The ceasefire in Ukraine, which in the previous hours gave hope of a de-escalation, ended ingloriously, while the fighting broke out again.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been in full swing for 10 days with the Russians laying siege to Mariupol and the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, where sirens sounded again late at night. After several days of bombing, Russia announced this morning that it was advancing a ceasefire and opening humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians trapped in Mariupol and neighboring Volnovacha, which is also besieged. But then the Ukrainians postponed the evacuation, saying the Russians are violating the ceasefire, something the latter denied.
All this at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin has unleashed new threats against everything, stressing, among other things, that “Western sanctions are equivalent to war”, while saying that Ukraine is risking the future of the state. .
Earlier, Ukrainian President Zhelensky, speaking with US senators, had made a dramatic appeal for immediate assistance to Ukraine.
They are “beating” Borodyanka, near Kiev.
Oleksay Kuleba, head of the Kiev Regional State Administration, said the city of Borodyanka, northwest of Kiev, had been “almost completely destroyed”.
“There is no water or electricity there… There is no Borodyanka. It has been almost completely destroyed. The city center is horrible. “Borodyanka is under the influence of Russian troops: they control this settlement.” the Ukrainian official said, as reported by CNN.
Thousands wait for a train to leave
At the same time, in Dnipro, thousands of people are waiting for a train to flee to the west and escape the bombing.
It is the first time that so many people have tried to leave the city where, according to official television channels, the situation remains under control. Residents, however, say they won’t wait for Dnipro to become “the next Kharkiv,” the city in northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border that has been bombed since the start of the war. In addition to residents of Dnipro, there are many from Kharkiv and Zaporizhia waiting to board a train. Since vacancies fill up quickly, some wait days.
Russian forces occupy a psychiatric clinic near Kiev
At the same time, Russian forces took control of a psychiatric clinic in the city of Borodyanka. 670 people are being treated there, regional Kuleba said, speaking to local media.
“We don’t know how to get rid of these people, how to help them.” Kuleba said. “They ran out of water and medicine,” he said. “They are people with disabilities, they need constant help, many of them have been bedridden for years.”
Fears for those trapped in the rubble of an apartment building
Following the rocket attack on a large apartment building in Borodyanka on March 2, Ukraine’s state emergency service told the US network that people may be trapped in the building’s rubble. Borodyanka has been under constant shelling in recent days, as have the small towns around it.
“Urgent need” to evacuate Mariupol
It is an “urgent need” to quickly evacuate Mariupol, the Ukrainian city besieged by the Russian army and its allies because the humanitarian situation is “catastrophic”, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF). “The situation in Mariupol is catastrophic and is deteriorating day by day,” said Laurent Ligozat, the NGO’s coordinator in Ukraine.
«Today there is no water. People are having a hard time finding drinking water. There is no electricity, no heating. “Food is running out, shops are empty,” said Ligozat, from Lviv, in western Ukraine.
Doctors Without Borders had a staff of 450,000 at this port before the Russian invasion last week. Their teams are still there, but they have been blocked for several days.
“For several days, nothing has simply entered or left the city,” Ligozat said, urging all parties to the conflict to allow civilians to leave. “It is imperative that this humanitarian corridor, which should have existed today but was not opened because the ceasefire was not observed, be implemented very soon so that citizens, women and children can leave the city,” he insisted.
Moscow: Russian forces carry out a “wide attack”
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian forces were carrying out a large-scale offensive in Ukraine and had occupied many towns and villages, Reuters reported, citing the Russian Interfax news agency. According to the source, four Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jets were shot down in an air battle near Zhytomyr, a city some 100 kilometers west of Kiev.
The Tass news agency, always according to Reuters, reports that since the beginning of the war, on February 24, Russian forces have destroyed 69 aircraft on the ground and 21 in the air.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister: We want new sanctions against Russia – “Russian oil smells of Ukrainian blood”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said in a speech today that his country wants tougher sanctions against Russia.
Ukraine’s sanctions against the Kremlin, he said, “include the banning of the Russian bank Sberbank from the SWIFT system, the closure of European ports to Russian ships, the closure of Russia’s access to cryptocurrencies, and the suspension of “oil markets”. Russians,” Kuleba said.
Russian oil “smells of Ukrainian blood today,” the foreign minister said, adding that “its market finances Russian war crimes.” He reiterated Ukraine’s call for international allies to protect Ukrainian airspace from “barbaric Russian bombing” and provide his country with “warplanes, missiles and weapons.”
The third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine will take place on Monday, Ukrainian sources, including a Ukrainian negotiator, said tonight.
source: iefi merida
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