French President Emmanuel Macron has hosted an international conference to help keep Ukraine powered, fed, warm, and moving amid the onset of winter.
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An international donor conference in Paris quickly racked up pledges of financial and in-kind support for Ukraine’s beleaguered civilian population to survive freezing temperatures and long nights. It also heard impassioned arguments from Ukraine’s president that such help could pressure Russia into suing for peace.There was also strong condemnation from donors of the Kremlin’s savaging of civilian targets.
Ukraine’s prime minister says Russia is trying to create a fresh wave of refugees to Europe. Russia says that by striking civilian infrastructure, its military aim is to weaken Ukraine’s ability to defend itself and to disrupt the flow of Western weapons to the invaded country. “Russia will have to think about how to stop the aggression,” Zelenskyy said. “Energy is one of the keys to this.”
Von der Leyen said the Russian missile and drone bombardments were intended to kill Ukrainian morale but added: “Russia will fail because the Ukrainian spirit remains unyielding and unbroken.” With “the shelling, the missiles strikes and strikes on the infrastructure, we can’t say whether there will be gas tomorrow, we can’t predict whether to buy gas stoves or not,” he said. “Every day the picture changes.”
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