Ukraine marks 1,000 days of war with pledge to ‘never submit’ to Russia
Al Jazeera
Kyiv warns against appeasement of Moscow; Russia insists victory coming, lowers threshold for use of nuclear weapons.
Ukraine and Russia have both declared that they will fight until victory as they marked 1,000 days of war.
Kyiv insisted on Tuesday that it will “never submit” in defending against Moscow’s invasion, and warned that the world must offer no appeasement to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin made similar statements, and once more engaged in nuclear sabre-rattling.
“Ukraine will never submit to the occupiers, and the Russian military will be punished for violating international law,” a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv declared.
In a statement to the United Nations Security Council, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha called 1,000 days “a very big number”.
“On one hand, it proves Ukrainian bravery in the face of brutal Russian aggression. […] On the other hand, this number proves the failure of the international community, including this esteemed council, to stop wars of aggression and atrocities,” he said.
