EU and "nearest neighbors" to take center stage in upcoming weeks of work – Zelensky
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The head of state, Volodymyr Zelensky, assured that the authorities have determined the work priorities for the next week; it is about cooperation with partners in the military, financial, and political directions.
The head of state said this during his evening address.
"Another week of this war and our active actions, our defense, is ending. Since the beginning of this day alone, there have been about 60 battles. The most intense are the Avdiivka front and the Bakhmut, Mariinka, and Kupiansk fronts, south of our state. There were more than 50 Russian shellings only from rocket salvo systems and dozens of air and missile strikes.
In one day, Russian inhumans shelled more than a hundred cities, towns, and our Ukrainian villages in nine regions: from the Chernihiv region and the Sumy region to the Mykolaiv region and the Kirovohrad region. Russian strikes are ferocious in the Donetsk region. Unfortunately, there are wounded, there are dead," the President noted.
He expressed his condolences to all those who lost relatives and friends.
"For all terror, Russia will be responsible – must answer. Without Moscow's decisions to start this aggression, this terror, thousands and thousands of people would be alive right now. And that is why holding Russia to full, fair responsibility at all levels is so important," he said.
Zelensky said that every war criminal and every terrorist should be held accountable on an individual level.
"And at the level of the entire terrorist state – its assets and capabilities. Russia must feel and remember forever that the aggressor loses the most from aggression," he emphasized.
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Zelensky also said:
"We clearly see the tasks in terms of packages that will strengthen our positions at the front, and in terms of political interaction with partners, and in terms of what is needed for the financial stability of Ukraine."
He says the "special direction" is the European Union, "relations with the closest neighbors."
The President assured that the authorities are preparing more interaction, new communication, and "new important negotiations."
"I am grateful to everyone who believes that Russian terror must lose, as it did last year and in 2022. Everything that strengthens Ukraine and protects our people adds strength to everyone in Europe and the world who values international law. Everything that weakens Russia and brings the war home to Russia adds stability to international relations and saves the world from even greater crises.
I thank everyone who fights and works for Ukraine! I thank everyone who saves the lives of Ukrainians!" Zelensky added.
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It should be noted that the administration of the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, supports a draft law that will allow it to seize part of the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets and then transfer them to Ukraine.
It was previously reported that the administration of US President Joe Biden intensified efforts to confiscate about 300 billion dollars of sovereign Russian assets frozen on the territory of Western countries.
