The US is “actively working” on an agreement with Poland to send war jets to Ukraine
New heavy bombing west and north-west of Kiev and the impact of the explosions was felt by CNN teams in Kiev and in the area southwest of the city. Two mortar rounds hit a checkpoint installed to allow civilians to enter the city from the suburbs.
Ukraine: Draghi in Zelensky, solidarity and support, EU membership ok – The Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, today had a new telephone conversation with the Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky, during which the deep friendship between the Italian people and the Ukrainian people and the great solidarity of Italy was reaffirmed against Ukraine. Draghi – reports Palazzo Chigi – condemned Russia’s attacks on civilians and nuclear infrastructures, reaffirmed the Italian will to provide support and assistance to Ukraine and its population and reiterated how Italy supports the membership of the Ukraine to the European family. President Zelensky thanked the Prime Minister Draghi for his closeness and for that of Italy.
Ukraine: Zelensky in conversation with Draghi, focus on Russian aggression and request for EU membership – The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, discussed with the Prime Minister Mario Draghi. It was Zelensky himself who reported it on Twitter, according to which the two talked about activities to counter Russian aggression. “I have provided information on Russia’s crimes against civilians, on nuclear terrorism.” Zelensky said, according to whom “the question of support for Ukraine and the examination of our application for EU membership” was also discussed. |
There would be civilian casualties, even children. The same copinone also in Irpin where the Russian armed forces fired on civilians, killing at least three. The Kyyv Independent writes it. According to this Ukrainian media, Russian troops deliberately targeted a bridge used by civilians to evacuate.
Meanwhile, diplomatic efforts continue. The Russian president, Vladimir Putinand the Turkish one, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have started a telephone conversation about Ukraine. Erdogan said it was necessary to ‘guarantee the ceasefire, open the humanitarian corridors and sign the peace treaty.’ if Kiev will cease its military actions, the Kremlin has announced as reported by Interfax.
The French president Emmanuel Macron and Russian head of state Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone for an hour and 45 minutes. The Kremlin reported. “The call came on the initiative” of Emmanuel Macron. “It lasted from 12:00 to 13:45,” the French presidency said in a message to the press.
Russian President Vladimir Putin assured the French leader, Emmanuel Macron, that Russia has no intention of attacking nuclear power plants and is “ready to comply with the IAEA regulations on plant protection”. The Elysée reports this by reporting the contents of the last phone call between the two leaders.
Compared to the previous telephone conversation last Thursday, President Vladimir Putin appeared today ad Emmanuel Macron “always very determined” in achieving his goals. In particular, Putin reiterated his demands for a negotiation: the “denazification” of Ukraine, its “neutralization”, the recognition of the annexation of Crimea and the independence of the Donbass. These objectives, according to Putin, “if they are not achieved with the negotiations, they will be achieved with military operations”.
The humanitarian corridors from the besieged cities of Mariupol and of Volnovakha, which did not work yesterday, are reopened this morning, according to the deputy commander of the pro-Russian militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk (DPR), Eduard Basurin, quoted by the Russian agency Tass. “In the morning the humanitarian corridors will be reopened a Mariupol it’s at Volnovakha. We still hope that the Ukrainian commands in charge of defending the inhabited regions will order their subordinates to unblock the escape routes (…) so that civilians can leave these populated areas, “Basurin told reporters, according to Tass. Yesterday the leader. Russian Vladimir Putin accused Ukrainian “nationalists” of preventing people from evacuating when humanitarian corridors were in place and Russian Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov asserted that “no one showed up”.
In a speech to the Ukrainians on Sunday morning, the president Volodymyr Zelensky he praised the many forms of resistance that the people chose to oppose the Russian invasion and called his country “a superpower of the spirit”. The country, you said in a video, expressed itself at the “maximum of its possibilities“, soldiers fought but ordinary people also defended cities, hospitals and firefighters. So the president encouraged residents of the occupied areas to protest if possible. In ten days of war, Zelensky said, Ukraine it united “millions of people, who have become one”.
The US is “actively working” on an agreement with Poland to send war jets to Ukraine. The secretary of state said so Antony Blinken at a press conference in Chisinau, Moldova.
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