[Korrespondent] 22:08 In Vorzel, the Russian invaders nailed the dogs and skinned them, and hung the heads of chickens on clotheslines.
21:33 A cat rescued from the rubble in Borodyanka.
21:30 Putin "has prerequisites" for meeting with the leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
21:26 Kharkiv Mayor Terekhov addressed the residents of the city and stated that there was no need for evacuation.
21:22 In the Kiev region, on the territory of the Gostomel village council, a week-long curfew is introduced - from 06:00 on April 7 to 06:00 on April 14.
21:19 Vice Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk, on the air of the All-Ukrainian telethon, called on residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to immediately evacuate while there is an opportunity for this.
"We need this now, because then people will be under fire and the threat of death. They will not be able to do anything against this and we will not be able to help. Because it will be almost impossible to stop the fire. We need to evacuate while there is such an opportunity. Now it is still there" , she stressed.
21:16 The ambassadors of the EU countries at a meeting on Wednesday failed to approve the decision on the fifth package of sanctions against Russia, proposed by the European Commission on Tuesday. Some countries called for clarification of the details of a proposed embargo on Russian coal imports and a ban on Russian ships mooring in EU ports. The discussion will continue on Thursday.
21:09 In anticipation of the offensive of the occupying forces of Russia, the Kharkiv regional military administration advises residents of Lozova and Barvenkove to evacuate by train.
21:05 The enemy completes the regrouping of troops. The Russian invaders continue to prepare for an offensive operation in eastern Ukraine in order to establish full control of the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the State Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
21:00 "I can tell you that China is uncomfortable in this position, and you will notice that in the majority of votes they abstained, they did not vote for Russia. China's abstention was taken as an important message that China does not fully support Russia in this shameless war against Ukraine," US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.
20:54 Recently, about 1,000 companies with 100% Russian capital have been opened in Turkey, head of the Turkish-Russian Business Council Izzet Ekmekcibashi said. This is a way to circumvent anti-Russian sanctions - businessmen transfer business and capital to Turkey, which did not join the sanctions against the Russian Federation.
20:50 Ukraine's international reserves increased by 2 percent in March and, as of April 1, 2022, amounted to $28.1 billion.
20:44 The American metal band Metallica plans to raise one million dollars by the end of May through exclusive merchandise, auctions, lotteries and contests in order to subsequently send this money to help Ukraine.
20:37 The mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boychenko, said that 5,000 people died in the city during the month of occupation. Of these, 210 were children, and about 50 more were burned to death in a hospital that was set on fire by the bombardment.
He also noted that the city was completely destroyed. More than 90% of the city's infrastructure has been destroyed, at least 40% can no longer be restored.
20:30 "Ask my parents who lived in the Soviet Union. Russian-speaking people who lived their lives in the Soviet Union. Ask them what they wanted to do with these Russian troops that came to protect everything Russian. I think my father would say, that he would like to strangle them. No alternatives," Zelensky said.
20:25 Joe Biden signed a new package of defense assistance to Ukraine, including Javelin anti-tank systems.
20:17 Ireland supports Ukraine's application for membership in the European Union, Prime Minister Michael Martin said.
20:09 In the Netherlands, they noticed the transportation of the Soviet air defense system ZRK 2K12 "Cube".
20:00 The acting chairman of the Borodyansk village council, Georgy Yerko, said that 14 dead had been found under the rubble today.
19:49 Kiev is returning to normal life, but it's too early to return - the threat of shelling continues, Klitschko said.
19:42 "Chernihiv saved Ukraine from being cut into pieces" - Arestovich.
19:30 The mayor of Skadovsk in the Kherson region Alexander Yakovlev said that he was forced to leave the city. "I was told: either you cooperate, or you go to the basement. There is little use for the mayor in the cell."
19:22 Britain will refuse to import coal and oil from Russia until the end of 2022, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
19:15 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated Osokorovka in the Kherson region, according to operational information provided by the General Staff.
