during a Lviv the trilateral meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Recep Tayyip Erdoganand the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterresthe Russia announces that he has been transferred to the exclave of Kaliningradin the heart of Europe, between the Poland and the Lithuaniathree fighter planes MiG-31 equipped with hypersonic missiles. The Ministry of Defense states that “three Mig-31 with hypersonic missiles Kinzhal were transferred from the air base Chkalovsk“And they will be Alert “24 hours a day” in the event of a military escalation. An announcement that smacks of warning that the Federation is ready to resort to the use of its hypersonic missiles, having already broadcast those Iskander always in the little wedge of land on the Baltic.
A move that increases tension as CNN Turk reports it citing Russian sources instead Wladimir Putin He opened up the option of meeting Zelenskyy for the first time, the first since the conflict began. “First the leaders can negotiate and set the roadmap” to end the war, “at which point the delegations can start working on implementing the roadmap,” they say. For his part, Erdogan said: “We are ready to play our role as mediators and mediators with the aim of restarting negotiations”. And he added that he will personally inform Putin about the results of the talks.
Meanwhile, from the Lviv summit, Zelenskyy’s inquiry about the situation at headquarters Zaporizhia. Following the exchange of accusations between Moscow and Kyiv about responsibility for the bombing of the plant and the federal request for an inspection of the plantInternational Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea), today it is the President of Ukraine who directly tells the UN Secretary-General that the United Nations must “Ensuring the safety” of the structure. “Particular attention was paid to the topic Russian nuclear blackmail at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. Therefore, the United Nations must guarantee the security of this strategic location, its demilitarization and complete liberation from Russian troops, “the Ukrainian President wrote on Telegram, adding that during the conversation the parties agreed to continue the “coordination” of the agreement that this enabled unlock the grain exports from Ukraine. For his part, Guterres stated that “any potential harm to Zaporizhia is suicide. Common sense must prevail to avoid any action that could endanger the physical integrity or safety of the nuclear power plant. An agreement is urgently needed to re-establish Zaporizhia as a purely civilian infrastructure and to ensure the security of the area”. Erdoğan, on the other hand, said he “expressed our concern about the ongoing conflict over the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which we do not want to live new Chernobyl“. During the Trilaterals, an agreement was also signed between Ankara and Kyiv for the infrastructure reconstruction destroyed during the war.
Meanwhile, the Russian advance to the east continues. It rose 12 dead the toll of the attack by Russian forces last night on a three-story apartment building in the Saltivskyi a Kharkiv. Four people were rescued from the rubble and rescue operations are ongoing. This morning, another 4 people died in two other attacks in the region of eastern Ukraine.