Ukraine reported this Sunday, February 27, that it agreed to a dialogue with Russia on the fourth day of the invasion of Russian troops against the neighboring country, while President Vladimir Putin ordered the military to place the nuclear “deterrent forces” on alert.
The conflict has killed dozens of civilians and forced hundreds of thousands to flee, and sanctions against Russia for launching the offensive have cast Moscow as a pariah among Western countries and their allies.
The office of the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, reported that a delegation from his country will meet with Russian representatives on the border with Belarus, a country from where Moscow launched the offensive against Ukraine.
The meeting will take place in the Pripyat River region, near the exclusion zone of the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
“The Ukrainian delegation will meet with the Russian (delegation) without setting preconditions,” the presidency declared, after mediation by the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko.
But Ukraine’s foreign minister warned that his country is not going to “capitulate”.
Earlier, the Ukrainian forces claimed that they managed to repel the attack of the Russian troops against Kharkov, the second largest city in Ukraine.
As several Western countries announced aid and weapons shipments to Ukraine and threatened to tighten sanctions against Russia after the invasion, Putin ordered the defense minister and chief of staff to put the army’s nuclear deterrent forces “on the move.” alert”, which Kiev denounced as pressure.
Since the invasion began, Ukraine has reported 198 civilian deaths, including three children.
For its part, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported 240 civilians injured and 64 dead.
In Kiev, the inhabitants resisted the attacks of the bombs between fear, confinement in anti-aircraft shelters and exhaustion.
The streets of the city were empty, except for the few civilians who dared to go out to try to buy food, sometimes without success.
Zelenski reported that the night from Saturday to Sunday was “hard” and denounced that the Russian bombardments attacked residential areas.
Air blockade of Russian planes
Despite the barrage of military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine, and the sanctions to which this Sunday was added the ban on overflying the airspace of the main European countries for Russian planes and airlines, a military intervention by the Russians is not on the table. allied countries of Kiev.
In his message on Sunday, Pope Francis called for “weapons to be silenced” and for humanitarian corridors to be opened in Ukraine.
A day after Berlin promised to send weapons to the Ukrainians, the head of the government, Olaf Scholz, affirmed that the world entered “a new era” after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and announced that his country will increase its military spending to “more 2%” of its GDP per year.
He also warned Russia that Western allies may impose more sanctions against Russia, but left a hand out and said he remains open to talks with Russia.
Kharkov, in the hands of the Ukrainians, reported authorities
In Kharkiv, home to about 1.4 million people, an AFP journalist reported in the morning that machine-gun fire, rocket explosions and street fighting rang out.
But during the afternoon, the city’s governor, Oleg Sinegubov, reported that the Ukrainian forces managed to repel the Russians and are in “control” of the city.
For its part, Moscow claimed to have “completely” surrounded two large towns in southern Ukraine, Kherson and Berdyansk, near the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
But despite the warnings, Russia issued the order for its forces to advance in “all directions”, but its soldiers met with tenacious resistance from the Ukrainians.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s General Staff said authorities are asking that any foreigner who wants to can come to the country and “fight side by side with Ukrainians against Russian war criminals.” (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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