Belarus’s Foreign Ministry has released a photo of the site of the current Russia-Ukraine talks.
“In Belarus, everything is ready to host the Russia-Ukraine talks. “Waiting for the delegations to arrive,” the ministry tweeted around 9 a.m. local time.
BeIn Belarus, everything is ready to host Russia-Ukraine negotiations. Waiting for delegations to arrive pic.twitter.com/WSnPMyChwg
– Belarus MFA ???????? (@BelarusMFA) February 28, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday that the Ukrainian and Russian delegations would meet unconditionally in Pripyat, Belarus.
Zelensky said he was not sure that progress would be made, but that he would try.
“I will honestly say, as always, that I do not believe in the outcome of this meeting,” he said. “But let us try so that no citizen of Ukraine has any doubt that I, as president, did not try to stop the war when there was even one chance.”
The harsh sanctions of the West
The EU has decided to send armaments to Ukraineclosed its airspace to Russian troops, while banning the Russian state media.
Member States will also receive Ukrainian refugees in their territories, bypassing the usual asylum application procedures. Several European countries and the United States have announced the exclusion of Russian banks from the SWIFT system.
The ruble is sinking to a new low against the dollar, following sanctions.
The UN is convening today Extraordinary meetingwith the participation of all 193 members.
Explosions in Kyiv and Kharkiv – Bombings in Mariupol
Meanwhile, explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and the country’s second largest city, Kharkiv, as announced by the Ukrainian authorities in the early hours of Monday.
Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, also said that the coastal city of Berdyansk in southern Ukraine had been occupied by Russian troops.
He added that 11 ships of the Russian Navy are off Odessa.
In Mariupol, at least 15 people are injured in the evening bombings, while more than 80 people are in hospital, 18 of them in serious condition.
Earlier, the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reported that several Russian bombers and fighters had taken off from the Crimean peninsula to Ukrainian cities.
So far according to international media have lost their lives in battles over 350 people, including 16 children.
Ukraine claims 4,500 Russians have lost their lives since the invasion began, a news that has not been confirmed.
At the same time, at least 368,000 people fled Ukraine.
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