“If you let go of emotions, the damage is minimal,” a woman living on the 15th floor of a new apartment building in central Kyiv told reporters. It is, in fact, an educated and intelligent statement. It is also the expression of a civilization with an advanced mind.
Over the past week, she has seen fire and smoke from Russian cruise missiles hitting the Ukrainian capital, the central railway station, as well as a television tower and a residential building.
She builds towers in Kiev herself and looks like a wheat stalk in a storm, the mediator says. She also said her family slept in their “bathroom” for a few days.
Meanwhile, the United Kingdom is urging its citizens to consider leaving Russia.
“If your visit to Russia is not essential, we strongly advise you to consider leaving the remaining trade routes,” the British government said in a statement.
The UK on Monday advised its citizens against all travel to Russia due to the lack of existing flight options and increasing economic instability.
We reported this morning that a ceasefire had been declared. But Mariupol officials say the Russian military is delaying the evacuation, accusing it of violating the ceasefire.
“The Russian side has not complied with the ceasefire and has postponed the continued shelling of Mariupol and surrounding areas and the evacuation of civilians for security reasons,” city officials said in a statement. the media.
But the Russian military has not yet issued a statement.
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford, meanwhile, reports to Dnipro that there are three locations in Mariupol, and that buses assemble to pick up people in those three locations, and plans to take them at least 300km (186 miles) north to the city of Zaporizhia. That has been done.
Zaporizhia is a city that can truly be described as being prepared for a siege – with tank traps, checkpoints, and thousands of civil defense volunteers in and around the city, Stratford said.
He says Russian troops are about an hour south of the city of Zaporizhia.
“This corridor will take people across the country, and we understand that they will take them northwest through rural areas.” He was referring to Al Jazeera.
Meanwhile, foreign media reports say that foreign students fleeing the Russian war against Ukraine are fleeing in hopes of returning.
Early in the morning at Zahony railway station near the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, a train arrives every few hours from the Ukrainian city of Chop.
Among those boarding the dark blue train that plies the Hungarian border town every few hours are hundreds of students, many of whom have been educated in Ukraine in recent years in countries such as Nigeria, India, Egypt and Morocco.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday to discuss the war in Ukraine, spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said, adding that Turkey was ready to resolve the crisis.
Addressing a press conference in Istanbul, he called for an immediate end to Turkey’s resumption of hostilities for talks between Ukraine and Russia, and reiterated that Turkey could not sever ties with Moscow or Kiev.
The Kremlin, meanwhile, says the West is behaving like a pirate, but Russia is too large to isolate because the world is bigger than the United States and Europe.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that if the United States imposed sanctions on Russia’s energy exports, it would destabilize energy markets.
Ukraine will be able to import gas from Poland, including gas from Polish LNG terminals, from March 6, according to the Ukrainian government-run Gas Transit Systems Activist.
The two migrant operators agreed to introduce a certified capacity for gas imports, “This allows the physical import of gas physics from Poland, including the LNG terminal, on a certified basis,” the Ukrainian company said on social media.
Ukraine, one of Europe’s largest gas consumers, has not imported gas from Russia since 2015, and Europe buys it.
