War in Ukraine, 200,000 blocked in Mariupol. The UN: 1.5 million refugees

Lto war in Ukraine has come toeleventh day. The humanitarian truce announced yesterday and rescheduled for today has been canceled. Russian bombs blocked the humanitarian corridors that would have allowed the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in southern cities besieged by Muscovites and so it happened today. TO Mariupolthe population lives at the end, without electricity, without water, without food and without medicine, 200,000 civilians are stranded in a city where the bombing continues. For the failure of the truce, Moscow accuses Kiev, as expected. A spokesman for the Russian defense ministry claimed that “the population of these cities is being held hostage by nationalist formations such as human shields”. And that the ceasefire was used by the enemies to “reorganize and compact”. The only certain fact is that Vladimir Putin’s armed forces have resumed the offensive with increasing violence. AND the residents waiting to be evacuated – women, children, the elderly – had to return to shelters.

Meanwhile, the UN has announced that 1.5 million refugees have fled the war in Ukraine. Only yesterday Poland registered 129 thousand new arrivals. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandiannounced on Twitter: “More than 1.5 million refugees from Ukraine have crossed the border to neighboring countries in the last 10 days – the fastest developing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II“.

The Pope today at the Angelus launched an appeal against the war: “In these days two cardinals went to Ukraine, to serve the people, to help: Cardinal Krajewski, almsgiver, to bring aid to the most needy, and Cardinal Czerny, interim prefect of Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. This presence of two cardinals there is the presence not only of the Pope, but of all the Christian people who want to come closer and say: “war is madness, please stop, look at this cruelty” ».

Russian President Putin had a long conversation with French President Macron in which he said he was available for a meeting with Aieia on the safety of nuclear power plants, and confirmed that “it is not his intention to attack the power plants” of Ukraine. . Yesterday the surprise mission of the Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett that in Moscow he had a long conversation with President Vladimir Putin. Bennett, who coordinated with the Biden administration, shared the outcome of the face-to-face with Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz, and also heard from Volodymr Zelensky from Moscow. While the Ukrainian president, from his bunker, renewed the requests for help from the West: the activation of a no-fly zone and the stop to the import of Russian oil. Despite the tsar’s latest thrust on Western sanctions, equated to a “declaration of war”Meanwhile, the measures aimed at hitting the Moscow economy are multiplying. The last move is to Visa and Mastercard who announced the blocking of “Russian” transactions. Diplomacy, meanwhile, is stepping up efforts to end hostilities as soon as possible pending the third round of negotiations and tomorrow’s UN Security Council.

Source: Vanity Fair

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