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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is concentrating tens of thousands of troops for its new assault.

“But even despite this, the Russians are not stopping their offensive”, he said. Kyiv says it is girding for a new battle. Terekhov said that Ukrainian forces were focused and ready to defend the city if it comes under a new attack: “There is no panic in the city,” he said. The first European leader to meet Putin since the start of the Russian invasion, Nehammer says he “mentioned the serious war crimes … and stressed that all those responsible have to be brought to justice,” also telling Putin of the “urgent” need for humanitarian corridors. The biggest prize Russia aims to capture in the Donbas is Mariupol, the main eastern port city, where thousands of people are believed to have died under a near-seven week siege. Ukraine has said it expects Russia to launch a huge new offensive soon in the east of the country, as Austria’s leader said he was “pessimistic” about the war ending after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Last week, the senior Pentagon official said Russia had increased the number of battalion fighting groups to 40 from 30 in about a week – or to as many as 40,000 troops from 30,000 troops – with more reinforcements on the way. “We are aware of social media reports which claim Russian forces deployed a potential chemical munition in Mariupol, Ukraine,” said Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby. “We cannot confirm at this time and will continue to monitor the situation closely. By early this year, according to US and European officials, he was operating in an echo chamber, surrounded by advisers who, according to Galeotti, “had learned you do not bring bad news to the tsar’s table”. Putin’s isolation, the officials said, had been compounded by COVID-19 and his limited contact with others. Senior American military officials and some analysts have said this next phase of the war will be fought on terrain more favourable to Russia’s tanks and infantry units. Zelensky’s comments came after Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the Kremlin-backed, separatist Donetsk People’s Republic, said on Russian television that Russia should bring in “chemical forces” to use in Mariupol, the besieged southern city. “So we have to concentrate on the defensive aspects, that is the priority.” Australia on Tuesday joined the United States and United Kingdom governments in trying to determine the veracity of reports. Many of the measures introduced by the EU, such as restrictions on technology exports, are designed to impact the Russian economy over time. “I would like to remind world leaders that the possible use of chemical weapons by the Russian military has already been discussed,” Mr Zelensky said. –“I would like to remind world leaders that the possible use of chemical weapons by the Russian military has already been discussed. That he and the Ukrainians and all of us are stuck in this low simmer. That turns the spotlight to India and particularly to China. If they decide to prop up Russia by buying more oil at preferential rates, Beijing will sunder its economic relationship with the EU, and probably usher in a grim return to a bipolar Cold War-like world.

The “whole European project is a target for Russia,” Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a late-night address.

Johnson also described a vision for a future Ukraine so fortified and protected by the equipment, technology and know-how of Britain and its partners that it can never be threatened in the same way again. “The Russian aggression did not have an objective to limit itself with just Ukraine, with ruining just our freedom and our life,” Zelenskyy said in the daily address. “Then Russia will feel it, it will be a reason for them to search for peace, to stop the useless violence.” That’s apparent even in the architecture: Hard-edged brutalist buildings of the Soviet era house or sit between sushi restaurants, a German grocer and a startup incubator. Estonia, as well as the neighboring Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania, have populations that reflect this mix and the tense geopolitics. The country is militarily neutral and is not a member of NATO. Dvornikov is a career military officer and has steadily risen through the ranks after starting as a platoon commander in 1982. “Therefore, we have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset, a longer-term adaptation of NATO.” It follows a trip on Saturday to Kyiv, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A major effort by Ukrainian defenses and more Western assistance will be needed to push them back. India abstained when the U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from its seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council over allegations of war crimes. The town is about 75 kilometers (47 miles) northwest of the capital of Kyiv and had more than 12,000 residents.

