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Resnikov compares his own losses to earthquake victims

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has given an indication of the estimated amount of friendly losses since the start of the Russian offensive war. “I cannot give you an exact number, but I can assure you that it is lower than the number of deaths in the earthquake in Turkey,” Resnikov said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper “La Razón”, published on Sunday. According to Turkish information, more than 50,000 people died in the February 6 earthquake in the southeast of the country.

So far, the Ukrainian leadership has not provided any official information on the number of wounded and killed in its own armed forces. Only estimates exist for the total number of Ukrainian casualties. Kiev treats the figures as a state secret. Moscow also gives no information about its own losses. The Ukrainian side estimates that 182,000 Russian soldiers were killed.

Kiev: Dozens of Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine

Russian forces carried out dozens of attacks on positions held by Ukrainian defenders in the east of the country over the weekend, according to the General Staff in Kiev. The attackers suffered heavy casualties, the Ukrainian army command said in its daily situation report on Sunday. A total of 45 Russian attacks were repelled around Bakhmut and Marjinka. Despite the large number of Russian attacks, the front line remained unchanged. The information could not be independently verified.

Death toll after missile strike in Sloviansk

After a Russian missile hit a residential area in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, the death toll has risen to 15, the military administration announced on Telegram on Sunday. In addition, 24 people were injured in the attack.

According to Ukrainian sources, the missile hit the city in the heavily disputed Donetsk region on Friday afternoon. Regardless of the many civilian casualties, the Russian side has maintained that since the start of the war more than a year ago, it has only attacked military targets.

Russia and China emphasize military cooperation

During his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu stressed the “very strong ties” between the two countries. “They are better than the military and political alliances of the Cold War,” Li said at the Kremlin on Sunday. In addition, Russian-Chinese relations are “very stable”. “Recently, cooperation between Russia and China in the military and technical field has developed very well. It is a contribution to global and regional security,” Li told Russia’s state agency Tass. Putin assessed military cooperation between China and Russia as strengthening “strategic and trusting relations”.

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Due to the invasion of neighboring Ukraine and the resulting break with the West, Putin is trying to win over China as a strong partner. China presents itself as neutral in the war, but Western countries accuse the Beijing government of silently supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Yellen: Russia should pay for damage in Ukraine

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Russia should take financial responsibility for the destruction in Ukraine. “I think Russia should pay for the damage it has done to Ukraine,” Yellen said on US television on Sunday. However, she reluctantly responded to Ukraine’s demand to seize Russian assets. “It’s something we’re discussing with our partners. But you know there are legal restrictions on what we can do with frozen Russian assets.”

At the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the confiscation of the assets of Russia’s central bank on Wednesday. “Russia must feel the full price for its aggression,” he said via video.

That will be important on Monday

G7 foreign ministers continued their talks in Japan on Monday with deliberations on China’s increasingly aggressive bid for power in the Indo-Pacific, Russia’s war in Ukraine and the status of nuclear negotiations with Iran. (con/sda/dpa)