The Ukraine continues to resit Soviet incurrsion - Voice of America
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VOA Express February 28, 2022
Ukraine: developments
Negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations began in Belarus near Gomel on Monday. They are organized without preconditions, the fighting continues.
Special broadcast of the program "Distance" . Putin's nuclear threats, Belarus-mediated talks, European Parliament actions and global support for Ukraine.
At least 102 civilians in Ukraine have been killed in an invasion by Russian troops. Another 304 people were injured. There are fears that the real figure is "much higher", UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michel Bachelet said on Monday.
According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), almost 400,000 Ukrainian refugees, mostly women and children, fled their homes after the Russian invasion and fled to neighboring countries.
The UN General Assembly is holding an emergency meeting in connection with the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The day before, the UN Security Council voted in favor of convening an emergency session of the General Assembly. Live broadcast with Russian translation .
Russia: consequences of the invasion
The US State Department has suspended the embassy in Minsk . The agency also authorized the voluntary departure of some employees and family members of the embassy staff in Moscow.
Russia's political and economic isolation worsened on Monday as its forces met fierce resistance in the Ukrainian capital and other cities during the largest attack on a European state since World War II.
The sites of a number of Russian state media outlets have been hacked. Presumably, the Anonymous group is behind the attack. Instead of a news feed, the website posted information on the number of dead Russian servicemen in Ukraine - data on the number of dead, the Russian Defense Ministry has not yet disclosed. The hackers also posted an appeal from "Indifferent Russian journalists" on the site.
Roskomnadzor has officially blocked the website of the Nastoyaschee Vremya TV channel . After blocking, the site materials can be read on the mirror . You can also use a VPN client to access the site.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has stopped a joint Skoltech program with Skolkovo , which it helped create a decade ago.
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On Monday in Belarus, near Gomel, talks are held between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine. They are organized without preconditions, the fighting continues, Radio Liberty notes. The start of negotiations at about 13:00 Moscow time was reported by Reuters, citing one of the members of the Ukrainian delegation. The talks are aimed at reaching an agreement on an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops, Reuters quotes these words from a statement by the Ukrainian president. The delegation, as indicated in the official statement, includes, in particular, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov and adviser to the Ukrainian President Mikhail Podolyak. The Russian delegation, according to the TASS agency, is headed by Vladimir Medinsky, aide to the President of the Russian Federation. The delegation includes Deputy Defense and Foreign Ministers Andrey Rudenko and Alexander Fomin, head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky. At the same time, as Reuters reported on Monday, citing Interfax, Russian invading forces captured two small towns in southeastern Ukraine (Berdyansk and Enerhodar) and the area around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. However, Russian forces faced stiff resistance elsewhere as Moscow's diplomatic and economic isolation deepened. Later, Ukrainian officials said that the capture of Energodar by Russian invaders was a fake.
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