Ukraine’s richest man has vowed to rebuild the country after the war with Russia is over. In addition, the US estimates to deliver kamikaze drones to kyiv
The city of Mariúpol, a port city in the Donetsk region, has been the focus of attention in the last hours of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. After Moscow announced that its troops “took control” of the metropolis after overcoming local resistance that sought to stop the advance of Russian troops, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the elimination of Ukrainian soldiers “would put an end to any peace negotiations.” .
The handful of Ukrainian resistance men are part of the Ukrainian Marine Corps and the Azov Battalion; who are hidden in the tunnels of the steel mill that is near the coast. Russia will have to use high-potential bombs to stimulate them to leave those facilities-
On April 11, the Ukrainian army announced that it was preparing for “a final battle” at Mariupol, on the shore of the Sea of Azov in the southeast. The next day, the Ukrainian authorities stated that the fighting left between 20,000 and 22,000 dead in the strategic city, where 441,000 people lived in peacetime, review D.W..
However, Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, has vowed to rebuild the entire country once hostilities end. He also suggested that there be a kind of Marshall Plan for the international community to allow the resurgence of the country.
“For us, the war broke out in 2014. We lost all our assets both in Crimea and in the temporarily occupied territory of Donbas. We lost our business, but it made us tougher and stronger,” he said.
On the other hand, the London Times revealed that UK special forces have been training Ukrainian troops in kyiv for at least 15 days. According to Ukrainian officials, these British troops had come to instruct the new recruits to use the NLAW, the anti-tank missiles supplied by the United Kingdom, although there is no official confirmation from the Ministry of Defense.
It must be remembered that in recent days the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, made a surprise visit to Ukraine and toured kyiv with President Zelensky.
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After this, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the prohibition of Johnson and 12 other senior British diplomats from entering its territory due to “unprecedented hostile actions” taken against Moscow; which would be the package of sanctions, the delivery of weapons and help in training.
“This step has been taken as a response to the unrestrained political-information campaign unleashed by London, which aims at the international isolation of Russia, at the creation of conditions to contain our country and strangle the national economy,” the statement read. the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Meanwhile, unofficial information suggests that the US – in order to support Ukraine – will seek to deliver to kyiv about one hundred Switchblade 300 kamikaze drones, some of whose characteristics are that it weighs less than three kilos, can be carried by a soldier in a backpack, has flight autonomy of about 10 kilometers and locates the target with its sensors to swoop down on the enemy and explode like a grenade.
This shipment will be accompanied by new weapons that the Pentagon decided to deliver to Ukraine for an amount of 800 million dollars. They include howitzers, new types of radar, Mi-17 and armored helicopters.
Ukrainian authorities, specifically the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office, reported that at least 200 children have been killed and more than 360 injured during the hostilities.
Most of the child victims, counting deaths and injuries, have been recorded in the capital region, kyiv, with 121, followed by Donetsk, with 115, Kharkov (88), Chernigov (54), Mikolaiv (40), Kherson (29), Zaporizhia (22), Yitomir (15) and Sumy (16).
With information from Europe Press / D.W. / Swiss Info / goose Latin / 20 minutes
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