Night of alarms and bombings in various cities of Ukraine. Alarm sirens rang out in Lviv, Kiev, Cherasky in Kharkiv. Russian forces are getting closer and closer to the capital, satellite images also show the use of heavy artillery.

In Mykolaiv, a raid by Moscow troops damaged a hospital for the treatment of cancer patients and some residential buildings, but no civilians appear to have been killed.

International concern remains great given that, according to what Jennifer Grranholm, the US Minister of Energy, stressed, Russia is "violating the principles of security".

In these hours, the Jerusalem Post revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett would have recommended Volodymyr Zelesnky, president of Ukraine, to accept Vladimir Putin's offer to surrender to end the war. The refusal would be due to the fact that the proposal included "many sacrifices" for the population.

In his latest video message, Zelensky addressed the women: "I want to say this again to the Russian mothers, especially the mothers of enlisted soldiers. Do not send your children to war in a foreign country", and he urged them not to " believe the promises "that their children" will be sent somewhere for drills ... or no-fight conditions ", urging her to" act immediately "if they have any suspicions that their children will be sent to fight in Ukraine.

For today, a humanitarian corridor has been agreed for the city of Sumy, in the north east. Evacuation operations are scheduled from 9 am local time (8 am in Italy) with vehicles departing from 6 areas in the region. All convoys are headed to the city of Poltova.

And the sanctions against the Russian oligarchs do not stop, a symptom of the fact that the conflict has more and more economic implications. Roman Abramovich's investments in American hedge funds were frozen after the measures that hit him. The US State Department also announced further measures against members of the board of directors of Novikombank and ABR Management. In the sights, then, Yuri Kovalchuk, Kirill Kovaluch, Dmitri Lebedev and Vladimir Knyagin of ABR Management. The four members of the Novikombank board of directors affected are the president Elena Georgieva, German Belous, Andrey Sapelin and Dmitri Vavulin. In Italy, the vessel "Sy A" worth about 530 million euros, attributable to the Russian oligarch Andrey Igorevich Melichenko, is blocked in Trieste.

The EU, through the voice of Ursula von der Leyen, announced a fourth package of sanctions, while the Italian premier Mario Draghi intervened again to emphasize that Putin “does not want peace. His plan appears to be another. I hope that there will be an opening as soon as possible and we will do everything possible for Ukraine and Russia to speak to each other, as long as the dignity of Ukraine is preserved ".

(Unioneonline / ss)

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