“We have already managed to liberate part of the territory occupied after February 24,” said Zelenskyj in his daily video speech on Sunday night. “We will gradually liberate other regions of our country that are currently occupied.” Almost five months after the start of the war, Ukraine launched counter-offensives in the south. Western weapons are also to be used to recapture occupied territories.
Zelenskyj also accused Russia of deliberately using fake news as a weapon in the war against his country. The Ukrainians need “a kind of emotional sovereignty” in order not to play this “information game”, he said. Untruths, for example about allegedly prepared rocket attacks, only had one purpose: “to supplement the rocket and artillery terror against our state with information terror”.
Russia fired rockets at Ukraine from the Caspian Sea region, according to sources in Kyiv. Four out of a total of six missiles were intercepted on Saturday over the Dnipro areas in the east and Zaporizhia in the south, the Ukrainian air force said. Two more struck an agricultural area in the central Ukrainian region of Cherkasy. The damage is still being investigated.
In addition to Russia, the South Caucasus Republic of Azerbaijan and Central Asian Kazakhstan also border the Caspian Sea. According to the Ukrainian account, long-range bombers of the Tupolev Tu-95 type were used in the shelling. There was initially no confirmation from Moscow.
The Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv was hit again by rockets in the night. This is reported by the mayor of the city. At least ten explosions could be heard. It is still unclear whether there are injuries or deaths.
According to the pro-Russian administration of a region in south-eastern Ukraine, large quantities of grain are exported. “More than 100 wagons have already been dispatched, and another contract for 150,000 tons has been signed with a grain dealer,” said the head of the Russian military administration in Zaporizhia, Yevgeny Balitsky. Ukraine has been accusing Russia of stealing grain for months.
Balizki did not specify where the grain will be taken. However, it can only be transported by rail to Russia or to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Russia has annexed since 2014. After the start of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia quickly conquered the southern part of the Zaporizhia region with the port of Berdyansk on the Azov Sea located there.
The Chairwoman of the Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, has called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) to convene a “National Ukraine Conference” as soon as possible. In a letter from the FDP politician to Chancellor. It was available to the German Press Agency in Berlin.
The FDP politician is calling for a meeting at which representatives from politics and the Federal Chancellery, the armaments industry, the trade unions and the Bundeswehr sit around a table and coordinate further steps. “The aim should be to get an orderly overview in order to initiate the next steps in a targeted, mutually agreed manner,” the letter says.
The meeting of G20 finance ministers in Indonesia on Saturday ended without a joint final declaration. At their two-day meeting on the island of Bali, the representatives of the 20 leading industrialized and emerging countries could not agree whether a statement on the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine should be included, said Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati. However, all participants agreed that the global food crisis must be addressed.
Despite the loss of Russia as a sales market, the US aircraft manufacturer Boeing expects greater demand for new jets in the next ten years than recently. In the period from 2022 to 2031, around 19,575 new passenger and cargo planes are expected to find their way to their customers, Boeing announced on Sunday morning. This is a little more than 2021 predicted for ten years – although Boeing had calculated 710 aircraft for Russian airlines.
Because of the Western sanctions against Russia as a result of the Ukraine war, Western aircraft manufacturers and suppliers are no longer allowed to deliver machines and parts to Russia. In addition, Russia has not returned hundreds of aircraft leased abroad to their owners for months, so that the market for Airbus and Boeing has practically disappeared from today’s perspective.
What will be important this Sunday:
After the announcement from Moscow about the planned expansion of the attacks, Ukraine is preparing for enemy offensives, especially in the east. International military experts also believe it is possible that Russia could increase its attacks on targets in the Donbass again in the next few hours.
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