Zelensky challenges Russia on the 500th day of the invasion of Ukraine

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyclaimed the “courage” of his people and released a video on a reconquered island on Saturday 500 days of resistance to the Russian invasion, which maintained the pressure with a new bombing lethal in the east.

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Zelensky published on social networks an undated video of a visit to the snake islandin it Black Seabecome a symbol of the Ukrainian resistance.

“Today we are in the snake islandwhich will never be conquered by the occupiers, along with all Ukrainebecause we are the country of the brave“, said.

In the first days of the invasionin a radio exchange, Ukrainian soldiers replied with a loud “fuck off” to the crew of a Russian warship demanding their surrender. The island fell into Russian handsbut it was recaptured in June 2022.

“I want to thank from here, from this place of victory, to each of our soldiers for these 500 days”Zelensky added in the video, where he appears arriving on the island by boat and depositing flowers and candles.

Since the start of the war, on February 24, 2022, the UN has documented the death of 9,000 civilians, including 500 children, although he estimates that the figure could be much higher.

This balance increased again on Saturday with the death of eight people by Russian rocket fire in the city of Lymanin the east, indicated the Ukrainian authorities.

And two other people were killed in a Ukrainian shelling in the city of oleshki (south), occupied by Russia, according to the rescue services quoted by the Russian news agency TASS.

In accordance with Noel Calhoundeputy director of the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), the 500 days of conflict they mark “another grim milestone in the war that continues to take a horrible toll on the Ukrainian civilian population.”

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Zelenskytouring several countries to obtain Western support before a summit of the NATO next week, arrived in Turkey on Friday, where he won the endorsement of the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ukraine’s aspirations to become a member of the alliance transatlantic defense.

The Ukrainian president prayed on Saturday in istanbul for the victims of the war together with the patriarch Bartholomewconsidered the leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians.

USA pledged on Friday to deliver cluster bombs to Ukraine, a controversial decision because these types of weapons are prohibited in a large part of the world, although not in Russia either Ukraine.

The president of USA, Joe Bidenadmitted that supplying these types of weapons, which explode in the air and disperse a large quantity of submunitions over a large area, was “a difficult decision”, condemned by several NGOs.

Russia claimed on Saturday that the delivery of cluster bombs to Ukraine is a sample ofweakness” which will convert to Washington in “accomplice” of the deaths of civilians that this weapon can cause.

For now, international efforts to mediate the conflict have failed, including those of erdoğanwhich while promoting trade with Russia supplies drones and other weapons to Ukraine.

“There is no doubt that Ukraine deserves to be a member of NATO”, said erdoğanat the risk of complicating their relations with Russia.

The Turkish president stated that he will speak with putin of possible exchanges of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners, as well as the possible extension of an agreement negotiated last year so that Ukraine can export grain to the global market for the Black Sea.

The agreement will expire on July 17 unless Russia accept your renewal.

Source: Elcomercio

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