In a message occasioned by Orthodox Easter today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that the „evil” will not be able to destroy Ukraine and prays for a good and happy life for all Ukrainian children, Reuters reports. On Saturday, the Kyiv leader said he hoped to obtain heavy weapons following todays’s talks in Kyiv with the US State and Defense Sectaries Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin. He said that this kind of weaponry is essential for Ukraine to be able to recover the territory occupied by Russia. The Ukrainian leader also warned that his country would drop talks with Moscow if Russia killed the Ukrainians besieged in the war-torn Mariupol city or held referendums to create new separatist republics on recently seized Ukrainian territory. Ukrainian forces are trapped in a steel plant in Mariupol, Reuters reports. In a diplomatic move, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Turkey on Monday before heading to Moscow and Kyiv. Turkey has been as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia during the war and has hosted peace talks between the two sides.
