towards a 15-point rhythm plan. The Russian offensive continues
The offensive continues: Russian ships bombard them from the Black Sea coasts near Odessa, the country’s third largest city and main port. Also Mariupol attackedfrom the Sea of Azov: radio and telecommunication towers hit, while local sources sound of 500 people held hostage inside the hospital. Residential buildings affected a Kiev And Kharkiv, 10 civilians queuing for bread killed in Chernihiv. As you close the third week of warcomes a piano to the beat, in 15 points. Just a draft agreement, on which the Russian and Ukrainian negotiators would be negotiating. And it is the Financial Times to anticipate the extremes: “ceasefire and withdrawal of Russian troops. From the Ukrainian side: neutrality, renunciation of NATOwith the promise of not host foreign military bases or weaponsin exchange for protection from allies such as the United States, Great Britain and Turkey “.
And just the western guarantees for Ukrainian security it could turn out to be a “big one obstacle to any agreement – highlights the Financial Times – as well as the territories conquered by Russia in 2014 ”. The question of the neutrality divides: the Russian foreign minister Lavrov had open to a compromise based on a Austrian or Swedish model of neutrality, however, rejected by Kiev, which asks for guarantees of safety and protection in the event of aggression. Diplomacy at work, today also the meeting between the Russian-Turkey Foreign Ministers, Lavrov and Cavusoglu, asking for the the fire ceases and opens to host a Putin-Zelensky summit. It denies Moscowbut it says it is ready for a trilateral with the foreign ministries of Turkey and Ukraine.
Mariupol city council reports of Russian raid on a theater in the city, a refuge for the names of civilians. An accusation that Risotto Mosca. According to the Kremlin Defense Ministry it was the Ukrainian ultranationalist militia of the Azov Battalion to destroy the building. Tass reports it. The Russia he also denies hitting the civilians in line for bread in Cherniv, news reported in the morning by the correspondent on the spot of Suspilne news quoted by The Kyiv Independent. Meanwhile, Kiev announces that it has Mayor of Melitopol released, Ivan Fedorov. “Vanya is safe,” said the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office Kirill Tymoshenko, quoted by Ukrinform, stressing that the mayor, who was kidnapped last Friday, will soon return to his duties.