THE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated today that Ukraine does not look forward to talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin but that he has to face the reality that this may be necessary to end the war.
“They are really there to talk to the Russian leader. “I’m not telling you that for me our people are looking forward to talking to him, but we have to face the realities of what we live in.” said Zelenski, addressing an Indonesian think tank.
“What we want from this meeting… We want our lives back… We want to take back the life of a sovereign country within its own territory,” he said the Ukrainian presidentadding that Russia did not seem ready yet for serious peace talks.
Russia: The city of Lyman is under our control – 5,000 Ukrainians in custody
More from 5,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”, as reported today by TASS, citing a leader of the pro-Russian separatistswho also claimed that the separatist forces have taken him full control of the strategically important city of Limanin eastern Ukraine.
Reuters and Agence France-Presse, however, were unable to confirm this information from an independent source.
About 1,500 dead in Severodonetsk – The Russian siege is tightening
At the same time, official Ukrainian figures show that, since the start of the war, about 1,500 people have been killed in the city of eastern Ukraine Severonetskwhere the battles with the Russian forces are now concentrated.
Among them are soldiers and civilians, as the head of the local military administration Oleksandr Stryuk said today.
Many of its inhabitants have also left the city. Of the 130,000 inhabitants who lived there before the war, only about one-tenth remains.
Sheverodonnetsk in Luhansk Oblast has been under pressure from Russian troops and pro-Russian separatist fighters for weeks. On May 6, Stryuk announced that the city was “almost encircled.”
Sheverodonetsk is one from important cities in this area still under Ukrainian control, as well as the city of Lisichank.
THE Governor of Luhansk, Sergei Gaidaisaid that five people were killed by Russian bombings in residential areas of Sheverodonetsk in the last 24 hours.
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