The invasion

  • Russia is continuing its attacks on Kyiv and Kharkiv and, according to Ukraine, is trying to encircle the cities.

    However, even on day ten, Russian forces failed to capture either city.

  • According to Ukrainian Defense Minister Olexii Reznikov, 66,224 Ukrainians have returned home to join the fight against the Russian military.

The ceasefire

  • The Russian military said it continued its attacks on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol and the city of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region after the Russian Defense Ministry announced a ceasefire earlier this morning to allow civilians to flee the city.

    According to Ukrainian authorities, up to 200,000 people are said to have made it out of the city.

  • The UN puts the number of civilians killed in the conflict at 351.

escape from war

  • According to the border guards, more than 787,300 refugees from the neighboring country have arrived in Poland since the beginning of the war.

  • In Germany, the federal police have so far registered 27,491 war refugees from Ukraine.

reporting

  • More and more international media are stopping reporting from Russia.

    In addition to major American broadcasters such as CNN and Bloomberg, ARD and ZDF also decided on Saturday to suspend reporting from their Moscow studios for the time being.

  • The background is a change in the law in Russia that was passed on Friday, which makes independent reporting in the country virtually impossible.

The discussions

  • According to information from Kyiv, new negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are not planned until next Monday.

  • However, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett surprisingly traveled to Moscow as a mediator in the Ukraine conflict and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday.

    He then traveled on to Germany for a meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

    Israel has good relations with both Ukraine and Russia.

peace demonstrations

  • Thousands of people came together again on Saturday in major German and European cities to demonstrate against the Ukraine war, including up to 30,000 demonstrators in Hamburg alone.