He said that more than 9,000 Russian soldiers and several hundred tanks are now on active duty in Ukraine and that 7% of its territory is effectively occupied. "If this is not aggression, what is aggression?" he said.
At one point during his speech, he held up a large, yellow hunk of metal with what appeared to be shrapnel marks that he said was a panel from a public bus that was hit by a missile near a Ukrainian military checkpoint close to the town of Volnovakha. Thirteen passengers were killed in the attack that also injured 13 people, he said.
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