"
Ukraine needs help
: modern supplies, food, weapons and equipment."
This was stated by Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky
speaking on video link at the ISPI Global Policy Forum in Milan.
"What we want is the end of the war and that our land does not belong to anyone else. We are protecting our common goals and values with Europe. For us this is a unifying factor and I believe that is why we have received the candidate status. The EU should only consider us an equal partner ".
"Please support us," he said, referring to a question from former Prime Minister Mario Monti about tomorrow's vote in Parliament.
"What we want is the end of the war and that our land does not belong to anyone else. We are protecting our common goals and values with Europe. For us this is a unifying factor and I believe that is why we have received the candidate status.
The EU must only consider us an equal partner ". For any negotiations with Russia we need" security guarantees for the future - said Zelensky -, and we believe that Italy should be among the guarantors.
We thank the Italian government for their support. "" Please support us, "added Zelensky.
Zelensky: 'Historic week, we will have a response from the EU on candidacy'
THE NEWS FROM THE FIELD
Two civilians were killed and 12 wounded in the past 24 hours during a Russian army missile attack in the Donetsk region, announced the head of the regional military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko, quoted by UNIAN.
Kyrylenko added that the enemy troops in the district are trying to establish full control over the village of Bogorodichne and create the conditions for the development of the offensive on Slovyansk.
Russian airstrikes on Hirske, Vrubivka and Lysychansk, while fighting continues in Severodonetsk.
The British Defense Ministry explains the limited success of the Russian advance with Moscow's limited aviation capacity to "consistently provide air power".
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Ukraine launched an attack on the oil rigs of the Crimean-based gas company Chernomorneftegaz, injuring three workers.
The head of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov wrote on Monday on his Telegram channel, as reported by Russian agencies.
"I have been in contact with colleagues from the Ministry of Defense and the FSB (Federal Security Service) since this morning and we are working to save people. There were 12 people on the drilling platforms, five of whom were rescued and three They were injured. The searches of others continue, "Aksyonov said.
I have been in contact with colleagues from the Ministry of Defense and the FSB (Federal Security Service) since this morning and we are working to save people.
There were 12 people on the drilling platforms, five of whom were rescued and three were injured.
The searches of others continue, "Aksyonov said.
I have been in contact with colleagues from the Ministry of Defense and the FSB (Federal Security Service) since this morning and we are working to save people.
There were 12 people on the drilling platforms, five of whom were rescued and three were injured.
The searches of others continue, "Aksyonov said.
"After an alarm launched at around 2 pm local time," missile attacks have been reported in Odessa.
Ukrainska Pravda writes it, quoting the deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko on Telegram, who has launched an appeal to take shelter "in air-raid shelters".
The Kyiv Independent reports "explosions" in the Ukrainian city, citing a spokesman for the regional administration.
The explosions were heard after air raid sirens sounded
THE DRAFT EU SUMMIT
"The EU reiterates its strong support for Ukraine for its economic, military, social and financial resilience" and "calls on Russia to immediately and unconditionally withdraw all its troops from the entire Ukrainian territory according to internationally recognized borders ".
This is what we read
in the first draft of the European Council of 23 and 24 June
, in the chapter on Ukraine.
This is a provisional draft which, tomorrow, will be on the table of the General Affairs Council in Luxembourg, while in the next few hours, the position of the summit regarding the granting of candidate status to Kiev will be included in the text.
The EU, the draft continues, remains strongly committed to providing further military support to help Ukraine in its
self-defense
action against Russian aggression and in its action to defend territorial integrity and sovereignty " . The text, in the paragraph dedicated to Ukraine, in point 8, explicitly refers to the sending of further military aid to Kiev and, in a period put in brackets, explains that "for this purpose the EU calls for an increase in support military within the European Peace Facility fund.
'USE PROHIBITED WEAPONS'
An analysis by the New York Times Times has shown - meanwhile - "
Russia's widespread use of cluster weapons in Ukraine
prohibited by some international treaties "." Relations with the United States - writes Dmitry Medvedev in the meantime - are zero Kelvin.
We have no relationship with them now.
And there is no need to thaw them today, nor to negotiate with them.
Let them run or crawl.
And they appreciate it as a special favor. "Dmitry Medvedev, vice president of the Security Council of Russia and ally of President Putin, wrote on social media, speaking of the prospect of further negotiations on nuclear treaties. The Guardian reports." As a person who it had a direct relationship with START-3 (treaty for the reduction of nuclear weapons between the US and the Russian Federation) and signed it in 2010, I believe that the time for new negotiations is the most inopportune ", he added.
BERLIN, EU NEGOTIATIONS FOR NORTH MACEDONIA AND ALBANIA IMMEDIATELY
"We welcome the Commission's recommendation on Ukraine and Moldova, this is a historic moment and everyone must ask what will happen if we make the wrong decisions: Europe always grows in moments difficult and we are also in favor of sending a message to the Western Balkans, immediately opening accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania ".
This was stated
by Foreign Minister Annalena Barbock
arriving at the foreign affairs council in Luxembourg.
Stoltenberg: 'NATO and the EU will support Ukraine for a long time'
"It is nice to welcome President Von der Leyen before the NATO summit in Madrid next week. NATO and the EU stand alongside the Ukrainians who continue to defend themselves against Russia's brutal war. We will continue to support Ukraine, our close partner, for a long time. "
The secretary general of NATO Jens Stoltenberg writes in a tweet, who today received the president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
