A new 35-hour curfew in Kiev and the region will begin today at 8pm (local time) and will last until 7am Wednesday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced on Telegram, after yet another night of Russian bombing that hit a shopping mall. in the northwestern area of ​​the Ukrainian capital, with a death toll of at least eight. Russian warships bombed residential buildings in Odessa, reports the Kyiv Independent, which quotes the spokesman for the military administration of Odessa Oblast, Serhiy Bratchuk, as saying many buildings were damaged. It is not yet known at the moment if there are any victims.
On the diplomatic front, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted by TASS “said, referring to the possibility of a meeting between Putin and Zelensky, that” it would be important for Kiev to become more available. “” Organize a meeting between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine requires an agreement on the possible results of the talks, but the parties currently have nothing to put on the table in this regard, “Peskov stressed speaking to reporters.
In Mariupol Russian bombs fall every ten minutes and in addition to the tanks and artillery, the city is bombed by Russian landing ships. This was stated by the deputy commander of the Azov regiment, as reported by Ukrinform. According to the Mariupol city council, some residents of the city’s Left Bank district are forcibly deported to Russia, their passports confiscated. But according to Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, 45,000 people have already managed to leave besieged Mariupol. “I’m sure I’ll die soon. It’s a matter of days. Everyone in this city is constantly waiting for death. I just wish it wasn’t so scary.” This is the testimony on Facebook of a citizen of Mariupol, Nadezda Sukhorukova, relaunched on twitter by a Ukrainian journalist from the Kiev Indipendent. Sukhorukova makes her posts a sort of war diary, a story from the port city tormented by the Russian invasion. She tells of “corpses placed on balconies, of a cemetery silence everywhere, of a city that now mumbles in the basement”. Only yesterday Nadezda managed to escape from Mariupol through one of the humanitarian corridors. “A week may not be enough to take control of the city of Mariupol,” said the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, quoted by Interfax. “I’m not so optimistic that two or three days or even a week are enough to close the issue. Unfortunately not, the city is big,” he explained. Russian invasion. He tells of “corpses placed on balconies, of a graveyard silence everywhere, of a city that now mumbles in the basement”. Only yesterday Nadezda managed to escape from Mariupol through one of the humanitarian corridors. “A week may not be enough to take control of the city of Mariupol,” said the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, quoted by Interfax. “I’m not so optimistic that two or three days or even a week are enough to close the issue. Unfortunately not, the city is big,” he explained. Russian invasion. He tells of “corpses placed on balconies, of a graveyard silence everywhere, of a city that now mumbles in the basement”. Only yesterday Nadezda managed to escape from Mariupol through one of the humanitarian corridors. “A week may not be enough to take control of the city of Mariupol,” said the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, quoted by Interfax. “I’m not so optimistic that two or three days or even a week are enough to close the issue. Unfortunately not, the city is big,” he explained. “A week may not be enough to take control of the city of Mariupol,” said the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, quoted by Interfax. “I’m not so optimistic that two or three days or even a week are enough to close the issue. Unfortunately not, the city is big,” he explained. “A week may not be enough to take control of the city of Mariupol,” said the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, quoted by Interfax. “I’m not so optimistic that two or three days or even a week are enough to close the issue. Unfortunately not, the city is big,” he explained.
The European Union will increase its financial aid to Ukraine for arms purchases to one billion euros. This was indicated by the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, arriving at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. “Today we are politically deciding to provide further military financial support” to Kiev “to increase its financial capacity for the procurement of military means to one billion euros”, explained the German minister, adding that the decision is intended to be “in full swing. solidarity with Ukraine “and to” protect the civilian population “. “It is impossible” for Europe at the moment to do without Russian gas, while as regards crude oil, Russian oil companies have begun to redirect flows eastwards: this was supported by the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak quoted by TASS. The West’s possible embargo on Russian oil could cause a flare-up in the prices of black gold that could skyrocket “to $ 300 a barrel,” Novak reiterated.
59,589 Ukrainian refugees have entered Italy since the beginning of the war: according to data from the Interior Ministry, updated to date, 30,499 are women, 23,877 minors and 5,213 men. In the last 48 hours, just under 4 thousand refugees have crossed the Italian border. Prime Minister Mario Draghi has left Palazzo Chigi and is leaving for Palmanova (Udine), where in the afternoon he will visit a reception center for Ukrainians fleeing the war.
