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However Mr Zelensky said that the brutal war was taking a heavy toll on Ukraine’s civilian population. Millions of Ukrainians have fled their homeland in recent weeks.
“We were losing people on a daily basis, innocent people on the ground. … Russian forces have come to exterminate us, to kill us,” he told CNN.
US lawmakers continue calls for more military and humanitarian aid to be sent to Ukraine as the cost of the Biden administration’s response climbs ever higher.
The US has vowed not to engage in a situation that would lead to a direct military conflict with Russia, but has shipped anti-air, anti-tank and other heavy weaponry to Ukraine’s armed forces. There has been stern warnings for Moscow’s potential allies against doing the same for Russia.
In the last week those warnings culminated in a meeting between White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and top Chinese officials in Europe over whether Russia would receive economic or military support from Beijing for its invasion. On Sunday, China’s ambassador to the US denied that such aid would occur.
