Eighty-first day of war. According to Kiev, the Russians are withdrawing from the Kharkiv region in the north, trying to secure “full control” of Donetsk, Lugansk in the east and Kherson in the south.
Intense negotiations on the evacuation of 60 people, the most seriously injured and doctors, from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Vereshchuk talks about a possible agreement whose “result may not satisfy everyone”. In the factory, she explained, there are not only militiamen from the Azov regiment but also members of other departments of the armed forces and the police. Turkey offers a ship to take refugees from the port of Berdyank – on the Sea of Azov, such as Mariupol – to Istanbul.
Putin warns Finnish President Niinistö that his country’s entry into NATO is “a mistake”. His deputy foreign minister Grushko says that if Finland and Sweden join NATO this “will not be left without a political reaction”, but “it is too early to talk about the deployment of Russian nuclear forces in the Baltic region”.
The European Commission is preparing to revise the Eurozone growth estimates for 2022, with a drastic generalized cut compared to its latest GDP forecast for February, which stood at 4%. In the new spring economic forecasts that Brussels will present on Monday, Italy should lose about one and a half points of GDP compared to the 4.1% projected in February. The economic impact of the war in Ukraine mainly weighs on the growth of the entire euro zone.
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00.01 – Zelensky to US senators: Russia is declared a “terrorist state”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, meeting today with a delegation of US senators, asked that Russia be officially declared a “terrorist state”. This was said by the Ukrainian leader himself in his usual evening message. “I had talks in Kiev with a delegation of US senators led by the leader of the Republican minority Mitchell McConnell – he said – I believe that this visit has once again demonstrated the strength of the bipartisan support for our nation, the strength of the ties between the America and Ukraine ».
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