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The 4th round of talks between Russia and Ukraine via teleconference is underway and while the hostilities are raging on many fronts.
“Communication between the two sides is difficult but it continues,” Mikhail Pontoliak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president and negotiator, said in a Twitter post.
“The parties are actively expressing their specific positions. There is communication, although it is difficult. The reason for the disagreement is the very different political systems,” Pontoliak said, posting a photo of the talks via teleconference.
The parties actively express their specified positions. Communication is being held yet it’s hard. The reason for the discord is too different political systems. 🇺🇦 is a free dialogue within society & an obligatory consensus. 🇷🇺 is an ultimatum suppression of its own society pic.twitter.com/O00fnCd1WP
– Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) March 14, 2022
It was preceded by a post by Pontoliak stating that the fourth round of talks between Russia and Ukraine will focus on achieving a ceasefire, troop withdrawal and security guarantees.
“Negotiations. Round 4: For peace, ceasefire, immediate withdrawal of troops and security guarantees. Tough debate. “Peaceful cities are the right strategy,” he wrote on Twitter.
Negotiations. 4th round. On peace, ceasefire, immediate withdrawal of troops & security guarantees. Hard discussion. Although Russia realizes the nonsense of its aggressive actions, it still has a delusion that 19 days of violence against 🇺🇦 peaceful cities is the right strategy pic.twitter.com/BhFLgBSKiu
– Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) March 14, 2022
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that he had instructed negotiators to “do everything possible” to close a “meeting” between him and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Speaking on Russian state television yesterday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov did not rule out the possibility of a meeting between Presidents Putin and Zelensky.
An apartment building on the outskirts of Kiev was bombed
At least one person has been killed and 12 others injured when a car bomb exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, killing at least 12 people.
In particular, in its Telegram account the emergency response service reported that one An eight-storey building in the Obolon district in northern Kyiv was targeted possibly “artillery”, resulting in a fire, which has been brought under control by the fire department.
The source initially said in a statement that two dead bodies were found in the ruins of the building, before the message was erased and the report was revised downwards.
According to the service, three other people have been admitted to the hospital and nine have received first aid on the spot. He even published photos that show the occupants of the building, among them the elderly, getting out of it with the help of a vehicle with a telescopic ladder.
More photos from the scene published by the State Emergency Service. pic.twitter.com/1Eh9yzOhNO
– The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 14, 2022
New Russian attacks expected – Antonov’s factory bombed
The Ukrainian military announced today that Russian troops were trying to consolidate their positions in the occupied territories, maintain their pace of attack and prepare for new attacks, two and a half weeks after Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine.
“The enemy is gathering formations and moving strategic stocks to our borders,” the Ukrainian General Staff said. new attacks expected in Kharkov, Sumy and Brovary, Kiev suburbs.
The staff complained that Russian forces were destroying military and political infrastructure, which is contrary to international humanitarian law, he said.
PApartment block in Kyiv on fire after shelling.
Firefighters are putting out fire in the 9-story apartment block on 20 Bohatyrska St. in the Obolon neighborhood, according to the State Emergency Service.
The building was hit at around 5 am
Video: State Emergency Service pic.twitter.com/uOe9AeGU7J
– The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 14, 2022
The Antonov aircraft factory outside Kyiv was also bombed.
The Antonov aviation industry plant in #Kyiv is on fire. pic.twitter.com/Wtc02RLLJb
– NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 14, 2022
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine say a Ukrainian strike has killed at least 16 people and injured nine others in the city center. Donetsk.
Seven hospitals have been completely destroyed since the Russian military invaded Ukraine on February 24, according to Ukrainian Health Minister Viktor Liasko.
These hospitals will have to be rebuilt from the ground up, they have been leveled due to bombings, Mr Liasko said last Sunday night, according to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform. More than a hundred other health facilities were damaged by the war.
In the ranks of the medical staff, the report of the victims has reached this stage the six dead and the 12 injured, always according to the minister.
In the periphery Lugansk (east), Russian forces concentrate on advancing towards Severodonietsk. In the cities of Topolske and Spakivka, in the Kharkiv region, they suffered losses and retreated, according to the Ukrainian staff. This information cannot be independently verified.
10 humanitarian corridors open
Ukraine has confirmed that it will try to evacuate trapped civilians today through 10 humanitarian corridors that will be opened.
Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verestsuk said the routes would be used for transportation from cities near Kyiv and the eastern Luhansk region.
Ms Verestsuk said Ukraine would try “once again” to remove a humanitarian convoy from the besieged southern port city of Mariupol.
The siege of Mariupol continues – 2,500 civilians dead
On the other hand, the adviser to the Ukrainian president Oleksy Arestovich said that Ukraine and Russia were actively holding talks on Sunday, with the situation around the besieged city of Mariupol being of particular concern to the Ukrainian authorities.
Arestovich also said that Ukraine had deployed enough troops in Mariupol to prevent its occupation by encircling Russian forces.
Mr Arestovic said More than 2,500 Mariupol residents have been killed since February 24 that the Russian invasion began. He said he was citing evidence from Mariupol municipal authorities and accused Russian forces of blocking humanitarian aid from reaching the besieged city on Sunday.
Zelensky again called for a no-fly zone
Volodymyr Zelensky again demanded on Monday morning that NATO impose a no-fly zone over Ukrainian airspace, warning that otherwise he could see “Russian rockets” falling on the territory of his member states.
“If you do not block our airspace, it will be a matter of time, Russian rockets will fall on your own territory, on NATO soil, on the homes of NATO citizens,” he said in a recorded message. .
Zelensky’s new appeal came a day after Russian airstrikes on a Ukrainian training base about 20km from the border with Poland, a NATO and EU member state, near the Ukrainian city of Lviv (west).
According to Kyiv, the Russian bombing resulted in the death of 35 people and the wounding of 134 others.
“Thirty rockets in the Lviv region alone,” he said. “Nothing is happening there that could threaten the territory of the Russian Federation. And only 20 kilometers from the NATO border.”
“Last year, I made it clear to NATO leaders that if they did not take strong precautionary measures against the Russian Federation, war would break out,” he said.
Polish General Waldemar Skripczak, the former chief of the General Staff of the Air Force, said earlier yesterday that the base that was being bombed was training units of foreign volunteers who went to Ukraine to fight the Russians. There was also part of Western military aid to Ukraine after the Russian invasion on February 24.
For the American journalist Brent Reno, who was killed near Kyiv yesterday Sunday, the Ukrainian president claimed that he was the victim of a “deliberate attack by the Russian army”. Another American journalist, who was in the same vehicle as the deceased, was injured, as was a Ukrainian citizen.
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