The Russian invasion continues: The Russian Foreign Ministry said today (Saturday) that Moscow’s response to the build-up of NATO forces in Poland would be “proportionate,” the Interfax news agency quoted a Russian diplomat as saying. The Russian Federation, “said Oleg Tiapkin, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Russia’s relations with Europe.
Earlier today, Ukraine’s deputy head of military intelligence warned that his country was losing to Russia at the front, and now it relies almost exclusively on weapons from the West to defend itself. “This is an artillery war,” he said Vadim Skivetsky In an interview with the British Guardian newspaper, “And we lose.”
“Ukraine depends on the amount of weapons coming from the West,” Ukraine has one artillery for every 10 to 15 Russian artillery. Our Western partners have given us about 10 percent of what they have. “
In the city of Svrodonetsk, which became the focus of Moscow’s progress in eastern Ukraine, more heavy fighting was reported. As mentioned, the war in the East, in which Russia is focusing its attention, is mainly an artillery battle in which Kyiv is being pushed towards defeat.
At the same time, in the south of the country, the mayor of Mariupol, who remained in ruins following the Russian siege, warned of an outbreak of the cholera virus. According to him, the sanitation systems are collapsing and bodies are rotting in the city streets.
Russia-Ukraine War (Photo: Reuters)“There is an outbreak of dysentery and cholera,” Vadim Boychenko told local television. “The war that claimed the lives of 20,000 residents of Mariupol could claim more lives following the viral outbreak.” Boychenko called on the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to establish a humanitarian corridor that would allow other residents to leave the city, which is now under Russian control.
Also, in a snapshot of the wider impact of the war, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that reduced exports of wheat and other foodstuffs from Ukraine and Russia could cause chronic hunger for up to 19 million more people worldwide over the next year.