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Ukraine submitted a ceasefire request to the United States on the occasion of Easter and invited the American delegation to Kiev
Vladimir Zelensky spoke to reporters and said that Ukraine remains committed to its Easter ceasefire proposal and has sent this request to the United States. We’ve all seen them in the media space [России] The answer: They don’t seem ready for that. I don’t know how serious this response is. We have conveyed our request to the American side. I don’t know if they will have the opportunity to convey their message to the Russians. let’s see”, – He said President of Ukraine.
The Kremlin had rejected the idea of an Easter ceasefire a few days earlier. “From the statements of Zelensky that we read, we did not see a clearly formulated initiative for the Easter truce,” said Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s press secretary.
During a conversation with journalists, Zelensky also said that he offered the United States an alternative to holding a tripartite meeting at the level of technical groups. “I invited the American negotiating delegation to Kyiv. <…> An American group can come to us, and after us go to Moscow. If we can’t reach an agreement between the three of us, let’s do it this way.” He said Zelensky.
father words Mr. President of Ukraine, the situation on the front remains difficult, but according to British intelligence, it is the best in the past ten months. “I received MI6’s view of the situation on the front, that is, now the best situation for Ukraine in the last 10 months. This is their conclusion, and all partners see it. Taking into account the occupation of our territories and the end of the occupation of our territories, we are now at a slight advantage,” Zelensky said.
Meanwhile, over the past 24 hours, Russia has continued to strike Ukraine. In the Kyiv region, Bochansky, Vastovsky and Obukhovsky districts were attacked. I mentioned Head of the Regional Military Administration Nikolai Kalashnik. One person died. Eight other citizens were injured, including a child.
Kalashnik said that in the Vastovsky district of the Kiev region, the building of a veterinary clinic was damaged – after a Russian raid, a fire broke out there, killing about 20 animals. Journalist Daria Bora, who treated her animals at the clinic, He writesShahid entered the building – in the place where the cats and dogs are in the hospital. According to her, seven animals died.
Kharkov was attacked for almost two days. According to the city’s mayor, Igor Terekhov, the current series of strikes has become “almost the most massive in the entire period of the Great War and certainly the most violent since the beginning of the year.” At least 25 high-rise buildings, private homes, medical facilities and cars were damaged. by Data Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleg Sengubov, as a result of the recent attacks, at least seven people were injured, and two of the wounded died later – a man of about 60 years old and a woman of 29 years old.
In addition, the Kherson and Zhytomir regions have been attacked in the past 24 hours, and in the Kyiv region, the Kyiv Cardboard and Paper Plant in the city of Obukhov has temporarily stopped working. Factory press service maleIt produces “general consumer goods exclusively for the civilian population” and is “in no way associated with military infrastructure, defense installations or military commands.”
Zelensky said that he spoke with Pope Leo XIV, and “during this conversation, the Russians attacked Ukraine again” with hundreds of “Shahed” missiles and dozens of missiles. The Ukrainian president added: “In fact, the attack has continued in waves since the night, and at least five regions have already been attacked. It is not an hour of peace for our people, and this is Russia’s response to our Easter ceasefire proposal.”
War in pictures. Two days of attacks in Kharkov and an attack on a veterinary clinic near Kiev
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Ksenia (Moscow region). […] Yes, February 24, 2022 was a shock to the majority of citizens; The majority was and still is against the “war”. But is it against the person who unleashed it? Despite previous events in the country, reprisals against the media, business, political rivals, etc. I am not sure, because the same majority considered him a guarantor of stability, the only president and leader suitable for “getting up from your knees.”
Are people against the policy of annexing new territories to Russia? Are you against the idea of “defending the country from external threats” or “defending the Russian world” as a cover for aggression? Are you against “patriotism” that erases memory and covers up violence as “the work of our ancestors”? Publicity work number? Of course, but it was based on a very good soil of agreement with the authorities, compliance, chronic resentment, at least towards the West, the desire for victories and this “patriotism”.
And after a short time, friends and colleagues are already saying “Not everything is so simple”, “I am for the Motherland”, “Defending Donbass”, “They were preparing to attack us”, “The Nazis are there”, “Sanctions have strangled us”, “They want to weaken Russia”. And beautiful and intelligent people who are against the war, but with all their souls for the victory of Russia to the end. It is very sad to realize this. And then the “banality of evil”, which is perfectly demonstrated in the movie “Mr. Nobody vs. Putin”. People painfully ask: What can we do? Nothing now. The “silence of good people” has already led to the victory of evil.