The Secretary General of the United Nations will travel to Ukraine to meet Volodymyr Zelensky there, the organization announced on Friday 22 April. Antonio Guterres “will have a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, and will be received by the President [ukrainien le jeudi] April 28″, says the UN. Before this visit, Antonio Guterres will go to Moscow on Tuesday, where he will be received by Russian Head of State Vladmir Putin. Follow our live.
No truce for Orthodox Easter. Calls for a truce in Ukraine, on the occasion of the Easter weekend in Orthodox land, were “rejected” by Moscow, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. A “Humanitarian pause is needed for the safe evacuation of thousands of civilians wishing to leave dangerous areas of ongoing and possible hostilities, in particular from long-suffering Mariupol”estimates the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The war will enter its third month on Sunday. Russia began on Monday 18 April the “second phase” of his offensive on his neighbour. “One of the objectives of the Russian army is to establish full control over Donbass and southern Ukraine”a senior Russian military official said on Friday.
kyiv promises a counter-offensive in Mariupol. An adviser to the Ukrainian president guaranteed on Friday that there would be a “counter attack” to “101%” to reconquer this strategic port, as soon as the general staff decides, according to the Ukrainian press. Moscow said on Thursday that it had “released” Mariupol, besieged by Russian forces for several weeks.