The Kharkiv defense forces have received a batch of modern optics as assistance from the people of Cyprus, the Netherlands, and Poland, namely 200 binoculars worth almost EUR 35,000.
The invaders have resumed massive strikes on the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol shortly after a group of civilians sheltering there was evacuated earlier on Sunday.
The chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Menendez, has said that the war in Ukraine is a test for the West, as well as the strength of the established international order in the world.
Four civilians from Lyman were killed by Russia's shelling of the Donetsk region in the past 24 hours, and a wounded person from the Luhansk region died in Bakhmut.
Ukrainian defenders killed 57 Russian invaders and destroyed an enemy tank and more than 20 units of enemy equipment in the area of responsibility of the Operational and Tactical Group East.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a four-hour meeting with Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, to discuss assistance to Ukraine, including the possibilities of a lend-lease program and tougher sanctions against Russia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomed the start of the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol and called for the continued provision of humanitarian corridors.
Head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak said that today's evacuation of people from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol was just the first stage, and civilians and soldiers would be further evacuated.
The West and Europe try to prevent the Russian war in Ukraine from escalating into World War III, but it has already begun. That’s why, being afraid to provide weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine is nonsense.
The evacuation of civilians has begun from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, destroyed by Russian shelling. The first group of people is already heading to the government-controlled territory.