The attacks in occupied Ukraine do not cease, where yesterday Russian missiles destroyed a runway at Odessa airport. New satellite images show rubble buildings in the Azovstal steel plant complex in Mariupol, where a first group of about twenty civilians, including women and children, managed to evacuate while hundreds of soldiers and other civilians remain trapped inside. In the night, on the opposite front, Moscow releases a video claiming to have evidence of an attack by Ukrainian nationalists in the Kherson region; he would have targeted a school and a kindergarten, with dead and wounded.
But it is the violation of Swedish airspace by a Russian reconnaissance plane that gives the measure of the widening of the conflict. A ‘totally unacceptable’ event – according to Stockholm’s Swedish Defense Minister Hultqvist -. This action – he said asking for respect for the country’s sovereignty – violates the rules and, given the general security situation, is very inappropriate “.
On the diplomatic front, very little is moving: if the European Union is preparing to launch a sixth package of sanctions that could include a reduction in gas and oil imports, yesterday’s visit by Ankara’s spokesperson to Kiev ended without any announcement. .
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba in an interview with Xinhua asks China to join a group of countries guaranteeing the peace process but stresses that after the meetings in Istanbul the negotiations have become “much more difficult” and that “the only way to restore peace to Ukraine is to restore Kiev’s sovereignty over the entire territory of the country”. A concept reiterated in his own way by the Ukrainian president Volodymir Zelensky in his last post of the day: “Ukraine will be free, and on all temporarily occupied cities” the Ukrainian flag will once again fly. In Kiev, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterates the full support of the United States. Boris Johnson says he is ready to do anything to make “Putin fail” in his sights.
Putin would be ready to drop the term ‘special military operation’ and announce on May 9, during the Victory Day parade, that a ‘total war’ on Ukraine is underway. Meanwhile, a study commissioned to some experts by the British government – writes Reuters on its website – would have brought to light a factory of Russian trolls used as a weapon of disinformation. Traces of it would have been found in eight social networks, including Telegram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. They spread pro-Russian comments on the profiles of British ministers and other world leaders critical of Moscow.
Source: Ansa
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