Add one month since Vladimir Putin He decided invade Ukraine after having recognized the independence of the pro-Russian regions, which, he assured, he sought to protect with his “special operation” from the genocide that was going to be committed.
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It is 32 days since Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine. (Design: Paulina Cabrera)
However, although Russia argued at least three reasons for the military incursion, the truth is that there is no evidence of any of it, so countries in Europe and the West have turned their backs on Putin and condemned the war that he has provoked in Ukraine, for which they have imposed severe sanctions on the country, him and his allies.
Follow here the latest news of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine today March 26:
US not opposed to Poland handing over warplanes: Ukraine
The Ukrainian government reported this Saturday that the United States “has no objection” to Poland giving it warplanes to defend itself from the invasion launched by Russia.
The Ukrainian president, Volodomir Zelenski, has spent weeks insisting on the request to the United States and its NATO allies, without reaching an agreement so far.
Russia warned that an eventual delivery of warplanes to Ukraine by Poland would create a “potentially dangerous scenario”.
Turkey ‘opens doors’ (and ports) to Russian tycoons
Russian oligarchs are welcome in Turkey as investors or tourists, despite being subject to international sanctions, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday.
Turkey drew the attention of the international community this week after the arrival of two huge yachts allegedly owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, to literally circumvent Western sanctions.
Although it has harshly criticized the invasion of Ukraine, the Ankara government – with strong diplomatic and economic ties to Russia – opposes the sanctions imposed on Moscow by its NATO allies.
They give a concert amid bombing
Even when the guns speak, “the music doesn’t stop”: in Kharkov, bombarded daily by the Russian army, a band of Ukrainian musicians offered a classical music concert to a small but excited audience on Saturday, managing to suspend time for a few minutes in the middle of the war.
Three violinists, a cellist and a double bass player played for a few dozen people for half an hour at one of the main metro stations in Ukraine’s second largest city, near the Russian border.
Biden calls for Putin’s removal
US President Joe Biden said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched a bloody invasion of Ukraine more than a month ago, “cannot stay in power.”
We will have a different future, a brighter future, rooted in democracy and principles, hope and light. For God’s sake: that man cannot stay in power,” Biden said in a speech on Ukraine at the royal castle in Warsaw, the Polish capital.
The world must prepare for a “long fight”: Biden
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, warned this Saturday that the world must prepare for a long fight in the framework of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In a speech from the Polish city of Warsaw, Biden confirmed his support for kyiv and made it clear that “the Russian people are not our enemy.”
The war in Ukraine is already a “strategic failure” for Russia, Biden assured in his speech, one of the most anticipated since the beginning of the conflict.
US President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a “butcher” during a meeting with Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw.
Asked about his opinion of Putin after speaking with the refugees, Biden replied:
He’s a butcher.”
The US president also participated in a meeting between Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
The United States expressed its “unwavering commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
Biden endorses sacred commitment to defend NATO
President Joe Biden reaffirmed in Poland on Saturday that Article 5 of the NATO treaty – which stipulates that an attack against a member country of the alliance is an attack against the entire pact – constitutes a “sacred commitment” for the United States.
You can count on it… For your freedom and ours,” Andrzej Duda told his Polish counterpart during a meeting in Warsaw, referring to the slogan used during the Polish uprising against the occupation of tsarist Russia.
The US president’s visit to Poland comes at a time of concern in the country about Moscow’s intentions after Russia invaded Ukraine.
kyiv abandons 35-hour curfew plan
The mayor of kyiv finally gave up decreeing a new 35-hour curfew, which he had announced starting this Saturday night in the Ukrainian capital.
New information from the military command: the curfew in kyiv and the region will not be in force tomorrow (Sunday),” the capital’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, reported on Telegram.
Instead, the current curfew will apply, from 8:00 p.m. (18:00 GMT) to 7:00 a.m. (05:00 GMT) and “we will be able to move freely around kyiv on Sunday,” he said, without giving explanations about the change of posture.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, the authorities have already imposed several curfews in the capital.
Russian forces enter the city of Slavutych and seize a hospital
Russian forces entered the city of Slavutych and seized a hospital, the governor of the kyiv region said.
Slavutych is located north of kyiv and west of Chernigov, outside the exclusion zone established around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the 1986 disaster. Workers who work at the nuclear plant live there.
The governor, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, also denounced that Russian forces had kidnapped the town’s mayor, but some media later reported that he had been quickly released. Neither claim could be independently verified.
According to the governor, residents of Slavutych took to the streets with Ukrainian flags to protest against the Russian invasion.
The Russians fired into the air. Stun grenades were thrown into the crowd. But the residents did not disperse, on the contrary, more appeared,” Pavlyuk said.
kyiv decrees new curfew
The authorities of the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, announce a new curfew of 35 hours in the city.
The mayor, Vitali Klitschko, explained that the restrictions will be in effect from 8:00 p.m. on Saturday to 7:00 a.m. on Monday, and residents will only be able to leave their homes to go to bomb shelters.
Klitschko pointed out that neither stores, pharmacies and gas stations, nor public transport will be operational during this time.