(Finance) – The city of Mariupol is under Russian control. This was announced by the defense minister of Russia Sergej Shoigu while the President Putin claimed that all those who will surrender to the Russian soldiers will have the guarantee that their lives will be spared.
“Mariupol’s liberation is a success”, said the Russian President canceling the operation to storm the Azovstal steel mill in what has now been renamed “the martyr city “. Putin then demanded that the Azovstal industrial site in Mariupol be blocked so that “a fly cannot pass”.
Meanwhile, empty chairs and blank screens at the G20 in protest against the Russia. When Moscow Finance Minister Anton Siluanov took the floor, the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her Ukrainian counterpart Serhiy Marchenko they got up and left the room, followed by several ministers and governors, including the president of the ECB Christine Lagarde.
Others present virtually turned off the cameras on their screens. The European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo also left the table Gentiloni. The Italian delegation, made up of Minister Daniele Franco and Governor Ignazio Visco, remained instead to carry out its institutional role as a member of the troika together with Indonesia and India. A stay that was an opportunity for publicly blame Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
Other countries followed the path of Italy and sat listening to Moscow. These include Japan and Spain, while for Germany, president of the G7, he remained the finance minister. Own Christian Lindner hhe explained his choice to remain as dictated by the desire not to leave Russia a stage for “to spread its propaganda and its lies”.