19:06 Annual inflation in Russia, according to Rosstat, accelerated to 16.7 percent as of April 1.
18:59 Sanctions will cost Russia the last 15 years of development - inflation has already exceeded 15% and is projected to accelerate even higher.
18:49 Zelensky said that there would definitely be a meeting of the alleged countries-guarantors of Ukraine's security, a number of countries have already confirmed it - among them the United States, Great Britain, Turkey, Poland, Germany, France and Israel.
18:44 Chinese state-owned refineries avoid new oil contracts with Russia. This caution is due to increased Western sanctions against Russia, Reuters sources say.
18:34 Putin may still try to retake Kiev despite Russia's strategic shift and ongoing negotiations with Ukraine, US and European officials told CNN.
18:26 The Ministry of Defense showed the impact of the MLRS Hurricane on the invaders.
18:24 Reuters reports that EU diplomats for technical reasons today could not agree on a ban on coal imports from the Russian Federation and a new package of anti-Russian sanctions.
18:19 Anti-war action in Vilnius in front of the German Embassy:
18:06 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that his country expects more meetings between representatives of Ukraine and Russia. Including - at the level of foreign ministers.
18:04 Great Britain completely freezes the assets of Sberbank and Moscow Credit Bank.
18:01 The media showed apocalyptic footage of burned military equipment in the Gostomel area.
17:55 The authorities clarified that the Kharkiv region was mentioned by mistake, calling for an urgent evacuation. This applies only to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
17:47 The Anonymous hacker group claimed to have gained access to the Kremlin's video surveillance system.
"Now we are inside the Kremlin," the hackers wrote on Twitter.
17:34 US announced new sanctions against Russia:
- full blocking sanctions against Sberbank and Alfa-Bank
- ban on new investments in the Russian economy
- personal sanctions against Mikhail Mishustin, Dmitry Medvedev, Putin's adult children, Lavrov's wife and daughter.
The White House said that the United States has completely blocked more than 2/3 of the Russian banking sector in total and that the Russian economy will no longer be among the twenty largest as a result of Western sanctions.
The US will also impose full lockdown sanctions on critical large Russian state-owned enterprises, which will be announced by the Treasury Department on Thursday.
17:30 Stoltenberg's main statements at the meeting of NATO foreign ministers:
- Killing civilians is a war crime, all the facts must be established and the perpetrators must be punished.
- We expect an offensive in eastern Ukraine. His goal is the control of the Russian Federation over the Donbass
- We see no signs that Putin has given up his ambition to control all of Ukraine.
- NATO must support Ukraine and strengthen its defense
- NATO supported Ukraine for many years and provided various weapons, and this, combined with the courage of the Ukrainian army, helped to contain the Russian offensive.
- Now NATO also makes a significant contribution to the defense of Ukraine
- Ukraine now needs different weapons - light and heavy. NATO sees it is having an effect and it is important that supplies continue
- The war must end now, Putin must withdraw his troops, but you need to be realistic. Therefore, sanctions and strengthening of defense are needed
17:24 During his disappearance, Shoigu traveled to China and North Korea to negotiate the supply of missiles for the Iskanders, military expert Oleg Zhdanov claims. Beijing refused, Pyongyang agreed, says Zhdanov.
17:11 Participants of three attacks on the airfield in Chernobaevka told the details about these events.
16:59 A helicopter was hijacked from the Russian army, according to the monitoring group of the Belaruska Gayun project and the editors of @motolkohelp, who received the intercept of the negotiations of the Russian Aerospace Forces on April 4, 2022.
From them it turns out that the night before, at around 20:00, six helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces took off from the Zyabrovka military airfield in the Gomel region, which headed for the Shatalovo military airfield in the Smolensk region.
However, one of the helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces with registration number RF-04812 deviated from the course to the Russian Federation and went south/southeast, towards the border crossing with Ukraine.
