Rome, March 26, 2022 The war in Ukraine continues despite diplomatic attempts to stop the Russian invasion. The population of several Ukrainian cities this morning was like other mornings woken up by antiaircraft sirens. In the afternoon the US President Joe Biden In Warsaw he went on the offensive: “Putin wants to bring us back horror of the world war” Moscow’s actions “threaten to bring decades of war”. Then Biden “evicted the Kremlin tenant: “A dictator cannot stay in power.” Moscow’s response was immediate: “It’s not because of that It’s up to him to decide who rules Russia. But that came shortly after White House brakes. “The significance of what the President said is that Putin must not be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He didn’t talk about Putin’s power in Russia or regime change,” an official told the media.
From the battlefield: return itNuclear Nightmare. In the evening, the Ukrainian parliament reported on Twitter about “a Russian attack on a Research Center Nuclear power in Kharkiv“, in the east of the country. “At the moment it is impossible to estimate the extent of the damage caused by the hostilities that do not stop in the area of the nuclear site,” said the nuclear control agency, quoted by the Rada.
president Zelensky in one new video quoted by the Kyiv Independent, he returned to ask the West for new help: “It’s impossible save Mariupol without other tanks and planes “.
In the afternoon, a spokesman for the regional military administration spoke of it “Three powerful explosions near Lvivfrom the side of Kryvchytsy “. It would have been a hit fuel depotThe city’s mayor Andriy Sadovy said on Telegram, adding that no civilian houses were hit. The first budget is 5 injured.
The BBC reports alerts in Kyiv, Cherkassy, Kropyvnytskyi, Zaporizhia, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv and Sumy. But the Russian advance has stalled, and in some areas it is being plagued by the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Thus, according to British intelligence, Moscow has increased the bombing to weaken the resistance, and it hits randomly even urban areas.
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Meanwhile, the shadow of human trafficking, With Thousands of Refugees, It’s Growing: Interpol has received reports of traffickers stationed at checkpoints to exploit the “most vulnerable” people, such as unaccompanied children. A team of international police officers is already in Moldova to check on what some 380,000 people have already arrived in since the Russian invasion began.
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Summary
The American President Joe Biden In Warsaw he addressed Putin with very harsh words: “A dictator cannot stay”. “It mustn’t even think about” touching even an inch of NATO territory. “We have a sacred obligation” in Article 5 of the Covenant Treaty. He called him “a dictator trying to rebuild an empire”. “For God’s sake Biden declared this man cannot remain in power”, hinting at regime change in Russia for the first time.
The US President quoted san John Paul II “do not be afraid” adding that i American soldiers They will not go to Ukraine because it is not a NATO country. “This war he added is already a strategic failure for Russia. lost a son“I know there is no peace for those who have lost a family member.” Then he turned to Russian citizens: “You are not our enemies, but Putin erased you from history”.
In the morning, the US President met the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense, Dmytro Kuleba and Oleksii Reznikov in a hotel in Warsaw. Then he went to the Presidential Palace to meet the President of Poland Andrzej Duda.
At the meeting with ministers, the White House said Biden had promised Kuleba “Further efforts to help Ukraine to defend his territory “, and he assured that he will do everything because Russian President Vladimir Putin “Response for the brutal attackincluding new sanctions. Biden himself said, “What is happening in Ukraine is changing the entire 21st century, which he underscored USA “will always be with Ukraine until victory”, the Polish media report. With the refugees he defined Putin “a butcher”.
Since the morning the antiaircraft sirens have been ringing in Kyiv, then in the center of the country in Cherkassy and Kropyvnytskyi. In the southeast in Zaporizhia and Dnipro, people in emergency shelters, also in Zhytomyr in the east and in Kharkiv and Sumy in the northeast, the BBC reports, citing local media. The Ukrainian Defense Forces resistance in the capital, reports the General Staff, which emphasizes how heavy the Russians are for the losses suffered (in Kyiv, the new curfew was lifted). In addition, the effects of international sanctions are also being felt on the troops. But that does not end the war: in these hours we fight in Konotop, Okhtyrka and Sumy districts from the Sumy region in the east, says the head of the regional military administration, Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, on social media. Zhyvytskyi also denounced: “As you know, some of our communities are under the control of the Russians. In these areas there is terror and it’s in progress a genocide against the Ukrainians”.
