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The Russian military said they would reopen the evacuation corridor from the besieged city of Mariupol to Zaporizhzhya on Friday at the request of French and German leaders. Officials say more than 100,000 citizens are trapped in the southern city.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had fired two generals for being “adversaries” who did not support their homeland. He did not give specific information.
On the other hand, the NATO chief warned that the Russian army was not retreating, but was repositioning to keep pressure on Kyiv and other cities. Ukrainian and US officials say Russians may regroup in Belarus.
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European buyers of Russian gas faced a deadline Friday to start payments in rubles, while the two sides have agreed to resume talks on Friday aimed at preventing a five-week war.
A new round of talks was fixed on Friday, five weeks after the war. So far thousands of people have died in this war and about 40 people have been forced to leave Ukraine.
Major developments on the war front:
– According to US officials, Russian forces continue to seek to lay siege to Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelensky, are putting up “strong resistance”.
– The Pentagon said on Thursday that Russian troops have begun to withdraw from around the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and that Russian troops are moving to Belarus to regroup before re-engaging in fighting.
Ukraine’s president said the situation in the south and Donbass remained “extremely difficult” and that Russia was increasing military deployment near the besieged southern port city of Mariupol.
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– The city’s mayor’s office estimates that about 5,000 people have died in Mariupol and about 170,000 are trapped among the ruins without food, heat, electricity or running water.
– Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said 148 children were killed by Russian forces in shelling and airstrikes. Has fired 1,370 missiles and destroyed 15 Ukrainian air bases.
Kremlin’s response to US claims
The Kremlin has rejected US claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misled by his advisers about Russia’s failures on the battlefield.
At a daily news briefing on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “neither the State Department nor the Pentagon has real information about what is happening in the Kremlin.”
Russian officials may disagree with Putin’s decision
ABC News quoted a US official as saying the US government has intelligence that shows some senior Russian officials may “disagree” with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.
“The poor performance of the Russian military probably fueled their disenchantment,” the official said. Several big reasons are involved.
Events at the economic level:
European governments have rejected Putin’s energy ultimatum, calling it ‘blackmail’.
– US President Joe Biden announced the largest release from the US Emergency Oil Reserve to reduce gasoline prices that had risen during the war.
– The war also threatens to disrupt the global food supply, a US government official said hurts grain storage facilities in Ukraine, the world’s fourth-largest profit exporter in the 2020/21 season.
The round of talks will start again
Russia and Ukraine will resume their peace talks online on April 1, a senior Ukrainian official said on Wednesday after a new round of talks in Turkey ended.
Ukraine’s negotiator David Arkhamia said in an online post that Ukraine had proposed that the leaders of the two countries should meet, but Russia responded by saying more work needed to be done on the draft treaty.
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