The Ukrainian army was restoring part of the Kiev region, Russia captured Izyum. The main thing for the 37th day of the war
Ukraine confirmed that an important transport hub Izyum in the Kharkiv region captured the armed forces with troops, the Russian army allows many settlements in the Kiev and Chernihiv parts. Meanwhile, Ukraine and Russia were checking the exchange of prisoners of war and resumed the escalation in an online format, and the Russian authorities accused Kyiv of a missile attack on the oil depot in Bela.
The main events of the 37th day of the war are in our review.
Capture Raisins
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that Russian troops had captured Izyum, a regional center in the Kharkiv region. Its population is only 50 thousand people, but the city is an important railway junction and its roads on the way to the Donetsk region.
The capture of Izyum by the Russian Ministry of Defense was announced on March 24, but then the Izyum authorities announced that fighting there was continuing.
On Friday, in its regular report, the General Staff reported that a Russian civilian “is under arrest for a pontoon crossing over the Seversky Donets River for the purpose of conducting offensive operations.” Relatively close to Izyum is the city of Slavyansk in the Donetsk region, which is extremely important for the Ukrainian army.
According to the Ukrainian troops, the Russian army began to enter a copy of the village of Malaya Kamyshevakha near Izyum, but was stopped there.
The Russian army liberates the Kiev region
Over the past two days, Ukrainian returning infected people have been checking over many settlements in the Kiev and Chernihiv locations. Including the liberation of the city of Bucha and Gostomel forgotten from Kyiv.
The airfield at Gostomel was placed for the landing of aircraft with the military, which could advance in the establishment of Kyiv. The city of Irpen, neighboring Bucha and Gostomel, was liberated a few days earlier.
Meanwhile, British intelligence tweeted that Ukrainian medical facilities have also rebuilt the villages of Sloboda and Lukashevka near Chernihiv, which designate roads connecting the city to Kiev. At the same time, the Ukrainian General Staff in its report, distributed in the middle of the day, specifies that the blockade of Chernigov continues.
On Tuesday, after talks in Istanbul, Russia said there was high activity in the Kiev and Chernihiv regions. This was explained by a desire to “increase confidence” between sets, but NATO and Ukrainian authorities believe that Moscow’s real goal is to regroup troops in preparation for a forecast offensive in the Donbass and a possible blocking of an attack in Kyiv and other regions.
According to Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, “fierce fighting” is taking place north of the Ukrainian capital, so it is too early to return to peaceful conditions in Kyiv. “The risk of dying is still high. Therefore, to all those who want to return, my advice is: wait a little longer,” Reuters quoted Klitschko as saying.
Negotiations resumed
The Ukrainian and Russian collegiums in the St. Petersburg collegium resumed consideration via videoconference. The last talkers met on March 29 in Istanbul.
The head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, Vladimir Medinsky, said that Russia’s position in relation to Crimea and Donbass is unchanged.
Following the meeting in Istanbul, Ukraine offered Russia to hold bilateral meetings on the status of Crimea and Sevastopol for 15 years, without using armed forces to resolve the conflict. The issue of Donbass, according to the Ukrainian side, should be delayed by the point of the presidents of the two countries during a personal meeting.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that there is “movement forward” in the talks. “It is not impossible for us. There is a movement forward, first of all, in terms of recognizing the impossibility of Ukraine to be blocs of the country, the impossibility of Ukraine to seek happiness in the North Atlantic Alliance, a non-nuclear, non-bloc neutral status – this is what is now recognized as an absolute program,” Lavrov said at a press conference in New Delhi.
Statements of Ukraine’s admittance that the country may aspire from the intention to join NATO, but at the same time it is expected that its security will formally meet with several large countries, including members of the North Atlantic alliance.
What happened at the oil depot near Belgorod
Friday morning began with reports from the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, that two Ukrainian attack helicopters hit the oil depot in Belgorod, which, according to him, populated the land at low altitude.
Belgorod is located about 30 km from the Ukrainian border, about 60 km from Kharkov, which has been bombed since the early days of the Russian Invasion.
Several videos appeared on social networks, in which two helicopters are actually guarded near the fire site.
The Ukrainian authorities discovered the fact of non-recovery. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba told Reuters that he cannot confirm or deny the information about Ukraine’s involvement in the fire at the oil depot in Bela.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, answered a question about the Russian assessment: “They [Россия] they say we did it. In fact, this does not live up to expectations. But we do not comment on it. This could happen all over Russia.
Later, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced that eight tanks had caught fire at the oil depot, but no one had exploded.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the fire at the oil depot near Belgorod had already been reported to Vladimir Putin. He also noted that he does not create “conditions, comfortable conditions for the continuation of negotiations.” When asked to evaluate what happened, Peskov replied that this should not be done in the presidential administration, but in law enforcement agencies. At the same time, he added that “the superiority [России] in August during the operation is an absolute fact, it really is.”
BBC Security Correspondent Jonathan Beal, who currently works in Odessa, reports that Ukrainian helicopter pilots have a lot of experience flying at low altitude at high speed – this is done so that they are not happy with air defense systems. “This is what they have been practicing in the Donbass in Ukraine for many years,” says a BBC correspondent.
UNESCO warns of threat to world heritage
Dozens of churches, major monuments and museums were donated during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, donated to UNESCO. A special event at the United Nations Activism Agency in Chernihiv. The city with the very first hours of the Russian invasion in Ukraine is under hundreds of shelling by the Russian army.
As a result of the shelling, many buildings were destroyed, and rescuers continue to get the bodies of the dead from under the rubble. The Chernihiv Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities and the Shchorsa cinema are already on the list of the regularity of shelling of cultural heritage sites, which is compiled by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
For more than a month of wars in cities where residential, destroyed or damaged 29 places of worship, 16 buildings of historical significance, four museums and four monuments. “A human heritage in the field of injuries in Ukraine,” said UNESCO representative Ernesto Ottone.
On the territory of Ukraine there are seven World Heritage Sites, in particular, the justification in Lviv and Kyiv. The cities of Odessa and Kharkov are included in the Creative Cities Network, and the heavy archives of Ukraine are included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.
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