Posted on: 03/05/2022 – 01:02 Modified on: 03/05/2022 – 01:05
On the tenth day of the invasion of Ukraine on Saturday, March 5, Russian troops continued their offensive, and bombings were registered in several cities in the country yesterday. On Friday, the principle of organizing humanitarian corridors was resolved after talks between Russians and Ukrainians. The UN Security Council is currently meeting urgently from 4.30 pm UT.
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► New emergency meeting of UN Security Council takes place this Friday. Another will take place on Monday on humanitarian issues.
► The BBC and the American news agency Bloomberg have stopped the work of all its journalists in Russia to guarantee their “security” after the adoption of a law providing for sentences of imprisonment in case of dissemination of “false information about the army” and blocking its Russian-language website.
► Yesterday at most major European nuclear power plant, that of Zaporozhye, was occupied by the Russians. A fire broke out there, according to a factory spokesman, after the Russian attack. Hours later, security was reportedly “guaranteed” by the IAEA, and Ukrainian emergency services said they had “extinguished” the fire.
► Russia has grown his blows in Ukrainian cities. One killed 47 people in Chernihiv in the northern part of the country. The Russians took control of Kherson, a city of 290,000 near Crimea. Further east, in Mariupol, the mayor accuses Russia of wanting to besiege the city.
► More than 1.2 million refugees have already fled the fighting, according to a new UN report. There are thousands on Ukraine’s borders waiting to cross into neighboring countries.
► Russia’s editorial website RFI already broadcasts Ukrainian public radio live (in Ukrainian) from the home page.
Times are given in Universal Time (UT)
2 hours 30 minutes: The strategic port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine has been the subject of a “blockade” by the Russian military and “ruthless” attacks, the mayor said on Saturday, calling for a humanitarian corridor. “For now, we are looking for solutions to humanitarian problems and all possible ways to get Mariupol out of the blockade,” Vadim Boychenko said in a statement published in the mayor’s office’s Telegram account. “Our priority is to establish a ceasefire so that we can restore vital infrastructure and create a humanitarian corridor to bring food and medicine into the city,” he added. Control of Mariupol is strategic for Russia because it will allow it to ensure territorial continuity between its Crimean forces and those of the pro-Russian separatist territories of Donbass.
A pregnant woman and her children are sitting on a bench in a sports center turned into an improvised bomb shelter, in Mariupol, on February 28, 2022. The strategic port city of Ukraine, it is subject to “blockade” of the Russian army on March 5, 2022, according to the mayor of the city. AP – Eugene Maloletka
1:30: Among the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Ukraine, African citizens have lived, worked or studied in this country. Such is the case with Boniface, a Congolese who studied for four years in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. The young man managed to leave the country, which is at war, to enter Romania. He now hopes to join part of his family living in Germany. In front of the microphone of our special correspondent in Romania, Nicholas Falezhe says his affection for Ukraine, which he knows and loves.
The deep aspiration of Ukrainians is to be able to be recognized as Europeans, because Ukraine is a democracy, a free country that shares the values of a free world.
Boniface, a Congolese student in Kyiv, a refugee in Romania
00:03: The UN Security Council will meet again urgently on Monday at 15:00 (20:00 UT) on the humanitarian crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine in Russia, at the request of the United States and Albania, diplomatic sources said on Friday. This public session will be followed by closed-door consultations between the 15 members of the Security Council, this time at the request of Mexico and France, at the initiative of a draft resolution that remains unfulfilled, a diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity.