War-Russia, the Moscow offensive continues near another Ukrainian nuclear power plant. Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko denounces “ruthless attacks” against the city of him. Ukrainian President Zelensky denies having fled his country.
7.42 – “Russia declares a humanitarian corridor and a ceasefire from 10 am Moscow time (8 am in Italy) for the exit of civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha. Humanitarian corridors and exit routes have been agreed with the Ukrainian side “, the Russian Defense Ministry announced.
7.28 – A new meeting of the United Nations Security Council will be held on Monday, this time on the humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from Ukraine. The meeting, requested by the United States and Albania, will be held open doors, with the intervention of the UN coordinator for humanitarian affairs, Martin Griffiths, and the executive director of UNICEF, Catherine Russell.
7.25 am – S&P Dow Jones will remove all Russian stocks from its indices in response to the invasion of Ukraine. The change, the company said, will take place before the start of trading on 9 March and will be applied to all securities listed or domiciled in Russia and to all deposit receipts. Furthermore, the country will be reclassified as an autonomous market, losing its ’emerging’ status. The decision, says S&P Dow Jones, was made following a consultation with other companies operating on the market.
7.09 am – “I didn’t run away, I’m here in Kiev in my place.” Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky thus responded, with a video on Instagram, to the statements of the Russians, who gave him on the run. “Every two days there comes information that I have fled somewhere, that I have fled from Ukraine, from Kiev, from my office – he said – As you can see, I am here in my place, Andriy Borisovich (Yermak, the head of the presidential office) is here. Nobody has escaped anywhere, we’re here to work. “
Then the president allowed himself a joke: “We like jogging, but we don’t have time to do it, to do cardio exercises. Let’s work, glory to Ukraine.”
HOURS 7.02 – Russian forces are approaching the second largest lde power plant in the country, they are “about twenty miles (32 km) away”. The American ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield denounced it during the night, without indicating the name of the plant. According to Energoatom, the Ukrainian supervisory body for nuclear power plants, the second largest plant in the country is that of Yuzhnoukrainsk, in the Mykolaiv region, in southern Ukraine.
Last night, Russian forces attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
HOURS 6.53 – Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko denounces “ruthless attacks” against his city, under siege for days by the forces, speaking of “another difficult day”. Boychenko has called for the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow the arrival of groceries and food.
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