Russia is no longer demanding that Ukraine be “denazified” and is ready to let Kiev join the EU as long as it remains militarily non-aligned. Four people informed about the ongoing negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators reported this to the Financial Times. In the draft of the ceasefire document, the sources point out, the words “denazification”, “demilitarization” and legal protection for the Russian language no longer appear.The Moscow and Kiev negotiators must meet in Istanbul for the fourth round of peace talks. Concessions from Russia come at a time when the ground offensive, launched a month ago, is stalled thanks to Ukrainian resistance. One of the most critical points for Ukraine remains out of the draft, namely the claim of the pro-Russian separatist regions of Donbass and Donetsk. A topic, sources told the Financial Times that could be discussed in a conversation between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian Vladimir Putin.
On the eve of the resumption of negotiations, he slows down the Russian advance on Kiev. Ukrainian forces have claimed to have regained full control of Irpin, the northwestern suburb of the capital which has been at the center of fierce fighting for weeks. “Our Irpin has been freed from the evil of Moscow! Glory to Ukraine”, announced Mayor Olexander Markushin, however asking the inhabitants not to return to their homes yet because the operations to “clean up” are still being completed. the city of mines and there is a risk of bombing by enemy forces. The Ukrainian delegation arrived in Istanbul ahead of the talks.This was announced by Turkish TV Ntv. The negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine will be held behind closed doors from tomorrow starting at 10.30 local time (9.30 in Italy) in the offices of the Turkish presidential residence in the Dolmabahce palace in Istanbul. THE CHRONICLE OF THE DAY LIVE
Listen to “Zelensky:” Ukraine ready for neutrality status “” on Spreaker. Some of the mayors who had been kidnapped by Russian forces were found dead, President Zelenskyi said in an interview with The Economist. “They are kidnapping the mayors of our cities. They killed some of them. We can’t find some of them. We have already found some and they are dead,” said the Ukrainian president.Zelensky lashes the West: ‘You lack the courage’ ZELENSKY WANTS ITALY AMONG THE GUARANTS – “Our president has launched the U24 initiative, United for peace, to create a group of countries capable of giving an answer within 24 hours in case of aggression. According to our president – said the Ukrainian ambassador to Rome, Yaroslav Melnyk -, this group should include the permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, Canada, Turkey and Italy too. I’m happy to see Italy on this list “.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi, during today’s telephone conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky – reports Palazzo Chigi -,reiterated the Italian government’s firm support for the Ukrainian authorities and people and Italy’s full willingness to contribute to international action to end the war and promote a lasting solution to the crisis in Ukraine. And Zelensky, after the telephone conversation with Prime Minister Mario Draghi, on Twitter thanked “the willingness of Italy to join in the creation of a system for security guarantees in support of Ukraine” . Zelensky also thanks Draghi for the humanitarian aid and in terms of defense given by our country to the Ukrainian people. Ukraine, 32nd day of war: BIDEN NELLA BUFERA summary in images– The Kremlin calls Biden’s comments on Putin “alarming”. The American president has called the Russian president a “butcher”. China sees “dialogue and negotiation” as “the only correct way to resolve the Ukrainian question: what all parties must urgently do now is to alleviate the situation, promote talks and end the war, rather than intersecting the conflicts “and the comment of Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. In the evening Biden points out: “I don’t portray anything”. President Joe Biden said this about the sentences about Vladimir Putin, underlining that he expressed “his disdain” for the war in Ukraine and specifying that it was “a personal opinion” and not a ‘ political indication on a possible regime change. Joe Biden does not think his comments on Vladimir Putin will complicate diplomacy to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. He said it himself replying to reporters.Blizzard over Biden’s thrust on Putin, Europe is unmarked
Meanwhile, Germany is considering the purchase of an anti-missile defense system to protect itself from a potential Russian attack, Scholz announced. “It is certainly one of the problems we are discussing, and for good reason – said the German Chancellor -. We must be aware that we have a neighbor who is ready to use violence to assert their interests”. PUTIN AND GAS IN RUBLES – Europe does not want to pay for gas in rubles
Certainly Russia will not distribute its gas for free, “we will not do charity”. This was guaranteed by the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitry Pesko according to the TASS. Peskov was not out of balance on the countermeasures that Moscow could take to the Western refusal to pay for supplies in rubles as requested by the Russian administration referring to unidentified “hostile countries”. “But we will certainly not provide gas for free, that’s for sure. It is almost impossible to do charity in our situation,” Peskov added. WAR– “Our Irpin has been freed from the evil of Moscow! Glory to Ukraine”, said on Telegram the mayor of the city on the outskirts of Kiev, Alexander Markushin. According to the Ukrainian public broadcaster Supsilne News, “the Ukrainian army is cleaning up the city and residents have been asked not to return to their homes yet”. Almost five thousand people died in the Russian siege of Mariupol, including 210 children, says the mayor of the port city in southern Ukraine, Vadym Boychenko, quoted by Ukrinform. The city of Mariupol is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe and must be completely evacuated, He said. For the mayor, about 160,000 civilians are trapped in the city without electricity and 26 buses are waiting to evacuate civilians but Russian forces have not agreed to ensure safe passage. The siege of Mariupol has been ongoing for 28 days. Before the exits from the city were blocked, the mayor added, 140,000 people had fled, while another 150,000 were subsequently evacuated and 30,000 “deported” to Russia or Russian-occupied areas in eastern Ukraine. About 170 thousand people remain blocked in the city. During the siege, the mayor said again, the bombings damaged 2,340 apartment buildings and 61,200 private buildings. Three hospitals were destroyed, another seven were damaged,The Russian military kidnapped a municipal councilor from Melitopo l. This was announced by the mayor, Ivan Fedorov, who was himself kidnapped at the beginning of the month and then released on March 16. The Kyiv Independent reports it. According to the mayor, this is Iryna Shcherbak, head of the education department of the city council.
