The Ukrainian delegation arrived in Belarus. The main thing about the war at this time
In Ukraine, there is relative calm in anticipation of a proposal in Belarus, the skies over Europe have closed to the Russian economy, and the ruble has plummeted after the introduction of the regime for the Russian invasion. The main thing about the war by this hour is in the BBC review.
military situation
In the early morning in Kyiv, air raid sirens, shelling and explosions were reported, there were no assaults.
In Kharkiv, amid reports of fighting in the city center the day before, a curfew is introduced from 15:00 to 06:00 Tuesday.
In Chernihiv at 02:45 a rocket hit a four-story residential building, Fire News, the State Service for Special Communications of Ukraine reported.
Ukraine recognized the fact of control over the city of Berdyansk came under the control of Russian troops. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the day before that the infected were completely blocked in Kherson and Berdyansk, and also took control of the Chernobaevka airfield near Kherson and the city of Genichesk (Kherson region).
The representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, acknowledged combat losses the day before, but at the same time, the loss is growing sharply “many times less than the withdrawals of nationalists and losses among the military personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces.”
In Kyiv, the curfew announced by Mayor Vitali Klitschko has ended. From 8:00 a.m., grocery stores and transport began to operate in the city, with the exception of the metro, which is partially used as a bomb shelter. There are big problems with food in stores – empty shelves with bread and sausages, sensitive entrances to supermarkets (those of them are working), writes UNIAN.
The Russian Defense Ministry claims that marauders are “outrageous” in Kyiv. They also said that civilians “can freely leave the capital of Ukraine along the Kyiv-Vasilkov highway” who captured everything in the city.
Russian aviation has won dominance on the continent over the entire territory of Ukraine, Defense Ministry spokesman Konashenkov also said at a morning briefing on Monday. On his accusation, Russian citizens took control of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
In the self-proclaimed DPR, whose independence Putin recognized, they announced the suspension of the mobilization campaign.
The FSB in Moscow and the Moscow region, meanwhile, “calls for reports of contacts with persons who are part of the republican special services of Ukraine to study activities against the security of the Russian Federation,” the special service said in a statement.
What about negotiations
In the morning in Ukraine, they were supposed to return to inherent Russia, which Vladimir Zelensky gave after a telephone conversation with Alexander Lukashenko the day before. Later it became known that they begin no earlier than noon.
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry published a photo of an empty long table with rear light sensors in the morning.
The parties agreed on the presence in the Gomel region of Belarus near the Ukrainian border in the area of the Pripyat River.
Around 11:30 Moscow time, the media published a video of the arrival of the Ukrainian delegation in helicopters. Earlier it was reported that the negotiators from Kyiv will travel from Poland.
“An aggravation between the Russian delegation and the Ukrainian side will begin any minute,” the Russian embassy in Minsk said.
“There is no refusal from the Ukrainian side. There is full confidence that this problem will begin,” Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, a former minister of culture and chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society, and currently one of the assistants to the Russian president, said earlier.
Moscow represents Medinsky in negotiations with Kiev, as it is necessary to observe business qualities and the deepest expertise, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday afternoon. Why he is the head of the negotiators, the authorities have not previously explained, and the story was devoted to the general part of Putin’s appeal to the people who proclaimed the independence of the DNR and LNR.
The Russian delegation also included Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko, Deputy Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov, head of the international committee of the State Duma Leonid Slutsky, Defense Minister Alexander Fomin.
The Ukrainian delegation includes Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, head of the Servant of the People unit in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine David Arakhamia and adviser to the presidential office Mykhailo Podolyak.
In the office of President Zelensky, the consumption of fire and the withdrawal of troops from the territory of Ukraine were voiced. Peskov did not announce requests for Moscow’s position before the negotiations, “they must go in silence,” TASS reports.
Sanctions in effect
EU resolutions for the invasion of Ukraine came into force, providing for the complete closure of the sky over the application not only for the Russian Federation, but also for aircraft stops.
One of the main points is the freezing of assets in Russia by the Central Bank. The regulation was published in the Official Journal of the EU on Monday night. blocks any transactions with the Central Bank’s foreign exchange reserves, with a switching regulator that can switch to the ruble.
Without waiting for the opening of foreign exchange trading on the Moscow Exchange, the ruble collapsed on the over-the-counter Forex market – the dollar cost more than 113 rubles, the euro jumped to 127 rubles.
A new session (from 7 am) on the Moscow Exchange was canceled, and when trading did start at 10 am, the price reached 117.8 rubles, the euro – 132.9 (now both currencies are trading slightly lower). These are record values, this was not the case either during the 2008 event or after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. In banking applications since yesterday, you can buy currency at an astronomical rate, now they ask for up to 150 rubles for a euro, up to 140 for a dollar.
The Russian Central Bank on Monday morning raised the key supply to a record 20% in history, explaining this by the fact that “external conditions for the Russian economy have been changed.” At the same time, the Central Bank did not comment that the EU meant freezing its assets.
Meanwhile, Australia last night joined other countries in imposing personal election against Vladimir Putin and other top Russian officials.
Zelensky entered the EU with the emergence of “immediate accession under a special procedure” to Ukraine.
Highly limited, he thanked European leaders for “unprecedented support” and closing the skies over Europe for the Central African republic, and also confirmed that under martial law points.
According to the UN, during the invasion of Ukraine since February 24, 102 world victims, including seven children. Michelle Bachelet, 304 others, was wounded.