Russia War Ukraine Directly, Mariapol Falls to Russia: Ukrainian troops may have to withdraw from their last pocket in the Luhanansk region to avoid being arrested, a Ukrainian official said, when Russian troops urged progress in the East who had shifted momentum from the three -month war. Withdrawal can bring Russian President Vladimir Putin closer to his destination to capture the Luhanansk and Donetsk regions in East Ukraine.
However, violating the party line in a rare performance of opposition to the war of his country in Ukraine, a representative of the Legislative Communist Party in the Far East Russia demanded that the end of military operations and the withdrawal of Russian troops. “We understand that if our country does not stop military operations, we will have more orphans in our country,” the representative said at the Russian Primorsk Regional Legislative Council meeting.
Meanwhile, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the European Union of raising Russia’s energy, said that the block funded the Russian War and delayed “only means that more Ukraine was killed”. The EU is looking for an agreement this weekend to prohibit Russian oil delivery by sea but not pipes to win over Hungary.
Moscow pressed the West on Thursday to raise sanctions against Russia for the war in Ukraine, trying to change mistakes on the greater food crisis that had been exacerbated by Kyiv’s inability to send millions of tons of seeds and other agricultural products due to conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin told Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi that Moscow “was ready to make a significant contribution to overcoming the food crisis through seed exports and fertilizers on condition that politic motivated restrictions imposed by the West were revoked,” according to A Kremlin call reading .
Russian troops on Wednesday hit the twin cities controlled by Ukraine in the Donbas region which is now the focus of the three -month war, threatening to kill the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their progress.
After failing to win the capital of Ukraine Kyiv or the second city of Kharkiv, Russia tried to take full control over Donbas, consisting of two Moscow Claims of the East Province on behalf of the separatist.
Russia has poured thousands of troops into the region, attacking from three parties in an attempt to surround Ukraine forces who survived in the city of Sievierodonetsk and its twins Lysychansk. The fall they will leave all Luhanansk provinces under Russian control, the goal of the Kremlin main war.
The police in Lysychansk gathered the bodies of people killed to bury him in a mass grave, said Regional Governor Luhanansk Serhiy Gaidai. About 150 people have been buried in a mass grave in a Lysychansk district, he added.
Oleksiy Aestovych, an advisor to the President of Ukraine, said “The Russian Army has several threatening tactical success will be an operational success towards Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk.”
Sievierodonetsk and Bakhmut, a city in the southeast, in the danger surrounded, said Aestovych. “(Maybe the settlement will be abandoned, maybe we will suffer a big loss.”
The families of people who are buried in the mass grave will be able to do reburial after the war, and the police issue documents that allow Ukraine to secure a death certificate for loved ones, Gaidai said.
The main road from Sievierodonetsk is being issued, but humanitarian assistance is still entering, Gaidai said in a previous statement. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian troops “greatly exceeded our number” in some parts of the eastern.
When Moscow tried to strengthen his grip on the territory he had grabbed, President Vladimir Putin signed a decision that simplified the process for the newly arrested district residents to obtain citizenship and Russian passports.