俄罗斯军队正在继续他们穿越乌克兰的尝试据美国官员称,由总统弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskyy)领导的乌克兰人正在进行“顽强的抵抗”。
袭击始于2月24日,当时俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京宣布了一项“特别军事行动”
最近几天,从邻国白俄罗斯向乌克兰首都基辅移动的俄罗斯军队不顾抵抗,向市中心推进。在基辅,以及哈尔科夫和马里乌波尔等主要城市,猛烈的炮击和导弹袭击仍在继续,其中许多袭击是针对民用建筑的。俄罗斯本周还首次轰炸了西方城市,目标是利沃夫和波兰边境附近的一个军事基地。
俄罗斯受到了来自美国、加拿大和欧洲各国的制裁,目标是俄罗斯经济和普京本人。
拜登周五前往波兰,讨论支持乌克兰人道主义危机的努力
除了布鲁塞尔之行,拜登总统还将于周五前往波兰华沙,与安杰伊·杜达总统举行双边会晤。
白宫新闻秘书珍·帕萨基(Jen Psaki)周日在一份声明中说,“总统将讨论美国与我们的盟友和伙伴一起,如何应对俄罗斯对乌克兰无端发动的战争所造成的人道主义和人权危机。”。
普萨基的声明没有具体说明拜登在波兰之行期间是否还会做其他事情。自与俄罗斯的冲突开始以来,波兰已经接纳了200多万乌克兰难民。
报道称,俄罗斯要求马里乌波尔的乌克兰军队在早上之前投降
据报道,俄罗斯要求被围困在马里乌波尔市的乌克兰军队在当地时间周一凌晨4点前投降。
据俄罗斯官方媒体报道,俄罗斯高级指挥官米哈伊尔·米津采夫(Mikhail Mizintsev)上校警告该市的地方当局,包括市长,如果他们不投降,他们将面临“军事法庭”。
他呼吁基辅的官方当局“理智一点”,取消早些时候下达的命令,他说这些命令迫使乌克兰战士“牺牲自己,成为‘马里乌波尔烈士’。”"
俄罗斯军队一直试图深入马里乌波尔,进行街头巷尾的战斗,同时不分青红皂白地轰炸这座城市。据信,保卫这座城市的乌克兰军队目前正面临巨大压力。
米津采夫说,俄罗斯已经提议从周一上午9点开始开放人道主义走廊,允许乌克兰军队和平民离开马里乌波尔。
他声称俄罗斯在该市的目标是“纯粹的人道主义”,并重复了俄罗斯的虚假说法,即乌克兰“民族主义”力量摧毁了几座主要的民用建筑,而实际上这些建筑是直接受到俄罗斯空袭和导弹袭击的。
据报道,米津采夫说:“我们呼吁乌克兰武装部队、领土防卫营和外国雇佣军停止军事行动,放下武器,通过与乌克兰方面商定的人道主义走廊,前往基辅控制的领土。”“此外,所有放下武器的人的安全出口得到保证,他们的生命得到保全。”
泽伦斯基批评以色列不向乌克兰提供武器
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskyy)周日向以色列议会成员发表讲话,批评该国没有采取更多措施帮助乌克兰。
在演讲中,泽伦斯基将乌克兰和以色列对其邻国的挑战进行了比较,并质疑以色列为什么没有向乌克兰运送武器或对俄罗斯实施制裁。
“以色列的每个人都知道你们的导弹防御是最好的,”泽伦斯基说。“它是强大的。大家都知道你的武器很强。每个人都知道你做得很好。你知道如何捍卫你的国家利益,你的人民的利益。你一定可以帮助我们保护我们的生命,乌克兰人的生命,乌克兰犹太人的生命。人们可以一直问为什么我们不能从你们那里得到武器。或者为什么以色列没有对俄罗斯进行强有力的制裁。”
泽伦斯基引用出生于基辅的以色列前总理果尔达·梅厄的话说,俄罗斯的入侵是“一场旨在摧毁我们人民的大规模背信弃义的战争”。
“我们打算继续活着。我们的邻居想看到我们死,”泽伦斯基说。"这个问题没有太多妥协的余地。"
在泽伦斯基的演讲期间,以色列议会的网络部门和国家网络理事会击退了一系列旨在中断直播演讲的网络攻击耶路撒冷邮报据以色列议会报道。
俄罗斯声称,乌克兰顿巴斯营即将被摧毁
俄罗斯军队正在完成推翻乌克兰民族主义者顿巴斯营的行动,俄罗斯国防部发言人伊戈尔·科纳申科夫在周日的新闻发布会上告诉记者。
科纳申科夫称,这些部队在过去一天里前进了12公里,到达了尼科尔斯克防线,并从三面封锁了索洛德克的居民区。
科纳申科夫称,自军事行动开始以来,已有近1500辆乌克兰坦克和其他装甲车被摧毁。
他说,此外,乌克兰还销毁了150套多管火箭炮系统、584门野战炮武器和迫击炮,以及1279件特种军用迫击炮设备。
科纳申科夫声称,在过去的24小时里,俄罗斯航空航天部队还摧毁了89个乌克兰军事目标,以及7架无人机。
Russia-Ukraine updates: Ukrainian forces in Mariupol given until 4 am to surrender
Russian forcesare continuing their attempted push through Ukrainefrom multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up "stiff resistance," according to U.S. officials.
