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Ukraine’s president launches global funding campaign to help his country

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a global funding campaign on Thursday to help his country win the war once morest Russia and rebuild infrastructure damaged by the conflict.

“In one click, you can donate funds to help our defenders, save our civilians and rebuild Ukraine,” Zelensky said, in English, in a video posted on his Twitter page, announcing the launch of the platform. , called United24. “Every donation counts towards the victory,” he added.

Kremlin says Western support for Ukraine prevented Russia from ‘quickly’ ending its offensive

The military and information aid that Western countries provide to Ukraine prevents Russia from quickly completing its offensive, the Kremlin said on Thursday, assuring however that it would meet all its objectives.

“The United States, the United Kingdom, NATO as a whole permanently share information with the Ukrainian armed forces. Combined with the arms deliveries (…) these actions do not allow the operation to end quickly,” the Kremlin spokesman told reporters. , Dmitry Peskov.

The Vatican lamented the “paralysis” of the UN and called for the “urgent” end of the war in Ukraine

The Vatican lamented the “paralysis” of the UN in some of its primary areas and called for an “urgent” end to the war in Ukraine, which it considered “the result of international relations fractured for years.”

“The member states of the UN must respect the spirit of the UN Charter, that is, at least not repeat the mistakes made during the two world wars of the 20th century,” said the Undersecretary of the Holy See for international organizations, Francesca Di Giovanni, in statements to the official Vatican press.

For Di Giovanni, at the international level “the biggest problem lies in making it understood, and sticking to the consequences in concrete positions, that the Charter should not be interpreted according to the most attractive political position, but in light of what happened in the years prior to its signing, following the Second World War, to preserve future generations from the scourge of war”, among its original purposes.

Ukraine announces military advances in the south and says it repelled Russian attacks in the east

The Armed Forces (FFAA) of Ukraine affirmed today to have made advances on the borders of two southern provinces and to have repelled multiple Russian attacks in the eastern region known as Donbass, which Russia intends to take with a new offensive.

Still, at least five people were killed and more than 20 wounded in Russian shelling of several Donbass cities that also damaged dozens of houses and a school, local authorities said.

In its daily morning update, the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff said that the Russian Army “lost control of several settlements on the border of the Mikolaiv and Kherson regions.”

Ukrainian forces also repelled 11 attacks in Donetsk and Lugansk provinces, the two that make up Donbass, the General Staff added in its statement.

More than 300 civilians evacuated from Mariupol and neighboring towns in southern Ukraine

More than 300 civilians were evacuated from the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol and four other towns controlled or under attack by Russia and transferred to territory still in the hands of Ukraine, in the second successful operation of its kind, the UN reported.

Osnat Lubrani, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine, said in a statement last night that many of the civilians evacuated yesterday from Mariupol, Manhush, Berdyansk, Tokmak and Vasylivka left “with no clothes other than what they were wearing.”

He added that people were receiving humanitarian assistance and “much-needed psychological support” in his destination city of Zaporizhia, 230 kilometers northwest of Mariupol, the Europa Press news agency reported.