The remaining helicopters began to return, and for an hour the helicopter with the registration number RF-90665 dangled around the Gomel region, Belarus, trying to find and catch up with the board, but, in the end, did not find it.
"812, where are you now, tell me honestly? Timurchik, damn it, tell us, please, in Russian. Did you stay there or not?", - said the pilot of one of the helicopters in the group.
Recall that Ukraine promises a large sum for the transfer of Russian military equipment by the invaders.
16:23 In Russian Kostroma, an unknown person broke a stella with a rashist swastika.
16:10 Orban: "Russia started the war, all its atrocities must be investigated."
15:48 Russian General Vitaly Shkolenko, who ordered the shelling of Bucha and Irpen, turned out to be Ukrainian.
15:43 The water in the pond opposite the Russian embassy in Vilnius was painted the color of blood. City officials say it is "an artistic performance aimed at drawing the world's attention to Russia's war crimes."
15:42 Scholz said that Germany is helping Ukraine with weapons from the stocks of its armed forces. And that he will continue to support it in the future "as best as possible, until the war is over."
"Everything that makes sense and works quickly is delivered," the German chancellor stressed.
15:41 Reuters writes that Orban invited Putin to peace talks in Hungary and that the answer was positive, "but with conditions." What - not reported.
15:40 Orban said that if the Russian Federation asks to pay for its gas in rubles, then Hungary will pay in rubles.
15:39 Germany is discussing security guarantees with Ukraine, but this process is confidential and no agreements have been reached yet, Scholz said, speaking in parliament.
What exactly such guarantees might look like, for example from Germany, is being discussed confidentially, and agreements have not yet been written down, the chancellor said.
He noted that Ukraine's offer of long-term neutrality is a "big concession" to Russia, but the negotiations should not end with a "dictated peace."
15:38 A video clip of successful Ukrainian battles against Russian occupiers near Kharkov on YouTube gained almost a million views in a week.
15:37 Putin may still try to capture Kiev again, despite Russia's strategic shift and ongoing negotiations with Ukraine, writes CNN, citing sources in the US and Europe.
15:35 The heads of the military administrations of the Kharkiv, Lugansk and Donetsk regions are asking the population to leave the borders of the regions due to the aggravation of the situation.
15:28 The destroyed Borodianka was shown from a bird's eye view.
15:24 The invaders fired at Severodonetsk, ten high-rise buildings are on fire. The number of victims is not yet known.
15:21 In social networks they write that the Russian invaders are now raping Belarusian girls.
15:19 Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said that his country will continue to move to the EU, but at the same time will maintain "sincere and traditional friendly relations" with Russia.
15:18 "Finland's accession to NATO would make it a target for Russian retaliatory measures," said Vladimir Dzhabarov, First Deputy Chairman of the International Committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
15:13 A video with fresh graves of Russian vveshniks has appeared on the network.
15:06 Scholz assured that Germany will free itself from fossil fuels. Speaking in the Bundestag, he promised to continue to support Ukraine in every possible way until Russia withdraws its troops.
15:04 "Of course, there are no murdered women and children lying on the streets in Florence. But there is so much culture and art here. Great," wrote Ukrainian ambassador Melnik about Merkel's Italian vacation.
15:01 The London maritime insurer market, which accounts for about a third of the insurance market share of all merchant ships in the world, has declared all Russian sea waters a "war zone", Reuters reports. This zone included the Black Sea, the Baltic, and the ports of the Far East.
Now, when a ship is about to enter such territory, the owner of the ship is obliged to notify his insurer and pay a special military tax, which, depending on the conditions, can be up to five percent of the value of the ship, which makes entering these waters profitable only when delivering very expensive cargo.
14:59 The UN General Assembly will vote tomorrow to remove Russia from work in the UN Human Rights Council, reports AFP
After the massacres in Bucha, Western countries came up with such an initiative.