The attack began Feb. 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation."
Russian forces moving from neighboring Belarus toward Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, have advanced closer to the city center in recent days despite the resistance. Heavy shelling and missile attacks, many on civilian buildings, continue in Kyiv, as well as major cities like Kharkiv and Mariupol. Russia also bombed western cities for the first time this week, targeting Lviv and a military base near the Poland border.
Russia has been met by sanctions from the United States, Canada and countries throughout Europe, targeting the Russian economy as well as Putin himself.
Biden traveling to Poland Friday to discuss efforts to support Ukraine, humanitarian crisis
In addition to his trip to Brussels, President Joe Biden will also travel to Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, where he will hold a bilateral meeting with President Andrzej Duda.
"The President will discuss how the United States, alongside our Allies and partners, is responding to the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday.
Psaki's statement did not specify if Biden will do anything else during his trip to Poland, which has taken in more than 2 million Ukrainian refugees since the start of the conflict with Russia.
Russia gives Ukrainian forces in Mariupol until morning to surrender: Reports
Russia has given Ukrainian forces in the besieged city of Mariupol until Monday at 4 a.m. local time to surrender, according to reports.
Gen. Col. Mikhail Mizintsev, a senior Russian commander, warned the city’s local authorities, including the mayor, that if they do not surrender they will face a “military tribunal,” according to Russian state media.
He called on the official authorities in Kyiv to “see reason” and to cancel orders given earlier that he said oblige Ukrainian fighters “to sacrifice themselves and to become the ’martyrs of Mariupol.’”
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Evacuees sit in their cars as they try to leave the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukraine...
Russian forces have been trying to push deep into Mariupol, engaging in street-to-street fighting while indiscriminately bombarding the city. Ukrainian troops defending the city are believed to be under severe pressure right now.
Mizintsev said Russia has proposed opening humanitarian corridors beginning at 9 a.m. Monday to allow Ukrainian troops and civilians to leave Mariupol.
He claims Russia’s goals in the city are “purely humanitarian” and repeated Russia’s false claims that it was Ukrainian “nationalist” forces that have destroyed several major civilian buildings, which in reality have been struck directly by Russian air and missile strikes.
“We call on the units of the Ukrainian armed forces, the battalions of the Territorial Defense, foreign mercenaries, to cease military action, lay down their arms and to leave for the territories controlled by Kyiv via the humanitarian corridors agreed with the Ukrainian side,” Mizintsev reportedly said. “Moreover, the safe exit of all those laying down their arms is guaranteed and the sparing of their lives.”
Zelenskyy criticizes Israel for not providing arms to Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed members of the Knesset, the legislature of Israel, on Sunday, criticizing the country for not doing more to help Ukraine.
During the address, Zelenskyy drew parallels between Ukraine and Israel's challenges with their neighbors and questioned why Israel has not sent arms to Ukraine or imposed sanctions on Russia.
"Everyone in Israel knows that your missile defense is the best," Zelenskyy said. "It is powerful. Everyone knows that your weapon is strong. Everyone knows you're doing great. You know how to defend your state interests, the interests of your people. And you can definitely help us protect our lives, the lives of Ukrainians, the lives of Ukrainian Jews. One can keep asking why we can't get weapons from you. Or why Israel has not imposed strong sanctions against Russia."
Zelenskyy described the Russian invasion as "a large-scale and treacherous war aimed at destroying our people," quoting former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who was born in Kyiv.
"We intend to remain alive. Our neighbors want to see us dead," Zelenskyy said. "This is not a question that leaves much room for compromise."
During Zelensky's speech, the Knesset's cyber unit and the National Cyber Directorate fought off a number of cyberattacks aimed at interrupting the live-streamed speech, theJerusalem Postreported, citing the Knesset.
Destruction of Ukraine’s Donbas Battalion is looming, Russia claims
Russian military units are completing an overthrow of Ukraine’s nationalist Donbas Battalion,Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters at a briefing on Sunday.
The units advanced by 12 kilometers over the past day to reach the Nikolske line and blocked the populated area of Solodke from three sides, Konashenkov claimed.
Almost 1,500 Ukrainian tanks and other armored vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the military operation, Konashenkov alleged.
In addition, 150 Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher systems, 584 field artillery weapons and mortars, and 1,279 pieces of special military mortar equipment have been liquidated, he said.
The Russian Aerospace Forces also destroyed 89 Ukrainian military objects, as well as seven drones, over the past 24 hours, Konashenkov claimed.