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India imports about 1 to 2 percent of its energy from Russia and about 10 percent from the United States, Psaki said. The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. Boychenko also accused Russian forces of using mobile crematoriums to incinerate the bodies and of preventing humanitarian convoys from entering the city. Last week, Washington Post reporters witnessed the grim scenes of devastation in Borodyanka as residents surveyed the damage after Russian forces withdrew from the area in early April. No building there had been untouched: Residential buildings were stripped bare, windows were blown out and debris lined the neighborhoods. Six times as many cars were on the road last week as the week before, according to police officials. “Canada has always and will always stand by Ukraine,” Joly said in a statement. Moscow’s troops made “territorial gains” in the city this weekend, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank. According to Reuters, about 30,000 Ukrainians refugees had arrived in France as of March 27. “We are aware of social media reports which claim Russian forces deployed a potential chemical munition in Mariupol, Ukraine,” Kirby said in a statement. According to its official website, the chateau — which was built in 1453 — has a chapel, stables, private apartments and a guard room. The actions of the French people had restored their faith in humanity, Ukrainians said. Donbas — a large swath of the country’s easternmost territory, stretching from the Luhansk oblast south to Mariupol — has been the site of fierce fighting.

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We have to support the refugees in Ukraine, but also very important we have to financially support Ukraine," she said. "I have 100% confidence in our people and in our armed forces, but unfortunately I do not have the confidence we will be receiving everything we need." "They had been told they were going to have a glorious victory and just ride into Kyiv without any opposition with the Ukrainians welcoming them," Sullivan said. That's led to "broad-scale war crimes" across the Eastern European nation. In a statement released Sunday, Psaki said Biden will talk in the meeting about how Russia's war on Ukraine is destabilizing the global food supply and commodity markets. "We are militarily neutral, but [have] a clear position on the Russian war of aggression against #Ukraine. It must stop! So, it is an extraordinary way to shape the country and to go down the path towards the European Union." The Switchblades, dubbed "kamikaze" drones, are equipped with cameras, navigation systems and guided explosives. "This is an extraordinary situation where extraordinary measures have to be done. "They are in an extraordinary situation, where we have to take unusual steps." The process normally takes years, but she has said Ukraine's application could take just weeks to consider. The SS-21 is a Russian-made mobile, short-range, single-warhead ballistic missile with a warhead payload of about 1,000 pounds.

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"Now, we are changing our attitude," the official said. French counter-intelligence is often aware of the agents but allows them to operate under surveillance, the official said. Several bills pending in Congress would require investment advisers such as private-equity and hedge funds to verify and report the identities of their investors. While the ethanol industry and corn state politicians have long advocated for year-round E15 sales, the push this time around is complicated by the war in Ukraine’s effect on food prices. She was subsequently turned over to the police. While E15’s price per gallon tends to be cheaper, it has lower fuel economy, so the direct price comparison can be misleading. Russians against war.” She yelled: “Stop the war, no to war” before the camera cut away. Stop the war. "Unfortunately, I participated in the creation of Kremlin propaganda for so many years that now I want to make every effort to break it. Russian Army Gen. Aleksandr Dvornikov, an architect of Russia’s military intervention in Syria, will become the overall commander in Ukraine, according to Western officials, as Russia refocuses on the south and eastern Donbas region. French bank Société Générale said it would cease its banking and insurance activities in Russia, including selling Rosbank. Ukrainian authorities said they were investigating a claim by troops in the besieged city of Mariupol that they came under a Russian chemical weapons attack Monday. No independent evidence of the attack emerged Monday from Mariupol.

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Russia is probably looking to “double or perhaps treble” the number of troops they have in Donbas in eastern Ukraine, a western official has said. Speaking in a video address to the South Korean parliament, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said":“Ukraine needs support for its military, including planes and tanks.” Slovakia’s prime minister, Eduard Heger, whose country donated an S-300 system last week,described the claim as disinformation.

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Russian forces will likely continue to struggle to establish coherent and efficient command and control arrangements for the foreseeable future." That doesn't mean the coming weeks will be easy for Ukrainian forces fighting in the east. The city fell to Syrian government forces in December 2016. Before the invasion, Russia had arrayed approximately 120 battalion tactical groups around Ukraine. According to one European official, about a quarter of those forces are "effectively inoperable" after heavy casualties and the destruction of hardware. Russian units that have fought in Ukraine have taken fearful damage." "The situation is gradually heating up in Donbas, and we understand that April will be quite hot," Filatov said recently.

