War in Ukraine – UPDATE

Vlad Palcu, 15.03.2022, 17:00

The Prime
Ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, Mateusz Morawiecki, Janez
Janša Petr Fiala respectively, are expected to meet in Kyiv with president
Volodymyr Zelensky. The EU officials will express the EU’s unequivocal support
and brief the Ukrainian president with a respect to EU’s planned support
package.

Earlier on Tuesday,
the European Union and the United Kingdom announced new sanctions targeting at
least 600 Russian nationals. The EU officials have described the move as a historical
decision.

Meanwhile the
situation is getting critical on the ground as airstrikes and shelling
continues to target the main Ukrainian cities. The civilian death toll is also
increasing, local authorities say. Evacuation of the population of Mariupol
started Tuesday, although the humanitarian corridor isn’t working as expected, Minister
for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk claims.

According to
diplomatic sources quoted by Reuters and CNN, a possible NATO emergency summit
to be held as early as next week in Brussels. Meanwhile, this week’s meeting of
the Alliance’s Defense Ministers will tackle measures to further consolidate
NATO’s defensive presence on its eastern flank.