Zelensky said the next six months will be decisive in the war
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that his country would face Western sanctions by resorting to new partners.
In a televised address on the economic situation in Russia, Putin stressed that Russia will work to develop its economic relations with its partners in Asia, Africa and Latin America to counter Western efforts to isolate it economically, adding that Moscow will expand its cooperation trading with new partners, including increasing its gas exports to China. Largely, to address Western sanctions. ocean of global development, but we will never take the path of self-isolation”.
A new package of European sanctions against Russia has been included in the agenda of EU leaders meeting in Brussels. The United States has also imposed a series of sanctions on Russia’s financial sector, particularly targeting one of its wealthiest figures, Vladimir Potanin, close to Putin, in a move US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken confirmed aimed at limiting Moscow’s ability to finance the war in Ukraine.
In turn, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that the next six months will be decisive in the war in Ukraine. Addressing the European Council, Zelensky said: “The next six months will be decisive in the confrontation which Russia has begun with its aggression in many ways, and whose ultimate goal is far beyond Ukraine’s borders and sovereignty. The next six months will require us to make more effort than has been made during the last period.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian army general staff said Moscow was currently focusing its attacks on the towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, adding that Ukrainian forces had repelled Russian attacks in the past 24 hours. He also said that Russian forces continued shelling Ukrainian forces and civilian infrastructure in the Donetsk region and southern regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson.
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