Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his Western partners will deliver new weapons and equipment to Ukraine following talks with French President Emmanuel Macron as Russian forces launched a series of rocket-propelled grenades and rocket-propelled grenades. , including the capital, Kiev.
“A new day has begun on the diplomatic front, with a conversation with @Emmanuel Macron. Weapons and equipment from our partners are on their way to Ukraine. The anti-war coalition is working,” he said in a Twitter post.
Russian forces have launched coordinated attacks with cruise missiles and artillery shells in several cities, including the capital, Kiev.
Earlier, Ukrainian officials said Russian forces had fired cruise missiles from the Black Sea against Mariupol, as well as the cities of Sumy (northeast) and Poltava (east).
Kiev authorities said a rocket hit a residential building and another eyewitness told Reuters another struck an area near the airport. There is currently no information on losses.
The war in Ukraine “will last” and “we must prepare,” French President Emmanuel Macron warned today, saying the government was preparing “a plan of resilience” to address the economic consequences of the crisis.
“The war is back in Europe (…) If you ask me to share with you a belief this morning, it is that this war will last” and “it will not be without consequences for the rural world,” he told officials of Agriculture inaugurating the International Agricultural Exhibition (Salon international de l’agriculture) in Paris.
Trade restrictions stemming from European Union sanctions on Russia will affect exports of French products such as wine and cereals, Macron said, while a further rise in energy prices will hit livestock.
“We are preparing a sustainability plan,” Macron said, adding that measures would be taken to protect farmers from cost pressures and to compensate for lost incomes.
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