Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he wants to address national parliaments in Africa and Asia as he seeks their support for Ukraine in its ongoing fight against Russia’s invasion.

He stressed that his government is doing everything to maintain the world’s attention on the conflict.

“Information about our needs should be in the news of all countries that are important to us constantly and every day,” he said in his nightly address on Sunday.

Since the start of the Russian invasion at the end of February, Zelenskyy has been addressing parliaments around the world to plead the cause of the Ukrainian people.
Ukraine’s gas transit system operator said that it had resumed operations at two distribution stations in the Kharkiv region and restarted gas supply to more than 3,000 consumers.

“Both stations were shut down due to damage to the main gas pipeline in the Kharkiv region as a result of hostilities,” the operator said in a statement, adding that the damages have now been repaired.

Some 54 gas distribution stations in seven regions of Ukraine remain shut down, the operator noted.

“I will definitely continue to address the parliaments of Ukraine’s European partner states,” he said, adding: “By the way, we are also working to expand the geography of such special speeches in the parliaments of Africa and Asia.”

Sanctions block billions of dollars worth of Belarusian exports
Sanctions imposed on Belarus have blocked $16 to $18 billion (€15.4 to €17.3 billion) worth of its annual exports to the West, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko was quoted as saying by the Belta news agency.

“Because of the sanctions, almost all of Belarus’s exports to the countries of the European Union and North America have been blocked,” Golovchenko said.

“This … comes to about $16 billion to $18 billion a year.”

President Alexander Lukashenko has insisted that Belarus must be involved in negotiations to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, saying also that Minsk had been unfairly labeled “an accomplice of the aggressor.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will meet foreign ministers of EU member states in Brussels on Monday and discuss the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

EU countries are expected to approve a further €500 million in military aid for Ukraine, after it was proposed by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is also expected in Brussels. Kuleba had recently demanded the German government deliver more self-propelled armored howitzers. Berlin has so far pledged to supply seven of them.