The Prime Ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, Mateusz Morawiecki, Janez Janša Petr Fiala respectively, are expected to meet in Kyiv with president Volodymyr Zelensky. The EU officials will express the EU’s „unequivocal support” and brief the Ukrainian president with a respect to EU’s planned support package.
Earlier on Tuesday, the European Union and the United Kingdom announced new sanctions targeting at least 600 Russian nationals. The EU officials have described the move as a „historical decision”.
Meanwhile the situation is getting critical on the ground as airstrikes and shelling continues to target the main Ukrainian cities. The civilian death toll is also increasing, local authorities say. Evacuation of the population of Mariupol started Tuesday, although the humanitarian corridor isn’t working as expected, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk claims.
According to diplomatic sources quoted by Reuters and CNN, a possible NATO emergency summit to be held as early as next week in Brussels. Meanwhile, this week’s meeting of the Alliance’s Defense Ministers will tackle measures to further consolidate NATO’s defensive presence on its eastern flank.
