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Rabu, 30 Maret 2022

Zelensky calls for vigilance after Russia pledges to scale back Kyiv assault - Financial Times

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has warned the country “should not lose vigilance” following an announcement from Russia that it would dramatically scale back its military activities near Kyiv.

The Russian comments, which followed a round of peace talks with Ukrainian officials in Istanbul on Tuesday, sent global shares higher on optimism among investors that the negotiations might be gaining traction.

“You saw the news today that the Russian military command allegedly decided to ‘reduce hostilities in the directions of Kyiv and Chernihiv’,” Zelensky said in a late night address on Tuesday.

“We should not lose vigilance. The situation has not become easier. The scale of the challenges has not diminished. The Russian army still has significant potential to continue attacks against our state.”

The apparent Russian pullback, announced by deputy defence minister Alexander Fomin, was the first faint sign of progress towards ending the month-long war.

But Ukraine and its western allies remained deeply sceptical of President Vladimir Putin’s intentions while Russia was gearing up for a larger assault on the eastern Donbas border region and continued strikes in the south.

“Yes, we can call positive the signals we hear from the negotiating platform. But these signals do not silence the explosion of Russian shells,” said Zelensky, who later referred to a strike in the southern city of Mykolayiv that killed at least eight people on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, authorities in the Donbas said residential areas in Lysychansk, a city in the region, were shelled by “heavy artillery”.

Though Russia framed the withdrawal in Kyiv and Chernihiv as a trust-building exercise, it appeared to provide a justification for retreats Russian forces had already made in the face of Ukrainian counter-attacks.

The UK defence ministry on Wednesday said units had been forced to return to Russia and Belarus to reorganise and resupply after suffering heavy losses.

It added that Russia’s stated shift of focus to the Donbas was “likely a tacit admission that it is struggling to sustain more than one axis of advance” and warned that Russia was “likely to compensate for its reduced ground manoeuvre capability through mass artillery and missile strikes”.

British defence officials added that Ukrainian forces had fought back against Russian forces north-west of Kyiv, including in Irpin, and that “Russians have been pushed back from a number of positions”.

Joe Biden echoed his Ukrainian counterpart, saying he would not “read anything into” Russia’s decision to scale back its military activities near Kyiv.

“We’ll see if they follow through on what they’re suggesting,” Biden said, speaking at the White House. The US president added that he spoke with the leaders of France, Germany, the UK and Italy on Tuesday, and all agreed that they were open to hearing Russia out. “There seems to be consensus that let’s just see what they have to offer,” Biden said.

As they assessed Russia’s actions, the US and its allies would continue to apply sanctions, provide Ukraine with lethal aid and monitor the diplomatic discussions, he added.

Zelensky said “sanctions must be strengthened. Intensified weekly. And they must be effective” for peace to be achieved.

His chief of staff Andriy Ermak said on Wednesday that Ukraine needed “effective weapons, heavy weapons, artillery, anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles” but “at the same time, we do not stop diplomatic efforts to stop the war”.

Talks are set to resume online after Ukraine formally handed over draft proposals to Russia on Tuesday.

Fomin said the discussions were “entering a practical stage” on the issues of Ukraine’s neutrality and non-nuclear status — two critical Russian demands — in exchange for security guarantees for Ukraine.

Oleksandr Chaly, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, said Ukraine and Russia would continue negotiations for the next two weeks and after that, the “guarantor countries” — the states expected to underwrite Ukraine’s security as part of a settlement — would be able to join.

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2022-03-30 06:18:47Z
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Ukraine war: Russia says it will curb Kyiv assault as peace talks progress - BBC

A local man reacts standing in front of a destroyed building after shelling in Chernihiv, Ukraine, 27 March 2022

Russia has announced it will "drastically reduce" military combat operations in two key areas of Ukraine "to boost mutual trust" in peace talks.

The decision to scale back operations around the capital, Kyiv, and the northern city of Chernihiv is the first sign of tangible progress from talks.

But it is unclear how extensive any reduction in military activity might be, and Ukraine remains sceptical.

The US and UK also said the pledge should be treated with caution.

On Tuesday, Russia's deputy defence minister, Alexander Fomin, said the country would "radically, by several times reduce the military activity" around Kyiv and Chernihiv.

He added that there had been progress on"the neutrality and non-nuclear status" of Ukraine, which are two key concerns for Moscow.

