The second round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials on the Belarusian border has been completed, according to the Ukrainian government. Already, however, the two delegations are back at the negotiating table for the third round.
The suspension, while through rumors that the process had been completed, was announced via twitter by Zelenski’s advisor, Michael Pontoliak.
Negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian delegates are trivial. The third round will start in a hurry.
– Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) February 28, 2022
The meeting is aimed at an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops, Ukrainian President Zelensky said earlier.
However, the talks took place while There was an ongoing Russian pounding in Kharkov with dozens dead and hundreds injured.
The adviser of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry Anton Herashenko said in a Facebook post: “Kharkiv has just received a massive fire from a rocket. Dozens dead and hundreds injured.
According to information from the international media, residential areas in Kharkov have been bombed. In fact, there are reports that a Russian shell hit a high-rise building on Klochkivska Street.
Residents of Ukraine’s second largest city talk about Russian Sukoi fighter jets.
Ukrainian media talk about the dead.
The news is confirmed by the adviser of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured in a rocket attack by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv this morning, said Anton Herashenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.
“Kharkiv was just massively bombed by Grad (missiles). “Dozens of people were killed and hundreds were injured,” he said in a Facebook post.
Nuclear threat
Earlier in the day, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed the Russian president that Russia’s strategic nuclear forces had been put into a state of war, following an order given by Putin himself yesterday.
“Senior officials of top NATO countries also allow aggressive statements against our country, so I order the Minister of Defense and the Chief of General Staff [των Ρωσικών Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων] “to transfer the deterrent forces of the Russian army to a special combat regime,” the Russian president said yesterday.
Putin has warned foreign countries not to intervene in his ongoing invasion of Ukraine, saying it could lead to “consequences they have never seen.”
It has deployed anti-aircraft missiles and other advanced missile systems in Belarus and has deployed its Black Sea Fleet in an effort to prevent Western intervention in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to alert Russia’s deterrent forces, including nuclear weapons, is an unacceptable escalation, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas Greenfield said yesterday.
“It means that President Putin continues to escalate this war in a completely unacceptable way, and we must continue to halt his actions in the strongest possible way,” Greenfield said in an interview with CBS “Face the Nation.”
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