On the 34th day of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, this Tuesday, March 29, follow the latest information available live.
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The main points:
► At least 5,000 people died in Mariupol, a city besieged by Russia for several weeks, according to a Ukrainian official. The UN is seeking to establish a “humanitarian ceasefire”.
► Ukrainian authorities said on Monday recaptured the town of Irpin, in the suburbs of kyiv. Ukrainian forces have also repelled Russian attacks towards Brovary, east of kyiv, in the past 24 hours.
► In the regions of Chernigiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donbass, and in southern Ukraine “ the situation remains tense everywhere, very difficult “, said Monday evening the Ukrainian president, adding that the “ Russian troops did not allow » the organization ofany “ humanitarian corridor » Monday.
►The Russian and Ukrainian delegations confirmed on Sunday thata new round of talks will take place Start of the week. Russian negotiators arrived in Istanbul on Monday as talks are expected to begin on Tuesday, according to footage from Turkish broadcaster NTV. Both sides said on Monday they did not expect major breakthroughs.
Times are given in Universal Time (UT)
12:30 a.m .: Russian invasion of Ukraine is a “rehearsal” of the war in Syria, according to Amnesty
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a “ repetition of Syria with a increase in war crimes for more than a month of conflict, alerted Amnesty International during the presentation Tuesday in Johannesburg of its 2021-2022 report.
“ What is happening in Ukraine is a repetition of what we saw in Syria “, told AFP the secretary general of the NGO, Agnès Callamard. ” We are in intentional attacks on civilian infrastructure, homes “, bombings of schools, she lambasted, accusing Russia of allowing humanitarian corridors to transform them into a “ death trap “.
“ Our researchers on site for ten days documented the use of the same tactics as in Syria and Chechnya “, including attacks targeting civilians and the use of ammunition prohibited by international law, added at a parallel press conference in Paris, Marie Struthers, director of Amnesty Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
12 a.m.: Zelensky considers stronger sanctions against Russia necessary
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday urged Western countries to quickly tighten their sanctions against Russia, including by imposing an embargo on Russian oil, to prevent Moscow from having a free hand to step up its measures against Ukraine.
In a daily video message, a visibly irritated Volodymyr Zelensky said the West miscalculated last year by delaying the imposition of sanctions against Russia, resulting in the start of the Russian invasion.
“ A full-scale war has begun. There are now many indications and warnings about alleged stronger sanctions, such as an embargo on Russian oil supplies to Europe, which will be put in place if Russia uses chemical weapons. said the Ukrainian leader, banging his fist on the table several times.
“ There is simply no word (…) We have to wait. Doesn’t everything the Russian army has done to date justify an oil embargo? he continued, citing Russia’s alleged use of phosphorus bombs and bombings of a chemical factory and a nuclear power plant.
Volodymyr Zelensky noted that Western sanctions need to be “ effective in order to prevent them from being circumvented by Moscow and creating a dangerous illusion ” by letting the Russian power believe that it is ” allowed to continue doing what he’s doing “. “Ukrainians are paying for this with their lives. Thousands of lives,” he added.