But Russia's pledge to scale back its forces was met with scepticism. "Ukrainians are not naive people," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an overnight video address.

"We can say that the signals... are positive, but those signals do not drown out the explosions or Russian shells," he added.

"We've only seen a small number begin to move away from Kyiv," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, adding that people should be "prepared to watch for a major offensive against other areas of Ukraine".

The UK Defence Ministry also warned that Russia will likely "seek to divert combat power from the north to their offensive in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east".

Russia has already refocused its campaign on Ukraine's eastern regions. It has suffered a series of setbacks to the north of the capital, Kyiv, and is also seeking to capture a land corridor which stretches along the south coast to the Russian border.

The key word - scepticism

The discussions lasted around three hours. Very little was leaked, and nearly all media were kept away in a packed area on a pavement outside.

The key points became clear as members of the Ukrainian delegation came out onto the street an hour before the expected finish.

The negotiators said they had proposed to Russia that Ukraine adopt a neutral status in exchange for security guarantees - an international mechanism where guarantor countries would act to protect Ukraine in future.

In return Kyiv would not join Nato, a key Russian demand. This was not a new pledge, but it was spelt out in the clearest detail yet.

Many are sceptical about what Russia's announcement about reducing military operations actually means; whether it's a pledge to pull back or merely an acceptance it has already failed in those areas and will instead turn its full force further east.

Western countries, therefore, are saying they will judge Russia by its actions and not its words.

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Ukraine's negotiators in Istanbul handed the Russians detailed proposals covering neutrality and other core issues in the conflict:

Ukraine would become a "non-bloc and non-nuclear" state, with no foreign military bases or contingents on its territory
This would have strict, legally binding guarantees from countries including the UK, China, the USA, Turkey, France, Canada, Italy, Poland and Israel which would agree to protect a neutral Ukraine in the event of attack
Ukraine would not enter military-political alliances and any international exercises would require consent of guarantor states
The future status of Crimea, seized by Russia in 2014, would be decided by 15 years of consultations
The future of the eastern areas held by Russian-backed separatists would be discussed by the two presidents.

Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhamia said this framework would enable to ceasefire to be agreed without Crimea and the eastern regions being settled.

The proposals would also enable Ukraine to join the European Union, while barring it from becoming part of Nato's defensive military alliance.

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2022-03-30 04:33:04Z
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Selasa, 29 Maret 2022

Piers Morgan condemns backlash against Will Smith by overly sensitive society - Geo News

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Piers Morgan spoke out in Will Smith defence as the King Richard faced massive backlash for slapping Chris Rock at Oscars 2022.

The Good Morning Britain alum wrote in The Sun, "If Rock DID know [about her condition] then it was a nasty, cruel quip that warranted a husband’s wrath."

"And whilst I don’t condone violence, Will Smith didn’t punch him. It was just a slap, that Rock shrugged off with good humour,” he added.

“He was standing up for his wife, the woman from whom he blew off the dust when she was going through a rough time, and said he was going to make shine, and created a safe space for her to get healthy and to grow and define herself,” Morgan continued.

"In previous eras, he’d have been saluted for defending his girl, not savaged by an overly sensitive snowflake society,” the 54-year-old TV presenter slammed the critics.

The 94th Academy Awards turned into a dramatic one when the comedian cracked a joke on Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head.

The Pursuit of Happyness star took the joke upon himself and smacked Rock on the stage before returning to his seat. He kept saying, “Keep my wife's name out of your (expletive) mouth!"

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2022-03-29 12:10:00Z
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Ukraine war: Russia to 'fundamentally cut back' military activity near Kyiv and Chernihiv - but West says they're just playing for time - Sky News

Russia has said it will drastically cut military activity near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and around Chernihiv - a pledge dismissed by Western officials as likely an attempt to "play for time".

Alexander Fomin, the Kremlin's deputy defence minister, said Moscow has decided to "fundamentally cut back" operations to "increase mutual trust" at talks aimed at ending the fighting.

But speaking to Reuters news agency, a Western official said the announcement "seems to be more of a tactical exercise" to buy time for troops to regroup.

That assessment was echoed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said he was "not seeing signs of real seriousness" from Russia when it came to ending the war.

"Whether it's (Russia) simply trying to regroup, given the heavy losses that it suffered, I don't know," he said.

