To fully understand the Donetsk and Lugansk regions The Russian army has been operating for the last few hours, relentlessly bombing Ukrainian positions, as well as residential areas.
According to reports from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Mariupol, Popasna and Rubezhnoye are under large-scale attack from all fronts, as the purpose of Vladimir Putin’s generals is to occupy the three cities and block all corridors to the Sea of ​​Azov.
The Ukrainians are talking about general-scale bombing and not selective military targets.
Fierce fighting and the perimeter of Kiev
At the same time, Russian forces continue pounding on the outskirts of Kiev, as their goal is to maintain the blockade in Kyiv, despite Tuesday’s “agreement” for partial de-escalation, as well as to “seal” the area around the nuclear facilities. of Chernobyl.
In Irpin, in particular, Russian forces have launched a large-scale offensive by all means, literally leveling the area just 20 kilometers from the center of Kiev.
Kadyrov: Moscow will not make concessions
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said today that Moscow is not going to make concessions in the Ukraine war and that the Kremlin negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, was wrong to imply the opposite.
In a videotaped message to the Telegram, which appeared to differ clearly from Moscow’s official stance, Kadyrov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not simply stop what he started in Ukraine.
On Monday, Agence France-Presse reported that Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, had traveled to Mariupol to mobilize Chechen troops in the offensive against the southeastern Ukrainian city.
The Tatars demand the return of Crimea to Ukraine
Representatives of the Crimean Tatars today demanded the return to Ukraine of the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 as one of the conditions set by Kyiv in negotiations with Moscow to end the armed conflict.
After an online meeting, Mazli, the council of this Turkish-speaking Muslim community that has settled in Crimea since the 13th century, insisted that the return to Ukraine of this territory should be a “mandatory condition” in the talks.
“Together with the Crimean Tatars, they believe that the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, should be a prerequisite for formal negotiations between the two countries and “The head of the Tatar assembly, Refat Tsombarov, underlined on Facebook, citing Mazli’s decision of March 18,” the Russian Federation stressed on Facebook.
A new round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul on Tuesday appeared to lead the parties to an agreement, the envoys said, before the Kremlin denied those hopes today, saying it had seen nothing “promising”.
Ukrainian chief negotiator David Arahamia. He explained that his country was demanding an “international agreement” to guarantee its security and suggested that Crimea and the Donbass territories, which are controlled by pro-Russian separatists, be “temporarily excluded” from the negotiations.
The Russian side demands that the agreement include the recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea and the independence of the two self-proclaimed “democracies” of Donbass.
The Tatar community, which accounts for 12 percent to 15 percent of Crimea’s two million people, had boycotted a 2014 referendum in Russia, the legitimacy of which was not recognized by either Kyiv or the international community.
Moscow then banned Mazli, calling it an extremist organization, and arrested dozens of members of the ethnic group, with the UN denouncing human rights abuses.
About 30,000 Tatars, more than 10% of their community, including their leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, have taken refuge elsewhere in Ukraine.
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