14:58 EU sanctions against Russia, which unleashed a war against Ukraine, have already covered almost 900 people, but a number of Putin's close associates, and some politicians and beneficiaries responsible for the war, have not fallen under them, The Insider notes.
Russian journalists have compiled a list of those who should also be blacklisted by the West.
The first in the article is the former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, who "is not just a member of Putin's inner circle, but is also the head of the board of directors of Yuri Kovalchuk's National Media Group, which owns shares in Channel One, REN TV and other media."
Despite the fact that almost all State Duma deputies are already on the EU black list, the former cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is missing there, “although it was she who got the role of the main public lobbyist for the constitutional reform, which allowed Putin to “zero out” the presidential terms and extend the reign,” it is stated further.
The publication also included Peskov's wife Tatyana Navka in its list, a number of oligarchs associated with the Russian regime, and billionaire Dmitry Sablin, whom it called the ideologist of the war with Ukraine and one of the richest deputies of the State Duma.
14:53 The German industry supports the sanctions course of the German government and the EU against Russia. "The atrocities in Bucha require a decisive and unequivocal response from the West," said Siegfried Russwurm, head of the BDI.
German coal importers suggest that by the end of this year, Russian coal imports may be completely replaced by supplies from other sources. "Russian hard coal can be replaced by coal from other countries such as the US, South Africa, Australia, Colombia, Mozambique and Indonesia," said Alexander Bethe, chairman of the Association of Coal Importers.
14:51 The European Union has spent 35 billion euros on Russian fuel since the start of a full-scale invasion, while military spending for Ukraine amounted to only one billion euros, EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said.
"We have to help [Ukrainians] protect themselves... We gave Ukraine one billion euros. It may seem like a big amount, but one billion euros is how much we pay Putin every day for the energy he gives us," he said. he is in front of the European Parliament.
Ursula von der Leyen said the EU is "working" on additional measures, including restrictions on oil imports.
14:37 Members of the Czech Parliament unanimously recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. The decision was taken unanimously.
14:32 The authorities of Ukraine called on residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions to immediately evacuate, "while there is still such an opportunity."
14:26 Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko, after a meeting with the head of the IAEA Rafael Grossi, said that the organization is trying to legitimize the presence of invaders at the Zaprorozhskaya nuclear power plant.
"If there are intentions to visit the Zaporozhye station before Ukraine returns control over it, then this is not flirting - this is a game on a foreign field - on the Russian field. For me, this looks like an attempt to legitimize the presence of Russian troops at the ZNPP," he said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine .
Ukraine, according to Galushchenko, insists that it is impossible to talk about nuclear safety while occupying Russian troops are at the station.
"The issue is that only Ukraine, and not the Russian military, can act as a guarantor of nuclear safety at its nuclear facilities," the minister is convinced.
Galushchenko believes that it is simply absurd to talk about nuclear safety or any kind of apoliticality in a situation where shells are located near nuclear reactors.
14:21 In Italy, on Lake Como, the villa of Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov was set on fire.
13:56 The Cabinet of Ministers allowed the Terodefense to use grenade launchers and flamethrowers.
13:50 Greece, following other EU countries, expels Russian diplomats - 12 people.
13:49 A total of 27 night attacks on Kharkov. Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, spoke about them today.
"Again at night, the Russian occupiers delivered about 27 strikes from various types of weapons on the residential areas of Kharkov. The enemy wants to demoralize us and continues to inflict chaotic strikes on civilian infrastructure," he says.
Sinegubov says that the fighting in the area of the city of Izyum continues. He asked local residents to follow the reports of local authorities about the evacuation and temporarily move to safer places.
13:48 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen assures that the new package of sanctions proposed by the European Commission for Russia for its war against Ukraine will not be the last.
13:47 Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin said that his country supported Ukraine's application for EU membership and will continue to do so.
13:43 In social networks, they showed the battle of one Ukrainian tank against an entire tank column of Russian invaders.
