China News Agency, Nur-Sultan, April 19. Comprehensive news: According to Ukrainian media reports, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky submitted a bill to extend the state of war to the Verkhovna Rada on the 19th.
According to UTA, the news has been released by the Verkhovna Rada.
The current wartime status is valid until April 25, the report said.
Recently, the situation in eastern Ukraine has continued to stalemate.
According to Ukrainian media reports on the 19th, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces issued a statement saying that the Russian army’s offensive operations in the eastern part of Ukraine are still continuing.
At the same time, the Russian side continued to attack the Ukrainian port area.
The day before, Zelensky also confirmed in a video speech that the Russian army had begun an attack on the Donbass.
He said that most of the Russian forces are concentrated in the Donbass, but Ukraine will not give up resistance.
Danilov, secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, also said that Russia's "new phase of the offensive" in eastern Ukraine has begun.
"If the Ukrainian side has heavy weapons including tanks and armored vehicles, Ukraine can repel the Russian army's attack in eastern Ukraine." The Ukrainian news agency quoted Igor Zovkwa, deputy director of the Ukrainian President's Office, as saying on the 19th.
In response to the current situation, Podoljak, adviser to the director of the Ukrainian President's Office and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Russia-Ukraine negotiation, said on the 19th that the process of peace negotiations with Russia has become "more difficult" and it is difficult to say when the next direct negotiations will be realized.
Podoljak believes that the Russian side is focusing on the second phase of the special military operation in the Donbass and has no time to take into account the negotiations.
Regarding the Russia-Ukraine peace talks, the Russian President's Press Secretary Peskov also said that the progress of the negotiations was "not ideal".
Peskov said that the Ukrainian side often changes its position on agreed issues.
He emphasized that Russia's special military operations are still going on and will be carried out as planned, and within the framework of the Russia-Ukraine negotiations, the two sides will continue to maintain contact at the expert level.
According to the Interfax news agency, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the media on the 19th that Russia has not considered plans to use nuclear weapons in its operation against Ukraine.
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