The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, visited Kyiv, where she met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We are visiting you to thank you for your fight for freedom … Your fight is a fight for everyone. “Our commitment is to be here for you until the race is over,” Pelosi said in a video posted by Zelensky on Twitter.
A briefing on the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress @SpeakerPelosi in Kiev. Получені Штати є лідером потужної підтримки України в боротьбі з агресією РФ. Let us help you to protect our sovereignty and territorial integrity of our country! pic.twitter.com/QXSBPFoGQh
– Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) May 1, 2022
The United States is training Ukrainian forces in Germany
The USA Additional training for the Ukrainian armed forces has begun at US military installations in Germany, the US Department of Defense announced on Friday.
“These efforts are based on initial artillery training already received by Ukrainian forces elsewhere, and also include training in radar systems and armored vehicles recently announced as part of security assistance packages,” said Pentagon spokesman John Keeer. according to CNN.
Attacks in Odessa and Hersonissos
Russian military forces fired rockets into southern and eastern Ukraine on Saturday, according to Kyiv. On the other hand, Moscow today reported the death of civilians from shelling by the Ukrainian army in villages of Kherson. Meanwhile, in Mariupol, the first women and children were removed from Azovstal steel plantwhere Ukrainian soldiers and civilians remain trapped for days.
Moscow has concentrated its military operations in the south and east of Ukraine, after failed to occupy the capital Kyiv in the attack it has unleashed for the past nine weeks, leveling cities, causing thousands of deaths and forcing more than 5 million people to seek refuge abroad.
THE Russian army has occupied Khersonabout 100 km north of the annexed Crimean peninsula, and controls most of Mariupol, a strategically important port city in the Sea of Azov.
Russia announced the capture of Mariupol on April 21, while hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians took refuge in the huge Azovstal steel plant. The United Nations has called for an agreement to evacuate the plant through a “humanitarian corridor”. On Saturday, it became known by a Ukrainian commander of the Azov Order that 20 women and children managed to leave the steel plant.
At the same time, a Russian rocket fired from the Crimea destroyed the runway of Odessa airport, said the governor of the region Maxim Marchenko, who stressed that there were no casualties.
The airport can no longer operate, according to the Ukrainian army. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to rebuild it, stressing in a videotaped message late Saturday that “Odessa will never forget Russia’s attitude towards it.”
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