As Ukraine enters its 46th day of fighting this Sunday, April 10, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on a surprise visit to the country this Saturday where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Follow the latest information live.
11:18 a.m.
EU foreign ministers will discuss a 6th sanctions package against Moscow in Luxembourg on Monday, but halting oil and gas purchases to stop funding the Russian war effort divides the 27.” We have just imposed heavy sanctions on Russia and we are preparing for a sixth wave,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Friday during her visit to kyiv with the head of diplomacy. Joseph Borrell.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to ask all his European interlocutors “for the adoption of powerful sanctions”. He is calling for a halt to oil and gas purchases and the supply of heavy weapons to resist the announced offensive in the Donbass region (east).
10:47
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a video released on Sunday, the day after his surprise visit to kyiv, that he had traveled on a train from Poland to the Ukrainian capital, paying tribute to the “iron people”. . “Hello, I’m Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, traveling on a fantastic Ukrainian Railways train from Poland to Kyiv,” he announces in the video, where he appears standing at aboard a train, wearing a white shirt and a navy blue sweater.
“We call you here + iron people +. It’s related to your job, but it reflects your mentality, a real mentality that Ukrainians show in resisting the terrible Russian aggression”, he continued.
He also offered his condolences to the railway workers, victims of the strike of a missile on Friday against a station in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, which left a total of 52 dead, including five children, who were preparing to flee.
07:00
Seven missiles fell overnight from Saturday to Sunday in the Mykolayiv region, about 100 kilometers northeast of Odessa, the country’s third largest city and major strategic port on the Black Sea, according to the local military command. Threatened in turn with strikes, Odessa, decreed a curfew from Saturday evening to Monday morning.
06:50
“Ukraine is ready for the big battles. Ukraine must win them, including in the Donbass”, the eastern region of the country, said Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhaïlo Podoliak, quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine press agency. “When that happens, Ukraine will have a stronger position in the negotiations, which will allow it to dictate certain conditions,” he added.
06:45
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid a surprise visit to kyiv on Saturday and promised armored vehicles to Ukraine. He paid tribute to the Ukrainian army for “the greatest feat of arms of the 21st century” which made it possible to defend kyiv and to defeat “Putin’s monstrous designs”, according to a statement from Downing Street.
Russian President Vladimir Putin “has suffered a setback. (…) He will step up the pressure now in the Donbass and the East”, warned Mr. Johnson.