A view shows a military vehicle destroyed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the town of Rubizhne in the Luhansk region, Ukraine June 1, 2022. REUTERS Photo: Reuters
Ns News Online Desk; KYIV-Russia tightened its grip on a key target in a battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region while President Volodymir Zelenskiy pleaded for more Western arms to help Ukraine reach an “inflection point” and prevail in the war.
Zelenskiy told Luxembourg’s parliament via videolink on Thursday that Russian forces now occupied about a fifth Ukrainian territory, with battle lines stretching more than 1,000 kilometers.
As the invasion approaches its 100th day on Friday, Russia says Washington is adding “fuel to the fire” with a new $700 million weapons package for Ukraine that will include advanced rocket systems with a range of up to 80 kms. But separately addressing a forum in Slovakia, Zelenskiy said more weapons supplies would “ensure an inflection point in this confrontation,” in Ukraine’s favor.
U.S. President Joe Biden hopes extending Ukraine’s artillery reach will help push Moscow to negotiate an end to a war in which thousands have been killed, cities and towns flattened and more than 6 million people forced to flee the country. His administration said it had Ukraine’s assurances it would not use the rocket systems to hit targets inside Russia. “Ukraine is fighting an exclusively defensive war, and we always state this,” the country’s deputy defense minister, Hanna Malyar, told a briefing when asked whether Kyiv made such a promise.
While Moscow denies targeting civilians it says it regards Ukrainian infrastructure used to bring in Western arms as a legitimate target. Still, it insisted those supplies would not change the course of what it calls a “special military operation” to disarm Ukraine and rid it of ultra-nationalists the Kremlin says threaten Russian security.
“Pumping (Western) weapons into Ukraine does not change all the parameters of the special operation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
GLOBAL IMPACT -The war and Western sanctions imposed in response to it are taking a toll on the world economy. With its control of some of Ukraine’s biggest seaports and critical Black Sea shipping routes, Russia has been blocking Ukrainian farm exports and deepening a global food crisis.
Russia and Ukraine together account for nearly a third of global wheat supplies, while Russia is also a key fertilizer exporter and Ukraine a major supplier of corn and sunflower oil. Interfax news agency quoted Russia’s defense ministry on Thursday as saying that vessels carrying grain could leave Ukraine’s Black Sea ports via “humanitarian corridors” with Moscow ready to guarantee their safety.
By Reuters
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