Russia Ukraine struggle reside: Putin ‘will target West next if war is lost’ as Kyiv marks two-year anniversary | EUROtoday

While the Kremlin is reported to have believed its “special military operation” would carry the capital Kyiv beneath Russia’s grip in simply 10 days, the extraordinary present of defiance by Ukrainians prepared to defy one of many world’s largest armies to combat for his or her nation’s existence has as an alternative seen the struggle now enter its third yr.

Every day, they face a “human wave” of Russian troopers, whose commanders seemingly don’t have any qualms about sending males excessive right into a battlefield now nicknamed “the meat grinder”.

Lord David Cameron warned the United Nations towards “fatigue” and “compromise” over Russia’s struggle in Ukraine as he urged allies to maintain up assist for Kyiv.

The UK Foreign Secretary stated the world should “recognise the cost of giving up” in a speech in New York on the eve of the second anniversary of Moscow’s invasion.

European nations are struggling to seek out sufficient inventory to ship to Kyiv, and US assist price 60 billion {dollars} (£47 billon) is stalled over political variations in Washington.

Ukrainian forces downed a Russian early warning and management plane on Friday, the air drive chief stated, a significant win for the nation as its military fights to repel persistent Russian assaults alongside the entrance line because the struggle enters its third yr.

General Mykola Oleshchuk thanked Ukraine’s army intelligence for serving to down the Russian A-50 plane on Russia’s army vacation on Friday. “Congratulations to the occupiers on the Defender of the Fatherland day,” General Oleshchuk stated on a sardonic word.

Ukrainian media carried footage purportedly displaying a large fireplace that erupted when the massive warplane crashed within the Krasnodar area on the japanese coast of the Sea of Azov.

Russian forces unleashed drone strikes throughout southern Ukraine in a single day, leading to one fatality and extra casualties.

At least 12 drones had been shot down over Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, and Odesa oblasts, Ukraine defence forces reported on Telegram.

One of the downed drones crashed right into a residential neighborhood in Odesa, destroying a part of the constructing and inflicting a hearth.

A person was killed within the assault, whereas rescuers managed to get his spouse out of the rubble.

The girl was hospitalised in severe situation. Two different residents of the adjoining condo had been taken to the hospital with burns and different accidents, as reported by the Kyiv Independent.

David Cameron has accused Vladimir Putin of behaving just like the Nazis in a scathing assault because the world marks two years since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Speaking in New York, the international secretary urged Western allies to withstand compromising with Russia as he addressed the UN.

“We’ve heard every excuse in the book. One minute he says it was about attacking Nazis, the next minute it was because there was a threat to Russia, then he tells us it was Nato provocation, then he says this country doesn’t really exist.

“These excuses are nonsense. It was an invasion, pure and simple. The only people behaving like Nazis are Putin and his cronies who thought they could invade a country, take its territory and ultimately the world would look away.”

Russia knowledgeable Mark Galeotti sifts by the carnage of the bloody battle for clues as to what’s going to occur subsequent:

Four Western leaders, together with the prime ministers of Italy, Canada, and Belgium, arrived in Kyiv as we speak to indicate solidarity with Ukraine on the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Canada’s Justin Trudeau, Belgium’s Alexander De Croo and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, travelled to the Ukrainian capital collectively in a single day by prepare from neighbouring Poland, the Italian authorities stated in a press release.

Ms Meloni was as a result of host a videoconference later within the day from Kyiv that may contain leaders from the Group of Seven main democracies, with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy invited to hitch the dialogue.