13:41 Russian mobile crematoriums in partially occupied Mariupol burn the bodies of tortured and killed residents of the city, the city council reports on Telegram.
"Murderers cover their tracks. Russian mobile crematoriums have started operating in Mariupol. After the wide international publicity of the genocide in Bucha, the top leadership of the Russian Federation ordered to destroy any evidence of the crimes of its army in Mariupol," the report says.
The City Council noted that a week ago "cautious estimates indicated five thousand dead."
"But given the size of the city, catastrophic destruction, the duration of the blockade and tough resistance, tens of thousands of Mariupol civilians could become victims of the invaders," the Mariupol authorities report.
Eyewitnesses report that special brigades of "DPR" terrorists were involved in the cleansing.
"The world has not seen the scale of the tragedy in Mariupol since the existence of the Nazi concentration camps. The Rashists turned our entire city into a death camp. Unfortunately, the terrible analogy is getting more and more confirmation. This is no longer Chechnya or Aleppo. This is the new Maidanek. The world must help punish Putin's bigots ", - said the mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko.
13:35 Gerashchenko writes that Zhirinovsky died 2.5 months ago. “But they didn’t turn him off so that he was legally alive, in order to have time to re-register that property and assets to his son and his lovers ... And only when the lawyers finished everything and all the rights of claim were re-registered, a long time ago the dead body was turned off” .
13:32 The head of the Luhansk regional military administration Serhiy Gaidai: "We fix the constant supply of new forces (occupiers - ed.), equipment and people, I think that they plan to complete the supply of all reserves and in 3-4 days they will try to carry out an offensive" .
13:31 In Russia, the Federal Tax Service instructed the territorial offices, together with the police, to look for currency speculators who trade currency bypassing banks.
13:26 A car at high speed crashed into the newly installed gates of the Russian embassy in Bucharest, and the driver set himself on fire, Digi24 TV channel reports, citing sources.
The prosecutor's office said the car went off the road and crashed into the embassy fence. Authorities confirmed that the driver was killed. Investigators are establishing the circumstances of the incident.
Bogdan Dragich, the head of the non-profit organization TATA, which defends the rights of fathers to their children in divorce proceedings, turned out to be dead, Antena3 reports. Two days ago, Dragic posted on Facebook condemning Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. "I'm Ukrainian too!" he wrote.
13:24 One of the leading suppliers of microprocessors, the American company Intel announced the suspension of its activities in Russia due to the war in Ukraine.
13:22 The Ministry of Finance of Russia for the first time could not make a payment on Eurobonds in dollars through a foreign bank due to the refusal of a foreign correspondent bank to execute a payment order for a total of 649 million, the department announced.
Instead, the Ministry of Finance transferred rubles at the rate of April 4 to the National Settlement Depository for making payments in rubles.
If the Russians do not pay in dollars within 30 days, then this will be a technical default. As a result, Russian property will be arrested on account of debt.
13:17 Ukraine received almost 30 times more defense products from Turkey in the first quarter of 2022 than a year earlier, Reuters writes.
13:11 Vladimir Zhirinovsky died, who really wanted to bomb Ukraine. Now officially.
By the way, in December last year, Zhirinovsky hinted that Russia would attack Ukraine on February 22.
13:03 The State Agency of Ukraine for the management of the exclusion zone has published a video confirmation that the invaders were digging trenches in the Red Forest.
12:58 In Russia, a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles or 15 days of arrest was introduced for comparing the USSR with the Third Reich.
12:53 The director of the latest James Bond film, Cary Fukunaga, visited Bucha and posted photos from the city on his Instagram.
12:47 Marauders map. Mediazone journalists showed where the parcels of the Russian occupiers, who visited the north of Ukarina, went from the Belarusian Mozyr.
12:43 Ukrainian journalist Yuri Butusov showed a civilian bus fired upon by the occupiers, which followed from Izyum to Slavyansk.
