(Finance) – It tightens the siege on Azovstal to Mariupol. A video posted by Ukrinform shows a column of thick black smoke rising from the battered Azovstal steel mill. Also Ukrinform, quoting the adviser of the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko, had spoken of an attack not only from the air and with artillery but also with Russian tanks on the steel plant and about the fact that a fire had broken out on the site. Powerful explosions were reported tonight in Mykolaiv.
Meanwhile, the government of the southern region of Kherson it will ask Russian President Putin to make it part of the Russian Federation. This was stated by the deputy head of the administration Kirill Stremousov quoted by TASS. “The referendum that took place in Crimea in an absolutely legal way was not recognized by the world community, which went to great lengths not to recognize Russia as a full member of the global community,” he said. “Therefore, this will be a single decree based on the appeal of the Kherson region leadership to Russian President Vladimir Putin. There will be a demand to make the Kherson region a full member of the Russian Federation,” he added.
Ukrainian front: the response from Kiev arrives. The Russian-occupied Kherson authorities “may also demand that the city be annexed to Mars or Jupiter, but the Ukrainian army will free it, in spite of whatever they say “said Mikhailo Podolyak, advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and chief negotiator of Kiev, according to the Interfax Ukraine agency.
Ukraine Front: President Zelensky warned that Kiev is running out of patience to hold negotiations with Russia, given the growing showdowns and atrocities committed by Russian forces. “We are ready to conduct these negotiations, these talks, as long as it is not too late,” the Guardian said, in a video link with Sciences-Po students in Paris, but added: “With each new Bucha, with every new Mariupol and new atrocities disappears the desire and the possibility to negotiate, as well as the possibility of solving this problem in a diplomatic way “. Meanwhile, the Russian foreign minister Sergej Lavrov makes it known that Moscow does not want a war in Europe but the West argues that Russia must be defeated