Nfter another night of war, Ukraine is preparing for a new round of negotiations with Russia on a ceasefire. Fighting and war rhetoric continued unabated on Saturday night. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bitterly reproached NATO for not wanting to get involved militarily in the conflict. In a live broadcast of solidarity demos in Europe, Zelenskyy said: “If Ukraine falls, everyone will fall.”
The war events
According to the Ukrainian army, Russian troops continue their offensive with air support and the use of high-precision weapons. The Russian side is trying to encircle the capital Kyiv and the metropolis Kharkiv, it said on Saturday night. In the east, Moscow wants to create a land corridor from the separatist areas of Luhansk and Donetsk to the Crimean Peninsula, which is annexed by Russia.
The city of Mariupol with 440,000 inhabitants was also under pressure. Mayor Wadym Boitschenko spoke on Telegram on Saturday night of a “blockade” and said he hoped for a humanitarian corridor out of the city.
The Russian military said it then ordered a ceasefire on humanitarian corridors for Mariupol and for the city of Volnovakha so that civilians could leave the encircled cities, the Russian Defense Ministry said, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. “The humanitarian corridors and routes out have been coordinated with the Ukrainian side,” the ministry said in Moscow. According to Ukrainian sources, the ceasefire has been set for seven hours from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. CET to allow the city to be evacuated and civilians to get to safety. The evacuation was to begin at 10:00 a.m.
Ukrainian forces continue to claim they are repelling attacks and inflicting defeat on opponents. The account cannot be independently verified, nor can Russian information. The Russian news agency Tass reported that the Ukrainian army had shelled two settlements in the self-declared People’s Republic of Luhansk three times within 24 hours. Details on possible victims or damage are not yet available.
Important western media stop reporting from Russia
Reliable information about the war is likely to become even more sparse. In response to a new media law in Russia, several international broadcasters and news agencies have suspended all or part of their work there, including CNN, the BBC, Canadian broadcaster CBC and Bloomberg. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed several laws on Friday evening, according to which “false information” about the Russian armed forces could be imprisoned. In the Ukrainian war zone, on the other hand, journalists are in danger. A TV crew from British broadcaster Sky News came under fire near Kyiv.
Third round of negotiations between the warring parties
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