The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba stated that there had been no recent diplomatic contacts between Ukraine and Russia at the level of Foreign Ministries and that the situation in Mariupol, which he described as “horrible“, may be “Red line»In the course of the negotiations.
“Mariupol is likely to be a red line,” the Ukrainian foreign minister told CBS News.
Ukrainian troops defy Russian ultimatum to lay down arms to date in ruined city, which Moscow says is almost entirely under Russian control, the biggest military “success” they have recorded since the invasion of Ukraine on February 24th.
Mariupol has been under siege since the first days of the Russian attack and has been bombed relentlessly.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned yesterday that the “extermination” of the last Ukrainian soldiers in the besieged Russian city of Mariupol “would put an end to any peace talks.”
“The extermination of our soldiers, our men in Mariupol will put an end to any (peace) negotiations between Ukraine and Russia,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview published on the website Ukraïnska Pravda. they will find themselves “at a dead end”.
In terms of casualties, “Mariupol is probably ten times Borodyanka”, the city near Kyiv that was destroyed by heavy bombardment by Russian forces and became a scene of horror during its occupation by Russian soldiers, said President Zele.
“And the more Borodyanka there is, the harder it will be to negotiate,” he said.
On April 11, the Ukrainian army announced that it was preparing for the “last battle” in Mariupol. “For some of us it will mean death and for others captivity,” the 36th Marine Battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces recently wrote on Facebook.
Ukrainian authorities have announced that 20,000 to 22,000 people have been killed in the siege of Mariupol, a strategic city with a population of 441,000 before the Russian-led invasion of Ukraine.
Negotiations between the two sides have been at zero for several days. They are “extremely difficult,” according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Pontoliak.
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