Kyiv — Ukraine‘s high diplomat mentioned Saturday morning his nation’s capital “survived one other night time” underneath Russian assault, because the president launched a video reassuring his nation he was nonetheless there. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s message — shot open air on a cellphone, clearly within the capital of Kyiv — was a transparent rebuttal to rumors that he would possibly evacuate and studies that the US had suggested him to flee, CBS Information’ Haley Ott studies.
“There may be numerous faux info within the web that I referred to as the military to surrender and there is an evacuation ongoing,” Zelensky advised his nation. “I am right here, and I can’t hand over. We’ll nonetheless defend our nation. Our weapon is the reality, and the reality is that we’ll defend our nation, our land, our youngsters. And all of us will defend all of this. That is all I wish to say to you. Glory to Ukraine.”
Russia’s assault on Ukraine intensified in a single day. President Vladimir Putin’s army launched coordinated artillery and missile assaults, taking intention at key websites in Kyiv and different cities in an invasion the Russian chief claims he ordered to “liberate” the neighboring nation from a “neo-Nazi” regime.
His assault has drawn broad worldwide condemnation and a dramatic present of unity from the West, with vital financial sanctions, a flood of cash and army assist for Kyiv, and a bolstering of NATO’s personal army forces in Jap Europe.
However road preventing broke out in Kyiv in a single day as Russian forces moved nearer to capturing the capital — a part of an effort, the U.S. and Ukraine consider, to overthrow Zelensky’s authorities and set up a regime that can bow to the Kremlin.
As CBS Information senior overseas correspondent Holly Williams studies, the destiny of the nation is hanging within the steadiness.
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