According to its president Vladimir Putin, Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine. However, the Kiev leadership and its Western supporters have already refused talks, Putin says. In Ukraine, authorities have given permission for all regions of Ukraine after an air raid siren was activated on Sunday morning.
In an interview with state television, Putin said: “We are ready to negotiate acceptable solutions with all parties involved, but that is up to them – it is not us who refuse to negotiate, it is them.” Class. “I think we are moving in the right direction. We are defending our national interests, the interests of our citizens, our people. And we have no choice but to protect our citizens.”
Air raid alert possible by fighter jets from Belarus
In Ukraine, the authorities gave the ‘all-clear’ around noon. There are no reports of new Russian attacks. According to unconfirmed reports on social media in Ukraine, the alarm went off after Russian warplanes took off from Belarus. When they returned to their bases, it was all-clear. A spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force said on television that Russian military aircraft were in the air practically 24 hours a day. “But we’ve increased preparedness — anything that takes off has to be under our control.”
Sirens blared in the morning in the capital Kiev and across the country.
Death toll rises in Kherson
In the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, the death toll from artillery fire and explosions has risen to 16, according to authorities. In addition, 64 people were injured in Russian attacks, the Ukrainian military governor said. The dead include three men who died during mine clearance operations.
Ukrainian authorities had accused Moscow of massive artillery shelling of the center of the city of Kherson, once occupied by Russian forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has published photos on Telegram of lifeless people in the center of the city recently liberated from Russian occupation. Selenskyj condemned the attack as a new crime of the “terror state” Russia just before Christmas. There are no military targets there, Zelensky stressed. This is not war. “This is terror, this is killing for the sake of intimidation and pleasure.”
Russia illegally annexed the Kherson region last fall. Ukrainian troops then took the city of Kherson after a withdrawal of Russian troops. The Russian occupiers retreated to the other side of the Dnipro River. According to Ukrainian sources, Russian troops are still shelling the city from other parts of the occupied Kherson region. Most of the area is still controlled by Russian forces. The Kremlin emphasizes that Russia considers the entire Kherson region as its territory and will not give it up.
Source: Krone
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