Russia faces a “main problem” from sanctions denying entry to overseas know-how, President Vladimir Putin stated Monday.
However Putin instructed his Council for Strategic Growth that his nation won’t “lose coronary heart” or see many years of progress reversed. Putin referred to as for growth of the technological capacities, analysis and innovation of Russian firms.
Russia has struggled to maintain business airplanes maintained, and protection specialists say Russia’s army has been pressured to make use of legacy army {hardware} whereas attempting to replenish its extra fashionable weapons programs.
“Clearly, we can’t develop in isolation from the remainder of the world. And we received’t,” Putin stated in a report posted in state-run Tass. “It’s unattainable within the present-day world to merely situation a decree and erect an enormous fence. It’s merely unattainable.”
Newest developments:
►Ukrainian first woman Olena Zelenska will ship remarks to Congress on Wednesday morning as Zelenska presses her husband’s marketing campaign for extra army help from the West, Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s workplace stated Monday, based on The Washington Submit.
►The Swiss Military says it should provide demining coaching to Ukrainian specialists. Ukrainian authorities already have eliminated tens of hundreds mines and explosive gadgets, the Geneva demining middle stated.
►Russian President Vladimir Putin is anticipated to journey to Iran on Tuesday to shore up help in conferences with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkeish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
►Sri Lanka’s interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe, citing meals shortages and spiraling costs, warned that sanctions may do extra harm to the creating world than to Russia.
►Odesa and Alexandria have joined a rising checklist of Ukrainian cities eradicating monuments paying homage to the nation’s hyperlinks to Russia. Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union in August 1991.
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Zelenskyy expands safety shakeup, suspends 28 extra officers amid Russian shelling
Following Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s resolution to droop two high advisors over allegations that their companies contained “collaborators and traitors,” Zelenskyy stated a “personnel audit” of the Safety Service of Ukraine was underway throughout his video handle Monday night.
The dismissal of 28 officers was being determined with Zelenskyy citing “unsatisfactory outcomes of labor” as causes behind the choice.
Russia continues to advance ahead with its missile and shelling assaults.
Seven Ukraine areas have suffered assaults previously 24 hours, based on Zelenskyy’s workplace. At the least six individuals have been killed by Russian shelling Monday within the Donetsk area of japanese Ukraine and civilians have been urged to evacuate because the area faces incessant shelling.
Almost 1,000 civilians have been evacuated from Russian-held territories within the northern Kharkiv area to Ukraine on Monday. A few third of the area is beneath Russian management after troops overran it in April.
Russian household receives automobile after son killed in Ukraine warfare
Russian state TV ran a report on a household that acquired a automobile after their son was killed in Ukraine, says Francis Scarr, who interprets Russian TV for BBC Monitoring. Scarr posted video of the report on Twitter, exhibiting a household with the brand new, Russian-made Lada automobile they apparently purchased with “coffin cash” paid by the state to the households of warfare victims. The daddy of the fallen soldier, recognized as Alexei, says his son at all times needed a white automobile.
“In reminiscence of our son we purchased a pleasant, new automobile,” the daddy says. The clip ends with what’s described because the automobile’s first journey – to the cemetery.
Russian protection minister: Goal Western missile programs
Russian Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu visited the Vostok Battalion in Ukraine’s Donbas, instructing the commander to prioritize destruction of Ukraine’s long-range missiles and artillery, the protection ministry stated on Telegram. Western weapons programs, together with the U.S.-made HIMARS, have allowed Ukraine to focus on Russian army positions far past the entrance strains, drawing rising concern from the Kremlin. Russia has been working to strengthen its maintain on areas of the Donbas it now controls.
Shoigu instructed models throughout all operational fronts to “get rid of the likelihood for the Kyiv regime to inflict huge missile and artillery strikes” on Russian-held territories, based on The Moscow Times.
EU pledges another $500 million in military aid to Ukraine
European Union foreign ministers met Monday via video teleconference to tighten sanctions on Russia and consider ways to ban gold exports “in hopes that the measures might finally start to have a decisive impact on the war in Ukraine.” The group exchanged views on the Russian aggression with Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba – and pledged another $500 million in military aid to Ukraine’s coffers.
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said that “the most important thing is a ban on Russian gold” which is Moscow’s second-largest export industry after energy.
Contributing: The Associated Press