Apr 24, 2022 11:16 p.m
Meeting between Zelensky and Blinken underway
The US Secretary of State Anton Blinken arrived in Kyiv and has a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This was announced by an adviser to the Ukrainian President. The head of the Pentagon is also taking part in the talks with Zelenskyy lloyd austin, which arrived in Kyiv together with Blinken. He reported it Oleksiy ArestovychAdvisor to the President of Ukraine.
Apr 24, 2022 11:15 p.m
Ukrainian authorities: “Russians preparing attack on Zelenskyy’s hometown”
“The Russians are preparing an attack on Kryvyi Rih,” the hometown of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Dnipro Oblast in south-central Ukraine. The head of the local administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, raised the alarm and was quoted by the Kiev Independent as saying that the offensive is expected in the next few days and that the city is “absolutely ready” to defend itself.
Apr 24, 2022 11:13 p.m
Zakharova: “8 years of massacres in Donbass, but the West is indifferent”
First, Western countries backed a 2014 “coup d’état” in Kyiv, then “ignored the massacre perpetrated by Ukrainian forces for eight years Donbass, where 13,000 people were killed”. The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said: Maria Zakharova, interviewed in Zona Bianca on Rete 4, reiterates that Russian troops intervened against Ukraine to defend the population of Donbass. “In Italy and other Western countries, nobody bothered,” the spokesman continued, “and France and Germany, which are part of the Normandy format and were its guarantors Minsk agreements, they failed to enforce them. If the EU had at least decided on a sanction against Kyiv, things would have been different at this point. But you did nothing and continued to send billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine. Ukraine took this as a sign of absolute impunity and legitimacy of its actions in Donbass”.
The spokesman added that Moscow has handed over “the evidence of mass graves in Donbass” to Italy, where the victims of the massacres carried out by Ukrainian forces are buried. “But did you hear about it?” he added.
Apr 24, 2022 11:12 p.m
Zakharova: “Ukraine is stepping on the gas, but is calling on the EU not to do so”
“We have always supplied gas to Europe through Ukraine’s territory, we still do, and Ukraine is letting it through, while Zelenskyy is asking Europe to stop importing,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said was interviewed in the Zona Bianca on Rete 4.
April 24, 2022 23:11
Zakharova: “NATO bombers on Yugoslavia have flown out of Italy”
“For 70 days in 1999, NATO bombed civilian cities in Yugoslavia and planes left their airports in Italy. What reason did NATO and the West have for bombing Yugoslavia or attacking Iraq or Libya? The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said this evening: Maria Zakharovainterviewed in Zona Bianca on Rete 4, answers the question why Russia attacked and bombed Ukraine.
Apr 24, 2022 11:10 p.m
Kuleba: “The Ukrainian struggle like the Italian resistance”
“I am convinced that one day in Ukraine there will be a national holiday for the victory over the Nazis, as happened in Europe. We are on the right side of history, just like the Italian resistance.” This is what Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Che tempo che fa on Rai 3.
Apr 24, 2022 11:09 p.m
Biden: “After 2 months, Ukraine is still resisting, we continue to support them”
“Two months after Putin launched his unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine, Kyiv is still standing. President Zelenskyy and his democratically elected government remain in power,” Joe Biden tweeted, promising that the US would continue to “support Ukrainians in their struggle to defend their homeland.”
Apr 24, 2022 11:08 p.m
Ukraine proposes talks with Russia in Mariupol
Ukraine has proposed talks with Russia near Azovstal a Mariupol. This was announced by the Ukrainian Council Presidency. “We invited the Russians to hold a special session right next to the Azovstal site,” Oleksiy Arestovitch, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said at a briefing, explaining that he was “waiting for an answer” from the Russian delegation.
Apr 24, 2022 11:07 p.m
Financial Times: Putin has “lost interest” in the negotiations.
Vladimir Putin has lost interest in negotiations to end the war with Ukraine while he appears intent on seizing as much Ukrainian territory as possible, the Financial Times writes, citing three people who are familiar with the Russian president’s talks have been informed. Putin has reportedly seriously considered a peace deal with Ukraine following Russia’s fighting on the ground last month, but now peace efforts have stalled, particularly after what happened to the Russian ship Moskva. “He needs to find a way to get to the top,” said one of the sources.
Apr 24, 2022 11:06 p.m
Kyiv: 5 Russian missiles hit infrastructure in Poltava
Five Russian missiles hit infrastructure in the Poltava region of central Ukraine. This was announced by the head of the regional military administration Dmitry Lunin, UNIAN agency reports: “The alarm is still on, we are not going outside,” added Lunin.