A new front in eastern Ukraine? The Ukrainian president assured that the Russian army was repositioning itself in the east of the country in anticipation “powerful attacks”, in particular on the besieged port of Mariupol where must take place, Friday April 1, a new attempt to evacuate civilians. Russia announced this week that it intends to reduce its military activity around kyiv and Chernihiv in order to transfer its strike power from the north to the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in the east. Follow our live.
An evacuation attempt from Mariupol scheduled for Friday. The delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Ukraine announced that it was in the neighboring town of Zaporizhia, where buses are supposed to arrive from the town surrounded and bombarded by the Russian army for several weeks. “We hope to facilitate the safe passage of civilians desperate to flee Mariupol”said Lucile Marbeau, of the organization.
European support. For her part, Roberta Metsola, the Maltese President of the European Parliament, announced Thursday evening on Twitter that she was “on the way to Kyiv”. She would be the first leader of a European institution to visit the Ukrainian capital since the start of the Russian invasion.
The Russians leave Chernobyl. Officials in Kyiv announced Thursday evening that Russian forces had left the Chernobyl nuclear power plant they had occupied since the first day of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.