'What I already said on February 27 is corroborated: we will defend every square meter of NATO'.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the Bundestag.
'Our Eastern European partners can trust Germany today,' he added.
'To be clear: having the goal of a partnership with Russia like the one still had in the 2010 strategic concept, with Putin's aggressive imperialist Russia is unimaginable in any foreseeable time,' he said, explaining that 'the 'Ukraine needs a Marshall plan for reconstruction.
Olaf Scholz said this when speaking to the Bundestag.
BIDEN: 'FUEL TAX SUSPENSION FOR 3 MONTHS'
US President Joe Biden has asked Congress to suspend the federal gasoline tax for three months to help Americans cope with the price increase.
This was reported by the White House in a note.
"The price of gas has increased dramatically around the world and by nearly $ 2 a gallon (3.7 liters) in America since Putin began amassing troops on the Ukrainian border," reads the statement. also announces that Biden hs also asked the governors to suspend local taxes on gasoline.
Russia could supply about 25 million tons of wheat and at least 22 million tons of fertilizers to the global market by the end of the year, the Russian foreign ministry said, according to Interfax.
Meanwhile, a
Turkish merchant ship is leaving the port of Mariupol
following wheat talks with
Moscow
.
This was announced by the Ankara authorities.
FROM THE FIELD
The Russian army has achieved success in eastern Ukraine.
This was announced by the general staff of Kiev, according to local media, explaining that the invasion troops have conquered the villages of Pidlisne and Myrna Dolyna in the southwest of the city of Severodonetsk and obtained "partial successes" near the settlement of Hirske in Luhansk Oblast.
Earlier in the day Kiev announced the surrender of the village of Toshkivka, on the eastern front line.
A civilian died yesterday, hit by a cluster bomb, during a Russian attack on the city of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine: the regional military administration has announced, according to reports from the Ukrinform agency.
The victim was in the company of another man who was injured in the blast.
The two were in the garden of a house.
Yesterday, Russian troops also hit the village of Shyroke, in the district of Bashtanka, and the village of Inhulka with artillery fire, wounding two civilians.
Another civilian was injured in an attack on Ochakiv and a fifth sustained injuries in an attack on Pervomaiske and Novomykolaivka.
A sixth civilian was wounded in Chervone.
Over 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers and mercenaries are surrounded in these hours south of Lysychansk, in eastern Ukraine: the Ministry of Interior of the self-proclaimed Republic of Lugask reports, according to Tass.