12:41 In Vuhledar, Donetsk region, the area where humanitarian aid was handed out came under fire today. The governor of the region, Pavel Kirilenko, reports that, according to preliminary data, two civilians were killed and five were injured.
12:39 The President of the European Council Charles Michel declares that the crimes of war committed by the Russian occupiers in Ukraine will have serious consequences, and the perpetrators will face international justice.
"We are amazed by the crimes against humanity, against innocent civilians in Bucha and many other cities. This once again proves that Russian brutality against the people of Ukraine has no limits ... Bodies on the streets, mass graves are not a special operation, these are crimes of war" - he said, speaking to the deputies of the European Parliament.
12:37 Pope Francis condemned the massacre in Bucha and raised the Ukrainian flag, which was sent to him from the city.
12:36 At the airfield in Pridnestrovie, they are preparing to receive aircraft, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. It is possible that the Russians will try to use Transnistria to support the offensive in the South Buzh direction.
12:32 According to the intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, every third occupier from Bucha fought in Syria on the side of the dictator Assad.
12:27 Andrei Danilko, speaking of the Russians, quoted Orwell: "People who choose scoundrels, losers, criminals, thieves are not victims. They are accomplices."
12:21 Peskov called the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kiev region "a goodwill gesture to create conditions for negotiations, during which serious decisions are possible."
"We insist that the images that were presented are the result of an organized falsification. The Russian army does not target civilians, does not bomb residential buildings," he added.
12:01 Police officers detained in Poltava one of the participants in the crime in the Veliko Burluksky district: civilians were shot there and then burned in a car.
On March 23, a group of young people stole grain equipment from a farm, and the farmer and two workers began to pursue the thieves. The kidnappers left the equipment and fled, but soon returned to take revenge.
After organizing an ambush, they shot at the car with automatic weapons, which they seized from a broken military convoy, drove the car to another place and set it on fire, along with three dead, to simulate death as a result of shelling. Citizens born in 1967, 1993 and 2004 died.
11:57 The European Union is considering imposing sanctions against two of Putin's daughters, writes WSJ.
11:35 Residents of Belgorod report on social networks that they constantly hear "pops" and take pictures of smoke in the sky.
11:32 The EU is ready to "give more weapons" to Ukraine. "We must continue to support Ukraine. We want the war to end as soon as possible," Borrell said.
11:29 "Massive investments" will be sent to restore Ukraine after the war. This was stated by the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, during his speech in the European Parliament.
"We will continue to support Ukraine politically, financially, humanitarianly. We agreed to create a trust fund for Ukraine. In the short term, this will help support Ukraine, and in the long term, it will provide massive investments to restore the economy and infrastructure," Michel said.
11:26 The Verkhovna Rada has registered a bill recognizing Russia's war crimes in Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian nation.
The text of the bill says that the Russian Federation resorted to deliberate actions aimed at the destruction of the Ukrainian nation. This refers to mass torture, the killing of civilians, the destruction of residential buildings, life support infrastructure, and so on.
11:21 The mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, told BBC News that the Russian military shot at least 320 civilians during the occupation of the city.
The mayor said that he personally witnessed the death penalty of several townspeople.
“I myself saw several episodes. There were three civilian vehicles that tried to evacuate towards Kyiv, and they were brutally shot. There was a pregnant woman whose man screamed and asked not to shoot at her, but they took it and just brutally shot her,” said Fedoruk .
11:18 Estonian authorities handed over a batch of weapons to Ukraine to protect against the Russian invasion.
The military assistance tranche included anti-tank missiles, howitzers, anti-tank mines, recoilless anti-tank guns, automatic weapons, ammunition, disposable grenade launchers and hand grenades.
11:11 All schools in the Belgorod region have been evacuated due to reports of mining, the mayor of Belgorod said.
11:05 The head of the European Council, Charles Michel, said that Europe "sooner or later" will expand sanctions on Russian oil and gas.
10:41 Russian troops have stepped up aerial reconnaissance in the Odessa region.
