemy has been forced to establish a different set of objectives and apply a different tactic and strategy in the war. war with Ukraine”highlights Hanna Maliar, deputy defense minister of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian army has reported that since the beginning of May it has managed to recapture more than a dozen villages in eastern Járkov and that in that area Russia has gone into defensive mode. However, in other areas such as the region of Donetsk the attacks are constant according to the governor.
Meanwhile, Russia says it will continue with its destruction of military targets and with the Russification of territories like Kherson where the pro-Russian authorities imposed by Moscow plan to include the area as a full-fledged province of Russia.
The Kremlin emphasized that “It must be decided by the inhabitants of that territory”while the advisor to the Ukrainian Presidency Mykhailo Podolyak assured that this plan will come to nothing, since the Ukrainian Army “will release” Kherson.
The agony of Mariupol
The mayor of the port city, Vadym Boychenkonoted that “By the end of the year more than 10,000 people may die from intolerable diseases and conditions in Mariupol“which already has only between 150,000 and 170,000 inhabitants, three times less than before the war and that must be evacuated in its entirety, he insisted.
His adviser, Petró Andryushchenko, affirmed in turn that, “If there’s a hell on earth, it’s on the ground floor. Azovstal“which is attacked “not only from the sky and with artillery, but again with tanks trying to break through”.
The leader of the self-proclaimed republic of Donetsk, Denís Pushilin, maintained that there are no civilians left in the metallurgical company’s territory after a complicated UN and Red Cross operation last week to remove them from the factory.
Andryushchenko believes however that “more than a hundred civilians remain” in the steel industry, while Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk indicated that there were also “hundreds of wounded”.
Both the pro-Russian and kyiv estimate that there are still more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers in the steelworks.
The wives of two Azov battalion officers today expressed their desire that their meeting with Pope Francis in Rome will serve to save the lives of the soldiers, who, they assured, are willing to be evacuated.
the ukrainian president, Volodímir ZelenskiHe told the Maltese Parliament on Tuesday that “Russia has not yet accepted any of the many options proposed to rescue them.”