Ukraine war until noon 20/5: President Zelensky says Donbass has been ‘totally ruined’
Ukraine’s president said the Donbass region, the epicenter of Russian offensives in the second phase of the operation, had been “totally ruined”, as some of the richest countries world pledged billions of dollars in aid to Kyiv.
“The occupiers are trying to exert even more pressure. It’s hell there, and I’m not exaggerating at all,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a speech late on May 19. “(There are) constant attacks on the Odessa region, on cities in central Ukraine. Donbass is completely destroyed,” he said.
He said Ukrainian forces continue to expand the liberated zone in the Kharkiv region, according to The Guardian. While in the Chernihiv region north of Kyiv, a village near the border with Belarus was hit by a Russian missile and “a lot of people were killed”, the Ukrainian president said.
Russia has not commented on Mr. Zelensky’s statement.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky afp |
The Russian side said that its army and emergency response forces were about to complete the demining task in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of the Donbass region, TASS news agency reported. Accordingly, more than 7,300 explosive devices were detected and neutralized.
In addition, Russia also said it assisted in the evacuation of 17,600 people from the Donbass region and other regions of Ukraine to Russia in the past 24 hours “without the participation of Ukrainian authorities”. The total number of people who have been evacuated so far has reached more than 1.36 million, according to General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian Center for Defense Control.
G7 agrees to give Ukraine 18.4 billion USD in aid
Financial leaders of the G7 countries have agreed to provide Ukraine with $18.4 billion in aid, and said they are ready to stand with Ukraine until the hostilities end and provide more assistance if necessary, according to a statement. draft joint statement.
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the United States, Japan, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy met in Germany on May 19 to discuss how to financially support Ukraine in the near future. Ukraine estimates it needs about $5 billion a month to pay officials and keep state agencies running despite the hostilities.
On the same day, the US Congress approved a new military and humanitarian aid package for Ukraine worth nearly 40 billion USD. The bill will go into effect after the President Joe Biden signed into law. In addition, Secretary of State Antony Blinken also said that the United States would transfer to Ukraine more weapons and other equipment worth $100 million from the Pentagon’s stockpile.
See more: US Senate approves $40 billion aid package for Ukraine
US considers supplying advanced anti-ship missiles to Ukraine
US officials have revealed that the White House is considering ways to put advanced anti-ship missiles into the hands of Ukrainian troops to help break the Russian naval blockade of Ukraine’s seaports, according to Reuters.
Ukraine recently wanted the US to provide more advanced weapons in addition to Javelin anti-tank missiles and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. The list of advanced weapons that Kyiv proposed includes missiles that could repel the Russian navy from Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea.
Three US officials and two US congressmen told Reuters that two types of US-made high-powered anti-ship missiles, the Harpoon and the NSM, are being actively considered by the White House for supply to Ukraine.
See more: The US considers providing advanced anti-ship missiles to Ukraine to deal with Russia?
The Chief of the General Staff of Ukraine assesses the conflict
The Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army Valeriy Zaluzhny recently met with his NATO counterparts and gave an assessment of the conflict with Russia, as the hostilities between the two countries entered their 86th day.
“Today, we are not just defending. We have launched a series of counter-attacks,” General Zaluzhny told the NATO Military Committee, according to CNN. Zaluzhny said that Ukrainian forces have broken through the situation of Russian forces besieging the two cities of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv, and are still fighting in Kherson province.
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