(Finance) – Vladimir Putin has urged the Ukrainian army to take power and overthrow the current government. The Russian president also added: “I urge the Ukrainian army not to allow civilians and individuals to be used as human shields” and accused the Ukrainian authorities of being “a gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis”. During the day, Moscow’s willingness to start negotiations in Kiev as proposed by the Ukrainian government also emerged, but the Kremlin specified the talks will not block the military operation launched by the Russian president against Ukraine.
Putin – said the Russian spokesman, Dmitry Pesko – “is ready to send a Russian delegation to Minsk at the level of representatives of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the presidential administration for negotiations with a Ukrainian delegation”. “Possible negotiations in Minsk can start at any time”, but “they would not cancel the Russian special operation in Ukraine”, said the Russian Foreign Ministry, quoted by Interfax. But first “Kiev must make up its mind, either speak to our country or accuse our country,” added Moscow.
In Kiev, currently under siege, fighting continues. The Ukrainian capital could fall into Russian hands within a few days: these are the latest forecasts of US intelligence, according to sources cited by some American media. The troops of Moscow would be about thirty kilometers from the capital but, explain the same sources, who have updated the members of the congress, they are meeting a resistance from the Ukrainian forces, more fierce than expected.
The Ukrainian government expects Russian tanks to arrive in Kiev within the day, after Russian paratroopers landed 30 km from the city, which is now besieged. Ukrainian military vehicles are entering the capital to defend it. The local media, meanwhile, have reported that 18,000 rifles have been handed over to volunteers who are preparing to defend the streets of the city. The Ukrainian president, Volodymir Zelesky, is meanwhile hidden in a secret place to coordinate the operations of the national army that defends the capital, and has invited Europeans who have “war experience” to “come and fight in Ukraine for Europe. “.