President Volodymyr Zelenskyy needs Europe to finish its vitality dependence on Russia — and cease the circulate of money it funnels to Moscow. In a video message, the Ukrainian chief mentioned the size of this battle — and what number of Ukrainians are killed — will probably be determined by how shortly Ukraine's mates provide it with weapons and implement an oil embargo towards Russia.
Whereas U.S. and allied nations' financial sanctions on Russia are painful, they aren't extreme sufficient to cease Russia's offensive, he mentioned Friday.
Russian forces have didn't seize Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, stricken by army failures and a Ukrainian resistance a lot more durable than many anticipated. However explosions have been reported within the capital, which Russia had lately threatened to invade earlier than retreating, and within the western metropolis Lviv on Saturday morning.
Ukraine can be bracing for a contemporary assault within the east, which remains to be being pummeled from the air, as Russian forces regroup.
Nadezhda Aleksandrova says she wished to flee her residence in japanese Ukraine — however left it too late. Her son Sergei was killed by Russian shelling of their condominium.
"The glass from the window fell down, she says, and I noticed him mendacity in a pool of blood," she informed CBS Information.
Officers within the southern metropolis of Kryvyi Rih say they managed to cease Russian forces seizing management of this strategically vital airport at first of the battle. Their plan was low tech, however ingenious: parking vehicles and building autos on the runway.
On the second day of battle, a cargo aircraft usually utilized by airborne troops and three fighter jets tried to land, Oleksander Vilkul, head of the army administration, informed CBS Information international correspondent Holly Williams. They descended to about 200 meters, made a couple of circles and as soon as they realized they could not land, they left.
Inventive ways assist, however Ukrainian forces are massively outgunned by Russia. Vilkul mentioned Ukrainian forces cannot win the battle with out extra weapons from the West.
"We want fighter jets, tanks, missiles, the entire spectrum of weapons," he informed CBS Information.
The White Home says one other $800 million in weapons ought to arrive in Ukraine quickly, together with heavy artillery and extra javelin anti-tank missiles.
"We're persevering with to provide Ukraine with the weapons and assets to defend their nation," President Joe Biden mentioned earlier this month. "You already know, we cannot be capable to promote every bit of safety we give as a result of our allies and companions are supplying to Ukraine by way of us, however superior weapons and ammunition are flowing in each single day."