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The oil giant began cutting ties with Russia in February and said last month that it would stop buying oil and gas from Russiaand shutter its service stations in the country in a “phased withdrawal.” It has ceased new business with Russia and “suspended investment management purchases of Russian securities,” a spokesman for the company said. Last week, the senior Pentagon official said Russia had increased the number of battalion fighting groups to 40 from 30 in about a week — or to as many as 40,000 troops from 30,000 troops — with more reinforcements on the way. The Biden team strongly wants to see President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and others in his military chain of command held to account. “The United States and India will continue our close consultations on how to manage the destabilizing effects of this Russian war.” The French foreign ministry said in a statement that the agents were “operating under diplomatic cover” to undermine French interests, but did not provide further details. A significant number of the soldiers dying at the front are from Western Ukraine, and there are regular funerals in churches in the city center. “The United States and India will continue our close consultations on how to manage the destabilizing effects of this Russian war.” The president has said global unity behind economic sanctions is the key to forcing the Russian leader to abandon what Mr. Biden calls his “war of choice” in Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky’s comments came after Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the Kremlin-backed, separatist Donetsk People’s Republic, said on Russian television that Russia should bring in “chemical forces” to use in Mariupol, the besieged southern city. He said he also had told Mr. Putin about the destroyed Russian tanks he saw on a recent visit to Ukraine, to make clear the enormous loss of life that Russia was suffering. And Mr. Putin, despite Russia’s military blunders in the war, and for all the Western efforts to ostracize him, still appeared in control of the crisis.

Ukraine's president has warned that Russian troops 'will move to even larger operations in the east'.

It will propose a “Repower EU” plan in May. It also called on Russia to immediately stop its war in Ukraine and occupation of Georgia. We condemn Russia for organizing unlawful elections in the occupied parts of Georgia. They will have no legal implications. I’m no longer interested in their diplomacy that leads to the destruction of my country,” Zelenskyy said, after being asked about his outburst at NATO and the UN Security Council when he told the UNSC it should punish Russia or “dissolve itself”. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development also announced an additional billion euros ($1.088bn) in loans. “I remember, all of us remember, books about the second world war, and about the devil in uniform – Adolf Hitler. Are those countries who did not participate in the war responsible? So, I’m afraid in the next days, the war will increase on the Donbas” he told reporters before a meeting of EU ministers in Luxembourg. “Of course we will sue, because we have taken all the necessary steps to ensure that investors receive their payments,” Anton Siluanov said. Finland and Sweden are poised to join NATO within the coming months, The Times has reported, citing US officials. NATO said on March 24 that Moscow lost up to 15,000 soldiers in Ukraine. The model also projects that global trade growth this year could be cut almost in half from the 4.7 percent the WTO forecasted last October to between 2.4 percent and three percent,” the Geneva-based organisation said. “Russia will go into default, full default, very shortly and be out of international capital markets for a decade.

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Borrell said E.U. foreign ministers would discuss the “brutal aggression of the Russian troops” and how to respond. The World Bank also emphasized that support to countries hosting refugees fleeing the war "will be critical." It did not identify the country by name, but Slovakia announced Friday that it had donated its S-300 air defense system to Ukraine. Team members are "experts in crime scenes and victim identification," the announcement said. Kirby appeared to be responding to a single Telegram message from Azov, an ultra-nationalist faction of the Ukrainian National Guard that's often described as a regiment or battalion. He recounted seeing a 4-year-old shot twice in the stomach while fleeing with his family, who is expected to live. The Russian Embassy, which had the tall apartment blocks built in the 1970s, has been refusing court orders to pay the lease or to hand it over. He said two-thirds of the children in Ukraine have been displaced. Kara-Murza, a well-known critic of Putin, survived what he said was his second poisoning in 2017. “Please know that getting her home safely continues to be our top priority and while we are facing an extraordinarily complex challenge, there is strength in community, especially the WNBA.” “I clearly told him that his attitude toward war is in no way even remotely shared,” Nehammer said at a news conference, adding that it is an invasion, according to Reuters. NBC News has not verified the numbers of deaths.