Dmytro Kuleba

Ukraine's foreign minister said yesterday that the country won't "back down" in its fight against Russia, despite doubts over U.S. support and minimal progress on the front line.

"We have to continue, we have to keep fighting. Ukraine is not going to back down," Ukraine's top diplomat Dmytro Kuleba told Kiev's NATO backers in Brussels.

Day 644 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

"Ukraine has so far managed to recover half of the lands seized by Russia, and this is a great victory." This was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference ahead of this week's two-day meeting of the foreign ministers of the countries of the pact at the headquarters of the alliance in Brussels.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the only person who can convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to return to the Black Sea Grain Initiative, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

However, as he emphasized, they should be afraid of the Ukrainian soldier, not the F-16 aircraft.
According to him, regardless of Moscow's threats, those U.S. fighter jets will be delivered as planned.

This removed one of the obstacles for Ukraine joining NATO.

Ukraine said Friday it withstood a wave of Russian missiles including hypersonic Kinzhals, which were downed over the Kiev region where African leaders were due to hold talks as part of a peace mission.

"Russian missiles are a message to Africa: Russia wants more war, not peace," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Ivan Kondov has urged India to use its influence on Russia on the need to end the war against Ukraine, the ministry said. Kondov had a conversation with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Stockholm, where the European Union - Indo-Pacific region ministerial forum was held yesterday.

In accordance with the regular rotation, Russia will begin presiding over this UN body in April, and as announced by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first session under Russian leadership will be chaired by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"As all the EU heads of government gave speeches one after the other, the meeting dragged on late into the night. Prime Minister Petkov, as he tells it, went from one colleague to another during those hours - including Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz.