On the 34th day of the war, the faint hopes of a diplomatic resolution of the conflict are directed to Istanbul, where another meeting will be held between the Moscow and Kiev negotiators, with Turkey in the role of mediator. According to the Financial Time, Russia will no longer ask for Ukraine to be “denazified” and is ready to let Kiev join the EU as long as it remains militarily non-aligned
And while the mayor of Kiev screams his pain by saying that “the dead are now counted by weight”, the Russian siege still focuses on the eastern provinces already largely controlled by the Russians of Donetsk and Lugansk and on Mariupol. In the port city on the Azov Sea, which remains the first strategic objective to create a link between the occupied Donbass and the Crimea, according to Mayor Vadym Boychenko, the victims were almost five thousand in the 28 days of the siege, including 210 children. The alarm has been the same for days: the city risks humanitarian catastrophe for the 170,000 civilians left, without electricity and gas and short of food, with 10 hospitals destroyed or damaged, as well as 57 schools and kindergartens, and thousands of palaces. Irpin, on the other hand, was released: the mayor announced.
American President Joe Biden, after the mandatory reverse on the overthrow of the Russian government as an objective, however, reiterates that “I did not portray anything about Putin, I only expressed my indignation”. And the case of the oligarch Roman Abramovich, involved in the negotiations with Ukraine, who denounces having been poisoned, is taking the stage. Moscow insists on the payment of gas in rubles to be made by the end of the month and Prime Minister Mario Draghi informs Volodymyr Zelensky of Italy’s willingness to guarantee Ukraine’s future security.
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00.20 – New Macron-Putin telephone conversation
French President Emmanuel Macron is planning a new telephone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin today. This was reported by Tass, on the basis of what the spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry, Anne-Claire Legendre announced to the BFM television channel: “France intends to keep this channel open to dialogue”. Macron has already had “a series of long conversations with the president of Russia”, the last of which dates back to 22 March. In the next meeting, the French president intends to discuss with Putin the details of the humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians from Mariupol with the participation of Greece and Turkey. Responding to what Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said about retaliation measures for visas against hostile countries, Legendre noted that “all EU countries are included in the list of hostile countries. At the moment we don’t know how Russia will deal with this problem in practice ».
Here’s what happened on Monday, March 27
Russian tanks hide in the trees of residential buildings in Mariupol, so the Ukrainians track them down and annihilate them