Photo: Facebook/Edi RamaWhile the surveyors of Montenegro and Albania, Dritan Abazović and Edi Rama, are supporting Ukraine in the fight against Russia in Kiev, the situation in North Donetsk is dramatic. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks of "painful losses" and asks the West for an immediate delivery of anti-missile weapons. The Russian command in Severodnietsk calls on Ukrainian soldiers to lay down their arms
The Prime Ministers of Montenegro, Dritan Abazović, and Albania, Edi Rama, arrived in Kyiv to express their support for Ukraine in the fight against the invasion that Russia started on February 24.
Abazović announced on Twitter, along with a photo with Rama in Kiev, that they had arrived in the Ukrainian capital to offer "sincere support to Ukraine and its citizens in defending the right to freedom." "Montenegro will continue to help Ukraine in this difficult moment and humanitarian disaster," said Abazović this morning.
On the other side of the Western Balkan spectrum, President Aleksandar Vučić refuses to allow Serbia to join Western sanctions against Russia and emphasizes that Belgrade will continue to nurture its traditional friendship with Moscow in the future.
Painful losses
The Ukrainian army has been suffering "painful losses" in recent days in fierce battles with Russian troops in Severodonetsk and nearby towns and villages, said the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
He emphasized that Ukraine desperately needs modern anti-missile weapons and that there is no justification for Western partner countries to delay delivery.
"No matter how much effort Ukraine makes, we will not be able to win the war without the help of the West." We received only 10 percent of what Ukraine asked for, of what we need," Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Maliar told Ukrainian channel TV 24.
Dramatically in Severodonetsk
During that time, Russia called on the Ukrainian forces barricaded in the chemical factory in Severodonetsk to lay down their arms by Wednesday at 8 am Moscow time.
"Stop the senseless resistance and lay down your arms" and civilians will be allowed to evacuate, the head of the Russian National Defense Management Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, said via the Interfax news agency.
Ukrainian officials say more than 500 civilians are trapped along with soldiers at the Azot chemical plant, where the Ukrainian military has been resisting weeks of Russian bombing and raids that have reduced much of Severrodnetsk to rubble.
The bombing of the Azot factory is reminiscent of the earlier siege of the Azovstal steel plant in the southern port of Mariupol, where hundreds of fighters and civilians took refuge from Russian shelling, according to Reuters.
The Russian offensive in Donbas will be one of the key topics at today's meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, reports Reuters.
Russia has focused most of its firepower on the eastern Donbass region.
Issuance of Russian citizenship
The Russian army has taken control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region in the south of Ukraine, and civil-military administrations have been formed in those regions, Russian TV channels and radio stations have started broadcasting, and trade ties with Crimea are being restored, reports the Russian agency RIA Novosti. .
Moscow media claim that the number of residents of the Kherson region who want to obtain Russian citizenship and Russian passports is growing every day and that more than 10.000 requests have already been submitted. The first residents of that region received Russian passports on June 11, RIA Novosti claims.
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