War day number 105. “The Ukrainian forces were almost completely driven out of the industrial zone of the city of Severodonetsk and forced to take refuge in the Azot chemical plant,” says pro-Russian ambassador of the Lugansk People’s Republic Rodion Miroshnik, quoted by Tass.
While the Ukrainian navy recovered by CNN says that the ships of the Russian Black Sea fleet have withdrawn more than 100 km from the Ukrainian coast due to attacks by Kiev forces with missiles and drones. Moscow delivers to Ukraine the bodies of dozens of soldiers who died in the defense of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Meanwhile, the former Russian president and now deputy head of the Federation Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, does not mince words to explain his harsh positions against the West. “I’m often asked why my Telegram posts are so hard,” he writes, “the answer is that I hate them. They are bastards and degenerates. They want our death, that of Russia. As long as I am alive, I will do everything to make them disappear ».
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00.10 – Zelensky: 31,000 Russian soldiers died in the war
“Over 31,000 Russian soldiers have already died in Ukraine. Since February 24, Russia has been paying nearly 300 lives of its soldiers every day for a completely senseless war against Ukraine. And in any case the day will come when the number of losses, even for Russia, will exceed the permitted limit ». This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram.
00.09 – World Bank allocates new funds for 1.49 billion dollars
The World Bank approved an additional $ 1.49 billion loan for Ukraine to help pay the wages of state and social workers, expanding the total pledged support for Kiev to over $ 4 billion. The Bank said in a statement that the latest round of funding for Ukraine is backed by funding guarantees from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Latvia.
00.01 – Merkel: I have nothing to apologize for about Russia
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her policy towards Russia and reiterated that she “has nothing to apologize for”. “Diplomacy isn’t wrong just because it didn’t work,” she recalled, in her first interview since she left power. Among the references she cited, her support for economic sanctions against Moscow following the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the efforts made together with France to keep the Minsk peace process alive. “I don’t have to blame myself for not trying hard enough. I see no reason to say ‘it was wrong’ and that’s why I have nothing to apologize for. “
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Medvedev’s shocking statements that make the West tremble: “I will do everything to make them disappear”