Russian President Putin assured French President Emmanuel Macron in a telephone call that Russian troops would do everything possible to spare the lives of civilians.
According to French sources, Macron said he was extremely concerned about the situation in Mariupol. The encircled city has been repeatedly shelled in the past few days. According to Russian sources, Putin has informed Macron about what an agreement with Ukraine could look like. There are no details about this.
Ukraine: Russia has not moved during talks
According to a Ukrainian negotiator, Russia has not budged in negotiations with Ukraine. Russia has repeated its demands, Mykhailo Podoljak tweeted.
He accuses the Russian side of fueling tensions with their statements in the media. He reiterated Ukrainian demands for a ceasefire, the withdrawal of Russian troops and security guarantees for Ukraine.
City administration: Apparently no deaths in attack on theaters
According to the city administration, there were apparently no fatalities in the attack on a theater used as a shelter for civilians in Mariupol. According to the first information, there are no deaths, the city administration explains in the Internet service Telegram. According to this, one person was seriously injured.
US wants to ban 100 Russian jets from air traffic
As part of the sanctions against Russia, the USA wants to exclude 100 aircraft from international air traffic today. The Reuters news agency was able to see a list of 99 machines from the US manufacturer Boeing and the Gulfstream G650 from the oligarch Roman Abramovich that the US Commerce Department wants to take action against.
It is believed that the planes were used to circumvent US export controls. The Boeing jets are operated by Russian passenger and cargo airlines, including Aeroflot, AirBridge Cargo, Utair, Nordwind, Azur Air and Aviastar-TU.
EU chief prosecutor signs cooperation
EU Chief Prosecutor Laura Kövesi and the Ukrainian Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova have signed a cooperation agreement in Ukraine at a location that has not been named for security reasons of war criminals‘ assets”.
Kövesi expresses the respect of all colleagues in the European General Prosecutor’s Office for the Ukrainian prosecutors – the judicial officials in Ukraine are currently working „under a state of siege and under a hail of bombs“ and are nevertheless continuing their investigations.
Moscow: Progress in negotiations
Progress is said to have been made in negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv to end the fighting. Russia’s chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said the two countries had come closer together on neutrality and Ukraine’s renunciation of NATO membership.
There is talk of nuances in security guarantees for Ukraine should it not become a NATO member. The demilitarization demanded by Russia is halfway there.
Twitter blocks Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN
According to the Russian deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitri Polyanski, Twitter has blocked his account for improper use in the course of the Ukraine war.
According to Poljanski, the blocking is about one of his tweets last week in which he accused UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of spreading misinformation.
Guterres had announced that a building attacked by Russia in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was being used as a hospital. Polyansky’s Twitter account is considered a Russian propaganda slinger by Western diplomats.
Italy confiscates Mordashov’s property
The Russian TUI major shareholder Alexei Mordashov loses his luxury property in Sardinia. Italian police have confiscated a €105 million real estate complex owned by Mordashov near the port city of Olbia, in line with the latest EU sanctions against Russia.