A standstill of the ground forces, which the Kremlin solves the increase in airstrikes and artillery “to demoralize Ukraine’s defences,” according to British intelligence, which also notes an increase when using drones by the Russian army. In addition, to compensate for the huge losses, Moscow would transport means and troops of the contingent stationed in Georgia. But Kyiv does not give up and today it can also count on a delivery of 1,500 Strela antiaircraft missiles and 100 MG3 machine guns arrived from Germany, according to the BBC and The Kyiv Independent.
According to the Telegram Ukraine Now channel, the Russian loss tariff amounts to to 16,400 men, since the beginning of the conflict. Destroyed by it 575 tanks, 1,640 armored vehicles, 117 aircraft, 127 helicopters and 1,131 cars and 7 ships destroyed. Ko also 293 artillery systems, 91 rocket launchers, 51 air defense vehicles, two Otrk launchers and 56 UAVs. According to western intelligence the Kremlin lost eight senior military officials: seven killed and one removed. Here is the list. Major General Andrey Mordvich: killed Major General Oleg Mityaev: killed Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev: killed Major General Vitaliy Gerasimov: killed Major General Generae Andrei Sukhovetsky: killed Major General Andrey Kolesnikov: killed General Magomed Tuschaev: killed in action General Vlaislav Yershov: fired.
That said Vladislav Nazarov, an officer with the Ukraine Southern Operations Command Russian troops wanted with motor boats from disembark a group of saboteurs in Odessa, but they were rejected.
Guardian envoy Daniel Boffey also describes columns of smoke rising on the horizon. According to Boffey, Lemberg was hit by three rockets, one of which landed near the city’s communications tower. A spokesman for the regional military administration spoke of “three massive explosions near Lviv, on the Kryvchytsy side”. It seems that one of the goals could have been one refinery about a kilometer and a half from the city center. The governor of the region, Maksym Kozytskyy, quoted by the Kiyv Independent, then specified this five people were injured in the explosion of two rockets. The government added that residential buildings were hit.
The Russian army has also secured reinforcements from Lebanese Islamic extremists. Hezbollah He agreed to send 800 fighters to Ukraine to fight alongside Putin’s men. According to the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Islamic paramilitaries have been promised $1,500 a month. They will take part in shouldertoshoulder operations with the Russian private military company Wagner. More soldiers from the “Party of God” will arrive in Belarus.
The first to pay for wars are civilians, and the invasion of Ukraine counts deaths to this day at least 136 children, with 199 other injured children. This was announced by the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine on Facebook. The United Nations denounced yesterday 1,081 confirmed deaths among civilians and in addition to 1,707 injured since the clashes began. And Matilda Bogner, head of the United Nations Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, says the UN has received a “growing” number of confirmations of the existence of mass graves in the city of Mariupol, including “satellite information” on one. mass graves. According to the World Health Organization, hitting health facilities has become part of the war strategy: more than 70 attacks on hospitals, ambulances and doctors in Ukraine, a number that is increasing “every day”. The deputy mayor of Kharkiv posted pictures of the damage to the central hospital in Izyum, south of the city: “After the first bombing, the hospital windows blew up,” he told the BBC. “A second attack destroyed the hospital’s operating rooms.”
In Kherson the intense bombings did fail on the first try the OSCE of evacuate a group of people this morning. The humanitarian convoy was supposed to go to Odessa but had to return because it was attacked by a Russian bomber. In the convoy were women and children. Today the agreements for the establishment of 10 humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from cities. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk, He said it on national television. Only in Mariupol civilians have to leave the besieged city on board private cars because the Russians don’t let buses pass.
Probably Volodymyr Zelenskyj, with a past as an actorIn the Oscar night He had long dreamed of taking part, but he never imagined doing so as head of state of an occupied country. Thus, after addressing the most important Western parliaments, the Ukrainian President will now recount the horrors of war even on the most glamorous evening of the year in Los Angeles. Zelenskyin is indeed in touch with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a brief appearance, writes the New York Post. But not everything has been decided yet, in LA there is even a discussion about whether the ceremony should remain apolitical. However, it is known that Mila Kunis, an actress of Ukrainian descent, together with her husband Ashton Kutcher, has raised 35 million euros for refugees and will launch an appeal.
The Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoiguresurfaced at a meeting in Moscow, where he argued that it must be held “Nuclear forces combat ready strategically. Shoigu, one of the three people in possession of the bomb codes atomic, had vanished into thin air for several days. So much so that there was talk of either an illness or a purge of Putin. According to Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, the Russian defense minister is said to have suffered a heart attack “because he hasn’t appeared in public since midMarch.”