According to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, the Russian armed forces are focused on the complete “liberation” of Donbas. In general, the storming of the barricaded cities of Ukraine is not ruled out.
9:37 on March 26, 2022
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Four weeks after the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army appears to be struggling in some sectors of the front, but is making progress in others. Ukrainian troops recaptured cities and defenses up to 35 kilometers east of Kiev, according to British sources. On the other hand, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the Russian troops may have managed to build a land bridge from the Donetsk region in the east to the Crimean peninsula.
According to a Russian agency report, the Russian Defense Ministry said it destroyed a large fuel depot near the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, as a result of a rocket attack. In a highly contested city in eastern Ukraine Kharkov should according to the police? A clinic from the Russian shelling have been hit. be there killed four people left. Two rockets also hit a Ukrainian military unit near the city of Dnieper. The region’s governor spoke of “severe damage.”
Surrounded by Slavutych
There is a small town ahead Sławutycz According to local authorities, the north of Kiev is surrounded by Russian troops. According to the statement, the attackers are located just outside the city limits. Workers involved in the maintenance of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant live in Sławutycz. In addition, Russian troops should also enter the city Chernihiv in northern Ukraine and cut them off from the surrounding area. The governor agrees Viatscheslaw Tschhaus on TV with.
According to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, the Russian armed forces are focused on the complete “liberation” of Donbas. According to the Russian news agency Ifax, an attack on the barricaded Ukrainian cities cannot be ruled out in general. In the case of the “special operation” in Ukraine, the ministry considered two options: either within the separatist areas of Donbas or throughout the territory of Ukraine.
The missile problem
However, according to American information, Russia has huge problems with its precisely guided missiles. The high-tech weapons used in the attack on Ukraine had a failure rate of up to 60 percent, US officials said, citing intelligence information to Reuters. According to the Russian General Staff, 1,351 Russian soldiers were killed in Ukraine and 3,825 were injured. None of this information can be independently verified.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government is counting on the opening of an evacuation corridor for the encircled port city Mariupol this Friday. It should concern the civilian population who can leave south-eastern Ukraine in a private vehicle, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Wierieszczuk. Numerous vehicles are ready for evacuation in nearby Berdyansk. “Currently there are 48 buses,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Wereszczuk said on Friday in the video. There is also a tanker for refueling private vehicles in the city, about 70 kilometers from Mariupol.
agreed corridor
For the onward flight there is a corridor with the Russian side to a large city Zaporizhia agreed. In addition, there is an agreement on a different escape route from Russian-occupied Melitopol to Zaporizhia. Mariupol, once inhabited by 400,000, is one of the Ukrainian cities hardest hit by Russian attacks.
In a video broadcast, the Ukrainian president demanded: Volodymyr Zelenskiy again that the West needs to help its country more. At Thursday’s summits in Brussels, NATO, the G7 and the EU called on Russia to end the fighting immediately. On the second day of the summit, EU Heads of State and Government first discussed the issue of the deployment of war refugees and then want to consider how to respond to high energy prices.
Three goals from Russia
Ukraine and Western countries talk about the aggressive war and the Russian invasion of a neighboring country, which began on February 24. In turn, Russia describes its activities in Ukraine as: A special operation to destroy military bases and the demilitarization and “denazification” of Ukraine.
According to both sides, peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine turn out to be very difficult. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba Kuleba he said: “The negotiation process is very difficult.” Moscow accused Kyiv of deliberately dragging out negotiations to end the war. “They are taking their time, they believe that time is on their side,” said the head of the Russian delegation Vladimir Miedinski on Friday, according to the TASS agency.
Ukraine “not independent”
The Ukrainian side does not work independently, argued Miediński. “Therefore, the current state of affairs is not optimistic.” Moscow accuses Kyiv of acting on Washington’s orders. “There is no movement in the basic positions that the Russian side insists on,” said an advisor to President Vladimir Putin.
Russia wants to sign a comprehensive treaty that takes into account Moscow’s “vital” demands. These included the neutral status of Ukraine, the “demilitarization” and “denazification” of the country, and the recognition of the annexed Black Sea peninsula in Crimea as the Russian and East Ukrainian separatist areas of Luhansk and Donetsk as independent states.
Kuleba said no agreement was reached on the four points raised by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to Russian news agencies, Miediński also said: “On secondary issues, the positions are consistent. But we are not making progress on the main political issues. ” Erdogan said earlier that Russia and Ukraine could agree on four of the six main issues discussed in their talks.
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