• Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised the Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol not to be stormed and to let all the prisoners live, but the Ukrainian government reported on Saturday again Russian attacks on the factory where at least 2,000 soldiers and an unknown number of civilians are hiding.
• Zelensky warned on Saturday that Ukraine suspends negotiations with Russia when the soldiers hiding in the Azov stable factory are killed.
• It Russian army declared a depot full on Saturday foreign weapons harmless to have made near the Ukrainian port city Odessa† At least eight people were killed in the rocket attacks, Kiev said. At least 18 others were injured, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday evening.
• The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is in the process of releasing its members of the Special Reporting Commission in Eastern Ukraine. “A number of observers have been deprived of their freedom in Donetsk and Luhansk,” the statement said. The organization added that it would not be able to provide further details at this time.
† UN chief Antonio Guterres will travel next week to Kiev for a meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky. First visit Guterres Tuesday president Putin in Moscow† Zelensky finds that illogical: “It is just wrong to go first to Russia and then to Ukraine,” said the Ukrainian president.