new York Russia and Ukraine want to continue their peace talks on Tuesday. The delegations had adjourned on Monday due to a “technical break”. His delegation did a good job, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday night.
In the negotiations with Russia, Ukraine is primarily striving for security guarantees for the future. “We want this situation to never be repeated,” said Ihor Zhovkva, the Ukrainian President’s foreign policy adviser, on Monday on ARD’s “Tagesthemen” according to the broadcaster’s translation. In the negotiation rounds, considerations were recently made “about a possible peaceful solution, possible security guarantees for Ukraine after the end of the hostilities”.
Zelensky said he asked Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday to lobby Russian President Vladimir Putin for peace. He asked the Russian soldiers to stop the fight. He announced that he would call those responsible for the acts of war in Ukraine accountable without forbearance.
“We are working with our partners on new punitive measures against the Russian state,” he said in a video message published on Tuesday night. “Everyone responsible for the war. Anyone responsible for destroying democracy. Anyone responsible for repression against people. Everyone gets an answer.”
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The Russian military is definitely responsible for war crimes, for a “deliberately created humanitarian catastrophe” in Ukrainian cities, Zelensky said in the clip, which shows him in military gear at the presidential office in Kyiv.
According to Zelensky, Russia is beginning to realize that war will not achieve anything. “They did not expect such resistance. They believed their propaganda, which has been lying about us for decades.” Within 19 days of the war in Ukraine, the Russian army had suffered more casualties than during the two Chechen wars, Zelensky said. The information is not independently verifiable.
According to the President of Ukraine, Russia is beginning to realize that war will not achieve anything.
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Zelensky also sows doubts about the morale of the Russian armed forces. We know from tapped telephone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families at home what many “really think about this war”. “I know you want to survive.”
Activist interrupts TV broadcast
He is grateful to those Russians “who don’t stop telling the truth,” Zelensky said, referring to anti-war protests in Russia. As an example, he cited a woman who interrupted Russian state television with an anti-war message on Monday evening.
In a live broadcast on Russia’s state television Channel 1 on Monday night, a woman suddenly appeared behind the studio host holding a sign that read “No War. stop the war Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here.”
The activist is apparently an employee of the station. After a few seconds, the transmitter switched to a report. Channel 1 later said it was conducting an internal review of the incident. State television is the main source of news for many millions of Russians and follows the Kremlin line closely.
In a video said to have been recorded before the incident and posted online afterwards, a woman who appeared to be the activist described herself as an employee of the station. She said she was ashamed for years of spreading Kremlin propaganda. Her father is Ukrainian, her mother Russian. What is currently happening in Ukraine is a crime and Russia is the aggressor. The responsibility lies with one man and that man is President Vladimir Putin. She called on the Russian people to take to the streets and demonstrate.
Escape corridors sometimes fail again
Meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine is getting worse. Civilians should continue to be brought to safety via escape corridors – so far this has only had moderate success. On Monday, only seven out of ten planned corridors from particularly hard-fought towns or villages would have worked. A total of around 4,000 people were taken to safer areas, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Wereschuk in the evening, according to the Ukrainian agency Unian. Most civilians came from the Kyiv region (2028).
On the other hand, evacuations from Mariupol largely failed on the 19th day of the war. An aid column with medicine and water for the besieged port city will continue to be blocked, said Wereshchuk. The city reports a particularly high number of victims. According to local authorities, 2,357 people have been killed in Mariupol since the start of the Russian war of aggression.
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Mariupol, with a population of around 400,000, has been surrounded by Russian units for days and cut off from the rest of the country. An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko, called the situation in the city “inhumane”: “No food, no water, no light, no heat.” He feared many more deaths – with increasing intensity of the attacks, the number of victims could increase to be up to 20,000.
Ukrainian President Zelensky said that 100 tons of food, water and medicines for Mariupol have not been allowed to enter the city for three days. However, the government in Kyiv will try everything to help the people. Evacuation attempts have largely failed so far.
The Ukrainian authorities also accused Russia of having used mortars on vehicles carrying fleeing civilians from the town of Hostomel near Kyiv. A woman was killed and two men injured. The information is not independently verifiable.
Evacuations from the port city have again largely failed.
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Russia could also continue to plan to use chemical or biological weapons, according to the British Ministry of Defense. Great Britain and the USA had already expressed such fears last week. Russia could use a fake attack on Russian troops as an opportunity to use such weapons, the British authority tweeted on Monday evening.
With agency material
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