at least eight dead in shelling in Odessa, and six dead in the Luhansk region

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  • kyiv will abandon negotiations with Moscow if its soldiers, entrenched in the vast metallurgical complex Azovstal, in Mariupol, in the south-east of Ukraine, are killed by the Russian army, warned on Saturday the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, who again called for a meeting with his Russian counterpart. Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine have produced no apparent progress and “skate”said the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergey Lavrov.
  • The head of the American diplomacy, Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Kyiv Sunday, announced the Ukrainian president. The UN Secretary GeneralAntonio Guterres, will go to Russia on Tuesday, where he will meet with Vladimir Putin, for the first time since February 24, before going two days later to Ukraine, where he will be received by Volodymyr Zelensky.
  • HAS Odessa, “eight people have died at this stage, and 18 or 20 others are injured” in Russian bombardments, according to a new report announced by the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, during a press conference in kyiv. Russia used high-precision missiles to destroy a hangar in which many weapons sent by the United States and European countries were stored in the city of Odessa.
  • Six civilians were killed on Saturday in Russian strikes near the village of Girskéin the Luhansk region, in eastern Ukraine, the regional governor announced in the evening. “Throughout the day, the municipality of Girské suffered heavy Russian strikes”wrote Sergiï Gaïdaï on Telegram.
  • The strategic port of Mariupolwhich Moscow claims to have ” released “, is still resisting Russian forces, says kyiv, according to which Ukrainian fighters continue to fiercely defend the huge Azovstal metallurgical complex, where civilians are also entrenched. Vladimir Putin accuses kyiv of preventing the surrender of Ukrainian fighters.
  • A new attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol to the city of Zaporizhia failed due to “Russian military disturbances”reported Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, on his Telegram account.

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