New Delhi: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that he was not interested in joining NATO during peace talks between the two countries to end the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. At the same time, Russian forces launched attacks near the central region of the Ukrainian capital on the 20th day of the war. According to Ukrainian officials, Russian forces opened fire on a residential area near central Kyiv, after which a fierce exchange of fire broke out between the two sides.
He said at least one person was killed in the Russian attack, while dozens of others were trapped in the 15-story residential building as evacuation operations were hampered. According to officials, the Russian attacks were so strong that the vibrations caused by them destroyed the entrance to the subway station, which was being used as a shelter from the bombings. Officials shared pictures of the destroyed gate of the subway station and said that no train will stop at the station concerned.
China on Tuesday said its stance on Ukraine’s “conflict” is “absolutely objective, fair and structural” and accused the US of “repeated propaganda” that China responded positively to Russian requests for military supplies. Is. China has refused to criticize Russia’s attack on Ukraine or call it a “war”. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian’s remarks came after a meeting between US adviser Jake Sullivan and China’s senior foreign policy adviser Yang Jieshi on Monday in Rome.
The leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia are heading to Kyiv on Tuesday on an EU mission to meet the war-torn country’s top leadership as Russian forces approach Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. These three member states of the European Union (EU), as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), are going to Ukraine at a time when several attacks were carried out in residential areas in neighboring Kyiv. Polish Prime Minister Mateusch Morawiecki said he was traveling to Ukraine with Prime Minister Petr Fiala of the Czech Republic and his Slovenian counterpart Janez Jansa. He is accompanied by Poland’s deputy prime minister for security affairs and ruling party leader Jarosaw Kaczyski.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says more than 3 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion last month. There have also been indications that about one lakh 57 thousand citizens of other countries – those who are not Ukrainian – are also among those who have left the country. UN officials have called it the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. The UNHCR has reported that more than 1.8 million refugees were in Poland. UNHCR spokesman Matthew Saltmarsh said about three lakh refugees had fled to Western Europe, adding that the vast majority of those leaving the country were women and children.
The Russian military continues to attack several cities in Ukraine, deepening the humanitarian crisis. Shortly before the sun came out on Tuesday, Kyiv was shaken by big explosions and Russia has made its lead on many fronts. On the other hand, a convoy of 160 civilian cars from the besieged city of Mariupol by the Russian army left through the designated humanitarian corridor.
A top US defense official said on condition of anonymity that Russian troops were still about 15 kilometers from the center of Kyiv. He said the Russian military has fired more than 900 missiles, but the Ukrainian air force is still fighting, which has not completely dominated Russia.
Ukrainian officials said two people were killed in a massive fire following an attack by the Russian military on an airplane factory in Kyiv. The Antonov factory is Ukraine’s largest aircraft manufacturing plant and is known for producing many of the world’s largest cargo aircraft. Officials said shelling by Russian artillery also targeted a nine-story apartment building in the city’s northern Obolonsky district, killing two more people.
Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall was injured while reporting on the outskirts of Kyiv and has been hospitalized. The news organization gave this information. A live program on state television in Russia was briefly interrupted when a woman broke into a studio carrying a poster against the war. The OVD-Info website reported that she is an employee of ‘Channel 1’ and has been taken into police custody.
Officials said a local councilor from Brovari, east of Kyiv, was killed in the fighting. The Kyiv suburbs of Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel were also bombed. Nine people were killed in a rocket attack on a TV tower in the western village of Antopol. The governor of the area gave this information. Ukraine’s military said on Monday it had foiled an attempt by Russian forces to capture Mariupol.
A pro-Kremlin leader in Russia’s Chechnya region said Chechen fighters were leading the fighting in Mariupol. A pregnant woman with her baby has died in Mariupol, whose photo was taken on the way from a hospital in Mariupol last week and became a symbol of Ukraine’s suffering. This hospital was bombed.
Russian army told that said, 20 civilians were killed in a ballistic missile attack by the Ukrainian military on a separatist-controlled city in eastern Ukraine. This claim is yet to be confirmed.
