combat fire near the kyiv zoo. the times reporting that early in the morning there were sustained, small arms fire in central kyiv among explosions. the times also reported automatic gunfire coming from the residential neighborhoods in the northern part of the city. around midnight in kyiv, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy, warned the russians if the capital falls, soon after so could the entire country. zelenskyy said the fate of ukraine could be decided this evening. with sun now risen over kyiv, that fully joint attacks appears not to have come, at least not yet. u.s. embassy in ukraine has also offered a fresh warning rates a night. for any american citizens who may still be in ukraine, they say the situation still remains highly volatile. u.s. citizens should be sure to locate next to the nearest
multiple ministers today and they all, you know, they are all doing their job. some of them are, i was an economist so i m mostly talking to people who are doing financial block so they are thinking about how to restructure the economy, how we get financing and in time and what should be the for the central bank or minister of finance and how we pay salaries, how to do that, planting season and i talked to minister of the agriculture but i also talked to military and it is about supplies, military payments and things like that. it looks like everyone is working really hard. thinking both about tactical and operational issues but also about strategy. and of course the courage and leadership of zelenskyy. he is legendary. if the capital falls, what is the plan then? i don t think it will fall. and you know, just to get the
. looking to annex or give russia all of this more or less, right? . so basically that third of the country would go out or quarter of the country. and the clock is ticking. the closer putin moves in to kyiv, the harder it gets to negotiate. you can t imagine if the capital falls, putin would settle for this, which we think was his original directive back in the fall before he expanded to take the whole country. . how close is he to have russian troops operating all of this? . he s to go pretty well in the areas by the coast. the further in if the harder it gets. but this is not an area where he is going to run into the kind of opposition that he will in the west and up in kyiv. more russian speaking. more divided opinion. to the extent there is a clock right now, you think it is what s happening in kyiv. we re watching closely.
Die militant-islamistischen Taliban haben die wichtige Stadt Laschkargah im Süden Afghanistans eingenommen. Das bestätigten zwei Provinzräte der Deutschen Presse-Agentur am Freitag. Die Aufständischen nähern sich damit weiter einer völligen militärischen Machtübernahme im Land.
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