Malayalee News
Overcoming strong resistance in Ukraine, Russian troops captured the Slavdik city near Chernobyl in the north. Heavy fighting continues in the southeastern port city of Mariupol. Russia has said it has completed the first phase of its military operation and will focus on the liberation of rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
Slavodik on the Belarusian border is home to workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was hit by a major nuclear disaster in 1986. Although Russian forces seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant at the beginning of the occupation on the 24th of last month, Ukrainian workers continued to work on the plant.
Mayor Vadim Boichenka said the situation in Mariupol was “extremely serious.” Resistance continues in many parts of the devastated city. More than one lakh people remain in the city. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selensky said in a video conference at the Doha Forum in Qatar that Russia’s attempt to completely destroy the port of Mariupol was destructive to the world. It is from here that food grains are exported from Ukraine to all over the world.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba and Defense Minister Oleksi Resino in Warsaw, Poland.
The Russian Defense Ministry has said it will focus on the complete liberation of the Donbass region along the Russian border. The Russian military has been supporting the rebels here since 2014. The Russian-speaking Donbass region has already been recognized as an independent territory by the Russian parliament.
US President Joe Biden meets with top Ukrainian officials Joe Biden held talks with two Ukrainian ministers in Warsaw on Saturday. For the first time since the start of Russia’s occupation, the US president is in direct talks with the Ukrainian government.