Kyiv: About 20,000 people left the port city through a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol in Ukraine, surrounded by Russian forces. Till now such a large number of people had not migrated from there. Meanwhile, Russian forces intensified the bombing of Kyiv and destroyed an apartment, a subway station and other civilian sites.
scope of agreement
On the diplomatic front, Mikhailo Podoliak, a top Ukrainian negotiator and adviser to the president, described the latest talks with Russia as “very difficult and difficult” and said there is a “fundamental contradiction” between the two sides. “There is definitely room for a compromise,” he added. He said the talks would continue on Wednesday as well. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s senior official (deputy chief of staff) Ihor Zhovkova said on Tuesday that talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives had become “more constructive”. He said Russia has changed its tone and has stopped demanding Ukraine to surrender. Zhovkova said Ukrainian representatives had some hope of a solution after the talks.
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The number of people leaving the country has crossed 30 lakhs
Meanwhile, the number of people leaving the country crossed three million. A senior official said about 20,000 people managed to leave Mariupol in 4,000 private vehicles through the humanitarian corridor leading to the city of Zaporizhzhya. The leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia arrived in Kyiv on an EU mission to show strong support for the war-torn country. At the same time, in Kyiv, there were horrific explosions before dawn. Ukrainian officials called it an artillery attack. Russia’s attack on Kyiv appears to be becoming more systematic.
bombing of multi-storey buildings
Zelensky said four multi-storey buildings in the city were bombed, killing several people. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday ahead of talks that Russia would insist on its demand that Ukraine abandon its attempt to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Providing a possible basis for a deal with Moscow, Zelensky told European leaders gathered in London that he believed NATO had no intention of acceding to Ukraine.
About 700 people have died in Ukraine – UN
“We’ve heard about NATO’s open doors for years,” Zelensky said, but we’ve also heard that “we can’t enter through these doors.” Meanwhile, the United Nations said that about 700 people had died in the ongoing war in Ukraine, but the actual number could be much higher.