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After weeks of endless battles, Ukrainian troops will resign from the city of Sievierodonetsk in the east of the country to avoid siege, a regional governor said Friday, reporting Reuters. This step can be a significant setback for Ukraine forces. The troops against Russia in the battle of house-to-house before retreating to a large chemical factory on the edge of the city, where they hid in a vast underground structure.
The European Union leaders on Thursday gave the coveted status of Ukraine from an official candidate to join their 27-country club, the geopolitical step that was dared to be praised by Kyiv and the EU itself as a “historical moment”. Although it can take more than a decade to finally join the block, the decision to officially accept it as a candidate is a symbol of the EU intention to reach far to the former Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, the United States will send $ 450 million military assistance to Ukraine, including several additional medium -range rocket systems, to help encourage Russia’s progress in war, officials announced. The latest package includes four high mobility artillery rocket systems, or Himars, which will double the numbers they have now. The four are positioned in Europe, and training on the systems has begun with Ukraine forces who will use it, said Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Anton Semelroth, a Pentagon spokesman.
The Moscow Foreign Ministry on Friday blamed the United States of Lithuania’s ban on items sanctions from mainland Russia to Russian Excave Kaliningrad, which had increased high tension between Moscow and the West. “The so -called ‘Western Collective’, with explicit instructions from the White House, imposed a prohibition on the transit of the train from various goods through the Kaliningrad region,” Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on Friday. (Reuters)
