Factor here is the restoration of calm and direct dialogue. What we need now is on all sides in this matter, cool heads and really a Calm Approach to this. Yes . Thank you, martin. There are some reports that the leader of the radical opposition on the ukraine called for leader of chechen terrorists to support ukrainian opposition against russia. Does the Secretary General have anything to say on this development . Look, there are all kinds of reports, some more credible than others. Floating about in cyberspace. And i think that we continue to monitor these developments closely. Were aware of various reports
but were not going to comment on every individual one that pops up like that. Yes . One followup. This is official. The governor of belgrade region in russia reported that there ar are thousands of ukraine fleeing into this region of russia. Does the Secretary General plan to discuss this issue with Vladimir Putinputin, maybe some support for the refugees from the United Nations .
warfare capability to identify the signals, to make sure that the target is positively identified, and then it takes continued electronic capability to suppress the ship s anti-missile system, the intercept. so they re having to do this because, remember, in 2014 the russians took the cry mean pennies law, which is where the ukrainian navy was stationed and flipped all of the ukrainian navy ships into russian vessels. they re largely manned by ukrainians still. so the russian naval fleet and the capacity to dominate the azov sea and the black sea are now hampered and it is an economic disaster for putin. these are expensive ships. russia is a land expansionist power, so trying to balance and maintain a naval fleept with warm water port access is very difficult for them. now that they ve lost a prize asset for their fleet, it hurts very much for them. again, kudos to ukraine for development of these weapons. i would suggest that they ve been selling that technology to
logistics. perhaps the greatest logistic power in the world. we need to leverage that power to enable nato to push supplies as quickly as we possibly can and help the poor ukrainian people and ensure that their will to fight continues. you mentioned the importance, whether it is military supply lines or food supply lines or the like. if you come back to look at this, yes, the russian assault on kyiv has been plotting. where russia has had some success is here in the southern part. you see russian troops coming out of crimea. there have been russian troops in the disputed areas for a long time. here, russia controlling most of the southern coast. odesa remains. what would be the significance, whether it is food, military supplies, psychologically, if the russians take the entire southern strip? well, that would be a significant loss. odesa is a major port to the black sea. warm water port. obviously, russians wanted to take that away from the ukrainians. a lot of their wheat and iro
seeing the russians a little bit slowed down, a little bit stalled. in the north, they re preparing for the fight in kyiv. but i suspect they re not real happy with what is happening down here, more than likely they had wanted to be in odesa by now. significant for them to take that warm water port. they re still tied up in mariupol, surrounding it, starving it, but right now the real focus seems to be what is happening in kyiv. because they would have wanted to push forward from the south, basically. what they re trying to do is they re trying to own this entire area. get some of the warm water port more importantly, it gives them the route from crimea into russia in that land bridge they have been seeking for some time. let s look at kyiv. because it does seem that with the curfew here over the next couple of days, this includes during the day, if you re in kyiv, you can go to a bomb shelter, but that s it. you re not supposed to be out
border of poland. it s an offensive that is reached far into ukraine, that, of course, has its capital, kyiv, under major concern, under intense attack. so what is the end goal here for president putin? what is enough to end this? we know from president zelenskyy s side what he s offered, his olive branch is the promise that ukraine would remain a neutral country, that it would not join nato, which is not on the table anyways. but there s going to have to be some back and forth. the russian president does have a strategic goal here, and that is access to a warm water port. what does that access look like territorially when you re looking at the east of the country? and whether that s acceptable to ukrainians at all. it s obviously one of the major issues. thank you so much. we re witnessing a brutal onslaught of cities across the country and that includes areas that had been largely spared from the bloodshed thus far.