“In line with the expected negotiations, yesterday afternoon the Russian president ordered to suspend the advance of the main forces, but because the Ukrainian side rejected them, the Russian forces resumed the advance,” he said in statements reproduced by the agency. AFP news spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
However, that claim was refuted by an adviser from Ukraine’s Presidential Office, who added that the country “is ready to open ceasefire negotiations, but does not accept an ultimatum.”
Hours after making a dramatic call for mobilization, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski assured that his “allies” are sending weapons.
However, it was not known if the Ukrainian head of state himself remained in Kiev, or if he had escaped to another location, as was stated in Moscow.
Yesterday Zelensky released photos in military uniform, sheltered in a kind of trench, although Russia assured that they were images from previous days.
A total of 198 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and more than a thousand wounded since Russia began its large-scale attack on its neighbor.said the Minister of Health of UkraineViktor Liashko, in social networks.
Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers also lost their lives, while no information was provided on the Russian side, but Kiev claims that it will inflict heavy casualties on the invading army.
Although the Russian forces attack in different parts of Ukraine, their main objective seems to be the capital Kiev, the scene of fighting since Friday and which suffered missile attacks on Saturday.
“In Kiev, violent fighting continues. The Ukrainian army contains the Russian saboteurs,” Ukraine’s special communications service said on its Telegram account, asking citizens to take shelter in shelters.
A Russian missile hit a large residential building in Kievas seen in a video that went viral, although no victims were recorded.
“Kiev, our splendid and peaceful city, survived another night of attacks by Russian ground forces and missiles. One of them hit a residential building in Kiev,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
According to a post on Facebook, the Ukrainians destroyed five invader vehicles, including a tank, near the Beresteiska metro station in the north-west of the capital.
In addition, the special communications service reported an attempted Russian attack on a power plant in the Troieshchyna neighborhood in northeast Kiev.
The Ukrainian army also reported “hard fighting” in Vasilkova city 30 km southwest of Kiev where a military transport plane was shot down and where the Russians “try to unload paratroopers”.
“We can’t lose the capital”President Zelensky had said on Friday night, warning that a heavy attack on Kiev was coming.
This Saturday, in a video posted on Facebook, he urged not to believe “a lot of false information” on the internet according to which he had ordered the Ukrainian army to surrender.
Dressed in military green and looking tired but determined, Zelensky said: “Our truth is that this is our land, our country, our children, and we will protect all of this.”
The Dutch Ministry of Defense indicated that it will deliver to Kiev as soon as possible 200 thousand Stinger anti-aircraft and the Czech Republic announced that it will donate machine guns, automatic and precision rifles, pistols and ammunition worth 8.6 million dollars.
On the Russian side, the Defense Ministry said on Saturday that the army attacked Ukraine’s military infrastructure with naval and air cruise missiles.
“Overnight, the armed forces of the Russian Federation launched a long-range precision-weapons bombardment using naval and airborne cruise missiles against military infrastructure in Ukraine”said ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov in televised remarks.
The spokesman also stated that in eastern Ukraine, separatist forces from the Donetsk and Lugansk territories supported by Russia have gained ground, although this statement cannot be verified by independent sources.
The Russian army also took “full control of the city of Melitopol” in southern Ukraine, near Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, it added.
According to this spokesman, since the beginning of the invasion, Russian forces destroyed a total of 821 Ukrainian military infrastructures, including 14 airfields.
The Russian offensive has caused tens of thousands of Ukrainians to flee the country, in addition to internally displaced people fleeing the fighting. Among them are two Argentine soccer players (Claudio Spinelli, from Oleksandria, and Fabricio Alvarenga, from Rukh Lviv) who had to move to Poland and Romania.
In Mostyska, near the Polish border, thousands of Ukrainians were trying to leave the country, forming a road collapse of up to 20 kilometers, an AFP journalist found. Faced with the traffic jam, some exiles were heading to the border on foot, dragging their bags and suitcases in the middle of the cold night.
“We’ve been here a long time, maybe six or seven hours now, it’s crazy. It’s crazy traffic, I don’t know how to leave my country. In fact, I don’t want to leave my country but, because of the invaders, I have to flee as much as possible.” quickly as possible,” said Tamara Kulman, 34.
This exodus is evident in the ghostly streets of the capital, where the omnipresence of the “territorial defense” brigades stands out, militias of civilians enlisted to help the army who stand out for their yellow armbands.
“I had never taken a weapon in my hands until today… We will try to do the best we can,” said Roman Bondertsev in north Kiev. “And if they kill me, there will be two others ready to take my place,” he added.
In the meantime, Western countries adopted a barrage of sanctions against Russian institutions, businesses and leaders, including Putin and his foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, in response to the invasion.
Source: Ambito
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