WAR IN UKRAINE LIVE. A month after the start of the war between Ukraine and Russia, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, urged Russia to “seek peace”, while Mariupol is threatened by Chechnya, an ally of Moscow.
08:37 – Two dead in a bombardment in eastern Ukraine
Two people were killed overnight from Thursday to Friday after the bombardment of the town of Rubizhne, in eastern Ukraine, near Sievierodonetsk, which has concentrated part of the fighting for several days.
08:35 – 135 children have been killed since the beginning of the war
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine at least 135 children have been killed since the start of the war in Ukraine and more than 184 injured. A balance sheet higher than that announced by the UN. But the latter had indicated its data was not consolidated and that the balance sheet could be higher than announced.
08:21 – Russia wants to “achieve its goal of demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine”
In line with what Vladimir Putin said on February 24 to justify his “special military operation” in Ukraine, “the operation (in the whole country) must continue until it achieves its goal of demilitarizing and denazify Ukraine,” Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with the RIA news agency on Friday.
08:15 – Has Mariupol fallen into the hands of Chechnya?
Late Thursday afternoon, the Russian leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said his paramilitary militia had seized the town hall of Mariupol. Information that was slow to be confirmed since finally denied by the principal concerned: it was in fact only an administrative building located outside the port city.
08:09 – Zelensky calls on Russia to seek “peace”
A month after the start of the war in Ukraine, and as the conflict seems to be getting bogged down, the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, urged his neighboring country to a truce in the fighting: “I spoke to the President of Lithuania, Nauseda, the Prime Minister of Israel, Bennett, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Johnson. All this so that Russia understands one thing, that it is necessary to seek peace. Russia must also seek peace. peace.”
07:08 – Russia maintains vagueness on a nuclear attack
The nuclear threat is once again brandished by senior Russian officials. Yesterday, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, indicated that an atomic attack was possible “if Russia is provoked by NATO, if Russia is attacked by NATO”, thus ruling out an offensive Russian. However, the rest of his speech creates a blur on the intentions of the Kremlin: “It is not the right thing to do to threaten Russia and to try to intervene. So, when you are dealing with a nuclear power, well Of course, you have to calculate all the possible consequences of your behavior”. Two days earlier, the spokesperson for the Russian presidency explained that the use of nuclear weapons is conditional on the identification of an “existential threat” against Russia, without specifying what could or could not be considered as so.
06:41 – Dead, injured.. What is the latest human toll of the war in Ukraine?
#Balance sheet After a month of war in Ukraine, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reports that 977 civilians have been killed in the attacks, including 128 children according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. These figures could only be part of an even heavier human toll. On the side of the armies, Ukraine announces 15,800 Russian soldiers who died in combat but abstains from communicating on its own losses just like Russia. The toll advanced by kyiv seems inflated and the Americans estimate Russian losses at between 7,000 and 15,000 soldiers. The millions of Ukrainian refugees are also to be counted as victims of the war between Ukraine and Russia, there are 10 million Ukrainians who have left their homes and more than 3.5 million who have taken refuge in a other country.
06:13 – A potential chemical attack that “concerns”
Volodymyr Zelensky considers the risk of a chemical attack “very real”. The Ukrainian president expressed his concern yesterday in front of the rather receptive heads of state and government gathered at the NATO and G7 summits. The Secretary General of NATO indicated that the organization was also concerned about this eventuality. If there is no physical evidence that Russia is preparing a biological attack, the West takes the lead and sends equipment to Ukraine to protect against a chemical weapon.
05:45 – Where is the war in Ukraine after a month of fighting?
After impressive breakthroughs in the north as far as Chernihiv and Kharkiv, in the east in the Donbass and especially in the south with a dominant presence on the entire coast of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the Russian army is in the not even at a standstill. Ukrainian soldiers and resistance fighters hold their position in the country’s major cities and block new enemy advances, so that for three weeks the positions of each other seem frozen. The war in Ukraine is turning into a war of attrition, it is then the ability to hold out over time and to be supplied with both military equipment and stocks of food, water and medical equipment that risk the difference. Ukraine can count on the support of NATO but Russia with its significant means can also draw on its reserves.