This Sunday, May 15, through the official Ukrainian press agency, an important decision was made known by the president of that country, Volodimír Zelensky, within the framework of the 80th day of the resistance of the troops of that country, in the face of the occupation and violation of the sovereignty of his country by Russia.
According to the aforementioned press agency, Ukrinform, the Ukrainian president decided to relieve from his post the hitherto commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of his Army, the soldier Yurii Halushkin, who had assumed the position since the first day of this year.
After this decision, which was made through a presidential decree, but which has not been officially explained by the Ukrainian president, Zelensky also announced the name of the military man who will assume the functions performed until now by Yurii Halushkin.
In this sense, the new commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is the General Ihor Tantsiura, according to that same agency, in information that would also be available in the presidential decrees disseminated on the official website of the Presidency of that country.
The announcement of this new decision in the command of the defense or resistance of the Ukrainian Army, is known at a time when bloody battles are being waged between the Ukrainians and the Russians, for the control of territories in Donbas, and in the south of the country. , then, according to US intelligence sources in recent days, Russia’s intentions would be aimed at forming a corridor that connects the pro-Russian region (in which it already exercises control), with Crimea, territories that it annexed (without international recognition) in 2014.
On this war, the Ukrainian president affirmed this Sunday that this new week new activities will be developed to contain the Russian advance, also warning that there will be an important international action aimed at the support that Western countries provide to Ukraine, can be maximized in arms delivery, and financial resources.
Recently, by local Ukrainian authorities, two important achievements in defense matters had been announced, referring to the destruction of the most powerful war tank that the Russian troops would have, as well as the withdrawal of the uniformed invaders who wanted to take over the city of Kharkiv, the second most important in the country, and in which, as in kyiv, the resistance achieved the withdrawal of the usurpers.
To these victories, this Sunday might be added that, according to international media reports, Ukrainian troops managed to shoot down two helicopter-borne ships, more war tanks, and a significant number of armored vehicles that mark important points of the advance of the Kremlin envoys.
Regarding this conflict, so far this week, and before the members of the UN Security Council, Delegates from Unicef, a United Nations entity for the protection of children, condemned the bombings that have been carried out on educational institutions in Ukrainewarning that one in four schools in that country have been seriously affected.
Along the same lines, Unicef also condemned that, while one side bombs schools, the other has used them as a refuge and weapons storage area; situation that is crossed out in International Humanitarian Law.
The United States promises more aid
This Sunday, international media have also collected excerpts from the meeting held on May 15 between the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba at a meeting in Berlin.
According to the White House, the meeting discussed the most recent ‘US aid package’, aimed at supporting the defense of Ukraine.
Beyond that issue, there would also have been talk of commercial aspects, and the impacts of the war on world food security, due to the vacuum that the absence of food exports such as wheat, produced in Ukraine.
In this sense, it is important to remember that, according to the FAO, the two countries in dispute; Ukraine and Russia are responsible for the production of 30% of the wheat consumed in the world, and more than 60% of the corn traded on the international market.
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