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As of: 06/03/2022 03:22 a.m
According to President Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian armed forces have had a partial success in Sieverodonetsk. According to a report, Ukrainian-Russian negotiations are planned in Istanbul. All developments in the live blog.
3:22 a.m
Habeck expects major arguments about the cost of the war
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck expects major social disputes over the follow-up costs of the Russian war against Ukraine in autumn and winter. “We will experience a dramatic increase in heating costs,” he said in the evening on the ZDF program “Maybrit Illner”. “Whether the political measures will then be sufficient to maintain social peace and the feeling that things are fair in this country will be the decisive question of autumn and winter. I’m not quite sure about that,” he explained the question of whether Germany could run out of steam in supporting Ukraine and sanctions against the aggressor Russia.
3:11 a.m
Report: Ukrainian-Russian negotiations planned in Istanbul
In Istanbul, representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations want to discuss opening a corridor for Ukrainian grain exports as soon as possible. This was reported by the Turkish state news agency Anadolu. With Turkey as the mediator, the parties would then discuss a possible route for the corridor, as well as insurance and security issues. The need to clear the transport routes in the war zone of mines should also be discussed. The creation of an operations center that would monitor the processes around the corridor should also be discussed. Just this week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on the phone about the need to set up such a zone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.
2:30 a.m
Official: Destroyed 60 percent of Lysychansk’s infrastructure
According to a local official, around 60 percent of the infrastructure and residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk have been destroyed by Russian shelling. The ongoing bombardment cut off electricity and natural gas supplies, as well as telephone and internet connections, said Olexander Saika, head of Lysychansk’s civilian military administration, according to Ukraine’s Unian news agency. The highway between Bakhmut and Lysychansk – one of the most important routes for evacuations and supplies – is still open, but is constantly being shelled. Humanitarian supplies still reached the city, Saika reported. But the landscape is littered with shrapnel and mines.
1:29 a.m
Zelenskyj: Ukrainian armed forces are partially successful in Sievjerodonetsk
According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian armed forces have achieved a partial victory in the fight against the Russians in the city of Sieverodonetsk. However, the military situation in the Donbass has not changed overall in the past 24 hours, says Zelenskyj in his nightly video message. He also thanks US President Joe Biden for the promised missiles. He also expects good news about arms deliveries from other partners.
1:29 a.m
Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament: “Weapons must be delivered quickly”
The Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, Ruslan Stefantschuk, is pushing for a speedy delivery of the arms promised by Germany to Ukraine. “Now it’s about the decisions being implemented quickly,” says Stefantschuk to the newspapers of the Funke media group. At the same time, he welcomes the recent announcement by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) that weapons such as the Iris-T air defense system will be sent to Ukraine. At the moment there is not only a turning point, but a fundamental turning point, said Stefantschuk: “People in Europe feel that peace in the world is not very stable. And Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has only taken the first step. If Ukraine loses the war, Russian troops will be in Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia within a month.”