World kickboxing champion, Maksym Kagal, who died in battle right in Mariupol, was part of Azov’s special forces. Heavy fighting in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions“because unlike other operational areas, Russia does not stop trying to carry out offensive operations there”. This was stated by Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. In Marinka and other cities “there are heavy fighting: the armed forces of Ukraine and other defense forces are successfully defending these settlements” while “other places have now passed under the control of the Russian army but I cannot name them”. According to the defense spokesman, the capture of the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions is “one of Russia’s strategic tasks: to completely conquer these two regions within the administrative borders, so to speak”.
In the last 24, Russian troops have bombed the Kharkiv region more than 200 timeswith artillery and mortars, with multiple rocket launchers and tornadoes with prohibited cluster ammunition. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration of Kharkiv Oleh Synegubov on Telegram, quoted by the Kyiv Independent. From the camp comes news that Russia has withdrawn troops surrounding Kiev after suffering significant casualties, according to the latest Ukrainian army operational report. But the Russian Defense Ministry has released a video showing armored vehicles of the Airborne Forces moving in the Kiev region. In addition, in the last 24 hours, there have been more than 40 bombings by Russian troops in the Kiev region. This was announced by the head of the Kiev regional military administration Oleksandr Pavliuk, as reported by Ukrinform. “The districts of Bucha (community of Irpin, Bucha, Makariv, Borodyan, Dmytriv), Brovarsky (community of Velikodimersk), Vyshgorod (community of Dymersk, Ivankiv) suffered the most damage from the bombing,” he said. The most dangerous directions, according to Pavliuk, are the highway Zhytomyr, Bucha – Irpin – Gostomel, Nemishayeve, the community of Dmytriv, the community of Makariv, north of the Vyshgorod district, the territory of some settlements Baryshivska, Kalityanska, the community of Velikodimerskaya.
He also left the town of Slavutych, largely inhabited by workers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
“The Russian private military company, the Wagner group, has already deployed in eastern Ukraine, we expect them to deploy more than a thousand mercenaries, including senior leaders of the organization, to undertake combat operations.” The British Ministry of Defense tweeted it. ODESSA’S REQUEST TO UNESCO– “Unesco give us a signal, it can be our best defense against the Russian attack”. This is the appeal launched this morning by the mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov meeting some international media. Responding to ANSA which asked him about the possible acceleration of the request by the city to enter the UNESCO World Heritage list, Trukhanov confirmed that he had consulted the Ukrainian government about it. “We are on the pre-list, our documentation was completed 2-3 years ago. It would be a great sign from UNESCO,” explained the mayor. KIEV INVESTIGATES VIDEO OF GAMBIZED RUSSIANS – The Ukrainian government has promised an “immediate investigation”, hitting them in the knees, during an operation in the Kharkiv region: CNN reports. Ukraine, in a video of soldiers shooting some Russian prisoners in the knees MATTARELLA’S APPEAL – “We do not find a rational motivation for this war. We need to stop it now, immediately. We need dialogue and negotiations to end the war immediately”, said the president Sergio Mattarella speaking at the University of Trieste. INTERVENTION THE MASSACRE OF CHILDREN – The toll of children killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion has increased to 143, against 139 yesterday, while the wounded are now 216: Liudmyla Denisova announced this on Telegram, Human Rights Officer of the Ukrainian Parliament,Novaya Gazeta suspends publications – The most important independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta suspends its publications. This was reported by the same newspaper on its website.