10:17 In the Kursk region of Russia bordering Ukraine, they said that at night the positions of Russian border guards were fired upon.
9:57 Among the dead Russian military, which are officially reported in the Russian Federation, one in five is an officer, calculated in BBC News.
9:33 Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 167 children have died, more than 279 have been injured of varying degrees of severity.
9:20 Russia's war against Ukraine is the most serious threat to the peace and security of Europe and possibly the whole world in recent decades, said General Mark Milley, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking at the House Armed Services Committee.
"The United States is at a critical and historic, geostrategic turning point. We find ourselves in a world that is becoming more volatile and the potential for significant international conflict between great powers is rising, not diminishing," Milley continued.
Russia, Milley noted, "retains a large and diverse nuclear capability to threaten the US" and its allies.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created a "dangerous historical turning point." Milley warned that it would be wrong to expect a quick end to the conflict in Ukraine.
“I believe that this is a protracted conflict that will be measured in years. I don’t know if we can talk about a decade, but a few years is for sure. I think that the United States, NATO, Ukraine and all allies and partners supporting it will be drawn into this for a long time," the general said.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who spoke with Milley at the hearing, also called the Russian Federation an "acute threat" to the United States.
"As we have seen in recent weeks, Russia ... remains an acute threat requiring close and sustained coordination within NATO in order to prevent further aggression in Europe," Austin said.
However, in general, according to Milley, China remains the main "geostrategic challenge" for the US in the long term.
According to the general, China continues to develop its potential in various fields and "works every day to reduce the technological gap with the United States."
9:16 In the besieged Mariupol, heavy fighting continues, the city is under attack from Russian aircraft, according to the daily report of the British Ministry of Defense on the situation in Ukraine.
According to British intelligence, the humanitarian situation in Mariupol is deteriorating.
"Most of the 160,000 remaining residents have no electricity, communications, medicines, heat or water. Russian forces are preventing access to humanitarian aid, which could force the defenders to surrender," the British say.
8:54 Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 1,480 civilians have been killed, 2,195 people have been injured. We are talking only about confirmed cases, the actual number may be higher, according to the UN.
8:41 Lugansk region is under heavy fire from Russian troops. The situation in the region is very difficult.
7:58 Russian missile attack was carried out on an oil depot in Novomoskovsk and a plant in the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
7:46 Russia is focusing its main efforts in Ukraine on preparing for the offensive and complete control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
7:39 The United States will additionally allocate $ 100 million in military assistance to Ukraine, in particular, for the purchase of anti-tank systems.
7:20 In the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region, a local resident was detained, who is suspected of cooperation and assistance to the Russian invaders.
6:28 The United States should consider sending more troops to Eastern Europe, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said in a speech before the US Congress.
5:31 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recorded a video message to the Russians and urged them to seek truthful information about the war.
4:35 Turkish Foreign Ministry resumed the work of the embassy in Kiev after a month of evacuation in Chernivtsi.
3:39 The US will no longer allow Russia to pay off its national debt with dollars held in US banks, Psaki said.
"The purpose of this decision is to force Russia to make a choice. They do not have unlimited resources, and the government will be forced to choose between depleting the remaining foreign exchange reserves or default," said Jen Psaki, a White House press secretary.
In addition, Psaki noted that the White House hopes that this decision should significantly complicate the continuation of the war in Ukraine.
3:10 About 400 people went missing in Gostomel during the occupation.
2:42 In the Prilutsky district of the Chernihiv region, the prosecutor's office is investigating the circumstances of the death of two civilians and the injury of children as a result of a car blown up by a mine.
1:16 In the Belgorod region, they began to dig trenches. The representative of the local authorities said that this was for "reinsurance". To calm the panicked residents of the region, he recorded a video message in which he said that "earthworks are being carried out at our request."
0:20 Western countries have frozen 60 percent of Russia's foreign exchange reserves - over 350 billion dollars, said British Foreign Minister Liz Truss.