Russia's military aggression against Ukraine continues.



Fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces continues across Ukraine, forcing thousands of civilians to flee the country.

We will keep you updated on developments in the situation in Ukraine on the 4th (Japan time), including the situation of the fighting and the diplomacy of the countries concerned.



(There is a 7-hour time difference between Japan and Ukraine, and a 6-hour time difference with Moscow, Russia.)

Daily air defense warning forced evacuation Kyiv

In Ukraine, where infrastructure facilities have been repeatedly attacked by the Russian military and serious power shortages continue, facilities where citizens can charge smartphones and other devices while staying warm have been set up in various places.

Of these, at the facility set up at the school in Kyiv, many citizens visited this year-end and New Year holidays, and it was seen that they worked using a personal computer while keeping warm and charging their smartphones.



However, in Kyiv, air defense warnings were issued almost every day from the end of the year to the beginning of the year, and each time people were forced to evacuate from these facilities to nearby underground shelters.

One of the citizens who received an air defense alarm and evacuated to an underground shelter said, "The air defense alarm is ringing all the time. I'm worried even if there is no alarm."

85% of Ukrainians poll say they should not concede territories

A Ukrainian research firm, the Kyiv Institute of International Sociology, said in a recent poll on Thursday that 85% of people said they should not concede territorial territories even as Russia's military aggression continues. Announced.



The survey was carried out on 2005 people across Ukraine, excluding areas controlled by Russia, from 4 to 27 of last month.



Regarding the results of the survey, the institute analyzes that ``the Ukrainian people will not concede their territory even if the war by Russia is prolonged.''



A total of four surveys have been conducted since May last year, including this one, and more than 80% of respondents answered that they should not concede territories in all four surveys.