• Belgium will also supply new weapons to Ukrainethe federal government has decided. These are anti-tank missiles of the Milan type.
• The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has contradicted that the strategically important Ukrainian port city of Mariupol Thursday fell into the hands of the Russian army, as Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Friday. Zelensky sees still possibilities to relieve Mariupol† “There is a military way to do that and we are preparing for that.”
† Putin has ordered the Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol not to be stormedbut rather too besiege† A storm is in the eyes of the Russian president “inappropriate”. According to him, “the zone should be closed off in such a way that no fly can pass”. Putin promised to let all prisoners live.
† UN chief Antonio Guterres will travel next week to Kiev for a meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky. The United Nations announced this in a statement. First visit Guterres Tuesday president Putin in Moscow†