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Ukraine said it has filed criminal charges against Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox church, in absentia for “justifying” Russia’s invasion. Moscow’s most influential spiritual leader, a fervent supporter of president Vladimir Putin, has called the war a historic battle against the “forces of evil”. The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, arrived in Kyiv on Saturday ahead of a report the EU is expected to present next week about Ukraine‘s progress in its membership bid.
In a third briefing, Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said her office has recorded 6,731 civilian casualties since the Russian invasion began in late February. “We know the real figures are considerably higher,” she added, pointing out that most of those casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide effects in populated areas. Displaced people will be provided with free accommodation in shelters, humanitarian aid, food and medical support, she said.



He said audio transmission intercepts had revealed that Moscow was now seeking to secure it. But UK intelligence suggests that Russia have incurred heavy losses in its assault on the Donbas town. Zelenskiy also said that Ukraine was committed to pressing on with reforms, including strengthening anti-corruption practices. The EU next week is expected to present a report on Ukraine’s progress in its bid to join the bloc. "Humanitarian supplies and ensuring that as much of that as possible gets into the city, so people have food and the basic essentials they need to live, is critical," he said.
The situation is already so dire, with 40 percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure damaged or destroyed, that municipal workers are setting up 1,000 heating shelters that can double as bunkers while engineers try to fix bombed-out power stations without the needed equipment. Also complicating Ukraine's military success around Kyiv is the possibility that Russia could soon take over the southern city of Mariupol. That could free up Russian forces to move to operations in other parts of country, threatening Ukraine's offensive and creating a connected, logistically supported Russian front in the southeast. With few reporters on the front lines, it is difficult to verify these accounts.

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The surface-to-air defense system would help Ukraine repel Russian aerial attacks. The army air defence branch is equipped with a variety of effective surface-to-air missile systems of the air defence regiments and anti-aircraft missile and artillery complexes under the brigades' air defence battalions. Brigade level units are characterized by their high rate of fire, vitality, maneuverability, and capability of action under all conditions of modern combat arms operations. Surface-to-air missile systems and complexes of operational command level are characterised by their long range and firepower and are equipped with surface-to-air missile complexes Osa, Buk, Buk-M1, and Tor. Anti-aircraft missile and artillery complexes that are of brigade level are equipped with various ex-Soviet and Western systems like the Tunguska-M1, Igla MANPADS system, Strela, and Shilka anti-aircraft missile systems. Ukrainian soldiers on a military exercise in 1998Upon their establishment in 1991, the then brand new Ukrainian Ground Forces included approximately 780,000 personnel, 7,000 armoured vehicles, 6,500 tanks, and 2,500 tactical nuclear missiles.
The updated death toll comes five days after a missile damaged a residential building in the town. Maj Gen Vladimir Zavadsky, the deputy commander of Russia’s 14th army corps, has been confirmed killed in Ukraine, said the governor of Russia’s Voronezh region, Alexander Gusev. He said Zavadsky had died “at a combat post in the special Ремонт глушників Троєщина operation zone”, but further details have not been released. The US is running out of time and money to help Ukraine fight its war with Russia, says the White House. Its budget director, Shalanda Young, issued the warning in a letter to the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, and other congressional leaders on Monday.

Unlike the rest of Europe, Ukraine uses the same larger gauge tracks that Russia does. The chicken and egg problem for the Russian military, Vershinin asserted, is that its needs “to take major cities” that sit on key junctions to control the railways, including Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kherson and Mykolaiv — all cities that have seen major fighting. Following on from Russia’s return to long-range cruise missile attacks against Ukraine last Friday, the latest barrage has apparently involved ballistic missiles. According to reports, at least eight missiles used to attack Kyiv before dawn today left four people injured by debris. The European Union has expanded its measures directed against Iran, as that country continues to provide military support to Russia, most notably through the provision of one-way attack drones and related technologies.
The Commercial Service recommends establishing a wholly-owned company in Ukraine if you intend to carry out manufacturing or other significant local commercial activities. A foreign legal entity may have both a representative office and a wholly-owned subsidiary. A limited liability company is the most popular form of a legal entity in Ukraine as it can conduct a broad range of business activities. The air defence systems, which had not been primed for Russia’s new tactics, left the open-air substations and large power plants vulnerable.

Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, "Time after time, when the international community has rallied together in solidarity, those values have prevailed. They will prevail, independently of what happened today." In Kyiv on Friday morning, saying they were ready to die to defend their city. One commander said thousands had reported for duty — very few of them with military experience. Guns were being distributed to those who showed up, and the commander said they were quickly running out. Nearly 200 people have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded since the offensive began, Ukraine’s health minister said Saturday. It was the latest in the tally of civilian targets hit by Russian forces, despite Moscow’s insistence that its troops have aimed their massive firepower only at military installations.
Russia is struggling to deal with "concurrent threats" on its southern front in Ukraine and is using naval air power to project force over the northwestern Black Sea, Britain's Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence update Monday. Germany has repeatedly promised to support Ukraine for as long as necessary following the Russian invasion in February 2022, which prompted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to speak of a turning point in Germany's attitude towards defense. A Ukrainian government spokesperson confirmed early Thursday that "cruise and ballistic missile strikes are underway at the control centers" in Kyiv.
The United Nations refugee agency says as many as 4 million people could be displaced by the fighting. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have already escaped Russia's bombardment of their country into neighboring nations, and many thousands more are still trying to get out. Many have walked for miles to get to the nearest border, where they find extremely long lines. A truck loaded with molotov cocktails, made by residents and ready for distribution to civilian defense forces in Kyiv, Ukraine, is seen on February 28, 2022.