A senior US defense official said they urgently expect new weapons announcements for Ukraine to be made this Wednesday, while the Russian Defense Ministry asked the Ukrainian fighters in the disputed city of Severodonetsk lay down their arms as happened in Mariupol.
For his part, Pope Francis said in a Vatican publication on Tuesday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an act of violation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric regarding invading Ukraine has changed. It went from being “let’s denazify Ukraine” as he said in his early days to, in his later appearances, securing a full imperial-style land grab.
And the process of returning the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers who died defending the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol continues.
