The attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the bloodbath in Kharkiv with over 2,000 dead including 100 children, the advance south towards Odessa, in a nerve center of operations on the Donbass and Crimea lines. The Russian offensive in Ukraine does not stop, indeed the air campaign has intensified. The bombed and besieged cities are on the brink. Kiev is surrounded, even if the very long convoy of Moscow forces has stopped 25 kilometers from the capital. The negotiation window remains open: the third meeting between the two delegations should take place this weekend.
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00.19 Zelensky: “I didn’t run away, I’m in Kiev”
“Every two days they say that I have escaped from Ukraine, from Kiev. But I am here, you see, in my place”. Thus the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, in a video posted on Instagram, denied the announcement made earlier by the president of the Russian Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, according to which Zelensky himself had fled to Poland. “Nobody has escaped anywhere, we are working”, adds the Ukrainian president, quoted by Interfax, indicating that with him is the head of cabinet of the presidency Andriy Yermak.
00.05 Many media stop broadcasting in Russia
Following the new Russian information law, which provides for up to 15 years in prison for the dissemination of news believed to be false about the war in Ukraine, many international media have stopped broadcasting in the Federation. The list includes, among others, Cnn, Abc News, Bbc, Cbc, Bloomberg.