Find out about the main news that the war in Ukraine is leaving this Monday, February 28, by reading a single news item: this one.
– Delegations of Russia and Ukraine have started this Monday, February 28, the negotiations in Pripyat, on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. Although great results were not expected, today’s talks have achieved “some progress”, as recognized by Kiev. The representatives of both countries have agreed to continue speaking in the coming days.
– Parallel to the diplomatic talks, Russia has continued the military offensive in Ukraine. Today it has taken Kharkov, the second largest city in the country, although other large cities, such as the capital, Kiev, are still resisting.
– The Russian president, Vladimir Putinand the French, Emmanuel Macron, have spoken on the phone: Putin has promised to suspend attacks on the Ukrainian population, homes and civilian infrastructure. In any case, he has warned that the agreement with Kiev is only possible if Ukraine does not join NATO, if that country is “denazified and demilitarized” and if Russian control of Crimea is officially recognized.
– President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed the formal application claiming the Ukraine’s entry into the European Union (EU) “immediately” through a “special process”.
– Switzerland has broken its traditional neutrality and has frozen the assets of Putin and other members and ministers of his government. In this way, the Swiss country has agreed to fully apply the package of sanctions issued by the European Union.
– The invasion of Ukraine continues to provoke earthquakes in the world economy in general and in the Russian economy in particular: In addition to the general fall in the stock markets and the rise in prices in the energy sector, the steep rise in interest rates in Russiawhich the country’s central bank has raised from 9.5% to 20%.
– The world isolates Russia also in sport. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recommended to federations and competition organizers that “they do not invite or allow the participation of Russian or Belarusian athletes or officials” in any of them. As a consequence of this recommendation, FIFA and UEFA The Russian national team and all Russian clubs have been excluded from all football competitions, while in basketball the participation of the Russian teams CSKA Moscow, UNICS Kazan and Zenit Saint Petersburg has been suspended in the Euroleague and Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar in the euro cup.
– Russia has announced restrictions for flights from 36 countries in response to the closure of the airspace of European countries to Russian planes. These are the countries: Spain, Austria, Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Hungary, Germany, Gibraltar, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania , Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Sweden and Estonia. It also affects other countries outside of Europe, such as Canada.
– The humanitarian drama of the refugees: The Russian invasion leaves, for now, half a million refugees and 100,000 displaced.
– The Basque journalist Paul Gonzalez has been arrested in Poland, near the Ukrainian border, while reporting on the war and its aftermath.
– The special envoy of EITB Media to Ukraine, Mikel Ayestaranhas shown us today the train station of Lvivcultural capital of the country, which has become a strategic point for fleeing during these first days of invasion.
Source: Eitb
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