19 Mar 2023
17:54
White House: Chinese proposal for “unacceptable” truce
The president of the United States Joe Biden he has no intention of speaking to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping by phone, at least not now. It will do so “when the time is right,” the White House National Security Council spokesman said John Kirby interviewed by Fox News. Furthermore, Kirby added that the United States considers “unacceptable” the Chinese proposal for the truce in Ukraine. “If the meeting between Putin and Xi leads to a call for a truce in Ukraine, it will be for us unacceptablehe said ahead of Xi’s visit to Moscow on Monday.
19 Mar 2023
17:04
Bombs on Zaporizhzhia: three dead
At least three people I am death following the bombing by the Russians of a residential building in the village of Kamenskoein the region of Zaporizhzhia. He brings it back Ukrainska Pravda citing the regional administration. At least two people were injured in the attack.
19 Mar 2023
4:19pm
Kiev: “The Russians are unable to take Bakhmut”
“The Russians are tactically unable to complete the operation to capture Bakhmut and they are suffering huge losses in the fighting – he assured this Sergei Cherevatythe representative of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as reported Ukrainska Pravda. “Yes, there are very active battles, they still continue to carry out several dozen inertia attacks, but suffer huge losses. Our command and staff plan their defense correctly,” Cherevaty said.
19 Mar 2023
2:59 pm
Putin’s propaganda in Mariupol: “The fault of the Nazis”
He visited the Philharmonic Hall restored, where the ‘show’ trials of Ukrainian soldiers captured in the siege of Azovstal and then exchanged for Russian soldiers took place. He went to the homes brand new, built by the Russians after rlanded and took control of the port city overlooking the Sea of Azov. And he met i citizenstook to the streets at night, to assure them that “everything will be fine” and that “we need to get to know each other better”, because what happened was because of the “Nazis, I am nazis. Good people don’t do these things.” It is the diary of the surprise visit, or “working visit” as the Kremlin called it, which the Russian president Vladimir Putin led to Mariupol, the city symbol from the resistence Ukraine, which fell into Russian hands after a bloody siege. The Mariupol of Azov battalionbarricaded himself to exhaustion together with part of the population in the steel mills Azovstal, around 2,600 soldiers and civilians in all. But also the Mariupol ofpediatric hospital he was born in maternity ward bombed last March by the Russians and now, as promised by the Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin alongside Putin, it will be rebuilt and “will all have more modern laboratories and an ambulance”.
19 Mar 2023
2:13 pm
South Africa is aware of its legal obligations related to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court
The South Africa is aware of its legal obligations related to the arrest warrant issued by the ICC against Vladimir Putin: a spokesman for the president said today Cyril Ramaphosa, referring to the Russian president’s proposed visit to the country. The Reuters news agency reports it on its website. Putin is expected in South Africa in August to participate in a summit of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). “As a government, we are aware of our legal obligations. However, between now and the summit we will remain engaged with the various stakeholders,” said the spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya.
19 Mar 2023
2:08 pm
Peskov: “An American MQ-9 drone with transponder turned off has violated the borders of Russian airspace”
“Obviously extremely dangerous” are the drones flying near Russia’s borders, whose “mission is by no means peaceful”. And whoever commands them is “directly involved in the conflict” in Ukraine and “against us”. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that on Tuesday an American MQ-9 drone with switched off transponders violated the borders of Russian airspace over the Black Sea and for Peskov ”it is enough obvious what these drones are doing. Their mission is by no means a peaceful mission to ensure the safety of navigation in international waters. We know that well.”
19 Mar 2023
1:39 pm
Putin in the Mariupol Philharmonic theater “turned” into the court to try the Azov fighters
According to Ria Novosti, President Vladimir Putin also visited the Philharmonic during his visit to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, captured in May. The theater was used by the Russian administration to process Ukrainian fighters taken prisoner at the Azovstal Steel Plant, a huge industrial complex where Ukrainian troops held out for weeks before surrendering. In August the UN had expressed concern about the setting up of cages on stage for Ukrainian prisoners and had warned Moscow that they were about to commit a war crime: “There are images of cages being built at the Mariupol Philharmonic where the tried will be held : it is unacceptable and humiliating,” said the spokeswoman for the UN human rights office, Ravina Shamdasani.
19 Mar 2023
1:36 pm
Putin at command post in Rostov-on-Don, Peskov: “It wasn’t prepared”
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the command post of what Moscow calls a special military operation in the city of Rostov on Don, in the south of Russia. This was reported by the Tass news agency, explaining that Putin held a meeting at a military command and control post in the Russian city. Putin arrived here from Mariupol, where he went this morning. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained to the RIA Novosti news agency, Putin’s trip to the command post of the special military operation in Rostov-on-Don had not been prepared in advance. “As for the trip to the command post in Rostov-on-Don, it was not planned, it was not prepared in any way. The main goal is to look at the work of the command post in the usual way,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
19 Mar 2023
1:32 pm
Serbian President: “Putin’s arrest warrant will have negative political consequences”
The ICC’s arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin will have negative consequences on peace efforts in the armed conflict in Ukraine. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today. “I think the arrest warrant for Putin will have negative political consequences, and it shows that there is a great unwillingness to talk about peace and a ceasefire,” Vucic said at a news conference in Belgrade.
19 Mar 2023
1:31 pm
The Ukrainian presidency: “Putin in Mariupol? Cynicism and lack of remorse”
The Ukrainian presidency criticizes Vladimir Putin’s visit to Mariupol underlining his “cynicism” and “lack of remorse”.
