Nearly 35,000 people have been evacuated from Ukraine thanks to the humanitarian corridors. President Volodymyr Zelensky has reported that this Thursday routes will continue to be created to rescue civilians trapped under the Russian siege after “during Wednesday afternoon three humanitarian corridors were organized to evacuate the population of the city of Sumi and from various villages of the Kiev region, as well as from Energodar”.
Thus, it is expected that today they can be extended to six paths: “We are preparing six runners. We pray that people can get out of Mariupol, Izium, Volnovaja, etc. Taken to safe cities of our free Ukraine,” the president clarified.
Zelensky has once again called on the international community to act in the face of the bombing of civilians after yesterday afternoon a missile hit a maternity hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol, causing countless at least 17 injuries and causing, according to the president, that “Several children will be trapped under the rubble.”
“It is the final proof of genocide”stressed the president, who assured that the bombing was “an atrocity, even worse”: “What kind of country is this? Russia, which is afraid of hospitals, is afraid of maternity hospitals and destroys them? Bombing the maternity hospital is the final proof, the proof that a genocide of Ukrainians is taking place. Europeans! They cannot say that they did not see what happened to the Ukrainians in Mariupol,” he asserted.
The number of refugees increases day by day. The UN has reported the departure of more than 2.3 million Ukrainians from the country’s borders. More than half of these refugees are in neighboring Poland, whose borders almost 1.4 million peoplewhile 214,000 fled to Hungary, 153,000 to Slovakia, around 100,000 to Russia, 85,000 to Romania and 82,000 to Moldova.
Meeting between Kuleba and Lavrov in Turkey
The Foreign Ministers of Ukraine, Dmitro Kuleba, and Russia, Sergey Lavrov, are gathered in Turkey in what will be the highest level meeting since the war began with the aim of negotiating a solution to the conflict.
The meeting, in which both ministers have seen each other in person for the first time since the invasion began, is taking place in the province of Antalya, in Turkey. However, the expectations are limited, since both governments continue with iron positions on the conflict. Ukrainian Minister Dmitro Kuleba has already announced that he has “limited” expectations.
Concern about nuclear safety in Chernobyl and Zaporizhia
The fears of 1986 resurface. Chernobyl nuclear power plant has run out of electricity by the bombing in Ukraine, compromising the safety of the nuclear power plant. According to Ukraine, the situation is “very dangerous” and poses “a threat to all of Europe and to Russia itself.”
The electricity generators that supply the Chernobyl nuclear power plant have a reserve capacity of about 48 hours. After that time, its cooling systems will stop causing radiation leaks, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dymitro Kuleba warned on Wednesday.
However, the IAEA claims that there will be no “critical” impact if the nuclear power plant run out of any power supply. The International Atomic Energy Agency considers that the thermal load of the spent fuel storage pool and the volume of cooling water of the nuclear power plant “are sufficient to efficiently remove heat without the need for electrical supply”.
In addition, the IAEA has denounced the cut of the remote data transmission of its surveillance systems in the Ukrainian nuclear power plants controlled by Russian troops: Chernobyl and Zaporizhia. In a statement, the director general of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, has claimed to be “concerned about the sudden interruption of these data flows to the IAEA headquarters in Vienna” without there being a clear reason for this interruption.
in both facilities there are large amounts of nuclear material in the form of spent or fresh nuclear fuel, in addition to other types of atomic material. A situation of particular concern to the UN, since the 210 plant workers they have not rotated the shift since the invasion began, on February 24.
The general director Rafael Mariano Grossi assures that it is essential that the personnel who operate the nuclear facilities can rest and work in regular shifts, being something “it is crucial to nuclear safety in general”. In a similar situation are the employees of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, taken over by Russian troops since March 5.
Source: Lasexta
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