It came as Ukrainian and Russian delegations met in Istanbul in Turkey for fresh peace discussions.

Putin's forces 'pushed away' from capital - live updates

In other developments:

• Ukrainian troops 'regaining territory' and pushing back Russian forces
• Zelenskyy says Ukraine willing to consider neutrality and offer security guarantees
• US casts doubt on Abramovich 'chemical' poisoning claims
• More Russian mercenaries heading to Ukraine

Russia outlines two steps to de-escalate war

Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian negotiating team, explained that cutting back troops from major cities was one of two steps Moscow was taking to de-escalate the 34-day-old conflict.

He said Russia would also agree to a meeting between presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, if and when a peace treaty was forthcoming from each country's foreign ministers.

However, he stressed the scale-back did not represent a ceasefire, and he said talks on a formal agreement with Kyiv have a long way to go.

But the withdrawals around Kyiv and Chernihiv have been noted by the Ukrainians, said the general staff of the country's military.

Sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich appeared at the peace negotiations on Tuesday morning, following allegations he was poisoned at earlier talks - a claim the Kremlin rejected as part of an "information war".

Zelenskyy's proposals for peace

Earlier talks, held in Belarus or by video, failed to make progress on ending the conflict that has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes - including almost four million forced abroad.

The Ukrainian president indicated previously his country is prepared to declare neutrality, as Moscow has demanded, and that compromise may be possible over "the complex issue of Donbas" in the country's east, where separatists backed by Russia have controlled since 2014.

But it is unclear how that might be reconciled with his stance that "Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity are beyond doubt".

Mr Blinken appeared to dismiss the idea of Russia being able to "subjugate" parts of Ukraine, saying: "We've seen the will and the determination of the Ukrainian people to determine their own future, not to have Russia or anyone else determine it for them."

Russia has long demanded Ukraine drop any hope of joining NATO, which Moscow sees as a threat.

Mr Zelensky, for his part, has stressed Ukraine needs security guarantees of its own as part of any deal.

Ukraine warned 'significant threat' remains to Kyiv

Meanwhile, as Ukrainian forces entered their 34th day of war, the UK's ministry of defence said the Kremlin forces still pose a "significant threat" to the capital, through their strike capability.

And later, Downing Street stressed the need for the West not to let off in its response to the crisis.

During a call with the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, and the US, Boris Johnson "underscored that we must judge Putin's regime by their actions not their words".

A US official also warned of "continued major offensives" on other areas of Ukraine.

In his latest address to the nation, Ukraine's president said troops were regaining territory around the capital, and he heralded the "liberation" of Irpin, a key town on the northwest fringe of Kyiv.

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2022-03-29 16:07:30Z
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Ukraine claims Russian forces driven back ahead of ceasefire talks - Financial Times

Ukraine claimed it had driven out Russian forces from some key areas around its capital Kyiv and the country’s north-east, as fierce fighting set the backdrop for the first face-to-face ceasefire talks in almost a fortnight.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, used a late-night address on Monday to praise his forces retaking Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv and an important gateway to the capital, the latest in a series of counter attacks that pushed back Russian forces.

“The occupiers are pushed away from Irpin. Pushed away from Kyiv,” Zelensky said. “However, it is too early to talk about security in this part of our region. The fighting continues. Russian troops control the north of Kyiv, have the resources and manpower.”

While Ukraine’s precise gains have not been independently verified, the UK said Zelensky’s forces had made progress in “localised counter attacks” to the north-west of Kyiv, including at Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel. “These attacks have had some success and the Russians have been pushed back from a number of positions,” said the Ministry of Defence in an intelligence update on Tuesday.

Zelensky’s remarks came as Russian and Ukrainian envoys gathered in Istanbul for the fourth round of talks to end the war in Ukraine. While negotiators have sketched the outlines of a potential ceasefire and moves towards a political settlement, diplomats in Kyiv, Moscow and the west say they remain sceptical about any imminent breakthrough.

The two sides are discussing a pause in hostilities and humanitarian corridors as part of a possible deal that would involve Ukraine abandoning its drive for Nato membership in exchange for security guarantees and the prospect of joining the EU, according to people familiar with the talks.

With Russia’s month-long ground offensive largely stalled, Moscow has signalled its willingness to pull back from some of its most difficult initial demands. But Ukraine and its western backers fear Russian president Vladimir Putin may be using the talks as a ruse to resupply his forces in preparation for a fresh offensive.

