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Ukraine Update….103 days into the Russian move on the Ukraine…Zelensky increasingly on the spot….

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Pleading for more Western weapons and help….

As other nations in the East and South (and even Europe)  stick with Russia or wait.…

And?…They continue to import Rusian oil.natural gas and other things….

Ukraine President Zelensky is coming under more pressure and time to seek a cease fire and give up the teritory that Russia has taken….

Ukraine, on the brink of losing the eastern region of Luhansk to Russia, is warning that its outgunned military desperately needs faster deliveries of Western arms. Fierce street fighting is continuing in the strategic city of Severodonetsk, but “most of the city is controlled by Russians,” the Luhansk governor said Saturday. An adviser to Ukraine’s government said its forces could respond with only about one artillery round for every 10 fired by Russia.

The fighting continues despite about 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers already having died during the invasion, a Ukrainian military adviser said Saturday. Ukraine recently noted that between 100 and 200 soldiers are killed each day.

Meanwhile, President Biden said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “didn’t want to hear” U.S. warnings of a potential Russian attack before the invasion began, according to the Associated Press. Ukrainian officials have objected to Biden’s claim.

Here’s what else to know

  • European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Zelensky in Kyiv on Saturday to discuss Ukraine’s E.U. candidacy, ahead of an expected recommendation from the commission on Ukraine’s status next week.
  • Speaking via video at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a key annual security summit in Singapore, Zelensky said that it’s “too late” to persuade Russia to end its invasion, saying it’s up to the world to put Russia “in its place.”
  • Ukraine’s attorney general said the deaths of 24 more children have been recorded in the southern city of Mariupol, bringing the confirmed number of children killed in Ukraine since the war began to 287. The United Nations says it has confirmed the deaths of 274 children. Both totals have been acknowledged as incomplete….

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