Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a televised addressMOSCOW, Apr 14Volodymyr Zelenskyy told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that Kiev needs $7 billion a month in immediate financial assistance to cover social benefits and salaries, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. «Ukraine needs $7 billion a month in urgent financial help to cover social benefits and salaries, President Volodymyr Zelensky told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen when she visited Kyiv last week,» the agency said in a statement.
Western society is preparing for the third worldAccording to the agency, Zelensky also spoke about the problems Ukraine faced when trying to export its grain. According to sources, von der Leyen said that the EU will apply accelerated border crossing procedures to help Kiev in this matter. Earlier, the EU Council agreed on the allocation of an additional 500 million euros for military assistance to Ukraine, the total amount of EU military assistance to Kiev, thus, will amount to 1.5 billion euros. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. And he liked it
