Ukraine will not agree to any proposal to freeze the current front lines in the conflict with Russia in order to "pacify" Moscow, President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a press conference, as reported by Reuters.
He also urged the world not to show war weariness, saying it would pose a great threat to the entire world.
The Prime Minister of Montenegro in the technical mandate, Dritan Abazović, spoke today at the Second Summit of the Crimean Platform, held in online format.
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Ukraine expects an additional $12 billion to $16 billion in financial support from foreign partners by the end of this year to help it fight a Russian invasion, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said on Tuesday.
As reported by Reuters, he stated in a statement that Ukraine managed to maintain its financial stability thanks to foreign aid, which already amounted to 14 billion dollars, but that Kiev had to direct over 40 percent of budget spending - over 420 billion hryvnias (11,51 billion dollars) - for military purposes.
Shmigal said that since February 24, 288 billion hryvnias were spent on military salaries, and 135 billion on the purchase and repair of military equipment and the purchase of ammunition and defense products.
Canada has imposed sanctions on 62 individuals and one entity in Russia's defense sector because of that country's invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement.
Among the sanctioned individuals are senior officials of the Russian government, their family members and senior officials of currently sanctioned entities in the defense sector, Trudeau said, as reported by Reuters.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky opened an international conference on Crimea on Tuesday, saying that Kiev will restore Ukrainian power in the region annexed by Russia, reports Reuters.
"In order to overcome terror, it is necessary to win a victory in the fight against Russian aggression. It is necessary to liberate Crimea. This will be the resuscitation of world law and order," he said at the Crimean Platform summit.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that its forces shot down a Ukrainian SU-27 fighter jet over the Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reports.
In its latest daily briefing, Moscow also said it had destroyed two US-made M777 howitzer artillery guns.
European Union members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finland, which all share a border with Russia, could prevent Russian tourists from entering their countries unless the EU imposes a union-wide ban, Lithuania's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
"I talked to ministers from all these countries... I don't see many political differences," Gabrielius Landsbergis told reporters in Vilnius.
"Russian tourists should not be in the European Union... Their country is committing genocide," he added.
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The United Nations (UN) human rights office has expressed concern over plans by Russian-backed authorities to try Ukrainian prisoners of war in Mariupol, possibly within days, saying such a process could itself amount to a war crime.
"We are very concerned about the way it is done. There are pictures in the media of cages being built in the Mariupol Philharmonic, really massive cages and obviously the idea is to restrain the prisoners," said Ravina Shamdasani at the UN briefing.
"This is not acceptable, this is humiliating," she said.
Deliberately depriving a prisoner of war of the right to a fair trial is a war crime by Russia, she added.
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