Kremlin: Russia hasn’t asked China for help with its war in Ukraine. Some US officials said Russia had asked China for military and economic aid.
This is a list of the ten most recent events in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
- Vladimir Putin said that Russia has enough military power to achieve all of its goals in Ukraine on time and in full. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that.
- US officials told the media today that Russia has asked China for help with its war in Ukraine. A US official told Bloomberg that the request for equipment isn’t new, and it was made soon after Russia started an offensive in Ukraine on February 24, the official said, adding that the request was made soon after.
- A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said: “The US has been spreading false information about China on the Ukraine issue.”
- The comments were made during a regular meeting of the Chinese foreign ministry in Beijing.
- China hasn’t directly criticised Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, but it has blamed NATO’s “eastward expansion” for causing tensions to rise between Russia and Ukraine.
- After both sides said they made progress over the weekend, diplomats from both countries are set to meet again to end the war in Ukraine.
- Ukraine says that there have been more airstrikes on an airport in the west, heavy shelling on Chernihiv near the capital, and attacks on the southern town of Mykolayiv.
- Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych says that more than 2,500 people from the Black Sea port city of Mariupol have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
- People who had fled Ukraine as of Saturday were going to Poland, the United Nations refugee agency said. Nearly 1.7 million of them were going to Poland.
- He asked NATO to set up a no-fly zone over Ukraine on Monday, and he said that would be a good thing. In the wake of a Ukrainian military base being hit by an airstrike close to the Polish border, Russian forces would soon attack its member states.
China to face consequences if it helps Russia evade sanctions, says US
Ukraine says that Russian forces broke a power line near Chernobyl.
After they repaired a power line that went to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in 1986, people in Ukraine say that they broke it again.
As soon as Sunday night came around, Ukrenergo said, its technicians started to bring power back. Before the power supply was fully restored, the occupying forces broke it again.
The power is used to run pumps and other things that keep the spent nuclear fuel at the old power plant cool so that radiation doesn’t leak out.
The shelling caused damage to an underground gas storage unit in Chernihiv.
Some of the buildings in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine have been hit by shelling, Naftogaz said on Monday.
In Olyshiv, a shell hit a building and damaged a methanol-pump station; nobody was hurt, Naftogaz said.
A missile hit a residential building in the city of Kyiv.
Says the US: China will “absolutely” be punished if it helps Russia get around sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
After Russia started to invade Ukraine, the US official said China reportedly tried to help.
“We are telling Beijing privately that there will be consequences for large-scale sanctions evasion or support for Russia to fill in the gaps,” Sullivan said. That can’t happen, and we won’t let it happen from any country in the world.
Two people were killed in an attack on an aeroplane factory in Kyiv.
After Russian forces hit the Antonov aircraft factory in Kyiv, Ukraine says two people were killed, and seven were injured. The Kyiv city government says there was a big fire after the strike at the factory.
One person was killed when a cruise missile hit Kyiv’s Kurenivka neighbourhood in Ukraine.
Air defence systems shot it down in Kyiv, and it hit a house and a trolley bus on Kyrylivska Street. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the Interior Ministry, said that one person was killed in the accident.
There was a lot of damage after the cruise missile hit the ground in Kyiv’s Kurenivka neighbourhood.
Pro-Russian separatists say that at least 20 people were killed in a strike on the city of Donetsk in Ukraine, which is in the east of the country.
Donetsk is a region in eastern Ukraine that pro-Russia separatists have taken over. Last month, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said that Donestsk’s and Luhansk, another rebel-held territory, were independent. This caused a lot of tension between Ukraine and Russia.
Ten humanitarian corridors have been agreed to, but none for Mariupol yet.
The Kyiv Independent said that Russian and Ukrainian negotiators agreed to set up ten new safe routes for civilians in the provinces of Kyiv and Luhansk. The city of Mariupol, which is under attack from Russian forces, hasn’t had any humanitarian corridors set up yet, though. According to Ukrainian authorities, a convoy of food, medicine, and other necessities will keep trying to get there. The convoy will keep trying to get there.
