The most terrifying news Russian invasion of Ukraine they arrive from Mariupolin the southeast of the country, where a Russian bombing would have destroyed an art school where, as reported by the mayor, 400 people would have been trapped under its rubble. An attack that adds to the bombing of a maternity and to theater bombing where there would be some 1,000 refugees, although for the moment only 130 have been rescued.
As the journalist Alberto Sicilia, located in kyiv, explains, the situation in Mariupol “is a real tragedy.” He also predicts that “the city will fall in the next few daysbecause they have already seen each other videos of fighting in the city center. In fact, the Russian Army would have ordered the Ukrainian troops in Mariupol deliver the weapons in the next 24 hoursunder the threat of killing the soldiers if they don’t, according to the same journalist.
Those who resist there say that what they experienced is not even a tenth of what we are seeing. They ensure that it is as if the city had been “wiped off the face of the earth”. This is confirmed by Olena, a Ukrainian who from Burgos tries to find out about the status of her relatives and relatives, still in the city. Since the 28th she has not heard from her brother or from many other relatives of hers.
But in addition, the City Council has denounced that the Russian troops are taking their citizens to Russia“kidnapped”, being deported against their will.
The city has been besieged by Russian forces for weeks and it is virtually impossible to get humanitarian aid to them. The people who resist there do so without food, or electricity in many cases, or even water.
Zelensky, who closely follows the progress of the Russian invasion, has stated that “Mariupol will go down in history for its war crimes. “What they have done to a peaceful city is an act of terror that will be remembered a century from now.” One position, that of considering the Russian attacks in the area as war crimes, which they share United States and the European Union.
Nor do the bombings stop on the capital, kyiv, where this Sunday a 10-storey residential building on the outskirts of the city has been demolished. Firefighters have rescued several of the neighbors and at least five people have been injured. From the start of the offensive 228 people have died in kyiv, including four children.
On Khersonsouth of Ukraine, ordinary citizens have challenged with protests Russian rule over the city. They have confronted military vehicles and have ended up expelling them from the area. while of berdianks, also under Russian control, images have arrived of how a soldier trampled on a protester who had just been arrested. And screaming, hundreds of people have asked in energize the release of its mayor, kidnapped by the Russian army.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian armed forces in the region of Lugansk have accused the Russian army of bomb a nursing home from a tank in the town of Kreminna, killing at least 56 people.
Zelenski, “prepared” to negotiate with Putin
The Ukrainian president has said in an interview on CNN that is “prepared” to negotiate with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and end the war, although if the talks fail, he warns, it will be the beginning of the third world war.
Zelensky has also made it clear that is not ready to recognize the independence of Donbas and Russian sovereignty over Crimeatwo of the demands of the Kremlin to end the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia persecutes freedom of expression
In Russia, ending freedom of expression is another goal of this war. Amnesty International estimates that 150 journalists have left the country after the law that contemplates prison sentences of 15 years for false news about the invasion.
To this is added that there are dozens of international media that have paralyzed their information about the war. A situation that has caused a fade to black in almost all the independent press in Russia.
The result is an isolated population, because the Kremlin knows that an informed society with its own criteria could undermine its power and your image.
Spain says “No to Putin’s war”
during this weekend there have been new demonstrations in Spain against the invasion in Ukraine. In Madrid, some 800 people have walked through the center of the capital under the slogan “No to Putin’s war”.
In Barcelona they have once again concentrated on Plaza Cataluña. And in Bilbao, among the attendees, refugees who have arrived in the Basque Country in recent days, have asked to close Ukraine’s airspace and drown Russia economically so that Putin cannot continue financing this invasion.
Source: Lasexta
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