Updates from Ukraine
⚡️ Zelensky: Crimea will return to Ukraine, perhaps through diplomatic means.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 18, 2022
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Reuters that Ukraine will be able to live peacefully only when it regains all its territories.
Russian forces targeted schools and kindergartens to destroy Ukrainian education. @VOANews visited village of Bohdanivka in Kyiv region occupied for 20 days in March. Today the rebuilding schools is a priority for the society to come back to normality. pic.twitter.com/sUJ2BD6UH8
— mgongadze (@MGongadze) September 18, 2022
Government Statements
A non-stop exhumation of hundreds of corpses in Izyum continues. Each day, injuries are being recorded and bodies are being reburied. It will take many long and exhausting hours for investigators to reveal the magnitude of the genocide perpetrated by russian murderers. pic.twitter.com/z9FjcqD5js
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) September 18, 2022
Serhiy Ivanchuk, an aspiring opera singer, was wounded by rus terrorists when trying to evacuate civilians from Kharkiv. His lungs were pierced by 5 bullets. Not only did he survive this terrible injury, Serhiy is singing again.Nothing can break the Ukrainian spirit!
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) September 18, 2022
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Global Support
Vatican envoy comes under fire near Zaporizhzhia while delivering aid to Ukraine https://t.co/adKb75Tc4j
— UPI.com (@UPI) September 18, 2022
International Opinions
Russia is intensifying a campaign of long-range missile strikes targeting Ukraine’s key infrastructure after facing major setbacks on the battlefield that have raised concerns about escalation from Moscow https://t.co/SpAaevh2Gz
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 18, 2022
"As we begin to think about a postwar Ukraine, we should not let the failures of prewar Ukraine shackle our thinking about who Ukrainians are and what they are capable of," @KoriSchake writes:https://t.co/KsiSJ5kcVw
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 18, 2022
Story / thread on schools in newly Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, and the decisions teachers are making on resistance or collaboration. Very clear that education is one of the key pillars through which Russia wants to reshape Ukraine to its liking. https://t.co/xpQrnQShUU
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) September 18, 2022
International Governments and Parliaments
"At a strategic level this is a failure for Putin"
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) September 18, 2022
Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin says Russia's problems are "mounting" in Ukraine but the "likely result is it's going to grind on for a long time"#BBCLauraK https://t.co/p2GNG2dHv6 pic.twitter.com/xvmZcojNQE
Heroic efforts by #Ukraine but a warning – this war could “grind on” for a very long time. We must not lose focus nor waver in our support for the Ukrainians. And come the time there will be monumental rebuilding work to do. https://t.co/TJe7JfsYBu
— JOHN NICOLSON M.P. (@MrJohnNicolson) September 18, 2022