Ukraine marks 1,000 days of war with pledge to ‘never surrender’ to Russia | Russia-Ukraine war News
Kyiv warns against appeasement of Moscow; Russia insists that victory is coming, lowers the limit on the use of nuclear weapons.
Ukraine and Russia have both declared that they will fight until they win as they celebrate the 1,000 days of the war.
Kyiv insisted on Tuesday that it “will not surrender” in defense of the attack on Moscow, and warned that the world should not give Russian President Vladimir Putin appeasement. The Kremlin made similar statements, and again engaged in nuclear sabre-rattling.
“Ukraine will never submit to the aggressors, and the Russian military will be punished for violating international law,” said a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv.
In a statement to the United Nations Security Council, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called 1,000 days “a very big number”.
On the other hand, it proves the courage of Ukraine in the face of brutal Russian aggression. […] On the other hand, this number proves the failure of the international community, including this respected council, to stop cruel and cruel wars,” he said.
With expectations that the incoming United States administration of Donald Trump may advance peace talks with Putin next year, Yevheniia Filipenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, warned in an interview with Reuters news agency that “Putin does not want peace”.
“You see these efforts [to start talks] as a weakness. And what we need now is not weakness and appeasement. We need power,” he said.
1,000 days of intensity. 1,000 days of courage. 1,000 days to defend our lives and our homes during the full phase of the Russian invasion. Over 10 years of war between Russia and Ukraine – against our people, sovereignty, and freedom. pic.twitter.com/ukk6GFyFc0
– MFA Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@MFA_Ukraine) November 19, 2024
Meanwhile, Putin on Tuesday approved a review of Russia’s nuclear doctrine. The document states that Russia may consider using nuclear weapons if it is under attack by conventional missiles backed by nuclear power.
The change is the Kremlin’s response to reports that US President Joe Biden has decided to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles provided by Washington to strike deep into Russia.
Putin’s spokesman later told reporters that Moscow was confident of victory in what it called a “special military operation” launched in February 2022 with a full-scale attack on its neighbor.
“The military campaign against Kyiv continues … and will be completed,” Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Sumy attack
As painful years pass, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that seven people, including a child, were killed in an air strike northeast of Sumy on the border with Russia’s Kursk region.
The strike, which hit a residential building in the small town of Hlukhiv, left 12 people injured, Sumy military commanders told Telegram.
“Every new Russian strike only confirms Putin’s true intentions. He wants the war to continue, he is not willing to talk about peace,” said Zelenskyy.
On Monday, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it had found traces of tear gas in samples taken last month from the front line in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region.
The use of conflict control agents such as tear gas as a means of warfare is prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention, a non-proliferation treaty overseen by the OPCW.
The UN body did not blame. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday blamed Russia and urged its allies to act.
