“The kyiv regime seeks by all means to delay the negotiation process, presenting proposals that are unrealistic,” the Kremlin explained in turn in a statement that summarizes the conversation between the two leaders, according to reviews from news agencies. Sputnik news and AFP.
Russian forces intensified their assault on Ukrainian cities with new missile attacks and bombardments on the outskirts of the capital kyiv and the western city of Lviv, bordering Poland, a country that in the 23 days of the war has already received more than two million Ukrainian refugees, according to Polish authorities at the border.
On the other hand, the Russian army and its separatist allies from the Donbass region were fighting in the center of Mariupol, a besieged port city in the southeast of the country, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced this afternoon.
“In Mariupol, units of the (self-styled) Donetsk People’s Republic, supported by Russian forces, tighten the siege and fight nationalists in the city center,” ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
The Donetsk separatist militia claimed that more than 50 nationalists, including five foreign mercenaries, were killed yesterday.
“On the last day during the joint actions, 25 firing points were destroyed, killing more than 50 nationalists, including five foreign citizens,” says the statement published by the rebels on the Telegram channel, reported Sputnik.
The text added that the Donetsk troops seized a tank, three infantry fighting vehicles and an armored personnel carrier.
Regarding Lugansk, the other separatist province in the Donbass area that also proclaimed its independence and was recognized as such by law by Moscow, the official report stated that Russian forces and separatists already control 90% of the territory.
In Mariupol, the authorities today expected to find survivors in a theater that housed some 1,300 people who were taking refuge there and were hit by a Russian bombardment.
Yesterday 130 survivors had managed to get out of the rubble and it was hoped to find some more, but nothing has been heard since then.
At the other extreme, in the west, the mayor of Lviv -also known as Lviv-, Andriy Sadovi, announced today that Russian “missiles” had destroyed a factory near the airport of that population in the west of the country.
“Several missiles have hit an aircraft repair factory. The building was destroyed by gunfire. The operation of the factory had previously been suspended, so there are no casualties so far,” he wrote on Facebook.
Minutes before, Sadovi had assured that the attack had not directly hit the airport.
A journalist from the AFP agency was able to observe a curtain of smoke rising into the sky in that area, as well as police vehicles and ambulances in that direction.
The city of Lviv, through which a large part of the Ukrainians fleeing to other countries pass, had not suffered attacks so far.
The Russian government did not confirm this action denounced by Ukraine, but it did announce that its own aviation and anti-aircraft defense shot down another six Ukrainian drones, one of them a Turkish-made Bairaktar, in an attack that took place last night, reported this Friday the Russian Ministry of Defense, without detailing the area in which the actions took place.
“Last night the aviation and anti-aircraft defense of the Russian Aerospace Force shot down another six unmanned aircraft in the air, one of them a Bairaktar TB2,” defense spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said in an appearance before the press reviewed by the Russian news agency Sputnik.
In the air offensive, he added, 81 Ukrainian military targets were destroyed, including four multiple rocket launchers, three command centers, eight arsenals and military equipment concentrated in 28 areas.
Meanwhile, expressions of condemnation of Russia are growing for what several Western leaders consider to be war criminal actions by the invading forces, although Moscow also claims that Ukraine committed the same crime by launching cluster bombs (prohibited by the Convention of Geneva) in the Donbass region.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, affirmed that Russia’s attacks against civilians in Ukraine constitute “war crimes”, after President Joe Biden described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “war criminal” the day before yesterday. .
The Kremlin had previously responded that images that Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky had shown before the Capitol as belonging to Russian military attacks in kyiv, corresponded to Ukrainian actions in the separatist region.
US President Joe Biden will hold a telephone conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this Friday at 10 a.m. (Argentine time), according to the White House press office.
Blinken warned yesterday that Biden will make it clear to Xi that China will face consequences for supporting the Russian military operation in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ukraine accused Russia before the UN Security Council of having violated the United Nations Charter by not stopping the invasion of Ukrainian territory after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered it to do so.
Although the ICJ ruling is binding, “the Kremlin openly and brazenly ignored it” under the excuse that there is “no agreement between the parties,” Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN, Sergii Kislitsia, said last night at the meeting. of Council.
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