Father's Day message

2022 - 6 - 19

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Zelensky in Father's Day message praises dads who defend Ukraine (The Washington Post)

The war with Russia has killed 100 to 200 soldiers, most of them men, every day, Ukrainian officials say.

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. Stoltenberg’s forecast, in an interview published Saturday in Germany’s Bild newspaper, comes as the United States and its allies are preparing for a drawn-out conflict. The fight: A slowly regenerating Russian army is making incremental gains in eastern Ukraine against valiant but underequipped Ukrainian forces. “We are doing everything we can to ensure that children will see their parents returning home from war,” the parliament’s caption said. And no matter how difficult it is — to protect and defend the most precious. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper in April, he spoke fondly of his teenage daughter and joked that “without knocking the door, I can’t speak with my daughter.”

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Zelensky shares touching Father's Day message amid war with Russia (Evening Standard)

The Ukrainian President shared a series of pictures of Ukrainian fathers with their children in a touching Instagram message.

In an interview published on Sunday in the German weekly Bild am Sonntag, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that “nobody knows” how long the war could last. "And no matter how difficult it is – to protect and defend the most precious. It is strength, wisdom, motivation to go forward and not to give up.

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