While Russia and the United States continue to "argue" over the American drone shot down by a Moscow jet in the Black Sea , Poland breaks the delays of its allies and becomes the first NATO country to supply military jets to Ukraine . Kiev, battered by enemy fire, continues to hope for a resolution of the conflict by holding peace talks with Washington and Beijing . And the official news arrives: Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Putin on Monday, from 20 to 22 March, at the invitation of Vladimir Putin and the meeting " is for peace ", assured Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin .
«Topical issues on the further development of comprehensive partnership relations and strategic cooperation between Russia and China will be discussed during the talks. An exchange of views is also planned in the context of deepening Russian-Chinese cooperation in the international arena. Some important bilateral documents will be signed,” reads a Kremlin note.
But the war, despite the impetus towards a return to "quiet" does not stop. In fact, the Russian bombings continue on Kostiantynivka and Toretsk , in the Donetsk oblast where – according to the Ukrainian Attorney General's Office, quoted by the local media – a new victim is mourned and 7 are injured. The same happened to the villages of Pivnichne and Pivdenne in Toretsk where a 50-year-old woman was killed and a 40-year-old man was injured by the enemy offensive. And again, in Kostyantynivka , other wounded: 6 civilians, including a Polish citizen. Here the houses and what remains of the city are constantly under siege and shell fragments have damaged over 30 homes, gas pipes, cars and farm buildings.
Russia , for its part, says that yesterday the Ukrainian armed forces carried out 34 bombing raids on the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). Such attacks allegedly targeted Blagodatnoye, Vladimirovka, Gorlovka, Donetsk, Makeyevka, Nikolskoye, Panteleymonovka and Yasinovataya.
And even if the end of the war still seems far away, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky continues to cultivate the European "dream", showing no interest in getting closer to Moscow: « Ukraine has always been Europe. Ukraine will always be Europe. Russian bombs will not change objective reality. The reality that the Ukrainians are defending.
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