Ukraine wants to be independent, and we will celebrate our national day with our partners and friends. - Serhii Kyslytsia

I don't buy this version that they are so brainwashed that they don't understand what is happening. We don't live in the Soviet era when there was no internet or when citizens couldn't travel abroad or didn't have any means of getting information.

Russian troops block numerous attempts of the Ukrainian authorities to evacuate civilians.

Militarily, Russia will be defeated. It will cost us further losses of civilian and military lives, and we can only try to minimize the damages, but together with Norway and other allies I am not in doubt that Russia will be militarily defeated on Ukrainian territory.