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- Negotiations resumed on Wednesday. After starting their exchanges on Monday, the Ukrainian and Russian delegations met once more to try to reach a compromise allowing a ceasefire, or at least the establishment of lasting humanitarian corridors.
- Ukrainian President spoke by videoconference, at the beginning of the followingnoon, to the elected officials of the American Congress. Volodymyr Zelensky has once once more called for the establishment of a no-fly zone over his country, a measure supported by several elected members of Congress, but which US President Joe Biden has so far rejected. . Failing that, the Ukrainian president asked for planes and air defense systems.
- Joe Biden on Wednesday announced additional security assistance to Ukraine from $800 millionfollowing Mr. Zelensky’s speech before the United States Congress.
- Several loud explosions were heard at dawn in western Kyiv. A twelve-storey building was damaged in the Shevchenko district, but no report has yet been given, while the press is not allowed to circulate in the city because of the curfew, the second since the start of the war.
- Some 20,000 people were able to leave on Tuesday Marioupol, major port city in the Southeast besieged by Russian forces, using a humanitarian corridor, announced the Ukrainian presidency. In total, regarding 29,000 people were evacuated on Tuesday from several besieged Ukrainian cities, according to the same source.
- The prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia were in kyiv to meet the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and assure him “unequivocal support” of the EU. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has asked NATO to set up a “mission of peace” and Ukraine.
- About 3 million people have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion of the country by the Russian army, said Tuesday a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration in Geneva.
Read all our articles, analyzes and reports on the war in Ukraine:
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Decryptions. Europe adopts fourth set of sanctions once morest Russia
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Decryptions. With sanctions and retaliatory measures, the threat of a “digital iron curtain” in Russia
Maintenance. “The thin border that now separates Russia from the EU and NATO makes the Kremlin shudder”