Draft ceasefire documents do not include reference to “denazification”, “demilitarisation” and legal protection for the Russian language in Ukraine, according to four people briefed on the discussions. Moscow is also prepared to let Kyiv join the EU if it remains militarily non-aligned, the people said.

David Arakhamia, head of Zelensky’s party in parliament and a member of Kyiv’s negotiating team, told the FT the parties were close to agreement on the security guarantees and Ukraine’s EU bid but urged caution about prospects for a breakthrough.

“All the issues” have been “on the table since the beginning” of negotiations, he said, but cautioned that there were “lots of points — like in every single item there are unresolved points”.

Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, said the country’s negotiators would “not trade people, land and sovereignty” during talks.

With the war in its second month, Russia has increasingly concentrated on making advances in the east, aiming to envelop Ukrainian forces there while throwing troops into the grinding battle for the port city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.

Zelensky chided European countries on Tuesday for still financing Putin’s war through purchases of Russian oil, saying it was pointless to hold back further sanctions until more deadly weapons might be used.

“Doesn’t everything that the Russian military is doing and has already done deserve an oil embargo?” he said.

In addition to the counter attacks around Kyiv, Ukraine claimed battlefield momentum in the Sumy region north-west of its second city Kharkiv, and near the city of Izyum in the east, claiming to retake the settlements of Kamyanka and Topolske. Ukrainian forces are also making advances in the southern Kherson region.

Most of the territorial gains are limited in scale and cannot be independently verified. But as well as the UK noting Ukraine had “some success” around Kyiv, the Pentagon on Monday confirmed Ukrainian forces had recaptured the town of Trostyanets, north-west of Kharkiv.

Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said on Tuesday that although Ukrainian forces were “pushing the enemy back a little”, Kyiv “still remains one of the main goals of this war for Putin”.

If confirmed, the recapture of Irpin would mark a significant moment for Ukraine’s forces, since the suburb north of Kyiv has been the scene of heavy fighting since the war began.

In an update on operations on Tuesday, Ukraine’s military claimed Russia’s troops were “weakened” and “disoriented”, with some units cut off from supply lines and the main forces. It said Russia was resorting to “indiscriminate artillery fire and rocket-bomb attacks” to offset the “decline in the combat potential of enemy units”.

On Tuesday morning, a Russian rocket wrecked the building of the Mykolayiv regional administration, said governor Vitaliy Kim.

According to a UK intelligence briefing, the Wagner Group, the private military organisation whose mercenaries have fought in Ukraine and Syria and are established in Mali and the Central African Republic, has been “deployed to eastern Ukraine” and is expected to send more than 1,000 fighters.

“Due to heavy losses and a largely stalled invasion, Russia has likely been forced to reprioritise Wagner personnel for Ukraine at the expense of operations in Africa and Syria,” it said.

Through fierce street-by-street fighting, mainly against the battle-hardened Azov troopers, Russian troops are continuing to advance on the centre of the devastated port of Mariupol, which Ukraine claimed remained under its control.

Mariupol’s mayor Vadym Boichenko told CNN on Monday that 160,000 people remained in the city, where “it is impossible to live because there is no water, no electricity, no heat”. “It’s really scary,” said Boichenko, adding: “We need a complete evacuation from Mariupol.”

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2022-03-29 08:11:44Z
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Ukrainian troops 'regaining territory' as peace talks resume amid 'poisoning' claim - Sky News

Ukrainian troops are regaining territory around the capital and pushing back Russian forces, the country's president has said.

Speaking in his latest evening message, Volodymyr Zelenskyy heralded the "liberation" of Irpin, a key town on the northwest fringe of Kyiv.

The UK's Ministry of Defence confirmed that Ukrainian forces have had "some success" in their counterattacks in Irpin, as well as Bucha and Hostomel, which are also northwest of the city.

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Key updates

• Peace talks to begin in Istanbul
• Zelenskyy says Ukraine is willing to consider neutrality and offer security guarantees
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• More Russian mercenaries heading to Ukraine
• Kremlin says Biden's comments on Putin are 'alarming'
• More than 200 children among 5,000 dead in besieged Mariupol

"The Russians have been pushed back from a number of positions," the department said in a statement.

