Russian soldiers have been raging across Ukraine for eleven days – and for two days the Ukrainian government has been trying to rescue civilians from the embattled city of Mariupol. It didn’t work out for the second day in a row. That is the situation on the evening of the eleventh day of the war.
He seems more and more desperate: Just a few days ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj declared war on Russian troops in a video message. Now it seems as if his fighting spirit is slowly exhausted, the president looks worn down. No wonder given the suffering his people are experiencing. After the ceasefire over the embattled city Mariupol was not complied with and the civilians could not be evacuated, the conflicting parties had agreed to a meeting for today renewed ceasefire agreed.
But the rescue of hundreds of thousands of civilians is failed again. It is unclear who is to blame for this. Speaking to French President Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of violating the agreement. The Red Cross, on the other hand, spoke of the “lack of a detailed and functioning agreement between the conflicting parties”. However, the result remains the same: About 440,000 people sit in the city according to Ukrainian data without electricity and heating fixed. In addition, there should be many dead and thousands injured give. Mariupol Mayor Wadym Boitschenko then spoke on Ukrainian television of a “humanitarian blockade” by Russian units. He pleads for a corridor to be built to take the elderly, women and children out of the city.
Meanwhile, the number of refugees is growing. The UN refugee agency UNHCR estimates that already 1.5 million Ukrainians fled are – most of them in western Europe. It’s about “the fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II“The Polish border guard put the number of refugees since the beginning of the war at around 922,400. For Germany, the federal police registered 37,786 Ukrainian refugees. That’s almost 10,000 more than the day before.
Russian troops advance and diplomacy fails
So while some Ukrainians are leaving the country and others are either left to fight or are being held by the besiegers, the Russian troops are advancing. According to the General Staff in Kyiv the invaders would have continued to aim for the capital, the metropolis of millions Kharkiv to the east and the city Mykolayiv to the south surround. According to reports, Russian units were approaching the highway to Boryspil, where Kiev international Airport lies. Russia is also planning the Capture of the Kaniv hydroelectric power plant around 150 kilometers south of Kyiv on the Dnipro River.
Meanwhile, the Defense Ministry in Moscow reported that Russian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country brought more than a dozen localities under their control. At the same time, there were Ukrainian attacks on the self-declared People’s Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk. The information provided by both sides cannot be independently verified.
The world, meanwhile, keeps trying diplomacy. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett traveled to Moscow for talks with Putin on Saturday evening. He then met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin. Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said afterwards that the aim was still to end the war in Ukraine “as quickly as possible”.
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan were a little more specific. Both tried to influence the Kremlin chief during telephone calls. Erdogan renewed according to the presidential office in Ankara call for a ceasefire and offered as mediator at.
Outrageous requests from Ukraine
Meanwhile, two corporations have sanctioned Russia’s behavior. The two world’s largest credit card provider, Visa and Mastercard, suspended international business with Russia. Visa said cards issued in Russia would soon no longer work abroad. Mastercard made a similar statement. In Russia itself, however, people should continue to be able to pay with their cards and withdraw money, as the Russian Sberbank announced.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken also brought up new punitive measures against Moscow: Washington is consulting with European allies about one possible import stop for oil from Russia. It is also about ensuring “that there is still an adequate supply of oil on the world markets”.
Between chaos of war and sanctions people continue to take to the streets around the world, Also in Germany. alone in Hamburg came up to at a rally on Saturday, according to police 30,000 people together. Natalia Klitschko, the wife of Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko, asked for support for her country on the speaker’s platform. Also in Russia the citizens turn against the war – but can demonstrate there less freely than elsewhere. According to information from the Tass state agency, all over the country around 3500 people arrested have been. In addition, around 5,200 people took part in unauthorized rallies by late afternoon.
But the advance of the Russian troops shows it clearly: diplomacy, solidarity demonstrations – none of that helps. In a new video message Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has therefore turned to the West again. He asks the West to do it again in one no-fly zone set up over the Ukraine and fight Russian airmen. It is the human duty to protect people. Should the West continue to deny the wish, asked Zelenskyy for planes so that the Ukrainians could defend themselves. Otherwise, the West’s quarrels would only allow for one explanation: “You wanted us to be killed slowly,” Zelenskyj said in his video message.
last had Poland reports contradictedaccording to which the country Ukraine with fighter planes wants to equip Soviet design. However, US Secretary of State Blinken said they are currently looking at which planes Poland could supply to Ukraine.
Source: Stern
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