(Finance) – TheGeneral Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution which condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with 141 countries voting in favor, five against and 35 abstentions. The five countries that voted against the UN General Assembly resolution on the Russian invasion of Ukraine are, in addition to Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Syria and Eritrea. There China abstained.
The second round of the interviews instead between Russia and Ukraine it will take place tomorrow morning. The negotiations are expected to take place in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha forest of the Brest region of Belarus, on the border with Poland. In the meantime, a position comes from the Russian delegation: “the hypothesis of a ceasefire will be on the negotiating table that will take place in the next few hours”. This was reported by the chief negotiator of Moscow, Vladimir Medinsky. The place, among other things, is the same where, in 1991, the Belovezh Agreements were signed, the treaty, also known as the Minsk Agreement, which led to the end of the Soviet Union.
The composition of the delegations will be the same as in the first talks. Yury Voskresensky, an analyst from Minsk close to the organizers of the meeting, had reported that “the Russian delegation has already arrived in Minsk and is heading towards the place of negotiations”. Medinsky specifies that “new talks between Russians and Ukrainians are scheduled for tomorrow, to seek a diplomatic solution to the conflict that began with the Russian invasion”. Medinsky then added: “Let’s wait there delegation Ukraine for tomorrow, they are coming. “
Meanwhile, the Russia for the first time provided a balance official of its victims in the offensive in Ukraine, speaking of 498 soldiers killed and 1,597 wounded. This was reported by the Moscow Ministry of Defense, quoted by Interfax. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced this morning that the Russian forces “are trying to advance in all directions”, but “find the resistance of the Ukrainian army and are suffering losses”. So far, at least 136 civilians have been killed since the start of the war, according to reports from the United Nations. The wounded are instead about 400.
The port city of Mariupollocated on the northern coast of the Azov Sea, in the middle of an assault by Russian forces, has no more water while 500 thousand people got stuck. The alarm came from the mayor of the city, Vadym Boichenko, as reported by the Guardian. “The occupation forces of the Russian Federation have done everything to block the exit of civilians from the city, blocking half a million people,” he said, stating that “we cannot even take the injured from the streets, houses and apartments today,” since the bombings do not stop “. “We cannot count the number of victims, but we believe that at least hundreds of people have died. We cannot enter to recover the bodies”, the deputy mayor told the BBC instead. Sergiy Orlov noting that a riverside district, normally inhabited by 130,000 people, has been “almost completely destroyed”. “The Russian army here is fielding all its weapons: artillery, rocket launch systems, even tactical and airborne systems. They are trying to destroy the city,” Orlov added.