the ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky denounced a new “act of terror” after the bombing of a school in Mariupol although he was willing to negotiate with Vladimir Putin to end the attacks by Russia, which used a hypersonic missile again.
The shelling, in particular of the besieged port city of Mariupol (southeast), whose streets are full of corpses according to witnessescome at a difficult time in the negotiations, although Turkey said on Sunday that the parties were “close to an agreement”.
The Ukrainian president said he was willing to negotiate with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
The attacks on Mariupol have intensified and the Ukrainian government has admitted that it currently has no possibility of sending military reinforcements. Olexij Arestowytsch, an adviser to President Volodomir Zelensky, said the closest forces are more than 100 kilometers away or already engaged in fighting with the enemy. “Currently, there is no military solution for Mariupol. It is not only my opinion, it is also the opinion of the military,” he said.
horror act
“The building has been destroyed and people are still under the rubble. The number of dead is still being clarified,” the city council said. This information has not yet been verified.
Inflicting “something like that on a peaceful city … is an act of terror,” Zelensky said, denouncing a “war crime.”
Greece’s consul general in Mariupol, Manolis Androulakis, the last remaining European diplomat there, said on his return to Athens that the besieged city “will go on to join the list of world cities completely destroyed by warlike Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny or Aleppo”.
in Kyiva projectile exploded on Sunday at the doors of a building, leaving at least five injuredtwo of whom were hospitalized, Mayor Vitali Klichkó said.
The 10-story building is badly damaged and all its windows have been smashed, according to AFP journalists on the spot.
“My sister was on the balcony when it happened, she almost died,” said Anna, 30, who lives in the building.
No progress on the front
Despite this, the Ukrainian authorities reported a certain calm on the front this Sunday.
“The front is practically frozen,” There have been “virtually no missile attacks on cities” and “Russian aviation is practically not active”, with only “tactical actions” by both sides, said Oleksiy Arestovich, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency.
The Russian Defense Ministry, which says it is not targeting any civilian targets or residential areas, claimed to have destroyed a fuel depot in the Mikolaiv region (south) with “‘Kalibr’ cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea, as well as by hypersonic ballistic missiles fired by the ‘Kinjal’ aeronautical system from Crimean airspace.”
These missiles belong to a family of new generation “invincible” weapons, according to Vladimir Putin.
With the use of these types of weapons, Russia “trying to regain momentum” in the conflict in which its military is struggling, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, saying these weapons are “not a game changer.”