Negotiations with Moscow would be equal to capitulation now, and some calls from the West to start talks with Russia after a series of Ukraine’s victories look ‘bizarre’.
Ukraine is counting on the support of international partners in rebuilding the country and implementing social programs aimed at returning Ukrainians home.
Ukraine has recently received another batch of military aid from France, including two batteries of Crotale air defense systems and two multiple rocket launchers.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is visiting Kyiv on Saturday, laid flowers at the Wall of Memory of those who died for Ukraine in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv.
Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko has met with the newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom Jeremy Hunt in London and stressed the need for additional financing of Ukraine’s state budget in 2023.
The participants in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting have deplored in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine and demanded that Russian troops be completely and unconditionally withdrawn from the territory of Ukraine.