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The fruitless meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba as guests of their Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu is so far the main event outside the battlefields and bombings on Ukrainian territory. As it turned out, no agreement was reached on a ceasefire. For his part, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister accused Russia of making the terms equivalent to surrender, while Lavrov said the military operation was going according to plan.
On the battlefield, Russian troops have occupied some neighborhoods in Mariupol in southern Ukraine, a city that has been under siege for days, Interfax news agency quoted Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov as saying. He added that the Russian army has destroyed 2,911 Ukrainian military infrastructure since the start of the war. Reuters was unable to immediately verify his statements.
Heavy fighting is taking place in Kyiv, while several cities, including Sumy and Nikolaev, are being bombed by the Russian army.
Fierce fighting and bombing
Kyiv: The Kyiv regional administration says there are many dangerous routes beyond the capital due to heavy fighting, including the main highway west to Zhytomyr and the city of Makariv, which is on this route. He also said that areas in the north remain among the most dangerous, including the suburbs of Bucha, Irpin and Gostomel, as well as the Vysorod district north of the capital.
Russian artillery regiment repulsed
The Ukrainian military says it has defeated a Russian artillery regiment and killed its commander, Colonel A. Sakharov, in Brovary, northeast of Kiev, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said on Thursday. “The commander of the occupation regiment, Colonel Zakharov, was liquidated. During the battle in the Brovary region of the Kiev region, the regular battalion (BTGr) of the 6th Tank Regiment (Chebarkul) of the 90th Central Command and equipment, “the ministry said on Twitter. CNN has located and verified the video released by the Ministry of Defense and shows a Russian military column being attacked and retreating.
Nikolaev: Nikolaev’s mayor, Oleksandr Sienkevich, said on Facebook that he had been reported to have fired several rockets into the north. “Either they are testing how strong our outposts are or they are preparing for an attack,” he said, referring to Russian forces. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army today assured that its forces are slowing down and stopping the Russian attack. According to a statement, Russian forces suffered heavy casualties and are bringing in reserves.
Attacks are reported in Kharkov, Izium, Sumy and Ochtyrka, always at the headquarters.
Humanitarian corridors
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verestsuk said earlier that Ukraine planned to open seven “humanitarian corridors” today for civilians seeking to leave cities besieged by Russian forces, including the southern Ukrainian port of Mariupol.
However, a humanitarian convoy trying to reach the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol was forced to return today due to the fighting, Verestsuk said, while the city council announced that new Russian bombings were taking place. “Bombs hit houses,” the Mariupol city council said in an online post.
Russia is deliberately blocking the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol because it has failed to take control of this strategically important port city on the Black Sea, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said today.
Meanwhile, civilians began to leave the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine today through a “humanitarian corridor” for a third day, following an agreement on a local ceasefire, said regional governor Dmitry Zivitsky.
People are also leaving nearby settlements in Krasnopilia and Trostyanets, Zivitsky added.
According to a Ukrainian official, almost 50,000 people left Sumy the day before yesterday, Tuesday and yesterday, Wednesday.
Three dead at the hospital of Mariupol
Three people, including a child, were killed in yesterday’s airstrike on a maternity hospital and children’s hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, President Volodymyr Zelensky said today.
In a televised address, the Ukrainian president said that Russia’s claim that the hospital had no patients was not true. “As always, they are lying with confidence,” he said.
Zelensky and his staff do not leave Kyiv
Zelensky and his staff remain in Kyiv, according to Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian presidency Kirill Tymoshenko.
“The enemy can not defeat us on the battlefield and is indulging in a series of false news that the president’s staff has allegedly left Kyiv. It is not true. I’m talking to you from Bankova Street, near the building where the president and “I will try to upload such videos as often as I can,” Tymoshenko said in a statement.
Ukraine demands access from Russia to repair power lines at Chernobyl nuclear power plant
The systems of the United Nations Nuclear Observatory monitoring the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine have stopped transmitting data at its headquarters.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi said he was “concerned about the sudden cessation of data flow from the two sites, where large quantities of radioactive material are present.”
Meanwhile, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which is under Russian occupation, is still not connected to the country’s power grid for a second day today, Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushenko said.
The nuclear power plant operates with backup diesel generators. “We formally asked the (Russian) occupiers to provide us with corridors to repair the power lines of the station,” he noted.
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