In the fourth round of talks, there are some tentative hopes for a resolution.
Both sides made progress at the weekend, even though Russia launched many attacks. Delegates from Ukraine and Russia met again on Monday for another round of talks.
“Negotiations. Fourth round. On peace, ceasefire, withdrawal of troops, and security. Hard to talk about “Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian negotiator, said this online.
A report says that Russian attacks killed more than 2,500 people in Ukraine’s Mariupol.
The death toll for civilians in Mariupol has hit 2,500, according to Nexta.
A fire breaks out at an aviation plant in Kyiv.
After the Russian government attacked, a fire broke out at the Antonov aviation industry plant in Kyiv.
The Ukrainian national university was hit by Russian troops damaged.
There were Russian troops in Ukraine on Sunday night, Nexta said. They hit the Chernihiv Polytechnic National University.
Reports say that Russia has taken over more areas around Donetsk and Luhansk.
Russian forces are said to have taken more territory in the southern part of Ukraine on Sunday. Donetsk and Luhansk are two cities in that area.
In Ukraine, the UN has no reason to send peacekeepers to help, and Russia is the only country that can help.
UN peacekeepers can’t be sent to Ukraine because the Security Council of the organisation doesn’t want to talk about it. People in the Russian Foreign Ministry said this: Pyotr Ilyichev, the head of the department of international organisations, said this Nexta
Two people died in Kyiv when the building fell after it caught fire in Russian shelling.
Rescuers in Ukraine say two people died when an apartment in Kyiv fell because of a fire. After Russian troops attacked the building, it caught fire. Three people were taken to the hospital, and nine more people got help right away. The rescuers took 63 people out of the building. The fire was put out, but the search for survivors isn’t over yet.
Russia is still attacking the suburbs of Kyiv.
Russian forces fired artillery at suburbs northwest of Kyiv and points east of the capital overnight, the head of the Kyiv region said on Monday, per the AP.
People in Brovary, east of Kyiv, were fighting, and one town council member was killed, Oleksiy Kuleba said on Ukrainian TV. Irpin, Bucha, and Hostomel, three towns in the northwest that have seen some of the worst fighting’s in Russia’s failed attempt to take the capital, were also hit overnight, he said.
Russia hasn’t made any big moves in Ukraine in the last 24 hours, even though they’ve been launching more attacks to the west. This is what the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said on Monday morning.
The general staff made a statement on Facebook to mark the 19th day of the war. Ukrainian forces target Russian bases and their ability to get things to and from them.
The general staff says that Russian forces have set up firing positions and military equipment in churches and other places where people live so that the Ukrainian troops can’t fire back at them. People who work for the Associated Press say they have seen Russian armoured vehicles in residential areas.
A fire in an apartment block near Kyiv after Russian shelling caused it to catch fire.
A fire broke out in an apartment block in Kyiv after Russian troops shelled it. There was a fire in a nine-story apartment building on 20 Bohatyrska Street in the Obolon neighbourhood, and firefighters went in to put it out, the State Emergency Service said.
When did the building get hit?
A crash of an unknown object happened in the capital of Croatia, and Croatia isn’t happy with Nato’s response.
In Croatia on Saturday, officials said NATO took too long to respond to a military drone that allegedly flew from Ukraine to the Croatian capital city of Dubrovnik. The drone crashed into a residential area of Dubrovnik.
The Russian-made uncrewed plane flew through Romania and Hungary before landing in a field near a student dorm late Thursday. Some 40 parked cars were damaged, but no one was hurt in a loud blast of noise.
NATO said that the alliance’s integrated air and missile defence had seen the object’s flight path. But the Croatian prime minister said that the country’s government didn’t know about it, and NATO only took action when journalists asked about it.
Because of the Ukraine situation, Japan wants to make sure its nuclear plants are safer.
The leader of Chechnya is in Ukraine right now to meet with the troops. Report
Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechnya region and a friend of Vladimir Putin, says that he has been to Ukraine to meet with Chechen troops who are attacking the city of Kyiv.
