The offensive on Ukraine continues two and a half weeks after the start of the war. Russian troops are tightening their grip on Kyiv as the Ukrainians prepare for a rail defense of their capital.
In the last 48 hours, Russia has attacked a military base 25 kilometers from the Polish border, bombed Mariupol (to date, it has attacked more than 2.000 people in this city) and one of the largest Ukrainian frozen food plants in Brovary, a direct hit to the Ukrainians' food supply.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has called for the attacks to be stopped so that the population can be evacuated through humanitarian corridors.
The UN estimates around two million people who have become refugees.
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– Mariúpol authorities denounce that more than 2.100 residents have died in Russian bombing. “Each bombardment brings terrible destruction and takes away the most important thing that exists: the lives of the peaceful residents of Mariupol. To date, 2.187 residents of Mariupol have died from Russian attacks. Eternal memory for them ”, the City Council has made known on its Telegram channel, collected by Unian. Mariúpol authorities have denounced that the city has been the target of at least 22 bombardments during the last 24 hours and more than a hundred years in total since the beginning of the siege, according to EP.
– At least 9 people have been killed and 9 others injured in a Russian shelling of a television tower near the city of Rivne in western Ukraine.
– The Ukrainian authorities have raised this Monday to 90 children killed since the start of the military offensive by Russia, before adding that more than a centenarian have been injured in the fighting.
– Efforts by diplomats to end the invasion intensify. Ukrainian and Russian negotiators resume talks on Monday after both sides have claimed to have made progress in recent days.
– The Russian Army does not rule out taking “full control” of the main Ukrainian cities, according to the Kremlin.
– At least 20 people have died and 9 have been injured in an attack on Ukrainian forces in the separatist region of Donetsk, in the east of the country, according to Russian agencies (EFE).
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– This morning Russian forces attacked the Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv.
– Russia has attacked a Ukrainian military base just 25 kilometers from the border with Poland. The death toll is 35 people. The Russian Defense Ministry claims that the attacks have killed 180 "foreign mercenaries" and destroyed large amounts of military equipment.
– Russian troops set off explosives at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. The nuclear energy company of Ukraine said this month that the explosives had gone off near the main reactor of the Russian-controlled Ukrainian plant and more explosions were planned. According to the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN, at the moment it is unknown if the explosion could have affected the radiation levels in the area. Likewise, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has described Vladimir Putin's decision to raise the level of nuclear alert in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine as "chilling". "The prospect of a nuclear conflict, previously unthinkable, see to be within the possible", has indicated
– There are still no humanitarian corridors enabled for the evacuation of civilians in the Sumy region.
– NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has pointed out that Russia could use chemicals following its invasion of Ukraine and that such a move would be a war crime, according to an interview in the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Polish President Andrzej Duda stated that Russia's use of chemical weapons in Ukraine could force NATO to reconsider its decision not to intervene militarily in the conflict.
– A Ukrainian police officer from the Lugansk region accused the Russian army this Sunday of bombarding his town with phosphorus bombs. “It's what the Nazis called a 'burning onion,' that's what the 'Russians' [combination of 'Russians' and 'fascists'] are unleashing on our cities. Unspeakable suffering and fires,” said Oleksi Biloshytsky, police chief of Popasna, a city located XNUMX kilometers west of Lugansk, on Facebook, according to EP.
– The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed that the humanitarian situation has deteriorated "rapidly" in Ukraine and that some cities, confronted with Moscow's military offensive, were experiencing a "catastrophic" situation.
– The adviser to the Ukrainian presidency Mikhailo Podolyak has confirmed that Kyiv “is under siege” by Russian forces.
– As reported by the state agency RIA Novosti citing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Russia will consider arms shipments to Ukraine as “legitimate targets” for the Russian armed forces to attack.