"However, Russia still poses a significant threat to the city through their strike capability."

The Ukrainian president said that Russian troops still control north of Kyiv and will continue their attacks even though there are "hundreds and hundreds of units of burned and abandoned enemy equipment".

"Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv regions, Donbas, southern Ukraine - the situation everywhere remains tense, very difficult," he added.

Mariupol, one of the worst affected cities, remains under siege and Mr Zelenskyy said Russian troops did not allow a humanitarian corridor to be organised on Monday.

The centre of the city remains under Ukrainian control despite continuous heavy shelling, according to the MoD.

Elsewhere, Russian troops are maintaining blocking positions while trying to reorganise, it said.

Russia has been repeatedly accused of not allowing people to leave the bombed-out city, and one official reported just 586 managed to escape yesterday.

Peace talks continue despite 'poisoning' claim

Russia and Ukraine will hold their first face-to-face peace talks in two weeks on Tuesday.

Ukraine said its top objective at the talks, being held in Istanbul, is to secure a ceasefire - although both it and the US are sceptical of any major breakthrough.

The talks will take place despite claims a Russian oligarch and two Ukrainian representatives were victims of a chemical attack during negotiations earlier in the month.

Three men including Roman Abramovich suffered symptoms including red eyes, constant and painful tearing, and peeling skin on their hands and faces, a source confirmed to Sky News, after a meeting on Ukrainian territory reportedly on 3 March.

Mr Abramovich reportedly lost his sight for several hours

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has now warned people don't "eat or drink" when negotiating with Russia.

"I advise anyone going for negotiations with the Russian Federation not to eat or drink anything.

"And, preferably, avoid touching any surface."

However, the US has cast doubt on the claims, with an official saying the "intelligence highly suggests" the cause was environmental, "not poisoning".

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More Russian mercenaries heading to Ukraine

The Russian private military company the Wagner Group is operating in eastern Ukraine, with its mercenaries being diverted away from operations elsewhere to help support the Russian army, according to the latest Ministry of Defence intelligence update.

The group is believed to be funded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman with close links to Vladimir Putin.

Russia is expected to deploy more than a thousand mercenaries to undertake combat operations.

However, the MoD also described Russian troops as a "largely stalled invasion".

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Residents in the city of Izyum said they fear annihilation at the hands of Putin's troops.

In the towns and villages that surround the provincial city of 50,000, Sky's Sally Lockwood saw schools that had been obliterated by precision strikes, health clinics reduced to rubble by shelling and ordinary houses destroyed by airborne assaults.

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2022-03-29 05:37:30Z
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Senin, 28 Maret 2022

Ukraine war latest: US to send specialised fighter jets to bolster Nato's eastern front - Financial Times

A fresh round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations could kick off in Turkey as soon as Tuesday, the Kremlin said, adding that negotiations had yielded few breakthroughs.

David Arakhamia, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, confirmed that talks were expected to restart in Istanbul on Tuesday morning.

“While we cannot and will not speak about progress at the talks, the fact that they are continuing to take place in person is important, of course,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

Russian president Vladimir Putin and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday agreed that Istanbul would host peace talks this week.

Putin’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Monday that the Russian and Ukrainian delegations could potentially reach an agreement at the talks, as Moscow believed Nato had heard some of its security concerns, the state Tass news agency reported.

“So I still see that there is a chance for an agreement, because there is an understanding of our western partners’ gross mistakes of many years, it is present now, although for understandable reasons they will hardly say it out loud,” Lavrov said.

“We have an interest in these talks having a successful outcome, a result that will meet our key aims,” Lavrov said.

However he also listed points that Moscow plans to raise, such as Ukraine’s demilitarisation and “denazification”, that have previously thwarted progress.

“When we negotiate with the Ukrainian side now . . . we are obliged to make sure Ukraine stops settling down with the west and with Nato militarily,” Lavrov said. “That Ukraine stops being a country that is constantly militarised.”

Putin could meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in future, Lavrov added, but only once progress had been made on Russia’s key aims, as a meeting simply to exchange views right now would be “counterproductive”.

Zelensky had said ahead of the peace talks that Ukraine was ready to declare neutrality, abandon its attempt to join Nato and agree not to develop nuclear weapons if Russia withdraws troops and Kyiv receives security guarantees.

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2022-03-28 16:53:45Z
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