Live text broadcast – short and concise about the most important in the Ukrainian war on April 3, 2024. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the invasion of the aggressor for the third year.
09:02. At an international conference in the Netherlands on Tuesday, more than 40 countries called for the creation of a special tribunal to hold Russia accountable for war crimes committed in Ukraine. At the “Restoring Justice for Ukraine” conference, the seventh point of the ten-point peace formula of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which envisages “restoring justice”, was discussed. The Netherlands, where the International Criminal Court (ICC) is based, agreed to take the lead in implementing this point.
“We are ready to take all necessary steps to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice. If necessary, at the international level. (..) All necessary steps to ensure that the crime of aggression is examined by a special tribunal and that Russia pays for the damage caused, ” said Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Hanke Bruina Slote.
08:16. The loss of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached 444,370 soldiers by Wednesday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army. According to the data of the general staff, 710 invaders were destroyed during the day.
Since the start of the re-invasion on February 24, 2022, the Russians have lost 7,009 tanks, 13,368 armored personnel carriers, 11,142 cannons and mortars, 1,025 multiple-charge rocket launchers, 745 anti-aircraft artillery installations, 347 airplanes, 325 helicopters, 8,796 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,059 cruise missiles, 26 ships and speedboats, one submarine, 14,813 cars and tankers, as well as 1,838 units of specialized equipment.
07:11. NATO is drawing up plans to provide Ukraine with a five-year, $100 billion military aid package to protect it from the “winds of political change” in the event of a possible second Donald Trump presidency, the Financial Times (FT) has reported.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has made a proposal for the so-called “Mission for Ukraine”, which will be discussed by the foreign ministers of NATO countries on Wednesday. According to five alliance diplomats briefed on the plan, it calls for coordinating about $100 billion in aid pledged by NATO’s 32 members.
00:10. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg proposed to create a fund for Ukraine, in which member states would make contributions of 100 billion dollars over 5 years, writes pravda.com.ua.
