“This is why I have come here, to provide maximum assistance and an opportunity for reintegration,” he said, a day after visiting some points in the Kherson region, on the shores of the Black Sea and along the Dnieper River, to address the economic recovery after clashes between Ukrainian and Russian troops.
Plan?
The official’s statements and others from senior Russian officials in recent weeks cement the idea that Moscow is preparing a lasting occupation or even an annexation of some areas of southern Ukraine, which it controls.
This fact gives continuity to statements by members of the high command about the intention to militarily unify the separatist regions of Donbas -Lugansk and Donetsk- with the south to give Russia territorial contiguity up to the Moldovan separatist province of Transnistria, located next to the southwestern border. from Ukraine.
Given this, Western intelligence agencies began to talk of a Kremlin plan to annex large territories in Ukraine.
Bridge
A key in this project is the control of the port of Mariupol, in the southeast of Ukraine and located on the Sea of Azov, which allows territorial continuity to the Russian conquests in the Ukrainian east and south.
In this sense, Russia said yesterday that hundreds of other Ukrainian soldiers who remained entrenched in the Azovstal steel mill, the last focus of resistance, had surrendered, bringing the total number of soldiers who surrendered to 1,730.
The Red Cross said it registered as prisoners of war those soldiers from the Azov Battalion, widely considered neo-Nazis but these days elevated to the status of national heroes by kyiv.
According to Russian authorities, some 80 wounded soldiers were taken to a hospital in Russian-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine asked that they be respected as prisoners of war and that their safety be ensured, while stating that it will seek an exchange of prisoners, but Moscow did not give a definitive answer on this issue.
It is unclear how many more soldiers remain in Azovstal.
atomic power
Mikhailo Podoliak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky and a participant in several diplomatic meetings, said his country will not agree to any ceasefire until Russia withdraws its troops from the country.
“Don’t offer us a ceasefire…this is impossible without a full withdrawal of Russian troops,” Podoliak said on Twitter.
During his visit to Melitopol, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Jusnulin said yesterday that the occupied nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia – south – will only supply power to Ukraine “if the Ukrainians are willing to pay for it”.
“The nuclear power plant will start up. We have extensive experience working with nuclear plants. If Ukraine is ready to receive and pay, then the plant will work for them, otherwise it will work for Russia,” said Jusnulin, during a trip to the facility, responsible for 20% of the country’s energy supply, taken in early March.
Regarding energy production in Zaporizhia, he pointed out that nuclear energy is one of the cheapest, so “there is no doubt” that it can be easily marketed.
Source: Ambito
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