War in Ukraine: New humanitarian corridors for civilians – All developments

For 13th day are furious hostilities in Ukraine. Moscow announced on Monday morning (7/3) a ceasefire in various locations and the opening of corridors so that they can leave civilians from Ukrainian cities under siege, as the humanitarian crisis worsens with each passing day and food is dwindling.

But Kyiv refused to evacuate civilians to Russia, where four of Moscow’s six corridors were headed, or to Belarus.

The moment a bomb explodes on civilians trying to leave Irpin

After new negotiations, Russia announced that today, Tuesday (8/3) it will enter into force new ceasefire locally from 09:00 for the civilians to leave. The routes to be followed remain to be approved by the Ukrainian side, he added.

At the same time, US troops are heading for Romania and Poland.

Ukraine: Second nuclear facility bombed

THE International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced Monday that it had been informed by Ukrainian authorities that artillery shells had caused damage to a nuclear research facility in the besieged second largest city of Ukraine, the Harkivhowever without “radiological consequences”.

According to the international body, part of the United Nations system based in Vienna, the Ukrainian authorities said that the attack took place on Sunday, adding that no increase in the level of radioactivity was observed in the facility.

According to the same sources, department of the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology was affectedwhich produces radiological material for medical and industrial use.

Anyway “The stock of radioactive materials in the facility is very low,” added the IAEA, which assured that “the damage (…) reported had no radiological consequences.”

“We have been informed of various incidents that have endangered the safety of Ukrainian nuclear facilities,” said Rafael Mariano Grossi, the organisation’s director general.

In recent days, Kharkiv has been under intense artillery and missile bombardment as Russian forces increase pressure on Ukraine to surrender.

THE Russian army has been holding the nuclear plant in Zaporizhia (southeast) since Friday, where Russian artillery strikes, according to Ukrainians, caused a fire. Moscow denies the Ukrainian version of events and says its forces did not cause the fire.

Only two of the plant’s six reactors, the largest in Ukraine and Europe, are in operation.

The IAEA director general said on Friday that he was willing to go to Chernobylwhere one of the worst nuclear accidents in history took place in 1986. The site of the destroyed nuclear plant was occupied by the Russian military on the first day of the invasion, on February 24.

Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba confirms plans to hold talks with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Turkey on Thursday

THE Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kulebaconfirmed last Monday night that he plans to meet with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrovthe day after Thursday in Turkey.

“Currently (meeting) is scheduled for the 10th (March). Let’s see – if he goes to Antalya by air, I will go too. Let’s sit down and talk“, Said Mr. Koulembas in his recorded message, broadcasts AMPE.

Earlier in the day, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu announced that the foreign ministers of the two war-torn countries were expected to meet for talks in Antalya on March 10th. These talks will probably be tripartite, Mr. Tsavousoglou himself intends to participate, as he clarified.

“If Sergei Lavrov is willing to have a serious discussion, ‘diplomat to diplomat’ can be negotiated, but if the Russian Foreign Minister ‘starts to pick up the absurd propaganda he has been serving lately, he will hear what he deserves, the truth,'” he said. Dmitro Kouleba.

The head of the Ukrainian diplomacy also reiterated that Kyiv wants direct negotiations between the presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin.