A US weapons package, to be announced on Friday, is expected to include 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles as part of security assistance totalling about $2.8bn
Kyiv/Bakhmut- Ukraine dismissed as a trick a unilateral order by Russia for a 36-hour ceasefire starting on Friday and the leaders of the US and Germany said they were sending armoured fighting vehicles in a boost for the Kyiv government.
Germany would provide Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles, according to a joint statement on Thursday from Biden and Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Russia’s ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, responded on Facebook saying: “Washington is set on fighting with us ‘to the last Ukrainian’.” Zelensky, pointedly speaking in Russian and not Ukrainian, said that ending the war meant “ending your country’s aggression ... And the war will end either when your soldiers leave or we throw them out.”
UN chief Antonio Guterres, at an event in Lisbon, said he believed the warring sides were “far from a moment in which a serious peace negotiation is possible”. In the capital Kyiv and the eastern city of Kramatorsk, people trying to go about their daily lives during wartime rejected Putin’s ceasefire call.
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