After capturing Lisichansk, Russian forces are moving on to their next target in eastern Ukraine. This is the city of Slavyansk in the Donetsk region, which before the war had a population of about 100,000 people. The city has come under massive shelling and at least seven people have died since Sunday.
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–The offensive is expected to continue towards the nearby city of Kramatorsk. It is the administrative center of the region of the Donetsk region, which remained under Ukrainian control after 2014, when separatists split off part of the region in the unrecognized DPR, BNT reported.
Nearly 40 European countries have started preparations for a kind of “Marshall Plan” to rebuild Ukraine after the war. Their representatives signed the Lugano Declaration at the end of the two-day forum in the Swiss city. Bulgaria does not participate in the forum.
In the document, which has no legal force, the countries condemn Russian aggression and call on the Kremlin to withdraw its troops immediately. Principles have been established to guide recovery efforts. A condition for the provision of funds is the implementation of reforms, especially the fight against corruption.
In the occupied port of Mariupol, pro-Russian separatists confiscated two ships sailing under a foreign flag, Reuters reported. The agency refers to documents in which the ships are declared “state property”. This is the first such action affecting commercial vessels.
