They will sit down at the negotiating table. A new session of talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials is being held on Monday March 14, starting in the morning. IThere is, this time, a glimmer of hope which contrasts with the failure of the first three sessions of talks in Belarus. On Sunday evening, a Russian negotiator reported “significant progress”. Soon after, Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted that Moscow had stopped launching “ultimatums” in Kiev and started to “listen carefully to our proposals”. Follow our live.
A meeting in Rome between Americans and Chinese. Still on the diplomacy side, senior American and Chinese officials are to meet in Rome on Monday, according to the White House, which is worried about possible assistance from Beijing to Moscow. The New York Times advanced on Sunday, citing unnamed US officials, that Russia had requested economic and military assistance from China to wage war and circumvent Western sanctions.
A record that continues to grow. Thousands of soldiers have lost their lives for nearly twenty days and the launch of the Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory on February 24. On the civilian side, at least 596 people died, according to a UN count that it undoubtedly considers to be much lower than the reality. In Mariupol, a strategic port in the Southeast besieged by Russian forces, the town hall estimates the number of victims at qsome 2,187 inhabitants. Russia did not communicate no review on this.
An American journalist killed in Irpin. The downed reporter was identified as Brent Renaud, a 50-year-old documentary filmmaker who had notably collaborated with the New York Times in the past. He was killed on Sunday in Irpin, on the northwestern edge of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. One of his colleagues was also injured. The two men were hit while driving with a Ukrainian civilian, also injured, told AFP a doctor engaged with the Ukrainian forces, who took care of the victims.
The conflict is spreading to western Ukraine. On the ground, the weekend saw the Russian bombardments also hit the western part of Ukraine, hitherto spared. They struck in the night from Saturday to Sunday the military base of Yavoriv, only about twenty kilometers from Poland. A base where some of the military aid delivered by the West to Ukraine arrives.