Third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will take place on Monday 7 as Kiev asks the US for more weapons and more sanctions against Moscow

The third round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations to seek a cessation of hostilities in the War in Ukraine will take place on Monday 7, according to a member of the Ukrainian delegation.
“The third round of negotiations will take place on Monday,” David Arajamia, head of the parliamentary faction of the ruling Servant of the People (President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party), said on Facebook.
According to the publication recorded by Efe Agency, the meeting will take place on the Polish-Belarusian border.
The first round of negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine took place on 28 February, and the second, on 3 March, both on Belarusian territory.
Following the second round, the parties reached an agreement for the establishment of humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians, the delivery of food and medicine.
However, the planned opening on Saturday of two humanitarian corridors in Mariupol and Volnovaja, in southeastern Ukraine, to evacuate the civilian population, announced by Russia, was suspended by military operations of which both sides accused each other.

At the same time, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba asked US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for more arms supplies and new sanctions against Russia, in a meeting held on the border with Poland.
“I hope Ukrainians can see a clear sign that our friends literally support us,” Kuleba said.
The Ukrainian foreign minister described as “frustrating” the refusal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine, as requested by the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Kuleba also said that he has not seen progress in the negotiations with Russia, although he believes that these should continue, which is expected to happen on Monday.

The meeting between Kuleba and Blinken followed the visit of the US Secretary of State to several border points in Poland. There, Blinken met with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and did so with his Polish counterpart, Zbigniew Rau.
The secretary of state announced Washington’s decision to donate $2.75 billion in humanitarian supplies for refugees in Ukraine and Poland, where he praised “its leadership and speed in responding to the humanitarian crisis” triggered by the “invasion of Ukraine.”
Poland has already received more than 800,000 refugees from Ukraine, of whom 106,000 arrived in the last 24 hours.

Prominent international media have announced in recent hours the suspension of their information activities in Russia, after the Russian Parliament approved on Friday a law that provides for sentences of up to 15 years in prison for disseminating what Moscow may consider as “false information”.
On Friday the BBC, CNN and Bloomberg announced the cessation of their activities from Russia, and today other media such as the EFE Agency, RTVE, the RAI or Radio France adopted similar decisions to protect their reporters in the country.
This Saturday the Efe Agency decided to temporarily suspend from today its informative activity in Russia in response to the new Russian legislation that sanctions with heavy fines and prison sentences the dissemination of information that the Russian authorities consider false about the actions of its Armed Forces in Ukraine, the calls to adopt sanctions against the country, as well as for the “public actions” that seek to discredit the actions of the Russian Army.
In relation to these restrictive measures and criminal sanctions adopted by the Russian authorities, the president of the Efe Agency, Gabriela Cañas, said: “The Efe Agency deeply regrets this very serious attack on freedom of expression; an obvious attempt by the Kremlin to hide the truth from public opinion.”
It is the first time since 1970, the year in which Efe opened its permanent office in Moscow, that the Agency is forced to suspend the activity of its accredited journalists in the Russian capital.
The public corporation Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) has also decided to stop reporting from Russia. “While analyzing the situation created for RTVE professionals by the approval of the aforementioned standard, RTVE will continue to offer as much information as possible about the situation in Russia and Ukraine, as it has been doing since the beginning of the Russian invasion,” says Estand Spanish media in a statement released on Saturday.
GERMANY
The two national channels of German public television, ARD and ZDF, have also temporarily suspended their broadcasts in Russia. Sources of the public entity communicated this decision and guaranteed that they will continue to give “as much information as possible” about the situation in Russia and Ukraine, while examining the situation created by the adoption of that new law, signed on Friday by the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
The German Foreign Ministry also warned that even “private” comments on social media can have consequences in Russia, under the new law that provides for up to 15 years in prison for spreading what Moscow considers “false information.”
Disseminating “private comments” implies “incalculable risks”, so it must be acted “with the utmost caution”. If you are not willing to do so, it is advisable to “leave the country, says Foreign Affairs, in its updated warnings to the traveler about the situation in Russia.
ITALY
Also this Saturday the Italian public television, the RAI, has suspended for the moment the work of its correspondents in Russia and will offer information of the area prepared by professionals of the chain in other countries.
“Following the passage of legislation providing for heavy prison sentences for the publication of news deemed false by the authorities, as of today the RAI suspends the journalistic services of its correspondents in the Russian Federation,” the network announced in a press release.
“The measure is necessary to protect the safety of journalists on the ground and maximum freedom of information about the country. News about what is happening in the Russian Federation will be provided, for the time being, from various sources by journalists working for the company in neighboring countries and in italy’s central newsrooms,” he concludes.
FRANCE
French public radio has decided that its journalists in Russia will temporarily cease their activity while they assess the consequences for them of the new law passed there that imposes prison sentences for the publication of what is considered “false information” in relation to Ukraine.
The france info station, one of the members of the Radio France group, reported in one of its bulletins a suspension to proceed with an in-depth examination of the new legislation, which provides for up to 15 years in prison.
Shortly after, its director, Vincent Giret, pointed out on his Twitter account that “Radio France does not suspend its correspondent in Moscow. We preserve our correspondents, we are waiting for a legal report and we will decide in the coming days.”
Above all, it is a question of determining whether it also applies to foreign journalists working in Russia.
Radio France, which has seven national channels, is the first French media outlet to take a similar provision to that already adopted by other international media, such as the Efe Agency, but also RTVE, CNN, the BBC, rai or Bloomberg.
USA
On Friday afternoon, cnn and Bloomberg also announced that they were temporarily suspending their broadcast in Russia. CNN reporter Oliver Darcy said on Twitter: “A CNN spokesperson has said that the network will ‘stop broadcasting in Russia while we continue to assess the situation and our next steps,'” though he did not offer further details.
Also, in a statement, Bloomberg justified this measure by the new law signed on Friday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, “which criminalizes independent information in the country.”
“It is with great regret that we have decided to temporarily suspend our collection of information within Russia,” Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait was quoted as saying in the note.
UNITED KINGDOM
The first international media to announce the suspension of its activity in Russia was the BBC. Britain’s public broadcaster BBC on Friday announced a temporary suspension of all its journalists’ work in Russia, in response to a law it said criminalized “independent journalism.”
The approval of that rule has led the director general of the BBC, Tim Davie, to paralyze the work of his employees in Russia until he has analyzed in depth “all the implications” of that legislation.
“The safety of our workers is paramount and we are not prepared to expose them to the risk of criminal prosecution simply for doing their job,” Davie said in a note released by the network.
The public channel stresses that it will continue to offer its international information service in Russian thanks to the work of employees located in other countries.
“We remain committed to crafting accurate and independent information for audiences around the world, including the millions of Russians who use our news services,” the director-general said.
The BBC also maintains journalists on the ground in Ukraine to report on the Kremlin-ordered invasion.

Original source in Spanish

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