The two countries agreed on Wednesday the opening between 09:00 and 21:00 local time (04:00-18:00 Argentine time) of humanitarian corridors in several areas of Ukraine that have been the target of bombings and artillery fire in the recent days, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
These corridors will go from Energodar to Zaporizhia (south), from Izium to Lozova (east) and from Sumy to Polatava (northeast). Routes to Kiev will also be opened from the punished areas located to the northwest of the capital such as Bucha, Irpin or Gostomel.
Previous attempts to shelter civilians caught up in the heavy fighting have been thwarted or disrupted by violations of agreed ceasefires, for which Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other.
On Tuesday night, the Russian Defense Ministry had also announced humanitarian corridors in the beleaguered port of Mariupolon Kharkiv and in Chernigovalthough he did not detail where they were headed or whether they had been accepted by the Ukrainian side.
On Tuesday, some 5,000 people, mostly women, children and the elderly, were evacuated in some 60 buses from Sumynortheast of Kiev, where 21 people were killed in Russian shelling on Tuesday.
On Tuesday night, several cities suffered Russian attacks. On Severodonetsk, in the east, 10 people were killed in shelling, according to the head of the Luhansk administrative region. And in Yitomirwest of Kiev, nine were killed by aerial bombardment.
In the same capital of Ukraine, alarm sirens were activated four times during the night.
And the exodus of Ukrainians to neighboring countries continues. The head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, estimated it between “2.1 million and 2.2 million people.” “Poland alone receives 150,000 per day“, he claimed.
Fears linked to the nuclear power plants present on Ukrainian territory also continue. On Tuesday night, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that it lost contact with the systems that control nuclear material in Chernobylorigin of the nuclear catastrophe of 1986.
The Ukrainian regulator assured this Wednesday that the power supply of the plant and its security equipment are “totally” cut off due to Russian military actions.
the russian president Vladimir Putin launched the invasion on February 24 claiming to want to protect the Russian-speaking population of the separatist regions of the east, at war against Kiev since 2014, and demanding the demilitarization of Ukraine and guarantees that it will not enter the NATO.
The invasion has provoked a barrage of sanctions from Western countries against Russia and, to a lesser extent, its ally Belarus.
The United States on Tuesday banned imports of Russian oil and gas and the European Union on Wednesday announced new measures against the maritime sector and cryptocurrencies.the exclusion of three Belarusian banks from the Swift international financial platform and the expansion of technologies and goods that cannot be exported to Russia.
NATO countries have also sent military material, but they have not agreed to decree a closure of Ukrainian airspace or to provide fighter planes to Kiev as requested by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Poland offered to deliver fighter jets to Ukraine through the United States, a proposal that surprised Washington, which considered it unfeasible.. Vice President Kamala Harris travels to Warsaw on Wednesday to address this and other issues of assistance to Ukraine.
“Make a decision as quickly as possible, send us your planes!Zelensky said on Wednesday. For his part, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri peskovwarned that if this materializes it would create “a very undesirable and potentially dangerous scenario”.
The list of multinational companies that take punitive measures against Russia also increases: McDonald’s and Starbucks announced the closure of their stores, Coca-Cola, the suspension of its operations and the Heineken brewery paralyzed production and sales in that country.
All this arsenal of measures placed Russia on the brink of defaultaccording to the rating agency Fitch, which reduced its debt rating warning of an “imminent” sovereign bankruptcy.
“The United States has declared economic war on Russia and is waging that war,” Peskov denounced.
Source: Ambito
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