According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian units were repelled from the town of Irpin, near Kiev, which had been fought over for weeks. However, fighting continued there and in other parts of the country. Russian troops controlled the north of the Kiev region, had resources and strength. They tried to rebuild destroyed units. The situation also remains “very difficult” in the regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donbass and southern Ukraine. Selenskyj again called for tougher sanctions against Russia over the war of aggression that began more than a month ago.
According to their own statements, the Ukrainian armed forces are trying to avoid attacks by Russian units in several places. The Russian advance on the city of Slovjansk in the southeastern Donetsk region and on the small town of Barvinkove in the Kharkiv region, about an hour’s drive away, would be in the process of being arrested, according to the report. of the situation of the Ukrainian General Staff, which was published on Tuesday night on Facebook became.
Kremlin Spokesperson: No Pay – No Gas
After the EU refused to pay for gas deliveries in rubles, Russia continues to threaten to stop deliveries. “No pay – no gasoline,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told PBS. Moscow wants to wait for the EU’s final response and then determine next steps. “But we definitely don’t intend to present ourselves as benefactors and deliver free gas to Western Europe,” Peskov said. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin ordered that natural gas could only be delivered to “hostile” states like Germany for payment in rubles. This has already been rejected by some countries with reference to breach of contract.
Kremlin: No plans to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine war
At the same time, Kremlin spokesman Peskov brushed off speculation that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war. “Nobody in Russia is thinking about using or even thinking about using nuclear weapons,” he said in the PBS interview. Russia only resorts to the nuclear arsenal if there is a “threat to the existence” of the state. Russia’s state existence and the events in Ukraine “have nothing to do with each other”. Concern in the West about Moscow’s possible nuclear weapons plans increased when Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces to be on alert at the start of Ukraine’s war of aggression.
Biden: Don’t Withdraw Statement on Putin
US President Joe Biden maintains his controversial statement about Putin in the Ukraine war, but does not want it to be understood as a call for a change of power in Moscow. “I’m not taking anything back,” Biden said at the White House. “People like that shouldn’t run countries, but they do. But the fact that they are doing this doesn’t mean I can’t express my outrage.” This is not associated with a call for a change of power in the Kremlin. Biden called Putin a “dictator” during a speech in Warsaw on Saturday night and concluded with the words: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
Half a million Ukrainians have returned since the beginning of the war
According to the Ukrainian border police, around 510,000 people have returned from abroad since the start of the Russian war of aggression. Last week alone, there were 110,000 people, said a spokesman for the authority of the daily newspaper “Welt”. Eight out of ten travelers are men. Most come from Poland. Before the start of the war, about 44 million people lived in Ukraine. According to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, some 3.9 million people have fled abroad.
IAEA: Ukraine reports no damage to nuclear material in Kharkiv
A recent bombing damaged a nuclear research facility in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, but its small amount of nuclear material remained intact. The announcement was made by the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, on Monday night, citing information from the Ukrainian nuclear regulatory authority.
This will be important on Tuesday
About four and a half weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moscow and Kiev will start a new round of talks in Turkey on Tuesday. The Russian and Ukrainian delegations will meet at around 9:30 am CEST on Tuesday morning at the president’s office in Istanbul’s Dolmabahce, the Turkish presidential office announced late on Monday. Before negotiations start, the Turkish side wants to meet with the delegations, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after a cabinet meeting in Ankara.
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