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Sunday, March 20, 2022 9:33 p.m
The scariest news Russian invasion of Ukraine they come from Mariupolin the southeast of the country where a Russian bombing raid would have destroyed an art school where, as the mayor reports, 400 people would have been trapped under its ruins. An attack that adds to the Bombing a Maternity and to Theater bombing where there would be around 1,000 refugees, although at the moment only 130 have been rescued.
As Kyivbased journalist Alberto Sicilia explains, the situation in Mariupol is “a real tragedy”. He also predicts that “The city will fall in the next few daysbecause they have already seen each other Videos of downtown fighting. In fact, the Russian army would have ordered the Ukrainian troops into Mariupol deliver the weapons within the next 24 hoursunder threat of finishing off the soldiers if they don’t.
“The organized withdrawal from the city will take place as follows: from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., all Ukrainian armed units and foreign mercenaries without weapons and ammunition can leave the city on a route agreed with Ukraine,” said Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center .
Those who resist there say what they experienced is not even a tenth of what we see. They take care of that it’s like the city was “wiped off the face of the earth”. This is confirmed by Olena, a Ukrainian from Burgos who is trying to find out the status of her family and relatives who are still in the city. He has not heard from his brother or many other relatives since the 28th.
But the city council has also denounced the Russian troops bring their citizens to Russia“kidnapped”, deported against their will.
The city has been under siege by Russian forces for weeks and it has been virtually impossible to get humanitarian aid to them. The people who resist there do so without food, in many cases without electricity or even water.
Zelenskyi, closely following the progress of the Russian invasion, has stated that “Mariupol will go down in history for its war crimes. “What they did to a peaceful city is an act of terrorism that will be remembered for a century.” They share a position that views Russian attacks in the region as war crimes United States and the European Union.
The bombings do not stop at the capital Kyiv, where a tenstory apartment building on the outskirts of the city was destroyed this Sunday. Firefighters rescued several neighbors and at least five people were injured. From the beginning of the offensive 228 people died in Kyiv, including four children.
At Khersonsouth of Ukraine, ordinary citizens have challenged with protests Russian rule over the city. They confronted military vehicles and eventually drove them out of the area. during of Berdianks, also under Russian control, images have arrived of a soldier kicking a protester who had just been arrested. And screaming, hundreds of people invited in energize the release of its mayor kidnapped by the Russian army.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian armed forces in the region Lugansk have accused the Russian army bomb a nursing home from a tank in the city of Kreminna, killing at least 56 people.
Zelensky “ready” to negotiate with Putin
This is what the Ukrainian President said in an interview on CNN is “ready” to negotiate with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and end the war, though If talks fail, he warns, World War III will begin.
Zelensky also made that clear is not ready to recognize the independence of Donbass and Russian sovereignty over Crimeatwo of the Kremlin’s demands to end the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia pursues freedom of speech
In Russia, ending freedom of expression is another goal of this war. Amnesty International estimates that 150 journalists have left the country under the law, which provides for 15year jail sentences for false news reports about the invasion.
In addition, there are dozens of international media outlets that have shut down their information about the war. A situation that has turned black in almost all of Russia’s independent press.
The result is an isolated population, because the Kremlin knows it an informed society with its own criteria could undermine their power and your picture.
Spain says ‘no to Putin’s war’
this weekend There have been new demonstrations in Spain against the invasion of Ukraine. In Madrid, around 800 people walked through the center of the capital under the motto “No to Putin’s war”.
Barcelona has once again focused on the Plaza Cataluña. And in Bilbao, among the participants, refugees who have arrived in the Basque Country in recent days have asked to close Ukraine’s airspace and economically drown Russia so that Putin cannot continue to fund this invasion.