Ukraine is preparing for a “massive attack in the east,” US Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova warned on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program on Sunday. On Russian forces, he said: “There are so many of them and they still have so much equipment. And it looks like they will use them all. So we are preparing for everything. “ Military analysts predict the movement of the war to the eastern border that Ukraine shares with Russia in an area known as the Donbas. The energy-rich region includes territories where pro-Russian forces have been fighting the Kiev government since 2014. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has warned that while leaders are trumpeting success in ousting Russian forces from Kyiv, “another battle is coming, the battle for Donbass,” he told Meet the Press on Sunday. »Of NBC. The impending Russian attack could resemble World War II, Kuleba recently told NATO, with major military maneuvers involving thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and aircraft. As atrocities escalate in Ukraine, calls for supplies to the country with offensive weapons that would allow forces to strike inside Russia have increased. Several foreign allies, including the United Kingdom, have promised new arms shipments in recent days to help Ukraine in what is expected to be a tougher battle ahead. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on CBS’s “60 Minutes” show once again called on Western countries to step up arms supplies. “They have to supply weapons to Ukraine as if they were defending themselves and their own people,” he said in an interview recorded Wednesday and broadcast on Sunday. “If they do not accelerate, it will be very difficult for us to keep up that pressure.” Zelensky called for even tougher sanctions against Russia and warned that Western nations should not be complacent, thinking they had prevented World War III by not intervening further. “I do not think anyone in this world today can predict what Russia will do. “If they invade our territory further, they will certainly get closer and closer to Europe.” “They will only become stronger and less predictable.” Zelensky’s message has been relentless since the beginning of the Russian invasion, when he allegedly said “I need ammunition, not a walk”. Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba told NATO leaders in Brussels last week that Zelensky had a triple agenda: “weapons, weapons and weapons.” The United States has been vigilant in its approach to immediate arms supplies. The country’s focus “is on helping Ukrainians defend their territory in Ukraine and reclaim territory,” Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “The United States is increasing its resources, weapons, military equipment, and diplomatic resources to support the Ukrainians,” he said. He also dismissed the idea that the United States had not accelerated, saying the country had mobilized resources at “unprecedented scale, scale and speed.” He noted that some of the steps include the supply of weapons systems with which Ukrainian forces are already familiar, such as the Soviet-era S-300 air defense system provided by Slovakia, to which the United States contributed a key element. The United States is also exploring systems that would require some training for Ukrainian forces, Sullivan added. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Said Sunday that the United States needs to be more aggressive in helping Ukraine. “I think the management was better, but they had to push every step to become more aggressive, earlier,” McConnell told Fox News. The backups could not be made soon enough as an escort of Russian military vehicles eight miles long was heading east, according to satellite images captured Friday by Maxar Technologies, a US space technology company. As Russia shifts its military focus, officials in the eastern province of Luhansk have urged people to evacuate immediately, saying the region could face “a very ugly and very bloody” battle. Sunday’s attacks caused damage to a school and hit two apartment buildings, according to Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai, but no deaths were reported. Already, more than 4.5 million Ukrainians have fled the country since the Russian invasion on February 24, according to United Nations figures. This number is expected to increase as the fighting continues. The Ukrainians continued to leave eastern Ukraine via humanitarian corridors, although authorities said they had been stopped by Russian troops violating the ceasefire and holding buses at checkpoints. Some 2,800 people were evacuated from the conflict zones through humanitarian corridors on Sunday, said Ukrainian Vice President Iryna Vereshchuk – far fewer than the more than 6,600 who fled the conflict zones on Friday. Amid growing violence in Ukraine and economic disaster in Russia, President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with Austrian Chancellor Carl Nehamer on Monday, marking the first time since the invasion that Putin will meet face to face with a European leader. Nehamer visited Ukraine on Saturday and met with Zelensky. Frequently asked questions about the new Supreme Commander of Russia in Ukraine Biden is scheduled to meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to pressure the country to abandon its neutral stance on the war. India has continued to buy Russian energy supplies, although many countries around the world have severed ties to punish Russia for its actions. Biden and Monti will discuss the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine and “mitigating its destabilizing effect on global food supply and commodity markets,” White House spokeswoman Jen Yaki said Sunday. Russian forces have now withdrawn completely from areas around Kyiv and Chernihiv in the north, where their attempt to launch a scan in the capital was thwarted by fierce Ukrainian resistance, U.S. officials said. These troops are being rearmed and refueled, apparently for rearrangement to the east, the Pentagon said. In recent days, Russian military officials have said, the Russians have begun pushing south, with the ultimate goal of capturing the city where a train station was bombed on Friday. At least 57 people were killed and 109 were injured in the attack, according to the city governor. Lawmaker Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) Told CNN in an interview Sunday that the attack on the train station was a “clear genocide”, arguing that European countries that continue to buy Russian energy supplies “fund this genocidal campaign.” ». Ukrainian officials and the state-owned railway company announced new evacuation routes on Sunday for citizens in eastern Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said that “all routes to the humanitarian corridors in the Luhansk region will be operational as long as there is a ceasefire by the Russian occupation forces.” Focusing east, away from major cities, could be a challenge for Ukraine’s besieged forces and an advantage for Russian troops, General Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week. that the Russians are more adept at battle on rural land. In contrast to Kyiv, where Ukrainian forces were able to hide in the woods, the extensive, open areas to the east will make it difficult for Ukrainians to carry out guerrilla operations. For their part, Russian forces will be able to assemble large mechanized formations of tanks and armored vehicles. Both sides appear to be able to dig for a long and bloody battle centered in the east, which US officials have warned could take months or more. Reports of torture, beheadings and corpses being used as snare traps near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, as well as haunting images of mass graves and tied up corpses, have heightened the urgency of calls for help. “A lot has been done, but more needs to be done,” Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president who visited Ukraine in Bukhara last week, told CNN’s State of the Union. It will take at least two weeks to retrieve the bodies of those killed in the recent attacks near Kyiv from the rubble, Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastirsky said in a televised interview. After 24 hours of sifting through the wreckage in Bucha, workers discovered more than 6,500 explosive devices in doors, washing machines, cars and under helmets, Monastyrsky said. Ukraine has opened 5,600 war crimes cases involving about 500 Russian leaders, including Putin, since the Russian invasion, Attorney General Iryna Venediktova said on Sunday. But the country will face a difficult battle to get Russian officials to court. The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a train station in the east, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. A missile fragment found near the train station was written with the words “for children” in Russian. “These people just wanted to save their lives, they wanted to be evacuated,” Venediktova said, adding that the country had “evidence” that it was a Russian strike. Withdrawal from Ukraine has sparked a worldwide boom, with donors pledging 9.1 billion euros ($ 10 billion) for refugees at an event convened by Canada and the European Commission on Saturday. Pope Francis called for “Easter truce” and “peace” in Ukraine during the Liturgy of Palm Sunday in St. Peter …
