Everything you need to know right now about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in a nutshell.
– Second round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine: Representatives of both countries have agreed open humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians. Next week they will meet again.
– On the military side, Russian troops continue to attack in the east and south of the country to try to take over the large cities in the area. The Russian Army has taken Kharkivhe’s on his way to get it on Mariupol and started attacking odessa. ANDn Kyiv The Ukrainian Army is still waiting for the arrival of the great offensive on the capital.
– The European Union has decided to grant temporary protection to Ukrainian refugees. The ONU figure already in a million the number of people who have had to leave Ukraine because of the war. Leire Lasaspecial correspondent for EITB Media in Medyka (Poland), a town on the border with Ukraine, has spoken with some of these refugees:
– Radio Euskadi journalists Xavier Garcia Ramsden and Maider Martin They have also shown us what the tents that welcome the refugees in Medyka are like:
– The special envoy of EITB Media in Ukraine, Mikel Ayestaran, has shown us today how they work in a hospital in Kiev during the war. The reporter has verified the lack of medicines and has explained that the surgical interventions are carried out in bunkers.
– The trickle of former Soviet republics that want to join the European Union in search of protection continues. Ukraine itself and Georgia have today joined moldova. “We want to live in peace, democracy and prosperity, being part of the free world”, declared the President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu.
– The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has assured during a meeting of his Security Council that the “special operation” in Ukraine is going “successfully” and according to “the planned plan”. Shortly before, the president spoke again on the phone with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. In this conversation, the Russian president has made it clear that he will complete the offensive on Ukraine “in any case”, to the point that the French president assumes that “the worst is yet to come”.
– The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has warned that if his country disappears, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia “will be next” for Russia. In addition, she has asked Western countries to send planes in case they do not want to establish a no-fly zone in the country.
– Poland has decreed provisional prison for the Basque journalist Paul Gonzalez, who was arrested on February 28 at the border with Ukraine while reporting on the war. Since then he has remained incommunicado and the family is unaware of the accusations attributed to him.
– The head of the Russian Foreign Espionage Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, has denounced that Ukraine was working on the manufacture of an atomic bomb. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitro Kuleba has called the accusations “hallucination.”
– The countries of the European Union, the USA and the United Kingdom have supported the creation of a commission of inquiry into possible war crimes Russians in Ukraine, which will be voted on this Friday and to which only Russia, China and Venezuela have spoken out against.
– The French Army has announced having become aware of a cyber attack on a satellite network that served Europe and that have affected “tens of thousands of terminals for civil use”. Although he has not officially attributed the attacks to a specific country, he has placed hackers linked to Russia as the main suspects.
– The voices against the war also grow in Russia. Lukoil, the country’s largest private oil company, has called for an end to the invasion “as soon as possible.” The company’s Board of Directors has expressed “its concern regarding the tragic events taking place in Ukraine” and has extended its “deep condolences to all those affected by this tragedy.”
– Tomorrow, Friday, the foreign ministers of the European Union and NATO will discuss the next steps to be taken at a political and military level in the face of the Russian invasion.
Source: Eitb
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