Fighting continued throughout the night in Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian sources, Russian troops fired rockets at military targets near the city of Dnipro.

After the summit marathon of NATO, the EU and the group of seven leading democratic economic powers (G7) in Brussels, US President Joe Biden will visit Poland on Friday.

The EU countries set up a solidarity fund to provide financial support to Ukraine.

This was decided by the heads of state and government on Friday night at a summit meeting in Brussels.

As a result of the Russian war of aggression, Ukraine is suffering enormous destruction and losses, it said in a statement.

The country should be helped with current expenses, but also "after the end of the Russian attack in the reconstruction of a democratic Ukraine".

Like the US before it, the EU has officially accused Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine.

A donor conference is to be organized to fill the Solidarity Fund for Ukraine with money.

International partners are also invited to participate.

EU Council President Charles Michel brought up the Solidarity Fund after a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week.

Ukraine needs access to international liquidity to finance imports of daily necessities and military equipment, it said.

Rocket attacks near Dnipro

According to Ukrainian sources, Russian forces twice fired rockets at a military unit near the city of Dnipro on Friday night.

The buildings of the Ukrainian unit were significantly damaged and two fires broke out, the regional military administration said on Facebook.

Dnipro is located in the center of Ukraine and has so far been largely spared from attacks.

According to the Ukrainian general staff, some Russian troops have withdrawn in the north-east of the country after suffering heavy losses.

Observe the withdrawal of certain Russian units behind the Russian border after losing more than half of the personnel.

The information is not independently verifiable.

According to British intelligence, Ukrainian forces have begun attacking high-value targets in Russian-held territory.

The destruction of a Russian landing ship in the port city of Berdyansk on Thursday was cited as an example.

Ukrainian President: Millions deserve a medal

In a nightly video message, Zelenskyy thanked the citizens of Ukraine for their resistance to the Russian invasion that began a month ago.

Since February 24, Ukrainian defenders have stopped the enemy everywhere, he said.

Millions of Ukrainians who would do anything for Ukraine's victory and peace deserve medals.

NATO wants to continue supplying Ukraine with surface-to-air missiles and anti-tank weapons.

Despite Zelenskyy's urgent appeals, the 30 NATO countries will not deliver any tanks or aircraft.

"There is a limit, which is not to become a party to the war," said French President Emmanuel Macron after the NATO special summit in Brussels on Thursday.

Continued debate on boycott of Russian energy

The chairman of the Europe Committee in the Bundestag, Anton Hofreiter (Greens), calls for an immediate energy embargo against Russia.

“We transfer hundreds of millions of euros to Moscow every day.

This will keep the Russian state and its military apparatus running,” he told news portal The Pioneer (Friday).

A cancellation of Russian energy supplies would lead to “a moderate recession”.

However, he does not share the assessment of Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) that the economic and social damage for Germany would be too great, said Hofreiter.

The Ukrainian presidential adviser Alexander Rodnyansky also considers a freeze on European imports of Russian oil and gas to be unavoidable.

The West must prevent Moscow from circumventing the sanctions against Russia, Rodnyansky said on Thursday on the ZDF program “Maybrit Illner”.

FDP party Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki told the editorial network Germany (RND) that Germany should again rely more on lignite and nuclear energy in order to become independent of Russian gas.

That's going to be important today

US President Biden will meet EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to say goodbye to Brussels.

Then he flies on to the eastern NATO country Poland, which borders directly on Ukraine.

Around 2.2 million refugees from Ukraine have entered Poland so far, and the majority have stayed there.

Biden only wants to find out more about the humanitarian operation to care for the refugees in the city of Rzeszow, near the border.

He will also meet US soldiers stationed in Poland and come to the capital, Warsaw, for talks with the Polish leadership.