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• The Russian Defense Ministry claims Mariupol “to have completely wiped clean”. Nearly 1,500 soldiers are said to have surrendered so far, but no evidence was provided. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky threatened rather for the negotiations with Moscow te stop if the last soldiers in Mariupol were killed.
• According to the governor of the Eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk has Russia tens of thousands of soldiers, including “hundreds of engineer troops”, gathered in the area for an imminent offensive. Everything is ready for a breakthrough,” said Serhij Hajdaj, confirming the information from Western intelligence services.
• The United States have a diplomatic request received from Russia to “te stop arming Ukraine”. The arms shipments are “fuelling the fire” and could have “unpredictable consequences,” warns Russia. The Russian request came this week, according to The Washington Post, as 800 million dollars (about 735 million euros) in additional arms aid was promised by the US to Ukraine.