Moscow tests a new ballistic missile, Zelensky calls for an embargo on Russian oil
Ukraine has offered Russia a “special trading session“a Mariupol, the besieged port city on the Sea of Azov. “We are ready to hold a special session to negotiate in Mariupol. – says on Twitter Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency and one of the negotiators with Russia – To save our boys, (the battalion) Azov, soldiers, civilians, the children, the living and the wounded. Everyone “.
Meanwhile, after rejecting the Russian ultimatum to surrender, the desperate resistance of the martyred city of Ukraine hangs in the balance. The fighters of the Azov regiment and the Kiev marines remain to fight, barricaded in the Azovstal steel together with a year of civilians, including many women and children, but they know that pushing back the axis is impossible. “The enemy is ten times more numerous than us“they admit, asking the world to be”save“. Everything in order not to end up in the hands of the enemies, who are already preparing the great parade to celebrate the conquest on May 9. Almost two months after the start of the conflict, the strategic bastion between the Donbass and the Crimea is close to falling. From the first line of the city barricades, confined to the huge steel plant that has become the symbol of resistance, there are no signs of surrender. Two Russian invitations to lay down their arms failed, the last one on Wednesday afternoon.
“It could be our last daysour last hours “, Major Sergey Volyn, commander of the 36th Marine Brigade, said in a desperate video message on Facebook, who had also written to the Pope asking” all world leaders “to help them escape in” a Third country “. And the humanitarian corridor from Mariupol” did not work. “This was stated by the Ukrainian authorities, who today hoped to evacuate six thousand civilians from the besieged city, including many women and children, but managed to take away only a few dozen.
Weapons and ammunition will flow every day to help Ukrainians defend themselves from Russian aggression, the president said yesterday from the United States Joe Biden. “We ask Europe to include theembargo on oil in the sixth package of sanctions, otherwise it will be an empty measure “, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the press conference with European Council President Charles Michel in Kiev. The EU Commission” is working on the sixth package of sanctions and the petrolium surely there will be, “explained Ivo Schmidt, of the Commission’s Energy Directorate
Meanwhile, Russia said today that it has successfully tested a new ICBM, the Sarmat, capable, according to the Ministry of Defense, of “penetrating any existing or future missile defense system”. President Vladimir Putin said that the security of the new missile will give guarantees of threat to Russia “against current threats” and “will make those who are threatening Russia think”.