US Secretary of Defense Llyod Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are expected in kyiv on Sunday, April 24, for the first American visit to Ukraine after two months of war. They must discuss the deliveries of American weapons to Ukraine, had specified the day before Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president would like them “even heavier and more powerful” against the Russian army. Follow our live.
Poland supplied $1.6 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine, specified its Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. “This equipment saves Ukrainian, Polish and European sovereignty”he justified in a press release.
“It will take 50 years to demine” Ukraine, estimated Perrine Benoist, the Director of Armed Violence Reduction for the NGO Handicap International. According to an official of the demining services of the Ukrainian Civil Security, explosive devices still active are present on almost half of the country’s territory.
Heavy fighting in the south and east of the country. On Saturday morning, the Russian army said it carried out 1,098 strikes with artillery and rockets in 24 hours. “They literally bomb everything, (…) all the time”, wrote the governor of the Lugansk region on Telegram, calling on the population to evacuate. Six civilians were killed by strikes in this area.