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What did Ukraine say on day 100 of the war?
Summary
A look back at 3 June 2022, when Ukraine's leadership marked 100 days of war while Western arms pledges and the grain crisis drew attention.
What did Ukraine's leaders say as the war reached its hundredth day? On 3 June 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky, together with Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, appeared in a video address marking the milestone. The tone was sombre but resolute, and the message was that Ukraine would win.
Zelensky said Ukraine had been defending its country for 100 days and that victory would be Ukraine's. He closed with the words "Slava Ukraini".
Weapons pledges in the preceding days
The anniversary came after a series of announcements on military support. On 1 June 2022, the British defence minister, Ben Wallace, said the United Kingdom had agreed to send more M270 multiple-launch rocket systems to Ukrainian forces and to train them in using the weapons.
On the same day, US President Joe Biden agreed to provide Ukraine with long-range rocket artillery systems, after Ukraine reportedly gave assurances that it would not use them to strike Russian cities. The systems were part of a new $700 million weapons package that also included ammunition, counter-fire radars, a number of air surveillance radars and additional Javelin anti-tank missiles.
Strikes on rail links
The fighting continued to reach supply routes. On 1 June 2022, Russian cruise missiles hit a railway station near the Beskydy tunnel in the Carpathians for a second time, wounding two people. Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the interior minister, said the strike was meant to halt rail traffic and stop deliveries of fuel and weapons from Ukraine's allies.
Grain on the diplomatic agenda
On 3 June 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin met Senegal's President Macky Sall in Sochi, Russia. According to the Kremlin, they discussed the ongoing food and grain crisis, which was linked to Russia's blockade of Ukrainian grain, as well as economic and humanitarian cooperation.
The day thus combined a political message of defiance from Kyiv with the military and economic pressures that defined the war's early months: arms deliveries, attacks on rail links and a food-supply crisis.
