The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with the Chinese news agency Xinhua made it clear that the halt to sanctions against Russia is part of the ongoing negotiations. Two buses were reported to have been shot in Popasna, bringing civilians to safety. Moscow sends experts to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
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Popasna, shooting on two buses carrying civilians to safety
Shooting at two buses carrying dozens of people to safety from Popasna, Ukraine. Lost contact with the drivers. This was announced by the head of the military-civil administration of the city, Nikolay Khanatov. «Yesterday we evacuated 31 people from Popasna – he explains – but there were still many others, so we sent two more buses to the city. It is known that they reached the village and came under enemy fire. We are unable to communicate with the people on board ».
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Ukraine: Zelensky, Mariupol is a Russian concentration camp in the ruins
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of trying to destroy the Donbass and everyone who lives there. «The continuous and brutal bombings, the continuous Russian attacks on infrastructures and residential areas, show that Russia wants to empty this territory of all people. Therefore, the defense of our land, the defense of our people, is literally a struggle for life, ”he said in his nightly video speech to the nation.
“If the Russian invaders are able to carry out their plans even partially, then they have enough artillery and aircraft to reduce the whole Donbass to rubble. As they did with Mariupol, ”he added, describing the latter as a“ Russian concentration camp in the ruins ”.
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Aiea: “Rosatom sent experts to the Zaporizhzhia plant”
Russian authorities have sent experts to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea), the Ukrainians have updated the Agency about the plant, “controlled by Russian forces but still managed by its Ukrainian staff”, with staff working “under an incredible pressure », as stated in a statement released in the last few hours by the general manager Rafael Mariano Grossi which mentions the Ukrainians. According to Ukraine, Rosenergoatom – a unit of the Russian Rosatom – sent a group of eight experts who asked for daily reports on “confidential issues” on the operation of the plant, taken by Russian forces on 4 March.