![]() ![]() The Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda published, then later removed, a report that the Russian Ministry of Defense had recorded 9,861 Russian Armed forces deaths in the war in Ukraine. “Thank you to everyone who did it, who worked for the people. We also managed to deliver 200 tons of humanitarian aid,” he said. The President thanked everyone who worked to help evacuation corridors, saying more than 8,000 people were rescued Monday. Zelensky added that civilians also came under fire in the Zaporizhzhia region. Sentenced to death, sentenced to disgrace.” They were driven here, to be honest, as if sentenced. “The Russian soldiers do not even know what it is like to be free. Zelensky also said, in Kherson, “the occupiers shot at people who peacefully took to the streets without weapons at a rally for their freedom. “Our military has already shot down so many Russian planes and helicopters that one can only wonder what do their pilots have instead of mind? Is it also emptiness?” he said. Without offering evidence, Zelensky also claimed Russian troops hit the Zhytomyr region with rockets Tuesday and that a Russian aircraft was shot down in the Kharkiv region near Chuhuiv. Instead of everything that makes human, human.” In a video uploaded to Telegram early Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russian military pilots unhuman saying, “They definitely have emptiness instead of heart. Its staff had either been evacuated or joined up to fight the invasion. Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted Friday the zoo had been bombed since the beginning of the war. “Every day we go to work, feed and clean the animals despite the howl of the air raid siren,” said the Mykolaiv Zoo director Volodymyr Topchiy in a Facebook post asking for international financial assistance. ![]() The donations come after local zoos including the Mykolaiv Zoo posted online pleas for help. “These transfers are intended to allow zoos to meet the costs of local resupply while banking facilities are still available,” the statement said. The groups said it has already made initial cash transfers to zoos in need from the fund. “EAZA Ukraine Zoos Emergency Fund has raised €576,371 ($635,000) from a very large number of individual and institutional donors, an extraordinary and humbling result that will help provide immediate and long-term assistance to our colleagues in Ukraine,” a statement from EAZA said. The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) said it has raised more than $600,000 to help operations at Ukrainian zoos impacted by Russia’s invasion. In late February ahead of the invasion, Putin recognized the two separatist territories in eastern Ukraine as independent states.ĭirector Vladimir Topchy issued a pleas for international assistance after the zoo of Mykolaiv was hit in strikes by the Russian military. Russia responded by annexing the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and fomenting a separatist rebellion in Ukraine’s east, which seized control of part of the Donbas region. Here’s the background to the “occupied territories:” In early 2014, mass protests in Kyiv known as Euromaidan forced out a Russia-friendly president after he refused to sign an EU association agreement. But I am certain that a solution will not come at this meeting,” he said. “The issue of the occupied territories is important for us. Zelensky repeated previous comments that he was ready to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. When a Suspilne reporter asked about the limit of the compromise Ukraine would go for, Zelensky said: “I think that without this meeting you cannot truly understand what they are really prepared to do in order to stop the war and what they are prepared to do if we are not ready for this or that compromise.” ![]() And what they (the compromises) will be is the subject of our talks and understanding between Ukraine and Russia.” “The people will have to speak up and respond to this or that form of compromise you have mentioned. “I explained to our negotiators at the talks that when one is talking about changes - and these changes may be of historic importance - there is no other way around it, we will have to hold a referendum,” he said. Zelensky said he has not met with Russian negotiators but told his delegation that any significant compromise would require a referendum. Some context: It comes as delegates from Ukraine and Russia have held a series of peace talks. “It is a long process which will be decided by the parliament and by the Ukrainian people,” he said. The President made the comments during an interview with Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne News on Monday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said any constitutional changes that relate to security guarantees in the country would need to be decided through a referendum and not by him alone. ![]()
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