“It is impossible to save Mariupol without other tanks and planes”. While the announcement of the resumption arrives after three weeks of face-to-face negotiations between the delegations of Kiev and Moscow, scheduled until Wednesday in Istanbul after a phone call between Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Volodymyr Zelensky returns to lash the West with the request of increased military support, accusing the allies of not having enough “courage” when it comes to defending Ukraine. Speaking on social media about him, Zelensky said the West “plays ping-pong in deciding who should send the jets.” “I talked to the defenders of Mariupol. I am in constant contact with them. Their determination, their heroism and their steadfastness are extraordinary. If only those who for 31 days have been thinking about how to send us planes and tanks had 1% of the their courage “.
Zelensky called the Russian siege of Mariupol a “humanitarian catastrophe”, saying that Russian forces took over 2,000 children out of the city. The CNN reports, citing the president’s interview with Russian independent journalists. “According to our information, more than two thousand children have been taken away, which means they have been kidnapped,” Zelensky said. “Their exact location is unknown. They can be there with or without parents. It’s scary. They keep them as a bargaining chip,” he added. Lugansk threatens referendum to join Russia –It is not only the military invasion that threatens the territorial integrity of Ukraine, but also the political initiatives that aim to sanction the definitive amputation of part of the country. A “Korean” scenario, according to Kiev intelligence, “an attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine”. The latest is that of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic which, not happy with having received recognition from Moscow together with its sister Republic of Donetsk, said it wanted to hold a referendum to join Russia. The initiative, announced by the separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik – who then partially corrected the shot ensuring that no concrete preparations are underway for now – immediately met not only the obvious, clear refusal of the Kiev authorities, but also some doubts in the Russian power apparatus. A consultation of this kind is “inadvisable”, warned Leonid Kalashnikov, chairman of the Duma committee for the affairs of the former Soviet republics. A referendum would at least be premature, says the deputy, because “the two republics were part of Ukraine until recently”. “Any” false referendum “in the temporarily occupied territories is legally insignificant and will have no legal consequences”, ruled Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko, saying he was sure that no country in the world would recognize the validity of such a consultation. warned Leonid Kalashnikov, chairman of the Duma commission on the affairs of the former Soviet republics. A referendum would at least be premature, says the deputy, because “the two republics were part of Ukraine until recently”. “Any” false referendum “in the temporarily occupied territories is legally insignificant and will have no legal consequences”, ruled Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko, saying he was sure that no country in the world would recognize the validity of such a consultation. warned Leonid Kalashnikov, chairman of the Duma commission on the affairs of the former Soviet republics. A referendum would at least be premature, says the deputy, because “the two republics were part of Ukraine until recently”. “Any” false referendum “in the temporarily occupied territories is legally insignificant and will have no legal consequences”, ruled Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko, saying he was sure that no country in the world would recognize the validity of such a consultation.NEWS FROM THE FIELD –In Ukraine under siege, the Russians also attack with cluster bombs. The Interior Ministry denounced the use of the devastating ‘cluster bomb’ in a residential area in the Donetsk region, the full conquest of which, together with the rest of Lugansk territory, in Donbass, has been identified as the “priority” of the offensive in Moscow. “The enemy fired from multiple Tornado-C rocket launchers in the residential sector of Krasnohorivka, the ammunition fell into the streets of the private sector,” Ukrainian authorities reported. The whole country remains under constant attack. Over 30 bombings of residential complexes and infrastructure in the Kiev region were recorded in 24 hours. “During the entire period of the war, destruction was recorded in 34 of the 69 communities in the Kiev region, or 49.2%. In total, more than 500 goals, “said the regional administration.
Also dramatic is the testimony of MP Lesia Vasylenko, according to which some inhabitants of besieged areas in the capital area were left without food supplies and forced to drink waste water. South-east of the capital, a raid hit the town of Boyarka, injuring at least four people, including a child, while the toll of minors killed in the country rises to 139. At the same time, however, the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko launched a small signal of hope towards a glimmer of normality, announcing the resumption of online school lessons from Monday. In the aftermath of the raids that hit the town of Lviv, in the west near the border with Poland where US President Joe Biden was visiting, the damage is being counted in the city.
The siege of Mariupol also continues, where the Chechen troops would be led by Ruslan Geremeyev, suspected of being among those responsible for the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the former deputy prime minister of Boris Yeltsin and opponent of Vladimir Putin, assassinated in 2015 in Moscow . However, Ukrainian forces continue to claim small but steady progress in their counter-offensive. According to the Kiev Independent, they have captured the two towns of Poltavka and Malynivka, in the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia, and Trostyanets, in the northern region of Sumy. CNN has verified several videos showing defense troops again in control of several villages in the Sumy region, as well as Vilkhivka, a center 32 km from the Russian border in the north-east. “Tactical operations” of defense are also reported in theUS-MOSCOW, BLINKEN PUNCTUALIZATION – The United States has no strategy for regime change in Russia, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Israel after Joe Biden said Saturday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot remain allied. candies”. “I think the president and the White House just pointed out last night that Putin cannot have the power to wage war or engage in aggression against Ukraine or anyone else,” he said after the White House had pointed out. Biden’s words. “As you have heard us say repeatedly, we have no strategy for regime change in Moscow.”
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Joe BidenBotta and response between the US and Russia after Biden’s new statements. Kremlin: ‘More difficult to mend relations. After the insults it is more difficult to mend ‘. Russia is ‘strangling democracy’ and wants to do it ‘not only in its own home’, Biden said. The US president meets with Ukrainian foreign and defense ministers in Warsaw. And he promises Kiev aid and sanctions against Putin. Then he reassures the Polish Prime Minister Duda: ‘Article 5 of the NATO treaty is a sacred obligation’ (ANSA) Ukraine, residential building in Mykolaiv hit IAEA ALARM –The situation in the area of ​​the Chernobyl nuclear power plant also continues to cause concern, where new widespread fires have broken out due to the raids, causing an increase in the level of radioactive air pollution, according to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Ukrainian Parliament, Lyudmila Denisova. , while local authorities are calling for urgent intervention by the International Atomic Energy Agency with experts and equipment. Ukraine, Zelensky: ‘Weapons are for freedom in Europe’
